How many different URLs can be created?

Question

We have our keyboards' keys only to create new URLs; if there is a limit on the number of signs that can be put in the address line, then there should be a limited number of URLs that can be created. Is there a limit though? Or can address lines go on forever? In that case, I suppose, the number of URLs that can be created would be virtually endless?

Answer 1

Are you talking about network addresses? If you're talking about network addresses of the form x.x.x.x where x is an integer such that -1

Answer 2

website addresses are in the format of X.X.X.X the same as network addresses. If you have a slow internet connection it tells you the address in numbers in the bottom left of internet explorer(The only reason you type in words for a web address is because they are easier to remember). If you type "64.233.167.104" as a url you get google uk. so the limit to the number of URL's is how many combinations of numbers fit into this format.



Short Answer (for lazy people): A LOT

Answer 3

If there is a maximum domain name length, N, and we assume that domains are made up only of letters and numbers and must be .com sites, then the total number of different URLs possible is sum(36^n) for n = 1 up to N. Even if URLs could only be 5 characters long, there would be more than 62 million possible URLs. I don't think we're in any danger of running out any time soon.

Answer 4

There is a limit on how long a URL can be. This is the longest URL name: http://www.thelongestdomainnameintheworldandthensomeandthensomemoreandmore.com/



That is 64 letters excluding the "http://www." and the ".com/"



As far as I know, there isn't a limit on how many URL's there can be on the internet.



Hope that helped you.