Capital letters in domain names?

**calimalim** · 06-12-2010, 04:21 PM

It doesn't seem like anyone fully understood Snow's concern. I have a client wondering the same thing. Let me spell it out....

Here are different ways to get to google.com

GooGle.com
GOOGLE.com
google.com
Google.com
gooGLE.com

Whatever you type in your address bar, it doesn't matter. You'll get to www.google.com. HOWEVER, what if you wanted the end result to always be...

www.Google.com instead of www.google.com

...no matter what you typed in above? That was Snow's question. So would this be along the lines of an .htaccess rewrite or something?

I am also wondering if there is a way to force the browser to display the "branded url" if you will in the address bar.

**JPC-Greg** · 06-13-2010, 10:25 PM

old necro post, but short answer is no its not possible to change the hostname capitalization

**Gwaihir** · 06-14-2010, 05:27 AM

Originally Posted by calimalim

It doesn't seem like anyone fully understood Snow's concern. I have a client wondering the same thing.

Looks to me like everyone understood just fine but some just don't want to hear the answer. So, to summarize that:

No, it can't be done.

Perhaps, if you have VPS or dedicated, you can fiddle with settings long enough to make it work for a specific browser, but you'll almost certainly have side effects way too big to make it worth it, such as other browsers and search engine spiders getting stuck in a loop of redirections.

**Ron** · 06-14-2010, 10:53 PM

I used to have code to do a very similar thing with ASCII codes in urls. To avoid endless loops, the code only redirected an IP once in a ten second span. I figured that browsers and bots would retry more quickly than 10 seconds. I was right and wrong.

It solved most problems. Eventually I gave in and let them access the site with ASCII codes in the URL on the first try. Since I gave in there are more links to me out there with ASCII codes in them. Oh well I guess.

**Vin DSL** · 06-15-2010, 12:12 AM

Interesting!

There are 259 people with the last name "Calimlim" in the United States.

Mostly from the Philippines, I would guess...

Is that a "branded name" ?

**Connie** · 06-15-2010, 03:17 PM

What difference does it make how people access your site? To me the important thing is that Capitalization is not critical when it comes to domain names.

**Ron** · 01-08-2012, 08:58 AM

LOL I came across this old, old post in Google.

I'll tell you why it might be kinda important for some domain names:

iLoveTofu.com

If not capitalized it could lead to confusion LOL

EDIT:

Originally Posted by the_ancient

for example Jag would have to Register 64 Different "jaguarpc" names just to protect is name, and that is on the .com tld alone, add in .net and you have 128 names...

Actually it would be 256 and 512, it's 2^^8 not 8^^2

Originally Posted by Frank Broughton

Yea, we have another person that wants to bask in their own intelligence by pointing out irrelevant technical jargon...

Guilty as charged.