>> Unfortunately there are very few real words or even real word combinations that are not registered.
I thought this too, but did a quick back of the envelope calculation:
The OED had 616,500 English words in the 1989 edition.
In 2003 there were ~24,000,000 dot coms registered.
Let's assume 2% of English words are usable in a 2 word domain name combination. That means there are ~ 12,000 words that you can combine to form a new domain. Which means there are ~ 144,000,000 possible 2 word dot coms.
So the majority of real world combinations are not registered if you only consider 2 word combos.
The market shows combos can be pretty random: surveymonkey, plentyoffish, craigslist, etc.
I thought this too, but did a quick back of the envelope calculation:
The OED had 616,500 English words in the 1989 edition.
In 2003 there were ~24,000,000 dot coms registered.
Let's assume 2% of English words are usable in a 2 word domain name combination. That means there are ~ 12,000 words that you can combine to form a new domain. Which means there are ~ 144,000,000 possible 2 word dot coms.
So the majority of real world combinations are not registered if you only consider 2 word combos.
The market shows combos can be pretty random: surveymonkey, plentyoffish, craigslist, etc.