"All the good ones have been taken"

[AdoptableDomains]

Interesting WSJ story about a guy who analyzed the whole .com database for word usage.

http://online.wsj.com/public/articl...kwQGl0TXs0_20060817.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top

a few quotes:

Mr. Forbes checked the U.S. Census Bureau's 1,219 most-common male names, the 2,841 most-common female names and the 10,000 most-common surnames; all were booked. Not only that, but when you link the top 300 first names with the top 300 last names, 89% of the resulting combinations are taken for male names and 84% for female ones.

Because you might be curious, "sex" appears in 257,000 domains. It may be tied to one of the most popular uses of the Web, but the word itself is only the 89th most-popular in dot-com domains. Incidentally, what is perhaps the naughtiest English word -- the one with four letters -- appears nearly 38,000 times

Half of all domains are between nine and 15 characters long; the average length is 13. A domain can have, at most, 63 characters, and there are 550 such domains. In fact, some people have made a haiku-like art out of 63-character domain names.

"I hope you have a pen and paper handy cause this is a crazy long domain name man," says one. (Spaces have been added in the interest of readability.) "Did you know that you can only have sixty-three characters in a domain name?" asks another.

More info here:
http://www.yafla.com/dforbes/2006/03/29.html

 

[Ronald Regging]

I think this is rather funny... A guy gets a master list from Verisign and suddenly is the world's preeminent domainologist? haha. Because he can do some searches on a text file?? I think my lack of success in life is due to my assumption that in order to succeed you need to actually accomplish something. I've been going about it all wrong. I need to just do something obviously simple and then promote it to the ignorant media so I look like a freaking pioneering genius!