How long should a domain name be?
Howard Lake | 28 March 2001 | News
If you really want, you can register a .org, .net, or .com domain name that is 63 characters long. In fact only 0.8% of all domain names are over 25 characters long. Effective domain names should of course be short or at least easy to remember.
If you really want, you can register a .org, .net, or .com domain name that is 63 characters long. In fact only 0.8% of all domain names are over 25 characters long. Effective domain names should of course be short or at least easy to remember.
So how long are other domain names? Matthew Zook of Zooknic.com reports that the median length of all generic top level domain names is eleven characters, while the median length for .net and .org domain names is ten characters.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.