Would This Domain Be Too Long?

[richerbrat]

I've thought of a new niche and want to build a site. The only untaken domain I've come up with so far has the keywords in it, but it's four words long - 14 characters. Would that be too long do you think? I can't post the domain on here, because there'e too many newbies out there looking to steal ideas.

[boysbach]

I dont think it is too long but some would possibly disagree with me. My logic is if a site is good then people will keep coming back regardless of the length of domain name. Take here for example it is 15 letters before the dotcom and my diet site is 18 plus the dotcom. Go with it if you feel it is right. For my diet one I was thinking about the book and thinking I must do something, went to godaddy typed it in and there it was available. Since then another name has come available which is very close so we bought them as well and have them forwarded.
My personal opinion here is sometimes we can try and fit things into the norm but if we think outside the box then we have a site which is different to the others there. And the name isn't always important take some of the big name and see how they fit in with their site, make the site impressive and people will return.
Bev

[Mike]

here's something you could do to see if it's a good name or not - open a word processor, and type the domain several times. After that think to yourself. Was it hard to type? Is it too much of a hassle to type? Would I want to type it out again. Is it so long that you just would bookmark the site so you don't have to type it in again?

[isukgrar]

I don't think it's too long domain name.
The thing is, as long as your domain name reflects what you are selling, in my opinion, doesn't matter how long it is, people still remember it or even type it in search engines.

Like, If you try to sell stuff about football referee resources
www.howtobefootballreferee.com still works

isukgrar

[richerbrat]

Thanks everyone - I see what you mean. I will probably go for it. That football referree one sounds good - maybe you have found your niche?

[kayceee]

The problem with long domain names (also applies to names with confusing spelling and names with non ".com" TLD's) isn't in getting visitors the first time but in getting repeat visits ...

The longer the domain, the better chance of people forgetting the exact name or making typos if they type it in. If your site has enough "critical mass", you can expect dozens of parked domains with similar names capitalizing on this and sucking up a percentage of your traffic.

For example

[nichefinder]

Did you pick your domain yet richerbrat?

I do agree that shorter names are better...as long as the domain isn't a complicated word or phrase (ie. using the word "entrepreneur"). Using a word like this can easily lead to mispellings.

I have a pretty long domain name on my net marketing site. There good and bad things about it.

I have a variety of short and long domains. The good thing about short ones is that they're more brandable.

Rosalind provides good advice about domain names in her book as well.

Also, STAY AWAY from those long dashed domain names.

[richerbrat]

I chose a different one instead - it's ......4beginners.com

Have almost finished building it, so I will probably spend half the weekend adding Google Adwords!

[Mike]

[Will]

Unless type-in traffic was a major consideration, I wouldn't be too concerned about a lengthy domain name.

Why?

Well, I'd expect most of my traffic to arrive via a link, whether it's from an email (for those in plain text, copy and paste is still available), from a bookmark or from a search engine.

Don't forget that modern web browsers (since when has a web browser not been modern!) will often keep a history of visited URLs to help those who are determined to type it into the address bar.