Short

[Name Trader]

How many characters in a domain name would be considered short? 4, 5, 6 or less, or more?

 

[PowerUp]

I consider 5 or less as short.
6 to 10 as medium.
11 and above as long.

 

[jido]

5 or less for me.

 

[Michael]

I consider 5 or under to be short.

 

[ssamriga]

yeah, <5 is short, 6-11 average, 12-15 are long and 16+ are more than I can read in an address bar

 

[Charley]

How many characters in a domain name would be considered short? 4, 5, 6 or less, or more?

All generic keywords are considered short and concise, even if they are long i.e. newyorkrealestate.com

Non generic words shouldn't exceed more than 15 characters.

 

[clocker24]

The ones that are really rising in value are two to four letters. Five letter dictionary words of course are very valuable, and five letter brandable as well if they are pronounceable and catchy.

 

[Skinny]

5 and below IMO are short.

6 isn't bad but just not as short.

Skinny

 

[Jeff]

How many characters in a domain name would be considered short? 4, 5, 6 or less, or more?

I consider "short" ... in the context of domainer talk and general widespread acceptance in this community of precipitously greater values ... to be of the LLL.com (and LL.com, of course) variety, IMHO. :talk:

Just the humble view of an old-timer. :gl:
-Jeff

 

[Name Trader]

Consensus seems to be 5. Unless there is a flurry of contrary opinion still to come

Flurry?
1) Hmm. I seem to have heard the word before recently
2) Doesn't have the distinction of being short (except to Charley)

IMHO, I generally would go with the consensus. However, 6 character dictionary words or pronounceable brandables (of high quality) I'd consider to be short. 5 character acronyms, long.

 

[VURG]

5 or less for me

 

[-REECE-]

Agreed. Same here.

Consensus seems to be 5. Unless there is a flurry of contrary opinion still to come

IMHO, I generally would go with the consensus. However, 6 character dictionary words or pronounceable brandables (of high quality) I'd consider to be short. 5 character acronyms, long.

 

[domainer50]

Are you asking what is short for a developed website? Becuase you can be 20 chars but with the right advertising your still going to draw traffic.

 

[xman]

I'll say 5 or less is short.

Short is a 5 letter word it seem.

 

[skylineleong]

<5 is short,
6-10 average,
11-18 are long
19+ very long

 

[htmlindex]

I would agree, 5 or less characters is considered short

 

[Name Trader]

OK. We got the domainer's view on what short is. What do you think the end-users view of short is? Is it any different to ours? (since we're trying to market to them).

 

[-REECE-]

I think it would definitely depend on the domain name category and size of the buyer. Something like NYCRealEstate.com might be considered short by an enduser -- it's one of the shortest, most descriptive names you might be able to have for NYC real estate. A big enduser may prefer something like beer.com, whereas a small one who is based solely in Canada in example, may actually prefer a name like CanadianBeer.com for their intended use.

OK. We got the domainer's view on what short is. What do you think the end-users view of short is? Is it any different to ours? (since we're trying to market to them).

 

[zestydomains*com]

I would suggest that 4 or less would be short. Those would be very common for acronym usage length.

 

[dnb8]

4 or less is short - 10 or more is long