5 Letter .com's

[JoeCanadian]

I have bought a few 5 letter .com's - not real words - but pronouncable and hopefully saleable. Some of the ones I own right now are Foily.com, Luvyo.com and Yuhop.com.

Questions - can anyone offer some suggestions as to which letters and letter combinations are most valuable? Thanks.

 

[accent]

When you are in the pronouncable arena the quality of the letters is secondary. What matters is the sounds, are they pleasing or sound important???

I was looking at some pharmacutical ads this morning - one five and six letter pronouncable after another. Bet they like them because the trademark is stronger and they can go to town with branding.

All of that said, I really wonder about what some people consider pronouncable. And get this - Acronyms are the basis of short domain end user sales in my opinion (I get a lot of flack about that from the pronouncable people). Would it not be the best of both worlds to have a pronouncable domain made with good letters?????

Remembering that this is an area where there is a lot of disagreement, I would set up the chart this way for English:
The worst letters: Q X Z Y - (most accept this group (again, we are talking about English) but some differ on the order)
Second Tier: V U K J W - (there is a hard line in people's minds between these 9 letters called bad letters and the other 17 called premium letters. There is no greater frequency difference between W and H than any other adjacent letters, as far as I know, but the superstition is strongly placed and we have to live with it.)
__________________________ HARD LINE ___________________________
Low premium: H F O I G L
Mid Premium: R E N B D P
High Premium: T M
Top Tier letters: A C S

 

[Bigvenue]

I have the following :
tisic.com with more than 7,500,000 search results
rekne.com 1,500,000

 

[VURG]

Brandables that often sell well are often fake words that are similar to another but one letter is different especially if the changed letter is next to the correct letter as then it also considered a typo. (e.g. Botoz.com is a typo for Botox.com)

Accentnepal's guide on priority of letters seems a good guide although I would put "I" as high premium.

Foily.com, Luvyo.com and Yuhop.com - Foily is probably the best but if you tried to sell them, it's anyones guess as to which one will attract the biggest sale. I collected a list of 50 names last month. I decided to register the one I liked most (HHATE.com) and try and sell it and mention the others as available here in namepros. Someone else registered Yuffa.com and tried to sell it. Hhate sold for less than $2. Yuffa sold for $255.

It's a bit confusing.

Tibec.com is available.

 

[IconPacks]

Foily.com is probably the best of your bunch. Like LessThan96 mentioned it's best to go with words that closely resemble a dictionary word. Foily.com is good because you can just remember the short word "Foil" and add y, it's the easiest to remember of the domains you mentioned.

Luvyo.com is not really close to anything but it DOES sound decent when spoken, however when written the v and the y hinder it somewhat.

Yuhop.com is the worst in my opinion because it is said "UHOP", so the y and the u are mixed together and it can be confusing when pronouncing this domain (it would need to be spelt out letter by letter).

The key to good made up brandable domains is making them;

1) as short as possible.
2) close to a real word.
3) pronounceable and easy to say over the phone.
4) look good written down and in lower and upper case.
5) positive overtones.

 

[nmr86]

please take a look in this thread

http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/252731-5-letter-com.html

lots of 5 letter .coms discussion in here

 

[YesBrilliant]

The key to good made up brandable domains is making them;

1) as short as possible.
2) close to a real word.
3) pronounceable and easy to say over the phone.
4) look good written down and in lower and upper case.
5) positive overtones.

Interesting points.

 

[JoeCanadian]

Lots of good advice there. Thanks to everyone who responded.