We live in a time where words like “world wide web” seem tacky and old, where they once indicated the cutting edge. The internet is getting long in the tooth, and good domain names are increasingly hard to come by. Oh, we’ll never run out, but if you want a five digit domain name now you’re not going to get much better than kfgdf.com

It almost seems like there’s a certain kudos for websites with a short domain name, because it indicates they were registered a long time ago. I suppose I should be proud of http://ben-ts.net, which is pretty short and somewhat coherent (it was registered in 2005).

I’m not convinced it matters that much. Short domain names aren’t necessarily more memorable than long ones, you’d only get accidental “I-typed-this-into-my-web-browser” traffic if your domain name is widely recognised (like coke.com).

Ultimately, I think it’s the kudos thing, like how real absinth costs much more than imitation absinth even though they taste the same.

Beeth: Girls are like internet domain names, the ones I like are already taken.
honx: well, you can stil get one from a strange country

– Bash.org quote