Fun with URLs




Several absurd domain names and host names have been perpetrated on the Internet. Below are some of them that I have noticed.






Some Web browsers will choke on this URL: http://twas.brillig.and.the.slithy.toves.did.gyre.and.gimble.in.the.wabe.all.mimsy.were.the.borogoves.and.the.mome.raths.outgrabe.jabberwocky.com.






www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com is not the website of the village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, in Wales. Their website is at www.llanfair.com.






By design, all domain names must be case-insensitive (actually RFC1035 2.3.3 says that, in domain name resolution, all comparisons between character strings are done in a case-insensitive manner). http://domainrookie.com/hilarious-domain-name-mispronouncings has some very funny examples of where this case-insensitivity can lead.