Internet There are roughly 47 million registered “.coms.” 2) The letter “a” when used as a word (like I just did) is the most common registered word. 3) The least-used common word is “consonant”. 4) Someone could actually pick the “least-used common word” from the English language. And finally 5) that “sex” is taken, oh, 257,000 times - no surprise there. Unsurprising, too, is that today’s interest in domain names is as driven by profit motive as it is by etymological curiosity. I think most of us should have known that domains would be back in vogue as evidenced by their Superbowl ads in 2005. In case you were wondering if those racy spots were successful or not, about six months later GoDaddy overtook Network Solutions to become the largest domain registrar, so they certainly didn’t hurt. Business - All business/finance/loan/mortgage related link can be found here more 1 2 3 4 5 Computers - All computer hardware/software/peripheral related link can be found here more 1 2 3 4 5 Internet - All webhosting/webdesign/internet marketing related link can be found here more 1 2 3 4 5 Software - All software related link can be found here more 1 2 3 4 5 Web Design - All web design/development related link can be found here more 1 2 3 4 5 Web Hosting - All web hosting related link can be found here more 1 2 3 4 5 Web Promotion - All search engine optimization/internet marketing related link can be found here more 1 2 3 4 5 Web Resources - All other web related link can be found here more 1 2 3 4 5 Recreation - All travel/hotel/cruise related link can be found here more 1 2 3 4 5 Casino - All online gambling/poker/blackjack/roulette related link can be found here more 1 2 3 4 5 Health - All online pharmacy/hospital/health related link can be found here more 1 2 3 4 5 Shopping - All online shopping/gift related link can be found here more 1 2 3 4 5 Miscellaneous - All other links can be found here more 1 2 3 4 5   Buying domains isn’t merely a function of thinking up names that people will want someday and securing it. Instead there is a large market in picking up expired domains. Expired domains mean traffic. Traffic means revenue. Therefore, there is no shortage of interest in the expired domain market. Adbuytraffic.com does very well selling the traffic from their business in expired domains. Testimonials from their site (sourced with what seem to be a variety of legitimate URLs) indicate satisfaction and a decidedly better ROI buying traffic from them than by using Google, Yahoo, or MSN. And did you know that Google owns all of 520 domains? That’s all, according to Pronetadvertising.com who lists them. It doesn’t seem like a big number to me because I alone own 20. That’s enough to learn that when someone is “squatting” on a domain you’d like, well, good luck. Companies like GoDaddy will gladly play the blind broker and anonymously flash bids and offers. What a rip that angle is. No wonder a company with a $120 billion market cap like Google doesn’t bother chasing down domain names; it’ll cost them an arm and a leg!