FRANKFURT -- The race to register Internet domain names is making the normally concise English language look and sound more like tongue-twisting German.

Though shorter domains are sweeter and easier to remember, short is hard to find in the e-world anymore, and it can cost millions to buy off domain-squatters or to develop a short, branded name.At last count, about 98 percent of the words in Webster's English Dictionary had been registered as domain names.

As a result, Internet users are cramming English words together to create unfashionably long new ones.

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That's something the German language has done for a long time. Take, for example, Rindfleischetikettierungs-

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