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A look at repeating letters and the most ridiculous hand reg I have ever made

December 29, 2014 by Raymond Hackney

After the sale of VVVV.com on NameJet for $22,100 I was having a conversation with someone that thought that was a high price since there probably not many uses for the domain. He asked me how many acronyms would there be for the same repeating letter ? I said I thought the name was valuable and that a repeating letter domain goes far beyond four characters.

So I decided to look at every letter in the alphabet from A to Z to see at what point was there an available name with the same repeating letter. I also made probably the most ridiculous hand reg I ever made, I made sure it was .99. The shortest repeating letter available was N, and that was at 10 characters. I regged that name as I just wanted to see what if any traffic, or interest could possibly come.

NNNNNNNNNN.com was registered by a landscaping company from 2003 to 2009 then the name was registered by someone in China and then the name was picked up by Huge Domains of all people. They seemed to register the domain and then I guess cancel it because they registered the domain in 2/13 but there was a new registrant in October of 2013 with a creation date of 10/2013 so it is not like they purchased it from Huge Domains. That registrant dropped it and I regged it.

One letter is taken to the max 63 characters and that is the letter W, interestingly W to the 63rd position is taken in .net and .org as well. The .com version actually redirects to a .bz domain.

Letter/First available

a 28
b 17
c 18
d 14
e 14
f 22
g 24
h 16 updated Jan 1 9 H’s.com is now available
i 20
j 13
k 15
l 29
m 22
n 11
o 58
p 17
q 18
r 16
s 19
t 16
u 14
v 13
w Nothing available
x 34
y 15
z 24

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About Raymond Hackney

Raymond Hackney has been involved with domain names since 1997. One of the most prolific writers in the domain industry and founder of TLDinvestors.com and 3Character.com

Comments

  1. page howe says

    December 29, 2014 at 2:57 pm

    mans ive done this same exercise, bummer is you do feel like you have to registrar something just for the effort.

    for me it was

    00000000000000000000000001.com

    ugg

  2. Vincent Jacques says

    December 29, 2014 at 9:21 pm

    Very interesting Ray. You’re going to have to figure out the ‘W’ thing and educate us! Have you done the exercise with numbers?

  3. Adventures says

    December 29, 2014 at 9:28 pm

    That’s interesting why would peopke renew these each year ?

  4. Joseph Peterson says

    December 29, 2014 at 10:55 pm

    Definitely interesting for the curiosity factor alone.

    As far as usefulness goes, it’s hard for a repeating-character sequence to be visually identifiable beyond 4 characters.

    VVVV and VVVVV are hard to tell apart without a second glance. VVVVV and VVVVVV even harder. And so forth. The longer the sequence, the lower the percentage difference between it and its neighbor with 1 character more or less.

    Insert some variation, and we can tell similar sequences apart more easily:

    VVOV and VVOVV and VVVOV can be differentiated quickly.

  5. Choo Jen-Sin says

    January 1, 2015 at 11:32 am

    HHHHHHHHH.com is available as a hand reg now.

    • Raymond Hackney says

      January 1, 2015 at 11:36 am

      Thanks a fresh drop so now 9H’s.com is the shortest available.

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