Fasthosts.co.uk published a report on the most valuable domains. They really should have worded it as most valuable websites, because that’s what they are talking about and it’s development and traffic that determined the placements.
It seems odd to me that Amazon.com did not make the top 10. Of course this is just one company’s valuation process. Yahoo with a market cap of $47 billion made the list, Amazon’s market cap is currently $1.577 Trillion.
| 1 | Arts & Entertainment | youtube.com | 102,650,332,250 |
| 1 | Search engines | google.com | 102,650,332,250 |
| 2 | Ecommerce & shopping | tmall.com | 59,325,166,125 |
| 3 | Social media | facebook.com | 16,000,000,000 |
| 4 | News & Media | qq.com | 12,000,000,000 |
| 5 | Search engines | baidu.com | 8,000,000,000 |
| 6 | News & Media | sohu.com | 7,000,000,000 |
| 7 | Ecommerce & shopping | taobao.com | 5,500,000,000 |
| 8 | Ecommerce & shopping | jd.com | 4,940,000,000 |
| 9 | News & Media | yahoo.com | 4,890,000,000 |
| 10 | Reference materials | wikipedia.org | 4,830,000,000 |
Data was collected using the following sources:
- https://www.similarweb.com/ to find a list of domains
- https://www.worthofweb.com/calculator/ to find the value of the domain
Methodology:
- Using Similar Web data, we created a master list of domains
- We then used the Worth of Web calculator to find out the estimated value of each domain.
- From this, we took the top 100 richest domains to create the final list.
- The sector/sub sector for each domain i.e. Computer Electronics and Technology, is Similar Web’s demarcation for each website
Read the full report here
It is just a press release designed to get coverage for Fasthosts. It doesn’t really have to be accurate as long as it gets picked up. Working out which company owns which is a complex business and some of those sites have common owners.As for Google being classified as a search engine, it is an advertising business that has a search engine.
Good points John, thought it was fun for a Friday night.
Yea…
I don’t know what to do but laugh. They even explained their methodology. Cute.
Yahoo is no longer Yahoo. It is now Oath Inc and that’s a far bigger operation than Yahoo. That’s the problem when these press releases don’t cover the bigger picture.
Right because they are supposedly only focused on the website, not the overall company. Odd methodology.
It wasn’t that bad, It’s not good but it’s more than a press release. I agree Amazon has to be on the top 10.
Busy trying to work out which hoster owns which, Raymond. 🙂 That’s a 1.3 million hoster problem. Yahoo seems to have outsourced its domain name business but the Japanese subsidiary that it owned (I think) is doing quite well. There was a time when Yahoo was a major player. It still has a big footprint though but somewhere along the way it lost the plot.
Very true John.
https://www.fastcompany.com/40544277/the-glory-that-was-yahoo