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A seemingly simple question which sent me down into the murky depths of standards. How many consecutive hyphens can you have in a domain name? It probably isn’t sensible to name your online presence a----------hyphen.com - but is there anything technically stopping you? Table of ContentsHistoryTLD RestrictionsAnomaliesSo What? History Let’s do some history! This is 1978’s "HOST NAMES…
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Possibly the most consecutive hyphens belongs to http://a-------------------------------------------------------------a.com/
Sixty-one hyphens! The maximum possible, and it still works!
