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What Characters Can Be Used In A Domain Name?
You have lots of flexibility in creating your domain name.
You can use:
- Letters
- Numbers
- Hyphens (they can't appear at the beginning or end of the domain name)
- Using any combination of the above, you can have up to 67 characters in your domain name, including the extension (e.g., .com, .net, .org).
Characters that are never permitted in a domain name include:
- Spaces
- Special characters, e.g. @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) ? "
- An example of a valid 67 character domain name is:
67-character-web-addresses-are-available-from-networksolutions.com
Please Note:
www. and http://www. are not considered part of the domain name and therefore don't count towards the 67 character maximum.
