From: Leon Brocard 
To: tips@spesh.com
Subject: Silly hostnames

Pah! The hostnames mentioned in NTK now 13/3/98 weren't nearly
silly or long enough! In March 1998 the top 50 longest names 
for webservers in the world are... (drumroll please)...

 
  www.do.you.think.really.that.we.created.that.host.only.for.fun.horus.ch
  www.a.b.c.d.e.f.g.h.i.j.k.l.m.n.o.p.q.r.s.t.u.v.w.x.y.z.internexus.net
  www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk
  www.oxford-and-cambridge-examinations-and-assessment-council.org.uk
  www.the-land-securities-investment-trust-alderney-limited.co.gg
  www.university-of-cambridge-local-examinations-syndicate.org.uk
  www.the-land-securities-investment-trust-guernsey-limited.co.gg
  www.the-land-securities-investment-trust-jersey-limited.co.gg
  www.noris.network.internetprovider.in.nuernberg.noris.net
  www.lavanture.plastic.extrusion.technologies.industry.net
  www2.nottingham-institute-of-hearing-research.mrc.ac.uk
  www.venture-web.object-design.co.jp.object-design.co.jp
  www1.nottingham-institute-of-hearing-research.mrc.ac.uk
  www.observatoiredesmarques.fr.observatoiredesmarques.fr
  www.youthservice-belfasteducationandlibraryboard.org.uk
  www.nottingham-institute-of-hearing-research.mrc.ac.uk
  www.grebbestaddykoaventyr.se.grebbestaddykoaventyr.se
  www.heinrich-schmid-malerwerkstaetten-gmbh-und-co.de
  www.silliter-klebes.industrial.supplies.industry.net
  www.mathematics-and-computer-science.leicester.ac.uk
  www.malerwerkstaetten-heinrich-schmid-gmbh-und-co.de
  www.minnesotalitigationdocumentsbatindustries.co.uk
  www.information.decisions.indianapolis.industry.net
  www.hetleuksteautomatiseringsbedrijfvannederland.nl
  www.kreis-hersfeld-rotenburg.waldhessen-online.net
  www-dbfd.fire-dist.deerfield-bannockburn.dst.il.us
  www-interactivepublishing.interactivepublishing.ch
  kirmes.inferenzsysteme.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
  leadershipinternationl.leadershipinternationl.com
  server2.virtual.www.ozemail.netwe0.ozemail.com.au
  www.maisondulogement.tm.fr.maisondulogement.tm.fr
  server1.virtual.www.ozemail.netwe0.ozemail.com.au
  www-siglex98.it-research-institute.brighton.ac.uk
  www.the-city-of-london-investment-trust-plc.co.uk
  www.the-porcelain-and-fine-china-companies.ltd.uk
  www.arbeiterbund-fuer-den-wiederaufbau-der-kpd.de
  www.elektrische-nachrichtentechnik.fh-konstanz.de
  server4.virtual.www.ozemail.netwe0.ozemail.com.au
  www.charentemaritimedeuxsevres.credit-agricole.fr
  www.lille-metropole-2015.org.lille.telmat-net.fr
  www.aaaa-erotik-foto-dialog-telesoftware-gmbh.de
  www.centre-chirurgical-marie-lannelongue.asso.fr
  www.nuap.nagoya-u.ac.jp.stat.nuap.nagoya-u.ac.jp
  www.process.instruments.cross.lanes.industry.net
  www.integrated.systems.technologies.industry.net
  www-concede.it-research-institute.brighton.ac.uk
  www.ifsic.univ-rennes1.fr.ifsic.univ-rennes1.fr
  localhost.www.teqcorp.com.mx.www.teqcorp.com.mx
  www.mitsubishi.electric.industrial.industry.net
  www.groesbeek-millingen-aan-de-rijn.rabobank.nl

And the shortest two are:
  i.am
  0.dk

(Netscape has problems resolving the really long ones)

Just thought I'd let you know ;-0

Leon.