An interesting page of LLLL

[3par]

I just bumped into some interesting LLLL statistic, 5 and half years ago.

Here is the site: http://www.mcgees.org/fourletterdomains.html

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In March 2002 I conducted a survey of four-letter .com domains currently reserved on the Web. There are 456,976 (264) such domains, so I probably annoyed the whois server administrators. Here are some statistics on what I found:

Four-letter domains reserved as of March 2002: 257,400 (56.3%)

Percentage of palindromic domains (adda, zyyz, etc.) reserved: 93.5%

Percentage of domains containing 'faq' reserved: 46 out of 52 (88.5%). The ones not yet registered are faqj, faqk, faql, faqo, faqr, and faqv.

I have only found two four-letter words that have not been registered: tahr, a wild mountain goat, and yirr, listed as an echoic in the OED and found in Burns.

 

[accent]

Interesting. I wonder how many CVCV were available in 2002? It is interesting in itself that the author did not research that.

 

[3par]

According to his data, about 6% CVCV is left and 80% of the remaining got either Q or X.

About 9% good letter (no JKQUVWXYZ) is left.

 

[italiandragon]

According to his data, about 6% CVCV is left and 80% of the remaining got either Q or X.

About 9% good letter (no JKQUVWXYZ) is left.

so it was hard to find decent LLLL.com already in 2002

 

[Silhouette]

so it was hard to find decent LLLL.com already in 2002

whenever I do a whois on some decent CVCV .com, 8 out of 10 are all regg'ed in the last millennium. So what you say

 

[Keral_Patel]

I am 10 years late. Into domaining.

But even if I had been at that time I wouldn't have invested much into it.

It is all about making right decisions at right time.

 

[FPForum]

I am really not surprised so many CVCV were taken in 2002. Most cvcv are pronounceable and for that fact alone tons of people snagged them...

 

[cache]

nice find.

 

[accent]

According to his data, about 6% CVCV is left and 80% of the remaining got either Q or X.

About 9% good letter (no JKQUVWXYZ) is left.

So the 94th percentile of CVCV was at that time about as desireable as the 91th percentile of all-good-letter LLLL. I would imagine the best available CVCV reg from that time is currently saleable for a lot more than the best available all-good-letter LLLL.
Interesting that they were so close.

 

[petrosc]

interesting find, thanks for sharing

 

[VURG]

Interesting that "t" is in the 5 most popular letters. Nice Find.

I think I've seen it before or something similar.