Limit yourself to those that are germane to your marketplace. With country-specific domain names you can prevent unauthorized use of your trademarks, brands, and licensed names as domain names worldwide. Multinational corporations and Web-based businesses are smart to register their domain names in countries where they plan to offer products and services. It is much, much cheaper to register the relevant ccTLD today than to fight a cybersquatter later to get your name back. Also, the one possible piece of punctuation, the hyphen, cannot be the first or last letter in a domain name.
Long names are very difficult to remember.
A domain name with as little as fifteen letters can be quite cumbersome, so choose wisely. Some countries cannot yet accept 63-character domain names and remain only able to register names that are 26 characters in length. For example, a certain individual registers waltdisney.fr, and then pushes Walt Disney in California to pay her a significant fee to transfer the name to Walt Disney's possession. Name investors are people who register names which do not have trademarks. GoldNames is firmly opposed to cybersquatting, does not engage in cybersquatting, and strongly discourages its clients from engaging in cybersquatting.