The Hottest Gift This Year? A New Report Says Its A Domain Name

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According to a new report by DomainRegistrar.info, (adobe reader) the hottest gift of the holiday season may well be a domain name.

“”As we enter the 2009 Holiday Season, DomainRegistrar.info wanted to track another growing trend, Domain Names being given as gifts.

Highlights of the results are:

  • A 158% increase in respondents who would now consider giving a Domain Name as a gift over those who had previously considered giving a Domain Name as a gift.
  • More specific to the 2009 Holiday Season, a 92% increase in respondents who will consider giving a Domain Name as a gift in the 2009 Holiday Season. This increase is over those respondents who had previously considered giving a Domain Name as a gift.
  • 70% of the respondents indicated they would appreciate receiving a Domain Name as a gift. A strong indication that Domain Names are well received as gifts.

“”DomainRegistrar.info will continue to track this market segment on an annual basis.””

I honestly never thought of giving someone a present of a domain name, but it does make a lot of sense.

A cool personal gift.

Now for the bad news, according to the report it is based on only “200 global anonymous respondents”.

However  “”The IP addresses of the respondents were recorded to ensure only one response per IP address was included in the results.”

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  2. Belmassio says

    I did this with personal names and family names for all kinds of friends and family back in the 90’s.

    Boy, do they appreciate now what I did for them. Back then they kind of were confused as to why they would really want it, or how it could ever benefit them.

    Some of those first names now get almost 1,000 uniques a day with no promotion.

  4. Pat says

    Sorry, off-topic, but…

    MHB, inquiring minds want to know.

    Are you going to blog about your meeting with Oversee CEO Jeff Kupietsky?

  5. Rob Sequin says

    I have regged my kids, nieces and newphew’s names so they can own and use them one day but I will manage and renew until they are old enough to renew the domains themselves.

    So, even if you don’t give someone their name, at least register it and hold it for them. I think MOST people want their names .com or at least have the opportunity to use them.

    At least they can point them to their facebook page.

  6. MHB says

    Pat

    I had a nice chat with Jeff, however there was nothing he would discuss that would add to what I have already written about the situation.

    So I’m not planning on writing about it as nothing new came from the meeting.

    I understand that Chef Patrick is meeting with him today and Andrew has a phone interview with him later this week so maybe they will have some new thoughts on the matter

  7. Nameclerk says

    I bought 3 domains for my father this past week. He owns a brick and mortar bird store and currently has a basic website on a below average domain. I plan on building 3 optimized sites and using them as doorways to his current site. He has no idea I’m doing this. I figure it’s a gift that will keep on giving.

  11. Steve M says

    It’s a great idea; and something I did for family a while back.

    Never could figure out how to get a bow around the darn things, though.

  13. Adam says

    What % of the 200 when asked if they would like receiving a domain and said Yes, sure but what’s a domain name?” 🙂