The Mystery behind Domain Names

There are approximately 68 million .COM domains registered. That’s a  lot of domain names out on the Internet that are either already taken or  just parked in some obsolete spot gathering dust and all kinds of age.  The most common names like loser.com. Jamesbrown.com are already taken  by net investors who resell the rights to the names. Can you imagine  someone having www.elvis.com ? He’s just waiting on the highest bidder!
There  are 900 possible combinations for two letter sequences.  If you’re  looking for “ET” then you just won’t find it!  Even allowing for digits,  again every single web address is taken. Of course, that's ignoring the  fact that .COM registrars now mandate a 3-character minimum length, so  it wouldn't be an option.

Many of the three-letter  sequences are taken. Adding digits to a domain name creates a number of  garbage domain entries. If you're dying to acquire great domains and  unique domain names, they'll free up sometimes only to be auctioned off  through unique domain name sales.

The longer the  domain name that you choose, the more that the possibilities are that it  could be available presuming that you're willing to accept an arbitrary  sequence of letters and/or digits. For example, most organizations have  4 letter acronyms (WQAM.com and AFTA.org so you may have a chance using  over 4 letters to get the domain name that you want in acronym style!

Of  course many of the registered domains are ever, visited, with a huge  percentage having nothing more than a “parked page” (users pay domain  registrars to put up ads for themselves on these type of parked pages).  There are so many combinations and back door tricks to domain name  cataloging and classification until the possibilities are endless.

The  rule is to obtain a domain name that closely resembles who you are  about which gives you and identity and brand on the internet.