Fun Facts -
Did You Know?
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People
and businesses are buying domains at a furious pace:
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168M
domain names are registered worldwide1.
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.com
dominates with 45% share followed by .net, .org,
.biz, .name (excl. country codes)1
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About
12M
- 15M domains names are registered each quarter
I t
is getting harder to find good domain names:
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100%
of two character (eg. A1.com) .com domain names
are taken2
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100%
of three character (eg. ABC.com) .com domain
names are taken2
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Anyone who has searched for a name can see that
others are going fast.
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People are
staking claim to their names as domain names
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100% of
the top 10,000 family names in the US are taken2
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100% of
the 1200 top male first names are taken2
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100% of
the 2800 top female names are taken2
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Hillary
Clinton had to pursue legal action to get
HillaryClinton.com.
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Oprah
Winfrey doesn’t own OprahWinfrey.com - bet she
wishes she did!
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The highest
prices ever paid for domain names:
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Business.com $7.5M
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AsSeenOnTv.com $5.1M
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Altavista.com $3.3M
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Wine.com $2.9M
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Autos.com $2.2M
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Express.com $1.8M
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Wallstreet.com $1M
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Rock.com $1M
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Websites.com $1M
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Drugs.com $.8M
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2008 Presidential Candidates Domain Names and when
registered:
source 1/31/2007 C. Dohman, Mimi Search
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Total registered domains worldwide - .COM
dominates
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As domain names become more scarce the aftermarket
has flourished:
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Sources:
1Verisign Doman Report - Sept 2008
2Dennis
Forbes - source: Dennis Forbes
http://www.yafla.com/dforbes/2006/03/29.html |
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