{"id":4772,"date":"2015-08-25T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=4772"},"modified":"2015-08-25T17:04:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T21:04:06","slug":"domain-misnomers-chinese-premium-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/domain-misnomers-chinese-premium-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Domain misnomers : Chinese premium letters ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The accuracy of a term is important, especially when defining a class of information.<\/p>\n<p>With domains, the term &#8220;<strong>premium letters<\/strong>&#8221; has been defined as a subset of the Latin alphabet, typically excluding the following letters:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Q,Y,J,K,Z,X,C,V<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although some premium domain keywords rely on non-premium letters &#8211; <em>SEX.com comes to mind<\/em> &#8211; the idea is that when thrown together without any particular meaning, the premium letters stand in a class of their own.<\/p>\n<p>The inverse, that non-premium letters typically form non-premium domain keywords is also true.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen the term &#8220;<strong>Chinese premium letters<\/strong>&#8221; being (ab)used in discussions involving domain availability.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to remember that while the letters listed above are pronounceable in the Chinese Pinyin &#8211;<em> all except for &#8216;V&#8217;<\/em> &#8211; that fact alone does not make them &#8220;premium&#8221; by definition.<\/p>\n<p>Domain misnomers such as this often stick around for a long time, confusing investors &#8211;<em> old and new<\/em> &#8211; about the value of particular letter combinations, and the validity of terms.<\/p>\n<p>On a similar note, it has been a week since I received any <a href=\"http:\/\/domaingang.com\/domain-news\/who-is-the-chinese-spammer-that-emails-every-llll-com-owner\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>spam originating in China<\/strong><\/a> for my premium letter LLLL .com domains &#8211; that is, combinations of W,E,R,T,U,I,O,P,A,S,D,F,G,H,L,B,N, and M. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The accuracy of a term is important, especially when defining a class of information. 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