[Sigia-l] Case in URLs
Timothy Boyd
dyobmit at gmail.com
Wed Oct 11 14:09:23 EDT 2006
Hello.
Does anyone know of any research done on the case of URLs,
specifically in domain names (the second-level domain)?
I have a client with a domain name that is not identical to the name
of their product, because the name of their product is a commonly used
five letter word they can't get. So, they've added another word in,
like say:
www.dothis.com
Where "this" is the name of their product, and "do" is what they
added. This is all fine and well.
Client likes to have all their print materials use:
www.DoThis.com
What I need is some research along the lines of, "People who see
www.DoThis.com remember the URL more often than when they see
www.dothis.com."
I don't care which way is better, I'm just interested in knowing if
anyone has actually studied this specific scenario. And I suppose it
doesn't necessarily have to be URL related, though off the top of my
head I can't think of other instances where words that people need to
remember are crammed together.
I did the googling, I'm aware of case sensitivity in certain
environments, I'm clear on human-readable, hackable, guessable URLs.
What I want to know is which is MORE human-readable.
Thanks!
-tim.
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Tim Boyd
dyobmit at gmail.com
http://www.dyobmit.com
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