“China” is #1 trending word in .Com

Thousands of registrations over two days help “China” spike.

It turns out the Chinese aren’t just buying numeric and short .com domain names.

“China” was the #1 trending word in new .com registrations last month according to .com registry Verisign. It seems that there was a spike in domain name registrations containing China followed by three letters (e.g. Chinadjr.com) on November 13-14.

Drone was also a trending term last month.

And no research is necessary to understand why “Friday”, “Coupon” and “Present” were suddenly trending in November!

Here are the top ten trending words in .com last month:

1. China
2. Drone
3. Got
4. Coupon
5. Download
6. Bits
7. Friday
8. Muscle
9. Present
10. Bone

The top trending word in .net was “Rent”