BuyDomains Asks: “Is The Most Popular gTLD (.com) Here to Stay? | TheDomains.com

"Today, over 109 million .com domains account for 75% of all gTLDs" > V interesting. #DomainNa…

The reason dot com became the poster boy of domains can be tracked back to who had the first right to sell a domain name. Network Solutions had the first contract to sell domains and since their motto was “The DotCom People” which was part of their logo it is clearly the extension you would choose when registering names way back then. So the popularity and boom of dot com can be traced all the way back to a few words placed in a logo. Truly marketing in its simplest form. “Will it continue to represent 75% of all TLD registrations?” Since dot com has 109 million registrations and second best dot net has 15 million it would take a massive amount of domains to be registered in other extensions to even make a dent in that 75%. Since there are over 36 million domains registered in net, org, info, biz, and us it clearly shows that other extensions are popular and will continue ...

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