A lot of players disregard this fact that by adding more than 5 friendly alliance in the Friendly list will eventually ruin the domain in the long run. WHY? Asking for help from your friendly alliances during an attack or against an attack is pretty normal. Let's say there are 500 alliances in a domain and 5 of them are your friends, and each of your friends have another 5. In the time of attack YOUR friends and friend's friend will be on your side to battle and that's a big possibility with proper diplomatic talks. WHAT IF, you have more than 5 friendly alliances? Your lonesome domain will turn into farmville, nobody wants to attack somebody because they are friends with your friend's friend and so on and so forth.
Older domains ended up like a deserted nuked island because of this, no wonder many of them have created new characters on newer domains. But the funny thing is that same imbecile players are playing on it and the stupidity just keeps rolling.
