In fact, there are many domains of 63 characters on the Web. One of them is 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592.eu that belongs to mathematician Gerard Steffens.
A slightly shorter (58 characters) domain is llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com. It was registered on October 21, 1999, for the site of a village outside Wales. The village was formerly known as Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll. But to attract tourists, it was renamed, and the name grew to its current monstrous size (a repeat to everyone who tries to read it aloud) — Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
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The shortest domain
In general, in most zones, the minimum number of characters in a domain name is two. Despite this, there is still a short (that is, one-character) domain and not even one. But today, it is not always possible to register such a domain. The fact is that the registration of single-character domains has been prohibited since 1993. However, there are still domains registered before this ban (q.com, x.com, z.com, i.net, q.net, and x.org).
Understanding the value of single-character domains today, registries are meeting user needs and in some zones, it is possible to register single-character domains again. For example, such an opportunity was provided by the national zone of Singapore .sg, Colombia .co, Palestine .ps, domain zones. Of course, such domains are in demand and belong to the expensive premium category in the primary and secondary markets.
The most popular words
According to VeriSign, there are three popular words used in domain zones. They are:
- “Home” – 1.2 million uses
- “Online” – 1 million uses
- “Land” – 900 thousand uses
But tops for non-English countries differ. For example, recently it was analyzed which domains are registered by legal entities in Russia. It is interesting that if you look at the database of legal entities’ names, the most popular words will be “plus” and “service”. The same trend has been reflected in domain registration since 2010, although the leading words among domain names are “pro,” “group,” “shop,” “dom,” and “auto”.
By the way, TLD .?? is the world’s first Cyrillic domain zone. The first domain names in the zone were president.rf and government.rf.
