2026-05-12
Why five letters is the perfect domain length
Five-letter .coms hit the sweet spot of memorability, brandability, and rarity.
Three-letter and four-letter .coms have been gone for a generation. They sell for six and seven figures on the secondary market. Five-letter .coms still surface — if you know how to look.
The math is intuitive: there are roughly 11.8 million possible five-letter strings (26^5). Many are unpronounceable. Most are taken. But a meaningful fraction of phonotactically valid, brand-quality combinations remain.
AYLAQ exists to find them.