That, my dear friend, is most disappointing. Why not tell them the truth?
Here is an example: The probability of hitting a "mark"with LLLL names, wholesale:
There are 10 numerical digits, and 26 western letters, in the universe of potential LLLL domains.
For this exercise, I am ignoring all of the other TLD's except .COM, and all of the other language-specific letters. There are now 36 possible combinations of choosing 4 digits/letters from 36 possibles. If we go into all of the TLDs these days, this probability explodes into crazy exponential numbers. I'm not gonna go there.
For those of you who dig math, here it is, number of possible combinations with repetition of any letters or numerals:
(r+n-1)! ÷ (r!(n-1)!)....r = number of potential choices, n = number of total choices. So r =4, and n = 36. "!" means factorial, for example 4!=4x3x2x1.
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So, with repetition of any and all numerical and letter combinations, there are:
82,251 possible combinations, or, 1:82,251combinations = 0.000011331 probability, or 0.001133% of hitting your "Mark.", or 0.0011% of success. Do you like those ODDS? Why not go play the slots at Vegas? Better odds.
I will go into the Expected Value E(X) for those who reg 1,000s of LLLL domains in the hopes of hitting a "Mark", anon, if anyone is interested. They are playing the odds, with deep pockets in the hopes of hitting a "mark" (sucker.)
atb/Steve Russell (steveatvillas)
