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Dennis Forbes - DNS is full. Go home.
by Decius at 7:45 am EDT, Apr 4, 2006

Given that there are approximately 50 million .COM domains registered, it is indeed true that the low-hanging fruit domain names are overwhelming taken, and your chances of lucking upon an unnoticed available three-letter acronym (TLA) are close to zero, and your only recourse would be to haggle with domain speculators.

Some interesting data about the state of available domains.

Dennis Forbes - Pragmatic Software Development
by dmv at 11:21 am EDT, Apr 4, 2006

As mentioned, 100% of 2 and 3 letter domain names are taken, but it starts to free up as the number of possibilities expodes, all the way up to 63-character domain names. The most popular registered domain name length is actually 11 characters long, tailing off from there.

11 characters seems weird, until I look at the last three domains I hit:
- livejournal.com
- memestreams.net
- itsyourturn.com

Still seems weird.

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