Domain Name Rules
Below is a list of rules to consider when choosing your domain name.
Domain name length
- legal domain name lengths are between 2 characters and 57 characters.
Domain name cannot contain any letters of hyphens in 2 character
domain names This error message is returned if your domain name
was only 2 characters long and it contained either a hyphen or a letter,
this is because 2 character domain names are only allowed to contain
numbers.
Domain names cannot begin or end in a hyphen or contain double
hyphens A domain name can contain hyphens, however the hyphens cannot
be neighbours (ie "--") and they also cannot begin the domain name or
end it, ie "-domain-checker-plus.xxx" is illegal as it begins with a
hyphen.
- Domain names must only contain alphanumerical characters and hyphens
Domain names must only consist of numbers, letter and hyphens - this
means that no spaces, periods, commas or any other kind of punctuation
is allowed. This is common when people begin the domain name with "www."
- this is not part of the domain name and should not be used.
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Cannot connect to [server name]
If you recieve this message then the whois server that I am trying
to connect to in order to perform your query is either refusing my network
connection or for some other reason I am unable to connect to it, the
best course of action when this occurs is to simply try again later.
No top level domain selected This means that you failed to
select a top level domain for your domain name, for example `co.uk',
`com', `net' etc.
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Top level domain not supported
This error message means that whichever top level domain extension
you chose is not supported by this scripts configuration, in other words,
I do not have the information required to search for this top level
domain.
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