Domain Beginners and Newbies
How long should be a domain name? For new domainers...
<blockquote data-quote="shahed_sajid" data-source="post: 2343202" data-attributes="member: 322975771"><p>The length of a domain name has vital importance for a successful business. Shorter is better. Most people can easily memorize a short domain name. A shorter domain name is easier to read and quicker to type. And if you think about a business card, a long name is difficult to fit in, right?</p><p></p><p>A bigger domain name is comparatively more difficult to read, memorize and type. So, when choosing a domain name for a business, domain length is considered more of the time. Bigger names sometimes restrict the growth of a business.</p><p></p><p>The question is, how long a domain name should be?</p><p></p><p>It depends on different things. In my opinion, if the extension is .COM you can choose a bigger name for your business instead of a shorter length other extensions because people are habituated with the .com extension. Many people think their searched name has a .COM at the end.</p><p>But the problem for now and the coming years is, short names are not much available in the market. Most of the beautiful short names are already in use. So, the current trend is an appropriate combination of two words domain and even sometimes three words. A common observation is, the name should not be more than three words and 17 characters. And remember, uses of numbers and hyphens are better to ignore.</p><p>A table from buycompanyname site shows that a higher percentage of domains have 9L to 12L in domains. 80% of successful websites run on 6-17L domains and only 10.5% have more than 17 letters.</p><p>Some recent data from Jamesnames and others shows that, while the average length for all extensions available is between 9-10 characters the average, the .COM has the longest length of domains than other extensions, which is between 10-11 characters. On the other hand, the average length of .CO is 8.6, .IO is 7.9, .AI is 7.7.</p><p></p><p>You may remember these things when you are new in domaining and trying to catch some names to invest in. Hope this will help you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shahed_sajid, post: 2343202, member: 322975771"] The length of a domain name has vital importance for a successful business. Shorter is better. Most people can easily memorize a short domain name. A shorter domain name is easier to read and quicker to type. And if you think about a business card, a long name is difficult to fit in, right? A bigger domain name is comparatively more difficult to read, memorize and type. So, when choosing a domain name for a business, domain length is considered more of the time. Bigger names sometimes restrict the growth of a business. The question is, how long a domain name should be? It depends on different things. In my opinion, if the extension is .COM you can choose a bigger name for your business instead of a shorter length other extensions because people are habituated with the .com extension. Many people think their searched name has a .COM at the end. But the problem for now and the coming years is, short names are not much available in the market. Most of the beautiful short names are already in use. So, the current trend is an appropriate combination of two words domain and even sometimes three words. A common observation is, the name should not be more than three words and 17 characters. And remember, uses of numbers and hyphens are better to ignore. A table from buycompanyname site shows that a higher percentage of domains have 9L to 12L in domains. 80% of successful websites run on 6-17L domains and only 10.5% have more than 17 letters. Some recent data from Jamesnames and others shows that, while the average length for all extensions available is between 9-10 characters the average, the .COM has the longest length of domains than other extensions, which is between 10-11 characters. On the other hand, the average length of .CO is 8.6, .IO is 7.9, .AI is 7.7. You may remember these things when you are new in domaining and trying to catch some names to invest in. Hope this will help you. [/QUOTE]