Verisign: Rise In Value Of Bitcoin Causes Surge In .Com/.Net Domain Registrations: 22K In 2013

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Verisign just published a blog on how the rising value of Bitcoin has led  to surge of .com and .net domain name registrations.

 

The value of a Bitcoin surged from roughly $13 at the beginning of 2013 to an eventual high of $1,137 at the end of November (The chart below, courtesy of Coinbase, documents the ebbs and flows of a Bitcoin’s value).

 

 

 

By doing a search of the word “bitcoin” for the past six months, it is fairly easy to see a correlation between the two Bitcoin price surges shown above and surges in domain name registrations including the term “bitcoin” in the grapher results below.

 

 

It is interesting to see that despite the relative modesty of the April price surge when compared to the November/December surge, daily registrations for both instances peaked at roughly the same number: 490 and 472 respectively. That being said the density of the two domain registration surges in the graph show that significantly more domains were registered as Bitcoin approached its all-time high.

 

Did you register any Bitcoin related domain names in 2013? Are you planning to register some in the new year? Let us know in the comments below!

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

  1. Michael Brooks says

    CanadaBitcoin (.com) is asking for double digit bitcoins to sell.

    FranceBitcoin (.com) is asking for 30 bitcoins.

    Argentina & Netherlands are not for sale at any price apparently…according to a post on the BitcoinTalk forum.

    I’m pretty sure it was either JapanBitcoin or ChinaBitcoin recently sold for $5,000.

    The forum pointed out that IndiaBitcoin and ColombiaBitcoin are owned by the director of biz dev for Buttercoin, a GoogleVentures backed company.

    In the USA, AtlantaBitcoin(.com) is live.

  2. stevearogge says

    I had registered:

    BitCoinToll.com
    and
    BitCoinColdWallet.com

    There is one more that I was thinking about which is available, but have been trying to reduce my domain spending habits lately and concentrate on building out one or two of my domains.

  3. HELP.org says

    I have been getting some related names for some planned web sites. Bitcoin is abbreviated BTC historically but an international currency standard has been proposed on XBT (the “X” means it is not associated with a country like gold is XAU). Some exchanges use XBT.

    Bitcoin.me – Look for a launch in a couple months.
    BitAccess.com
    BitMovies.com
    BitMusic.com/CoinMusic.com
    CoinNews.com/XBTNews.com
    MillyBitcoin.com – Federal TM registered – 2nd in US with “bitcoin” as part of the mark
    BitcoinTicker.com
    BitChart.com
    CoinEscrow.com
    CoinWork.com
    BitFast.com
    Bitcoins.net/info
    BitcoinFood.com
    BitcoinSanta.com
    BitcoinBillPay.com
    BitcoinAccepted.com/Preferred/Required
    BitcoinTips.com
    CoinInsure.com
    CoinPrivacy.com
    CoinProxy.com
    Coinvite.com
    Coinvertising.com
    BitTx.com
    Coincepts.com
    GiveBitcoin.com

  5. Tanglewood says

    I went for the following:

    InsuredBitcoins.com
    BitcoinInsurers.com
    SecuredBitcoin.com
    DonateYour Bitcoin.com

  6. Ramahn says

    Some interesting/good names. I only invest/buy domains in things I understand and there’s a lot about bitcoin that I don’t understand. So I don’t own any. However, I did try to reg ‘coinfriendly dot com’ for obvious reasons and of course it was taken.

    Good luck to all in the bitcoin niche.

  7. robb says

    I still don’t get the whole Bitcoin thing. Wouldn’t want to have too much money locked up in Bitcoins, in the end who is responsible for backing this currency? It has still been a profitable market for many, and I do hear on the news that more and more places are accepting bitcoin. Have to look into it some more.