It is a well known fact that you won’t require to be domain expert to know that the internet is growing exponentially and with each and every second somebody is registering a domain somewhere around the world.
The internet provides a lot of information when it comes to finding out interesting and amazing facts about how to find a great domain name, but there are many little known facts. The .com domain is definitely the most popular choice for TLDs, but there are also many amazing about domain names that need mentioning:
1. The first .COM domain was registered in the year 1985
It was registered under the name of Symbolics.com on March 15 1985. The Symbolics Computer Corporation bought purchased the domain name for their new computer development association.
2. Most domains cannot be larger than 63 characters
Domain extensions can have different rules and regulations but many TLDs ask that your domain name to have a maximum of 63 characters. This is considered to be the standard number of characters.
3. It still is possible to own a Soviet Union domain
Before disappearing, the Soviet Union has had a huge involvement in the dynamics of the internet therefore the .su domain names are still present on the web. What is amazing is that the number of .su domains registrations continues to grow fast even if the Soviet Union is no more.
5. Absolutely all of “A” .com domains are currently taken
This is probably the strangest fact but it seems that after a small research providers have noticed that absolutely all domain names containing the letter A under the form of www.1-63 A’s.com are taken so this means that nobody can own a domain name under the form of www.AAAAA … times 63 .com.
6. The world’s most expensive domain costs $35 million
In the year 2007 the domain VacationRentals.com was purchased by Mr. Brian Sharples for the price of $35 million USD for his online vacation rental business.
There have been some pretty amazing domain name prices but this is just top of the list.
7. Domain names usually have an average length of 11 characters
A short web analysis reveals that almost all domains have an average length of 11 characters and many of them begin with the letter S most probable because many English words start with and S.
8. At first it was supposed to be Googol.com
The two main Google founders, Larry Page and Sean Anderson have announced that they initially wanted to call Google “Googol” but because of a small spelling error from “googol” they wrote Google and the rest is already history.
9. Most three-character names are taken
Across the internet there are well over 50,000 possible character combinations that someone can make for a three-character domain name and all of them are already registered. Three-character domain names are extremely good to own because extremely easy to remember.
10. A person registered almost 15,000 domains in just one day
Mike Mann has managed to set a new world record because he has managed to purchase almost 14,962 domains in just the span of 24 hours. When asked what was the purpose of it he simply replied that he is very greedy person and wants to own the entire world.
Final thought
In conclusion across the globe there are over 149,153,371 registered domains and the numbers are climbing very fast as a new domain is created every 10 seconds.
It is easy to say that the internet has many interesting and fascinating sides to it from interesting domain names to some mistakes we can easily say that this world is expanding fast.