Re: number of characters in a domain?

[Doug Barton <dougb () dougbarton us>]

On 07/23/2016 07:07 AM, Matthew Pounsett wrote:
> On 23 July 2016 at 14:31, Ryan Finnesey <ryan () finnesey com> wrote:
>
> > I was hoping someone can help me confirm my research.  I am correct that
> > domains are now limited to 67 characters in length including the extension?
>
> 63 octets per label (the bits between the period separators) , 255 octets
> per domain name. In ascii octets and characters are interchangeable, but as
> Stephan noted, it gets slightly more complicated for IDN.

Not really ... the 1035 limits apply to the A-label