Choosing a domain name #4 - Can I use numbers in my domain name?
Posted on April 25, 2008
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Nugget :
” Avoid Confusion ”
Sometimes adding a number to your domain name may seem like all you need to do to solve the avialability dilemma. But using numbers in a domain name presents its own problems.
Irrespective of how your visitors came across your site most peolpe simply store names in their ‘audio’ form. So that fourlife.com,4life.com and forlife.com may all seem the same to a visitor on hindsight. By looking at the example above, its clear that someone visiting fourlife.com will be quite different from another surfer visiting forlife.com as the two clearly are pointing to different things. Therein lies the problem with numbers. By using 4life.com it becomes difficult to attach the name of your site to its specific context.
Remember we want to make it as simple as possible. In most cases where numbers are used , except in situations where the domain name is already attached to a product or service which clearly has the numeral as part of its name, I’ll go with looking for another domain name.
As usual you dont want your hard earned traffic ending up on some other site.
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