question Wheree didd thiss doublee letterr trendd beginn?

lock said:

Idiotss

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**idioots

hookbox said:

The problem is it has the L repeating twice, once in the beginning and once at the end. The best ones to have only have the repeating letter once in the name so they know when you say it's Rackk with two K's you know exactly what the person means. When you tell someone it's Littll with two L's they wonder if it's in the beginning or end of the name. Also having two T's and two L's at the end of the word throws off the look of the name. At quick glance it almost looks like 4 lowercase L's next to each other since all the stems of the letters look so similar.

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i agree, maybe be a littlle confusing

i only have 2 repeating names left, i try to stick with very short words (4-5L) with one syllable with repeating letters only at the end.

my preference being strong sounding consonants (rr, tt, pp, dd, kk,)

OmarVG said:

LETHALL
Perfect for a Guns Company, War Games, Fights Game, Hunting Brand etc.

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hookbox said:

Those type of companies won't use a double letter and if they did it would look foolish. It takes a specific type of company that can get away with double letters and the majority are tech startups.

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There are some exceptions to doubling the last 'L' on words that end with 'AL' when that last letter makes the single word, a two worder.

ie. Rental > Rentall > RentAll (.com regged sense 1997)
There are 296 .com's regged ending with 'rentall'

Top search results for RentAll:

AF-Rentall.com (appliance and furniture) AFRentall.com (without the hyphen) is unregistered.

TentsAndEventsRentall.com

AAARentall.com

hookbox said:

The problem is it has the L repeating twice, once in the beginning and once at the end. The best ones to have only have the repeating letter once in the name so they know when you say it's Rackk with two K's you know exactly what the person means. When you tell someone it's Littll with two L's they wonder if it's in the beginning or end of the name. Also having two T's and two L's at the end of the word throws off the look of the name. At quick glance it almost looks like 4 lowercase L's next to each other since all the stems of the letters look so similar.

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It has potential to be confusing. I mean, if you look at it, ALL of the letters could appear to be the same at first glance. I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing for branding. Nothing a great logo design and careful font selection couldn't solve.

Fun thread. The only issue with these "cute" double letter domains is that they fight an uphill branding battle in the real world. Names using an extra letter creating an effective typo are a disaster where it comes to passing the radio test.

Given the choice, would you prefer to create an advertising brand based upon bootss.com or boots.net?

Of course, the cover domain for bootss.com would be bootsss.com, right?

Commerce said:

Fun thread. The only issue with these "cute" double letter domains is that they fight an uphill branding battle in the real world. Names using an extra letter creating an effective typo are a disaster where it comes to passing the radio test.

Given the choice, would you prefer to create an advertising brand based upon bootss.com or boots.net?

Of course, the cover domain for bootss.com would be bootsss.com, right?

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boots.net as it still will get generic traffic and will get generic traffic for life. Bootss.com will still get some traffic but it really is no longer targeted. You need to supply traffic to a brand. If you going to make a brand make it spell as it sounds.

Grilled said:

There are some exceptions to doubling the last 'L' on words that end with 'AL' when that last letter makes the single word, a two worder.

ie. Rental > Rentall > RentAll (.com regged sense 1997)
There are 296 .com's regged ending with 'rentall'

Top search results for RentAll:

AF-Rentall.com (appliance and furniture) AFRentall.com (without the hyphen) is unregistered.

TentsAndEventsRentall.com

AAARentall.com

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I think these names are meant to end in Rent All instead of Rental with an extra L.

Dident it start with fiverr?

Guess it came out of scarcity. Rather have a misspelled .com than an correctly spelled obscure extension.

Commerce said:

Of course, the cover domain for bootss.com would be bootsss.com, right?

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What about Boott.com? Shake that Boot t

hookbox said:

I think these names are meant to end in Rent All instead of Rental with an extra L.

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Exactly. Hence an exception. Double letters that make a second keyword can be brands.

OpticAll.com regged since '04

OptionAll.com (for sale on HugeDomains for $2,095)

PersonAll.com regged since '01 (Sold for $3k earlier this year)

PortAll.com regged since '03

PowerFull.com regged since '02

CrApp.com regged since '00

What about domains such as: Totall.com > TotAll.com > ToTall? All is related to the word total, but not tot. Thus, tot all doesn't make sense. Where as Option All makes sense, ie All Options...

promo said:

Dident it start with fiverr?

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Fiverr.com has a reg date of December 2009, and was launched February 2010. In June 2010, they received 1 million dollars in funding. By November 2015, they had raised over $110 million dollars in funding.

Source: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fiverr

promo said:

Dident it start with fiverr?

Guess it came out of scarcity. Rather have a misspelled .com than an correctly spelled obscure extension.

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the first main site i saw using double letters was Digg.com

urlurl said:

the first main site i saw using double letters was Digg.com

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Right Digg and Fiverr were the two starting points for this trend. Digg was around before Fiverr and I think after fiverr is when it got more traction in the start up community.

i only have 2 left in my portfolio, both are very strong key words 4L + 1 repeating at the end.

I purchased both for development, might sell one at the right price

Some developed domains ending in double letter:

Punchh.com - Restaurant Marketing Cloud
Hunchh.com - owned by eBay
Houzz.com - 1,549 Alexa Ranking
Stickk.com - Goal Development Platform
WebTrekk.com - Customer Analytics

equity78 said:

Right Digg and Fiverr were the two starting points for this trend.

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Before Twitter became Twitter, they were Twttr.



Though, Twitter.com is older than Twttr.com by six years



Twitter received $5 million dollars in series A funding July 2007.

Something strange I noticed, is the first screenshot of Twitter.com on Archive.org, there's a © 2007 marking. Does anybody know why this may be?

Twitter.com October 1998??? How?


The July 27, 2002 screenshot has a © 2002 marking Dotist Group.

Twitter.com 2002



Twitter.com February 2005



Twttr.com August 2006



Twitter.com September 2006

You ALL are so wrong!! The first one how started the double letter trend was Chingy - Right Thurr LOL

braanding.com

Another rapper following this crazy double letter trend: Zay Hilfigerrr LOL I don't know if that's a trademark too!
The video is Hilarious!! Hahahahahahahahaha!!

I guess just because the original one was taken, so they just conveniently add one more letter at the end but the domain name is still pronounced the same. I would prefer if it double letters at the end, not in the middle. For example, Nise and Nisse