Thursday, July 20, 2006

As Seen on CNN

Some crazy guy asked Verisign for a list off all the dot-com domain names.
Here is what he found:

-47 million domain names end with .com
-every possible 2 and 3 letter and/or number combination is taken
-virtually all English four letter words are taken (including poop
-all of the 1,000 most common English words are taken
-the 1,219 most common male names, the 2,841 most common female names and the 10,000 most common last names are all taken
-home is the most common word of 4 or more letters (719,000 domains)
-sex appears in 257,000 domains
-the average length is 13 characters
-the maximum length is 63 characters
-550 domains have 63 characters including one of each letter of the alphabet repeated 63 times

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