Buying A Domain Name?
December 28th, 2009 | 
Author: I was wondering if my name would be to long. I’m planning on starting up an online portfolio for my designs, and I would need to buy a domain name. I counted and its 17 characters(letters) long. Is this too much, I want something decently easy to remember and type in. Any types or recommendations?
Also, I think a nickname would be to unprofessional.
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Most registrars allow up to 67 characters for a domain name.
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I assume you know you don’t need your actual name for a domain name? Sorry, but obvious questions first. Anyway, you want to avoid long, complicated domain names, and instead go for uncomplicated, simple, short domain. Maybe even crazy, so everyone remembers, eg. http://www.google.com, or wikipedia.org. These are sites we heard about, but what on earth is a Google? Some crazies are really popular websites. Nobody seems to know of a searchengine.com or similar, hmm? (Although it is a real search engine site!!)
You should try to avoid exceedingly long domain names, unless they are memorable (ex. letmygooglethatforyou.com). Instead, abbreviate your webpage title. For example, if the name is, say, JohnDoe’sArtisticPortfolio, you could use jdartportfolio.
if i were going to your site. i would be looking for the product that you are selling.. keep it simple but on target for the product..
I mean I don’t think it would be too bad, how hard is your name to spell, anyways?
i think the max is somewhere around 30+ charecters.
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