10 Little-known facts about .com

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Ever wondered which is the .com with the longest name? It is: http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgoger...iogogogoch.com. The domain name belongs to a Welsh village.

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Which is the world's most expensive .com? No, it is not ***.com despite the huge number of takers for ****s on Internet. The world's most expensive .com is insure.com. In 2009, the site was bought for a whopping $16 million by QuintStreet. Presently, the site offers life insurance, auto insurance, health insurance and other policies. Before 2009, ***.com held the title for the world's most expensive .com domain having got sold for $14 million in 2006. At No 3 & 4 are Fund.com, which got sold for $9.99 million in 2008 and ****.com, which got sold for $9.5 million in 2007.

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Most popular .coms
	Mail to friend The most popular words used in domain names are home (1.2 million), online (one million), and land (891,000), according to VeriSign. Today, nearly 53 billion requests for websites including .com are logged every day.

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World's first ten dotcom names were sold between March 1985 to March 1986. Below are the top ten in order... Symbolics.com (March 15, 1985), BBN.com (April 24, 1985), Think.com (May 24, 1985), MCC.com (July 11, 1985), DEC.com (Sept. 30, 1985), Northrop.com (Nov. 7, 1985), Serox.com (Jan. 9, 1986), SRI.com (Jan. 17, 1986), HP.com (March 3, 1986) and Bellcore.com (March 5, 1986).

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Business size
	According to a new ITIF study, the dotcom domain has become the platform for $400 billion in annual economic activity, a number that is expected to rise to $950 billion by 2020.