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Domain Name Facts

 

Domain Name Facts

1)    Approx 13% of all .com domains are of short, 5 or 6-character domain names.

2)    Domain name registration was free for everyone prior to 1995.

3)    Apple was 64th domain registered in 1985 and one of the first put into service. 

4)    Google.com was supposed to be googol.com, but due to admin error, was registered as Google.

5)    2017’s most popular new TLDs include: .app, .fan and .web.

6)    Carinsurance.com most expensive domain ever, sold for 49.7 million USD in 2010.

7)    In 2003, Microsoft Inc. forgot to renew Hotmail.co.uk.  (Also passport.com in 1999)

8)    Mike Mann record for most domains registered in a day14,962 in April 2012

9)   GoDaddy - leader of new domain regs – 54 million so far in 2017 (next = 12 million)

10)   Some domains are FREE, like, .tk, .cf, .gs, .cu and .cc

11)   The most non-gov used TLD is, .xyz.  Prob. due to its low reg. cost of only $0.69

12)   In 1987, the 100th domain registered, 2 years to hit the 100-site milestone.

Today, 100 sites are registered every few milliseconds  (approx. 700k per hour)

 

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