Just look around expired domain lists and domain auction sites and you will probably find an advert for "rare 3 letter domains." However, there is a reason these are rare - nobody wants them! Who wants a domain such as www.h5l.com? It's pointless. It takes longer to say that than www.freeservebusiness.com. Yet the second domain has 6 times more letters in.

Initials are not something that you want to go for. The ideal domain is likely to be one word. Two words is also ok as long as there is no dash between them. When choosing domains you are looking out for how few syllables you can have rather than how few letters you can have.

This is where initials drag your time up. Although they only have a few letters, each letter is a syllable so it takes a while to say them. A lot of popular website domains use one word with two syllables, such as www.google.com, www.mworld.us and www.yahoo.com.