.com

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Top-level domain .com
introduction January 1, 1985
category generic
Registry Verisign
Award unrestricted
number 148.08 million

.com is a generic top-level domain operated by the registry Verisign . It was introduced on January 1, 1985 and was primarily intended for US companies at that time , but has lost this narrow meaning due to the dot-com bubble . The abbreviation com stands for the English terms commercial or commerce , in German business .

With 148.08 million registered domains (May 2020) .com is by far the most widely used top-level domain worldwide.

properties

Since there are no registration restrictions today, any natural or legal person can own a .com domain. Registration usually only takes a few minutes. A domain can be between two and 63 characters long, the use of German umlauts according to the IDN standard is possible. According to Verisign, support is also to be expanded to Cyrillic , Hebrew , Arabic , Devanagari , Thai , Katakana , Chinese and Hangul . In the past, registrations were also accepted for .com domains with only one character; the currently valid award conditions no longer allow this.

meaning

The first .com domain ever issued was symbolics.com for the US company Symbolics . Due to its early popularity, .com has achieved great popularity ahead of .net , .org and the country-specific domains and has been the most frequently registered top-level domain for years. In February 2012, .com became the first top-level domain to surpass 100 million registered addresses, and by mid-2018 it was 135.6 million. The widespread use has led to the fact that there are hardly any short and easy-to-remember .com domains available. That was one of the main reasons for ICANN to set up the program for new generic top-level domains.

Domains with the ending .com are considered to be of above-average value and are actively traded. The domain sex.com , which has changed hands several times , achieved particularly great awareness , most recently in October 2010 for the record price of 13 million US dollars .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics about .com. Verisign, accessed May 27, 2020 (current .com domain number).
  2. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: VeriSign before contract extension. In: domain-right. April 16, 2012, accessed September 2, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Delegation Record for .COM. IANA , accessed February 17, 2013 .
  4. ↑ a b The Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief - Q2 2018. Verisign , accessed October 22, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Properties of a .com domain. united-domains . Retrieved August 23, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: IDN plans from VeriSign. In: domain-right. August 1, 2013, accessed August 5, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Verisign: About the History of .com. January 9, 2015, accessed January 9, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Registered domains in comparison. DENIC , accessed on August 2, 2012 .
  9. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: .com cracks the 100 million! In: domain-right. February 3, 2012, accessed August 23, 2012 .
  10. ↑ Daniel Dingeldey: Will König .com also rule in the future? In: domain-right. August 27, 2012, accessed September 2, 2012 .
  11. ↑ .com domain prices. In: domain-right. Retrieved July 21, 2013 .
  12. ↑ A kingdom for three letters. In: united-domains blog. October 22, 2010, accessed September 18, 2012 .