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Old 12-20-2005, 05:07 PM THREAD STARTER               #1 (permalink)
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Bad characters in domain names

Hi, I'm not sure what characters you don't want in your 3 character domain name. Like, I know q, and z aren't very good. So is x and zero. Anything else?

Also, what would you rather have? Y, V, or U?

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i would prefer 'u' simply because it's a vowel

I believe the most irritating character has to be the dash (-)...
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A dash in a 3 char. domain name is very annoying to type.
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Also, what would you rather have? Y, V, or U?
Depends on what the character would standy for. I'd go for y or u, however.
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The most annoying characters in a 3 character have to be 'q' and (-).

Whereas I would prefer a 'v' simply because it is much easier to pronounce as compared to 'y' or 'u'
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i would prefer 'u' simply because it's a vowel
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I believe the most irritating character has to be the dash (-)...
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I believe the most irritating character has to be the dash (-)...
A dash in a 3 char. domain name is very annoying to type.
Depends, for example p-p.ext is easy to type it just depends on the other letters, thouh p-p is a bit of an eyesore
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I figured q x z y were annoying. For example ppl with websites with another form of a generic like matchmaker"z" etc...
I hate that.
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I hate i's in them

I dont know why they just make me mad


and seeing 3 zeros or 3 o's too yuck
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Typo - where 0 (zero) instead of o (oh).
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