"Web 2.0" trendy domainn nam3r

[Darren Dirt]

http://www.robmanuel.com/2006/05/10/trends-in-web-20-names/

The net has been about too long for people to be able to get the domain names they want. Everything in the dictionary has long been registered.

The best names are

Short
Memorable
Unique (it's kinda handy when searching for your own name on google and knowing that every reference to monkeyspokz exists because of your site.)
Hence all these web 2.0 start-ups have to play about with misspelling ordinary words.

Examples

Flickr - Remove the last vowel
Digg - Double up the final consonant
Vimeo - Replacing a middle consonant to possibly do a joke on 'putting the me in video'
Zooomr - oo = ooo AND removing the last vowel. This is just taking the piss.
Del.icio.us - Abusing TLDs to create words. Personally I think this is a bit sh.it
Possible future trends?

Ck = q - Fliqr, Fuqr, nicewheatherforduqs
3 = e - Well, we did it on B3ta 5 years ago. Maybe it'll catch on eventually.
Er... Reallyreallylongnamesthatbuckthetrend?
Anyway. I've dashed out a quick Web 2.0 Namr to illustrate some of these points. Rah.

IMHO, works pretty nicly actually
http://www.robmanuel.com/namr/


...from the guy behind Sickopedia