Date: 03/15/2010In December 2009 there were 192 million domain names. A large fraction of them are in the .com TLD, which as of March 15, 2010 had 84 million domain names, including 11.9 million online business and e-commerce sites, 4.3 million entertainment sites, 3.1 million finance related sites, and 1.8 million sports sites. As of July 2012 the .com TLD has more registrations than all of the others combined.
Why .Com Domain Name is the King of all TLDs?
- 1 As of 2013, DomainTools.Com reported that approximately 109 million .com domains were registered.
- 2 As per VeriSign 97% of the top 100 brands have a registered.com domain
- 3 75% of globally registered domains (TLDs) are .com
- 4 93% of the Fortune Global 100 use .coms
- 5 The introduction of biz in 2001, which is restricted to businesses, has had no impact on the popularity of .com
- 6 The symbolics.com domain was originally registered on 15 March 1985, making it the first .com-domain in the world
- 7 More number of dot coms are bought and sold via auction and end user sales each weak than any other tld or cctld
- 8 Domainers and companies has the opinion that search engine prefer dot com website over any other non dot com
- 9 There are more number of dot com trademark cases and issues for which the complainant and the respondent have gone to court
- 10 Many Domainer and website masters says that dot com is the king when it comes to internet
- 11 Dot com receives more type-in-traffic than any other domain domain name suffix
- 12 Quite good number of domainers became rich and famous by trading early on domain names consisting of dot com’s portfolio’s
- 13 Domainer Celebreties such as Rick Schwartz, Adam Dicker, Frank Schilling, Elliot Silver, Ron Jackson and many other owe their successes to the dot com opportunity
- 14 Most good dot coms are already taken and what is left is not the best a registrant can have
- 15 On all domain name registrants websites such as Godaddy, Namecheap, and Name dot coms you’ll see the first extension as to register a domain name as dot com
- 16 There is more number of cases where hijackers tried their brains to grab precious domain name containing the dot com extensions and some hijackers were jailed too
- 17 dot-com companies experienced meteoric rises in their stock prices during the dot com bubble roughly from year 1997-2000
- 18 Big Acquisitions by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and other Tech giants were targeted mostly towards dot com sites such as Youtube.Com, Hotmail.Com, Geocities.com
- 19 There is no registration restrictions, means, anybody, whether he/she owns a business or not is eligible to have a dot com of his/her choice provided it is not already taken
- 20 Dot com introduced by Verisign Inc in the year 1985 and today it’s 28 years old
- 21 Dot com disputes policies are controlled by Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP)
- 22 Initially the fee was US$50 for registering a dot com domain name but now it’s almost 10 US Dollars
- 23 The dot com pace usually picked up from the year 1996 onward by that token you may see it as just 17 years old
- 24 Most of the companies own one or many dot coms and country code top level domain too such .us, .co.uk, .in, etc
- 25 By 1992, fewer than 15,000 .com domains were registered 20 years now the amount of dot com is just mind blowing
- 26 As of July 2012 the .com TLD has more registrations worldwide than all of the others combined
- 27 Domain names especially ending with dot com are regarded as online real-estate assets. Domain name like sex.com fetched 13 million USD followed by Fund.Com at US$9.9
- 28 The dot net domain name extension is usually regarded as the next best alternative to dot com domain name in the instance of non-availability of a dot com domain
- 29 According to SEDO’s figures the average dot com for quarter 4 of year 2012 sold for a sum of 1,914 USD
- 30 Many brands such as Google, Yahoo and others give credit to the dot com revolutions. It’s dot com that made Google number 1 brand worldwide
- 31 In the US the a .com domain name is very important and it’s wildly and widely chosen above any other extension
- 32 In some cases not having a dot com for your business means you not have the money to get one from the secondary market or you underestimated the dot com power
- 33 Under top 10 Alexa worldwide websites ranking – all are dot com oriented websites starting with Google
- 34 Facebook.com bought the short abbreviated version FB.Com by paying 8.5 US$ – type FB.Com and you’re there at facebook
- 35 Most of the Internet users add dot com (.com) when they type in at address bar to search something. Dot com as a domain name extension is naturally thought of.
- 36 Generic domain names having a dot com extension with good search volume commands a high price in domain aftermarket
- 37 Diapers is accessed world wide through direct navigation than through the search results and its extension is dot com and is number one when it comes to type-in-traffic
- 38 The chance of dot net or any other TLD being registered with a name that doesn’t have a dot com extension associated with it occurs in rarest of rare cases
- 39 Most of the companies registers many typos of their dot com version to tap into that typo user. Example type gogle at address bar and you are at Google.com; type del.com and you at Dell
- 40 Taking the world population into count there are approximately 1.5% of dot coms are being registered. The market will just keep on rising for dot com.
- 41 It’s quite hard to find a suitable domain name available in a dot com version for your company in English language but it does not mean end of the road.
- 42 The best way to find a suitable dot com for your company or for your own self is to find it at aftermarket places like Sedo.com, Godaddy.com, Snapnames.com, etc.
- 43 dot com basically stands for .commercial and commercial means “concerned with or engaged in commerce and commerce stands for buying and selling in large quantities
- 44 The first choice of Domainers who sell domains is dot com and all other comes next
- 45 When people think about the web they automatically and subconsciously think about dot com that’s why Interent in an early stage called as dot com bubble