Accidentally bumped into this interesting blogpost about domain names and their availability. It’s frightening to see the numbers Dennis Forbes comes up with.
I’ve noticed this first hand a few weeks ago when I was looking for a domainname for a future project of mine. After two days of searching and alternating words in my domainname i just decided that i’d reverse the process and name my website after the domainname I found. Here are some quoted numbers.
If you want one of the 676 possible two-letter sequences, for instance for an acronym or abbreviation, you’re out of luck: They’re all taken.
That’s not so weird, there are only 676 possibilities you see …
Of the 17,576 possible three-letter sequences, again every single one is already taken.
Doh!
Adding digits to the mix, giving 46,656 permutations, yields a larger number of garbage domain entries (either REGISTRAR-LOCKED, REDEMPTIONPERIOD, or with no nameservers), giving a false hope of 228 seemingly open domains, yet they aren’t actually available.
Now i’m about to faint …
Read the full article one Dennis Forbes’ website.
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