3 to 5 Letter URLs for Your.com + .au
I still have my X.com tshirts from when I met PayPal in that office of the highway near Stanford. The paypal guys told me the story about how they got the x.com URL (as paypals original name/url) in return for a share of the company at a very early stage, and the person got extremely rich as a result ! A percent or so of a $1b+ acquisition is always nice :D
Web 1.0 thinking about branding and URLS got hijacked by search engine optimisation consultants who said you need to map your company name to keywords; Even though the most successful businesses of the time had nothing to do with functionality : Amazon, Google, Yahoo and Ebay for example.
We were pretty happy to get gnoos.com, .com.au and derivations, earlier in 2005 : As well as trademarks and the legal protectionist like things "they" tell you to get. Mr Miyagi, The VC Formerly known as Kawasaki, links to a good article on the 50m registered domain names and where the opportunity is : In Australia, 4 to 5 letter domains are a great window closing every week (Anyone want some help/implementation/business advice here we have some pretty kewl people/case studies already in the area of brand creation, logo development, CSS/XHTML, URL selection, and Web 2.0 Brand DNA.)
Getting 2WEB.com.au in Australia one month ago was also very schweeet. (i was sick of typing in web20workgroup.com in the US which Im a member of, but is experiencing some affiliated blog network burnout teething probs) Not that Im trying to sell, it's just a badly done area, we really enjoy (short URLs rock - they are easy to type and not hard to remember 4 or 5 letters), and the opportunity in Australia is about to shorten on 4 letter URL's and good 5 letter ones, like gnoos. (having a double letter and starting with g is g for good luck i hope !) Dennis Forbes
3 Letter .com Domains : "Of the 17,576 possible three-letter sequences, again every single one is already taken. Adding digits to the mix (note that I'm intentionally ignoring obtuse dashes for such short domain names, though technically they are legal from the second character onwards), giving 46,656 permutations, yields a larger number of garbage domain entries (either REGISTRAR-LOCKED, REDEMPTIONPERIOD, or with no nameservers), giving a false hope of 228 seemingly open domains, yet they aren't actually available."
4 Letter .coms : "Stepping up to four letter sequences, choosing among the 456,976 combinations, yields a vastly greater availability -- perhaps the set is a bit too large for domain speculators and their unlikely success with random sequences -- with 97,786 showing as open. A quick check verifies that most are legitimately available. "Choice" domains, such as AGJV.com, EIYK.com, GZVW.com, and QFEV.com. Adding digits into the mix and there are a massive 1.16 million open domains, so long as you're looking for something like 7RG8.com, or U3JZ.com. Choose one and then manufacture a ridiculous backronym to explain it."
5 Letter .coms : "Going to 5-letter sequences (yet another five-letter acronym? YAFLA?), and of course the possibilities are rich, again presuming that you're willing to accept an arbitrary sequence of letters and/or digits, creating a backronym to match. Using just letters you have a rich 11,881,376 possibilities, of which approximately 11,015,028 are unclaimed."
Web 1.0 thinking about branding and URLS got hijacked by search engine optimisation consultants who said you need to map your company name to keywords; Even though the most successful businesses of the time had nothing to do with functionality : Amazon, Google, Yahoo and Ebay for example.
We were pretty happy to get gnoos.com, .com.au and derivations, earlier in 2005 : As well as trademarks and the legal protectionist like things "they" tell you to get. Mr Miyagi, The VC Formerly known as Kawasaki, links to a good article on the 50m registered domain names and where the opportunity is : In Australia, 4 to 5 letter domains are a great window closing every week (Anyone want some help/implementation/business advice here we have some pretty kewl people/case studies already in the area of brand creation, logo development, CSS/XHTML, URL selection, and Web 2.0 Brand DNA.)
Getting 2WEB.com.au in Australia one month ago was also very schweeet. (i was sick of typing in web20workgroup.com in the US which Im a member of, but is experiencing some affiliated blog network burnout teething probs) Not that Im trying to sell, it's just a badly done area, we really enjoy (short URLs rock - they are easy to type and not hard to remember 4 or 5 letters), and the opportunity in Australia is about to shorten on 4 letter URL's and good 5 letter ones, like gnoos. (having a double letter and starting with g is g for good luck i hope !) Dennis Forbes
3 Letter .com Domains : "Of the 17,576 possible three-letter sequences, again every single one is already taken. Adding digits to the mix (note that I'm intentionally ignoring obtuse dashes for such short domain names, though technically they are legal from the second character onwards), giving 46,656 permutations, yields a larger number of garbage domain entries (either REGISTRAR-LOCKED, REDEMPTIONPERIOD, or with no nameservers), giving a false hope of 228 seemingly open domains, yet they aren't actually available."
4 Letter .coms : "Stepping up to four letter sequences, choosing among the 456,976 combinations, yields a vastly greater availability -- perhaps the set is a bit too large for domain speculators and their unlikely success with random sequences -- with 97,786 showing as open. A quick check verifies that most are legitimately available. "Choice" domains, such as AGJV.com, EIYK.com, GZVW.com, and QFEV.com. Adding digits into the mix and there are a massive 1.16 million open domains, so long as you're looking for something like 7RG8.com, or U3JZ.com. Choose one and then manufacture a ridiculous backronym to explain it."
5 Letter .coms : "Going to 5-letter sequences (yet another five-letter acronym? YAFLA?), and of course the possibilities are rich, again presuming that you're willing to accept an arbitrary sequence of letters and/or digits, creating a backronym to match. Using just letters you have a rich 11,881,376 possibilities, of which approximately 11,015,028 are unclaimed."
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