Comments on: Trend: Numeric Domaining http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/12/05/trend-numeric-domaining/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:42:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: keonda http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/12/05/trend-numeric-domaining/#comment-11301 keonda Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:02:38 +0000 http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/12/05/trend-numeric-domaining/#comment-11301 In the Chinese culture, some numbers have a positive meaning while others are more negative. For instance 4 is very close from "death" VS 8 is closer to luck. (more meanings <a href="http://www.domainmagnate.com/2008/05/21/chinese-numbers-meanings/" rel="nofollow">here</a>) And they tend to use a lot of numeric domains... In the Chinese culture, some numbers have a positive meaning while others are more negative. For instance 4 is very close from “death” VS 8 is closer to luck. (more meanings here)
And they tend to use a lot of numeric domains…

]]> By: Jeff Hawkins http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/12/05/trend-numeric-domaining/#comment-11259 Jeff Hawkins Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:55:20 +0000 http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/12/05/trend-numeric-domaining/#comment-11259 Good numeric Domain Names have a mnemonic meaning to a large segment of the population where the sequence of numbers relate to an action, some known event, product, etc. 88.com makes me think immediately of my neighbor's Buick "88". He owned several different ones over the years. They were nice luxury cars. "21" is a club I've never been to. In "1999" we would party like there's no tomorrow according to Prince. "1941" was a good John Belushi movie. Ever owned a Colt "45" or a Harley "45"? Or a "74"? Or a "883"? Or a "441" Victor special? Ariel Square "4"? I'm watching "Close Encounters of the Third ("3rd") Kind" right now. And that was the purpose of domains anyway. A mnemonic way to relate a dotted quad IP to something a little easier to remember. A way to get to "project167.com" without remembering 66.84.69.10:80. And domain names are even more important now with virtual servers and http/1.1. Hmmmm??? If I owned 1.com and had a machine there called "1" I could have a URL like http://1.1.com/RFC2616/confuses/me.pl?help. My point here is to show numbers have bigger meanings which make them good Domain Names by themselves or as additions to common words to enhance the value of the common word as a more meaningful Domain Name. Then there's "149". 1 x 4 x 9 - The square of the first three integers. The dimensions of the monolith in "2001" A Space Odyssey. Flight "19" back in "45". Hanger "18" In Dayton, Ohio. Certain sequences of numbers come up all the time in conversations and they often mean something important to various groups. Adding dot com to those numeric sequences can yield a very memorable domain. Good numeric Domain Names have a mnemonic meaning to a large segment of the population where the sequence of numbers relate to an action, some known event, product, etc.

88.com makes me think immediately of my neighbor’s Buick “88″. He owned several different ones over the years. They were nice luxury cars.

“21″ is a club I’ve never been to. In “1999″ we would party like there’s no tomorrow according to Prince. “1941″ was a good John Belushi movie.

Ever owned a Colt “45″ or a Harley “45″? Or a “74″? Or a “883″? Or a “441″ Victor special? Ariel Square “4″? I’m watching “Close Encounters of the Third (”3rd”) Kind” right now.

And that was the purpose of domains anyway. A mnemonic way to relate a dotted quad IP to something a little easier to remember. A way to get to “project167.com” without remembering 66.84.69.10:80. And domain names are even more important now with virtual servers and http/1.1.

Hmmmm??? If I owned 1.com and had a machine there called “1″ I could have a URL like http://1.1.com/RFC2616/confuses/me.pl?help. My point here is to show numbers have bigger meanings which make them good Domain Names by themselves or as additions to common words to enhance the value of the common word as a more meaningful Domain Name.

Then there’s “149″. 1 x 4 x 9 - The square of the first three integers. The dimensions of the monolith in “2001″ A Space Odyssey.

Flight “19″ back in “45″. Hanger “18″ In Dayton, Ohio. Certain sequences of numbers come up all the time in conversations and they often mean something important to various groups. Adding dot com to those numeric sequences can yield a very memorable domain.

]]> By: Mike @ WannaDevelop.com http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/12/05/trend-numeric-domaining/#comment-11257 Mike @ WannaDevelop.com Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:46:45 +0000 http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/12/05/trend-numeric-domaining/#comment-11257 The Wall Street Journal blog piece was interesting and good to see more coverage on domains as always at mainstream and well respected sources... But numbers domains do have very limited potential and there aren't going to be too many success stories. Sometimes no matter how hard you try you just aren't going to get the results you would with a simple domain that actually makes sense. It's called business 101. Mike http://www.wannadevelop.com The Wall Street Journal blog piece was interesting and good to see more coverage on domains as always at mainstream and well respected sources… But numbers domains do have very limited potential and there aren’t going to be too many success stories. Sometimes no matter how hard you try you just aren’t going to get the results you would with a simple domain that actually makes sense. It’s called business 101.

Mike
http://www.wannadevelop.com

]]> By: Gazzip http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/12/05/trend-numeric-domaining/#comment-11256 Gazzip Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:58:24 +0000 http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/12/05/trend-numeric-domaining/#comment-11256 Kinda ironic is'nt it :) I'v noticed that Japanese seem to love short numeric domains, I think their value will also increase as they are ideal for the huge mobile market. Alot easier than typing in words. Kinda ironic is’nt it :)
I’v noticed that Japanese seem to love short numeric domains, I think their value will also increase as they are ideal for the huge mobile market. Alot easier than typing in words.

]]> By: Reece http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/12/05/trend-numeric-domaining/#comment-11254 Reece Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:08:53 +0000 http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/12/05/trend-numeric-domaining/#comment-11254 Thanks for sharing Sahar -- what a great article they wrote up! Sad to see a few idiot domainers spam their garbage as comments to it however :( Thanks for sharing Sahar — what a great article they wrote up! Sad to see a few idiot domainers spam their garbage as comments to it however :(

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