Too long?

[Steveo31]

A buddy of mine is afraid that his domain name, www.example.com (13 letters) is too long. I don't think so, but what do you the people think?

[edited by: Woz at 11:19 pm (utc) on June 1, 2004]
[edit reason] examplified [/edit]

[DaveAtIFG]

I don't think so. For example, the top results for this search [google.com] are considerably longer.

[Teknorat]

Examplified :P

It's not too long provided:
A> No more than 2 words.
B> No hyphens.

[jo1ene]

Mine is 17 letters and three words. But it is a very memorable phrase. Many of my clints have three words. I would say that is dosn't matter too much if the "phrase" is intuitive or memorable in some way. Will people remember it if they read it on your business card, but later lose the card? And I definatly agree with Teknorat - No dashes!

[Steveo31]

Right, sorry about that woz, wasn't even thinkin about that :D

I spoke with him today and he said that he's gonna go with something else, albeit the extra cost. Subdomains became a problem with the URL chosen.

[devildude8989]

Rules for .com and .net:

Must be under 63 characters

Must be alphanumeric with the exception of "-"

Must not end in a "-"

Must be 2 characters or longer

[ronin]

webmasterworld.com

[vkaryl]

Unless one has bought into the search engine sycophancy exhibited lately, even a simple hyphen isn't really a problem.

Anyone who really wants to keep track of a site will bookmark it, no matter how the site address is constructed. Now whether they remember to copy the bookmark folder to an archive before they format/reinstall is another thing altogether....

[zoobie]

63, eh? I've always wondered...
yahooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.com is still available...heh heh

[vkaryl]

*laughing* zoobie, that's PRICELESS! Recommend you buy it RIGHT NOW!