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Purple Dave <purpledave@maskofdestiny.com> wrote:
> Well, there is technically one way they can do it. They could spend
> gobs of money to register everything that you could possibly think of. I
Yes, that's true. The current limit on second-level domain name length is 63
characters. Alphanumeric plus -, basically. Assume a four letter name, like
Lego, and that's still getting near a *google* possibilities, give or take a
few powers of ten. Even Microsoft doesn't have that kind of cash.
Plus, even though this is a terrible idea, the big registrars are going to
allow international characters in domain names.
This is *so* off-topic here. Time to followup-to .geek...
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Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
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| thanx to all i think this subject will still excite ppl as i'm relatively new :)) here i was curious about this i assube you will say i'm boring but if TLC has lawyers good enough they could force "all" lego funs to shut their fun sites because they (...) (21 years ago, 16-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Well, there is technically one way they can do it. They could spend gobs of money to register everything that you could possibly think of. I know Lucasfilm does that to a limited extent (type in the name of pretty much any major Star Wars (...) (21 years ago, 16-May-03, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)
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