Html Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 Hi there.What does anyone here think about domain names with more than five words or five words. And at the same time, they aren't spellt funny or have dashes or numbers or any strange combination of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsomeguy Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 It doesn't really matter how many words there are as long as its easy to spell and there aren't too many characters. More than 20 characters is a bit much. One of my clients (photographer) decided to use intriguingimagesby<his name>.com, which is both long and hard to spell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Html Posted October 9, 2008 Author Share Posted October 9, 2008 It doesn't really matter how many words there are as long as its easy to spell and there aren't too many characters. More than 20 characters is a bit much. One of my clients (photographer) decided to use intriguingimagesby<his name>.com, which is both long and hard to spell.Good point. A name with a description of a page or site would work, but as you said not to awkward of a spelling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natechs Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 I do: ncwebdesigner.info which is my portfolio site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synook Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 I do: ncwebdesigner.info which is my portfolio site.That only has four words (n c web designer) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natechs Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 More than five letters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Html Posted October 11, 2008 Author Share Posted October 11, 2008 Domains should be relevent to a page or site. And descriptive too if possibly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redwall_hp Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Domains should be relevent to a page or site. And descriptive too if possibly.The general rules of usable domain names are:As short as possible, though it doesn't have to be ridiculously short Get .com, unless you absolutely *have* to have a certain domain and the .com version is gone The number of words don't matter, though it should be under 20 chars if possible It must be easy to spell and remember If *you* think it's a pain to type, then it is Avoid numbers, as they're too ambiguous. (Was that "3" or "three"?) Give it the "radio test." Say the domain out loud. Is it easy to say? It doesn't sound like you're saying something else? (Like Ask.com starting to spell out their domain in radio ads because it sounded like they were saying "a$$" instead of "ask") Hyphens are a pain in that case too, as you have to say "this *dash* domain dot com". (Yes, I'm aware that one of my domains has a dash in it... ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speculumcm Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Lucky you guys that can write short domain names in English. In spanish that's quite a bit difficult just like desarrollowebdequeretaro.com.mx which are just three words. Phew it awful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsomeguy Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 You could even shorten that, des-web-deq.com.mx, deswebdeq.com.mx, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speculumcm Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 You could even shorten that, des-web-deq.com.mx, deswebdeq.com.mx, etc.You're right, unfortunately in Spanish that sounds like an "albur" But in English sounds good: dev-web-q or devwebq and sure many people would understand what it stands for That's why Spanish it's not good writing about technology Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pizzaguy Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 mine is long, but i think the overall impression is worth it; yesiwouldlikefrieswiththat.com (Down ATM) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lulzim Posted November 2, 2008 Share Posted November 2, 2008 just be careful when combining more words, you may end up with a funny domain name like www.whorepresents.com or www.therapistsearch.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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