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24 April, 2020

.ORG Domain Extension: Make The World Better Together

.ORG, one of the oldest domain extensions, was introduced in January 1985 and now has more than 10 million domain names. We will cover the details about .ORG, the third most registered generic extension. The Story of .ORG .ORG was one of...

Domain Registrars

20 April, 2020

Namecheap: More Than a Domain Registrar

Namecheap is the world’s second-biggest registrar with 11 million registered domain names. It’s headquartered in the US and has more than 1000 employees. More than 2 million customers are using Namecheap. Story of Namecheap Richard Kirke...

Domain Extensions, Statistics

15 April, 2020

The Second One: .NET Domain Extension

.NET, the little brother of .COM, introduced in the same year as .com, .org and .edu, in 1985. We will cover the details about .net, which is the second most registered domain extension with 13.7 million domain names. The Story of .NET T...

Domain Sales

14 April, 2020

Top Domain Sales of March 2020

There are 21 domain sales over $50,000 and 96 domain sales over $10,000 in March 2020. The most expensive domain sale was 151.com at $415,000. 12 of the top 20 sales are .com and there are 6 country code domains in the list. We see one 3-digit d...

Domain Registrars

13 April, 2020

The World’s Biggest Registrar: GoDaddy

GoDaddy is the world’s biggest registrar by the number of registered domain names. It’s holding over 78 million domain names on behalf of its customers as stated on the about page. GoDaddy is headquartered in the US and has 14 offices worldwide....

Domain Extensions

08 April, 2020

The King of Domain Extensions: .COM

The oldest and most popular domain extension is .com. It is also called the default domain extension of the Internet. We will cover the details about .COM, that has more than 151 million domain names which mean 42% of all registered domain names. ...

Guides

30 March, 2020

Don’ts of Choosing a Domain Name in 2020

A new project, a new brand or investment for your company. No matter what purpose you register a domain name for, there are things you shouldn’t do. We will clarify a few points you need to know about registering a domain name. It is, of course...

Interesting Facts

08 April, 2019

Do You Know the First Domain Names of These Top Sites?

Every entrepreneur likes to start with a generic and .com extension domain, but it is not always possible. That is why entrepreneurs are forced to expand their first domain name with various extensions, perform domain hacking, or choose a domain wit...

Guides

04 April, 2019

Everything About Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs)

Domain extensions are generally made up of two categories: gTLDs (Generic Top-Level Domains) and ccTLDs (Country Code Top Level Domains). gTLDs are managed by commercial organizations and ccTLDs are the ones that are comprised of two-character exten...

Internationalized Domain Names - IDN Punycode

Guides

01 April, 2019

Internet in All Languages: Internationalized Domain Names

When the DNS (Domain Name System) first entered into operation in 1983, only the characters in the Latin alphabet were allowed to be used. With this system, although the characters of different alphabets could have a place in the DNS, web browsers a...

Statistics

28 March, 2019

Domain Names of Fortune 500 Companies

We have analyzed the domain names of Fortune 500 companies, to gain insight into their domain preferences. As data were gathered, some interesting facts also got revealed. For example, 14 out of the first 100 registered domains are being used as the...

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