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What's going to happen when IMDb reaches 10 million titles?

Currently, IMDb has over 9,125,000 titles, in the form of "tt#######" in the URL's, which means the highest title, respecting this format, will be tt9999999 (or 9,999,999).  Titles with a number under 1 million have leading 0's (like tt0072562 is SNL for example), so I'm wondering, will titles 10,000,000 and over just have an extra digit, or will it bump all titles to have an extra digit in their number (so SNL goes from tt0072562 to tt00072562)?

Let the Y2K conspiracy theories commence!

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6 years ago

The same thing as when the ID number of registered persons recently reached 10.000.000: the existing IDs remain the same, and it goes from tt9999999 to tt10000000.

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Actually, this is my pure personal guess, but I do not see why titles should be treated differently from names!
Moreover, I see that Col Needham has "liked" my message above (thanks!) so I think we can take it as an implicit approval.

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I hadn't thought about checking names before ACT_1 had responded with examples.  It's why I said he was no fun, because he provided a factual answer before others could wonder the same thing.  (An answer that I didn't know before hand, so I still do appreciate his giving that information.)

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Hunters Lair (TV Series)
Savagely hogtied on the steel work table  (2013)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9125000/
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Title # 9,160,000

Jerusalem, Jerusalem (TV Mini Series)   - added today ? ?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9160000/


Name # 10,200,000

Jacob Aaron Moody
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10200000/

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Carmencita (1894)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000001

Fred Astaire (1899–1987)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000001

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You're no fun.

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Freddy Robinson (IV)  - added Sun Jul 22 2018
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9990000/


https://www.imdb.com/pressroom/stats/
Titles: 5,310,913 (Year Range: 1874 - 2025)
Names: 9,285,228

https://www.imdb.com/search/title?release_date=1874-01-01,&sort=release_date,asc
4,952,588 titles

https://www.imdb.com/search/name?gender=male,female
 5,168,515 names

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User # 94,195,000

shajidansari-90165
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur94195000/

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6 years ago

Are you sure there are 9,125,000 titles? Because official statistics page has a number of 5,310,913. 

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3 years ago

As I recall, there was or is another thread on the forum inquiring about what would happen when the number of IMDb name page public URLs (to ever exist) exceeded one million. Such bizarre curiosities. I don't remember which inquiry came first, about tconst or nconst. We learned very quickly that an extra digit would be introduced at the front of the nconst, so the same will apply to the tconst.

By the way, 32-bit computers are going to have a problem when the number of seconds since Epoch reaches 2,147,483,648, in late January of 2038. This will be an important thing to know, for anybody still running a 32-bit system by then, a little more than decade an a half from now. It may be worse than the "Y2K" problem was.

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@jeorj_euler​ 

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https://www.imdb.com/name/nm03,497,000

Jonothan Stewart
2009 The Disconnection of Cyrus Bent Editor 

Recently added page ??

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13,497,000

Amanda Larson (VI)
2015 Green Room (special thanks)

https://www.imdb.com/pressroom/stats/

As of Dec 2021
Names: 11,398,840


https://www.imdb.com/user/ur151,250,000

francisgonzales-40646
IMDb member since March 18 2022

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@jeorj_euler​ 

We learned very quickly that an extra digit would be introduced at the front of the nconst, so the same will apply to the tconst.

Yes, that same point was made earlier in this very thread with regard to the number sequencing for titles.