Get Intimate With Acronyms

It’s no secret. I love words. I love inventing new words, stringing random words together, and using acronyms to create original ideas, or phrases. If you know me from NamePros.com, you know my tag there is “Genuine Logophile.” It may sound creepy, but logophilia is simply “the love of words.”

Oddly enough, my love of words, and language is not what brought me into domaining, but it’s definitely something that keeps me going.

When I started picking up 4 letter .com’s years ago… I figured, despite popular opinion at the time, that there would be a buyout. What really fascinated me was what people were going to do with really random letter combos like “qkxz” for example. Now I just pulled that out of my head at random… but after checking it… it’s a developed website. It’s not in a language that I can understand… but it’s developed nonetheless.

There’s really no limit to what you can do with 3, 4, even 5 letter combination’s.

If you have a tough time coming up with words on your own, try using sites like TheFreeDictionary.com, or AcronymFinder.com.

Start by checking your entire domain name, for example sake, let’s use one of mine – QNHQ.com. As you might imagine, there are no listed acronyms for qnhq… so next, let’s break it down into parts, and check the first 2 letters “qn”.

“QN” does return some great results including quotation, queuing network, queer nation, and some others. You still want to be careful not to infringe on any trademarks. Now let’s break down the second half “hq” – this returns headquarters, high quality, and highly qualified, among others.

Now, I went looking for 4 letter domain names specifically ending in “HQ” when I found this one because I wanted to use “Headquarters” as the ending. Even though it might not look “pretty” according to most people’s standards… I now have a domain name to develop a quotations site called “Quotations Headquarters” using QNHQ.com!

You won’t always get lucky, and be able to break it down into 2 parts… sometimes, you’ll have to go much deeper and look for other ways to make it work. Try checking the first 3 letters… for this example, I will use FWIO.com – now FWIO is an acronym in it’s entirety… but it’s for “Federated Women’s Institute of Ontario” – not really something we can build on.

When we break it down into a 3 – 1 configuration, we find that FWI can stand for “French West Indies” using the 4th position “O” for Online. We can now develop FWIO.com – French West Indies Online. The French West Indies include Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Martin and Saint-Barthélemy. Great for a geo, or tourism website.

Again, you won’t always get lucky and get a 2 – 2, 3 – 1, or even 1 – 3 configuration. Once in a while, you be left with 4 randoms 1 – 1 – 1 – 1… and you’ll be thinking to yourself… what the heck can I do with this piece of crap! Well… there is always a way. There is alway something you can do. Getting creative, and brainstorming even the most impossible acronym can prove successful… so go ahead… make a list of your acronyms and start building your future.

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