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Short, striking and disarmingly ingratiating, there is just something about Maxi.xyz that makes it intriguing to the viewer. A mystique that also equips it with a better chance of getting said viewer to wander on through its branding door..

Could the allure come from something deeper than ‘Maxi’ being a cool or connotation-rich word?

CVCV Branding

Among marketers and domain investors alike, brands comprised of a word built upon a consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel (CVCV) construction are veritable gold dust. However, not all CVCVs are equal. While rare in the scheme of things, there are a still a large number of combinations in the English language after all (26^4).

But, if you can couple this structure with a positive, pronounceable word, you may well have a seriously powerful branding tool, and solid long-term asset, on your hands.

Why does it work?

There are multiple reasons. A central one is simply that CVCV domains constructed from four-letter words are memorable and leave an instant imprint in the brain. So, if deployed correctly, the savvy brander can use this inbuilt mystique, the secret sauce, that je ne sais quoi, to fashion a killer brand that, well, brands itself into the brain of the consumer.

There is also a very scientific reason why this is so. Research shows that the high-functioning human brain can proficiently store in their long-term memory strings containing up to seven characters. And that’s the supersmart.

So the shorter you can make your domain, the higher the chances of brand recall. And four letters has been discovered (and proven) by marketers to be the perfect Goldilocks point.

The Maxi Pitch

Regarding what Maxi.xyz can sell, do, or sacrifice, the range is really quite wide. It’s a flexible word, with positive connotation enanating outward in all directions. It can be short for maximum and is a dictionary word in its own right (e.g. in the fashion and yachting industries).

However, Maxi occupies a place in the consumer mindset as a brand that is so clear and ubiquitous that it needn’t be understood as stemming from a particular source. Whether upon reflection you felt it the name of half a dozen Roman Emperors or the best-selling dress in the Western world from the 1960s onwards would neither add to nor diminish your relating to it as brand.

Plus you’re unlikely to bother with such reflection. Everything is already self-explanatory.
That’s the power of a brand like Maxi.

Extras: Logo. Brand Story Package.

Touchwords: Adventurous. Astro. Awe.

The power of brand allegiance
(in a fragmented world)

While leveraging the term ‘maxi’ for its cross-cultural relevance and place in the collective consciousness, we love it especially for its use in crypto circles, as it digs deep into the cult aspect of the manifold groups in this space. Identity being a lucrative vein to tap — in any economic climate.

There is little more powerful in business than building, levaraging and servicing (or milking, if you’re a large, multipronged corporation) diehard, pseudoreligious affection or allegiance to a tribe, and/or a product/service-centered tribe.

Crypto Maxi

So it is with Maxi. Ten years ago, if you thought this new tech was going to run the world and invested your time, energy and fiat in nothing else, you were a ‘crypto maxi’. One convinced of taking crypto to the max(imum). An adherent to the maximalist argument/scenario where crypto would indeed come to one day rule this world of ours.

Alas, the tribe soon sected, and suddenly the fundamentalist and ‘pure’ Bitcoin maxi was watching on as their network became ever clunkier, refusing to deviate from the letter of the Word of Satoshi. These days, there is the Solano Maxi, Alt Maxi, Ethereum Maxi, you name it.

Word is Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin coined the term, but it’s these days just part of general youth culture and you already hear it in various other settings. ‘Domain maxi’ is one we hear or read most days.

Doing it Maxi Style

The styling of the word Maxi is eternally word, perfectly balanced in visuality and tone, with the interplay between the ‘x’ of the keyword and that of the keen, fun and playful .xyz extension performing a quirky little dance before the eyes. A dance further fueled by its setting in this web3 and youth favorite extension.

Indeed, the domain was previously used for a crypto project, so it has some Domain Authority and fresh high-quality backlinks in this industry. Devs love working with this kind of domain, as doing so can save so much time, especially early on, when you’re trying to build everything on the backend while launching your actual project.

Building on a URL that has already been indexed by the search engines, possesses domain authority, and has backlink juice running live through its veins is a hack that any SEO guru will recommend.