VeriSign Domain Tag Cloud Gives Insight Into Latest Domain Registrations
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
Tool gives quick insight into recent domain registrations.
Here’s an interesting new beta tool from VeriSign: the Verisign Domain Tag Cloud.
The tool gives some insight into current domain name registration trends. It’s like a tag cloud but the tags are words used in recent domain name registrations. The bigger the word, the more frequently it occurred in domains that were registered over a specific time period.
You can choose to view the most recent registration keywords (literally the past few minutes) or select based on hourly timetables, such as names registered in the past 10 hours.
Whether or not you can gleam actionable information from this tool is open for debate. There have been other tools over the years that let you drill into recent trends, but none that have access to near real time data.
Surprisingly, “Charlie” and “Sheen” are not top keywords in the past 24 hours.
Further Reading:
It is very interesting.
But, in one sense it is like knowing which
horse won the race an hour ago. Nice to know
by no way to profit from it.
Also, we will see people spinning the most
popular daily terms which will make the term
have a life of its own.
“kids” So, someone will immediately reg.
CharlieSheenkidsfriends,com
CharlieSheenSickKids,com
Tomorrow, someone will reg.
CharlieSheenSickKidsMoms,com
I guess it is a way for Verisign to
generate more registrations and revenue.
“Winning” is on the one I pulled up.
Kind of cool, but doesn’t work in IE9. Don’t they realize that 89% of the internet is using beta software like me. Works fine in firefox though.
Just registered, 3DWinning dot com – Now I have to go record the Nintendo 3DS demo in LA tomorrow, and make that site developed!
Thanx for idea.
Nice app. Interesting – JAPAN, ONLINE, QUAKE