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

December 2, 2009 by Michael Berkens

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”.

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

Filed Under: Domains

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.

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Comments

  1. M. Menius says

    December 2, 2009 at 9:07 am

    Is the link working? Not resolving for me.

  2. Belmassio says

    December 2, 2009 at 9:16 am

    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.

  3. MHB says

    December 2, 2009 at 9:18 am

    Max

    Try again, its should open an adobe .pdf file

  4. Pat says

    December 2, 2009 at 9:20 am

    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

    December 2, 2009 at 9:30 am

    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

    December 2, 2009 at 9:45 am

    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

    December 2, 2009 at 11:43 am

    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.

  8. maqui berry says

    December 2, 2009 at 12:18 pm

    yup the trend is increasing for gifting the domain names πŸ™‚

  9. 100 Domains Club says

    December 2, 2009 at 1:11 pm

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

    GREAT !

    so, this is a gift Bill Gates could give away to his wife Melissa… πŸ™‚

    http://www.themostexpensivedomainnameintheuniverse.com/info.html

    it costs “ONLY” $100,000,000.oo

    .

    ps – it’s just a curiosity, since, unfortunately, no one will NEVER pay this price… πŸ™

  10. 100 Domains Club says

    December 2, 2009 at 1:54 pm

    post edit: …his wife Melinda… (not Melissa)

  11. Steve M says

    December 2, 2009 at 7:26 pm

    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.

  12. David says

    December 3, 2009 at 11:23 am

    If you remove the “www” from the link it works.

    http://reports.domainregistrar.info

  13. Adam says

    December 3, 2009 at 10:07 pm

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

  14. Heereoth says

    December 12, 2009 at 5:04 pm

    hmm. bookmarked thread πŸ™‚


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