The authors of the domain name generator LeanDomainSearch conducted a study on the composition of domain names.
More than 50 million domain names in the .COM zone have been studied. Based on the words that make up the domain name, a list of the most popular prefixes and suffixes was compiled, i.e. elements that are located respectively at the beginning and at the end of the domain name. An analysis of the subject matter of websites based on the composition of domain names was also conducted.
To more accurately determine the secondary elements, LeanDomainSearch asked for the 1000 most frequent requests from customers who wanted to choose a domain name (seo, coffee, etc.). These queries were taken as the root of the domain name, to which the prefixes and suffixes are attached.
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Most often, domain names begin with the words
1. My
2. The
3. Web
4. Go
5. Super
And end with the words
1. Online
2. Web
3. Media
4. World
5. Net
The most common word in all domain names was the word "online".
A full list of 5000 popular prefixes and suffixes can be found
here .
Pose of this LeanDomainSearch ranked those websites that were located on the studied domain names. The theme of the domain name was revealed by cutting off from it the most popular prefixes and suffixes. For example, there are many domains ending in online: newyorkonline, playonline, etc. By removing the suffix, we get the theme of the website: newyork, play.
Of course, it is not always possible in such a mechanical way to reveal the element of a domain name that reveals its subject. The results of the study clearly got a lot of minor elements, but, nevertheless, they were very interesting. The most popular topics of the sites are:
1. web
2. net
3. art
4. tech
5. cloud
6. shop
7. home
8. media
9. world
10. pro
11. design
12. mobile
13. life
14. city
15. tv
16. blog
17. travel
19. online
20. it
Especially unexpected was the high position of the word "cloud". It is not included in the list of the most common words, but if we discard the prefix and the suffix, it turns out that clouds or, rather, cloud technologies are one of the most popular topic sites. In any case, this is the conclusion that can be drawn from the results of the analysis of the composition of domain names.
A list of the 10,000 most popular topics is presented on the
LeanDomainSearch website.