Verisign Wants You To Know Your .COM Is Still Waiting

With hundreds of new gTLDs now available and your desired shorter domain easy to find in one of these gTLDs, Verisign wants registrants to know they can still get a good .com domain. Albeit with a bit of effort and imagination.

In a posting on their blog, Verisign asks “did you know there are still millions upon millions of great .com domain names available for registration?” They then suggest taking “a look at the latest facts around .com availability, based on an analysis of .com domain name registrations as of July 2014:

• 23 million times a day, a .com domain name availability check is successful
• Over 95 percent of five-character .com combinations are available
• More than 99 percent of six-character .com combinations are available.

Even though there is an abundance of .com domain names available for registration, the post notes that many experts recommend registering descriptive and keyword-rich names because they attract higher click-through rates on search engine results pages.

Verisign ask did you know?

• Nearly half of all .com domain names are made up exclusively of two or more frequently used English keywords
• In the past year, 11.8 million new .com domain name registrations contained two or more English keywords.

Verisign have also published an infographic for more information, which is posted below:

The full Verisign blog posting is available at:
blogs.verisigninc.com/blog/entry/make_your_idea_internet_official