by On a recent visit to Wales, Joe Cashin took a great photograph of a Volvo Car Sales showroom in the town with the longest name in Britain
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Whilst I had heard of this town before, I did not realise that it holds the record for the longest Internet domain name in the world, which is:
http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochuchaf.co.uk
Upon visiting this site I learned that the longest domain name supported by the Internet (excluding the suffix) is 63 characters and amazingly the above domain name has exactly this many letters. However, if you look closely you will see that the domain name above actually contains and additional 5 letters (uchaf). This is because the domain represents the upper/older part of the village and “uchaf” is the Welsh for “higher” or “upper”.
It’s just a shame that they didn’t put a little more effort into the website.