A, D, G, J, M, P, T, W
These may be the most used letters for naming the websites/home-pages for the startups coming up. The reason for it is simple enough - most startups are targeting mobiles in a big way and these letters are the easiest to type in any normal cell-phone keypad (I am not considering the Qwerty keyboard as normal in cell-phones).
Yesterday I was playing around with a friend’s cell-phone which had GPRS/WAP activated, and trying to access Yahoo! and Gmail had a big difference. Typing Yahoo took 12 keystrokes with some waiting between the two ‘o’s; whereas typing gmail took 9 keystrokes without waiting. Not a huge difference, you would say - but given that the website makes an effect on the user in initial 50 milliseconds (yes, you read it right - 50 milliseconds [BBC Report]) this minor difference of 4-5 keystrokes can be considered huge. And the only way to earn revenue is by building an appreciable customer base - why take a chance over such a trifle thing as the name of website; but then is the name that trifle - you could lose a customer over his laziness to type out the name.
I may be very wrong, but then what use this blog would be if I do not put out my neck once in a while 
Shoot me people!
Technorati: Startups, Web2.0, Domains, Cellphone, Mobile, Website Naming
interesting!
hmm .. wat abt having a proper english word has the website name .. for ppl who have and use the word auto-complete feature in their phones ?