Before I migrated over to WordPress, I was saying how domain names will be spelt as d0ma41n n4m3s in future because of the less available choices around due to others purchasing and auctioning of domains at a mugh higher value.
I’ve also highlighted a great article on how to choose a business name written by Will Swayne before and if you haven’t read it, you should. Now from the masses unveils another article of tips for choosing a domain name along with graphical statistics by Dennis Forbes.
The article called Interesting Facts about Domain Names has a few things Dennis noticed about domain names:
- Best acronyms are in 4-5 letters.
- Average domain names are 11 characters.
- About 538 domain names are 63 characters.
- More male than female domain names registered. (based on US Census Bureau)
- Relatively few domains starting with Q, X, Y, and Z.
- The most common digit to start a domain is 1.
There’s a bunch of all these interesting facts found out by Dennis Forbes. At thend of his article he also sported a graph comparing the number of websites using the more popular names like Google, Yahoo or Microsoft as part of it’s domain name.
Google won if you’d like to know. ;)
But the most shocking thing I discovered was that the maximum characters in a domain is 63. To top that off is that someone has even registered a domain called; DIDYOUKNOWTHATYOUCANONLYHAVESIXTY-THREECHARACTERSINADOMAIN-NAME.com
Gosh!
Anyway, time to grab a dictionary and see what cool names I could make with Q, X, Y or Z while the rest of you can read Interesting Facts about Domain Names.