K. This is off-topic but funny. Some time ago , i PMed my friend Dhaval (editor at http://www.osbetas.com ) a link to MicrosoftSidewinder. I had no idea how big the link URL was gonna be . I think its biggest in the world.

here it is http://shopping.indiatimes.com/webapp/co...g%20Device .

And it is valid link. click it.

Try to register this url on NIC *gg

http://tinyurl.com/nsyd

Now its the smallest/

ya know tinyurl.. but it keeps url alive for 24 hours i think

Possibly the shortest in the world?!?

http://gm.tv

I think http://www.com should get an honourable mention for shortness.

Maybe any of the
http://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...x.php?go=1
type urls too (tho there's nothing on em but stupid ad/placeholders.

of course you can make up a heap of new long .com ones with verisigns stupid "unregistered domain" server now.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/16/0034210

http://a.tribalfusion.com/l.click?clickI...t%3duiqogt

it´s an ad-url, but ok, it´s also damn long *g*

http://www.radioshack.com/category.asp?c...47D047E515
http://germany.real.com/R/R.&p=home&sp=&...&sn=&part=(music/videos/040415_viva_beyonce_naughty_girl.rx)&area=main&ltype=txt.R/eurohurl.euro.real.com/trk.html?p=home&sp=&ssp=&part=music/videos/040415_viva_beyonce_naughty_girl.rx&gctry=de&url=http%3a%2f%2fscripts.euro.real.com%2fguide%2flaunch.ram%3fh%3drtsp%3a%2f%2f62.156.242.12%3a554%2fviva%2fondemand%2fstars%2fbeyonce_knowles%2fbeyonce_naughty_girl_dsl.rm%3frpurl%3dhttp%3a%2f%2fde.real.com%2fguide%2fmusic%2f