I have VTTwins.com, and a friend of mine has VTFood.com.  VTBA.com isn't
exactly as easy to decipher, but might be a good shorthand for recurring
visitors, and as already mentioned, get a few others (that your WPP can
probably park on the same IP for a minimal fee) like VTBeautifulApartments,
VtApartments, VtApts, etc.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kehvan M. Zydhek" <kehvan(at)zydhek.net>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>; "John McConnell" <form(at)narwhaldesign.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: URL length


> Short is best, as it's easy to type, easy to remember, easy to fit on a
> business card, and HARD to mistype... Long URLs are more descriptive,
though
> (vba, as in the example, would for me imply VisualBasic for Applications,
> not an apartment locator service for Vermont, as I would think the long
URL
> would describe), easy to mistype, complicated to say (or heaven forbid,
> SPELL when necessary -- try phoentically spelling the long URL over the
> phone... vee ee are em oh en tee bee ee ay you... ;-) ), and difficult to
> squeeze onto a business card and still be legible AND in a semi-valid
> format. Both methods have their pluses and minuses... The biggest,
however,
> is that short names are almost always already in use for something, and
long
> ones are not, so long may be your only choice. The current allowance is
for
> 67 characters, including the TLD (.com, .net, etc), so you've got a lot of
> leeway if you do have to go long...
>
> Kehvan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John McConnell" <form(at)narwhaldesign.com>
> To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 06:05
> Subject: URL length
>
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I have been going back and forth with a client about the length of a
> > url for his new website.  According to an Alert Box from Jakob
> > Nielsen that's 3 years old, he says names need to be short and easy
> > to type.  Makes sense.  But, since people are more and more using
> > bookmarks and search engines to find sites, I'm wondering if it's ok
> > now for urls to be much longer and descriptive so they can be used in
> > ads.  My client wants to use the url in ads and that would be the
> > name of the company as well.  For instance,
> > www.VermontBeautifulApartments.com instead of www.vba.com?

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