THE longest website address in the world just got longer.

The website for the Anglesey village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch was recognised as the longest valid internet address in the world according to Guinness World Records in 2002.

But as if that 58-character address wasn't difficult enough to get your tongue around another five letters have been added.

Website designers have added the Welsh word "uchaf" to the address, referring to the "upper" or older part of the village.

The full 63-character address now reads www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochuchaf.eu after being registered by Birmingham man Keith Wood.

Local councillor John Roberts is hopeful that being able to boast the longest web address in the world will attract visitors who may not have otherwise ventured to the village.

He said, "It's just another way of getting more publicity for the village and hopefully some benefit will come of it.

"We do get quite a lot of visitors over the year and if this helps bring in a few more good on it."

For those who find the full address a little bit cumbersome website designers have come up with a less time consuming alternative - www.llanfairwales.com

Eryl Roberts, who manages the site, said the idea was to use the address to demonstrate that domain names don't have to be short and snappy or invented.

He said, "We registered the village to prove a point that home pages needn't be short or made up. When it was 58 letters long it was already recognised as the longest in the world.

"But the new domain name refers to a specific part of the village and it demonstrates to anyone who uses it that the village exists."

There have been various light-hearted attempts to claim the title for the worlds's longest web address.

Six people last year registered the longest possible address.

A German user paid to register www.thisisthelongesteuropeandomainnameallovertheworldandnowitismine.eu

A fellow German went for addresses featuring a long list of the letters "a" and "z".

Other bizarre addresses have included the mathematically infinite pi - this refers to the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.

A German IT firm used the first 63 decimal places of the infinite number for its website address.

After eu or European website domain names were launched last April almost 2.5 million addresses were registered, including one million on the first day.

The European registry said the new internet addresses have proved far more popular than anticipated. Within Europe only the German .de and our own .uk are more popular.

Around 80% of the .eu addresses will take surfers to functioning sites, but on the remaining sites internet users are redirected to other domains.

Legal action is pending against up to 400 American registrars acting on behalf of three Cypriots who allegedly bought 74,000 .eu addresses to sell them at a profit.

The registrars have been summoned to appear before a court in Brussels in what will be a test case designed to prevent cyber squatting.

Before it boasted the longest website address in the world the modern village of Llanfairpwll began to expand in the 1960s and 1970s.

Widespread building on several sites saw the population explode from 1,172 in 1961 to 3,101 in 1991.

Despite this, locals boast Llanfairpwll still retains its village atmosphere, even though its population is now bigger than in some Welsh towns.