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Of late, it is getting increasingly harder to choose and buy a top-level domain name. It is also very difficult to find a top-level name that relates directly to the theme and subject of your web site. People who are looking forward to buy a top-level name work hard to find a suitable name often with tremendous difficulty. If you are a seller of products or services through your internet portals, then you must try had to purchase a .com or .biz top-level domain name. In fact, such domains will lend immense credibility and authenticity to your business. Top-level domains can also act as very strong advertizing tools for your business.

The top level is always the extension of a particular domain name..com is the most famous top-level domain name in the world. Top-level domain extension indicates the type of online activities you are carrying right now. These domain name extensions are there for special purposes. A .com domain indicates that you are in some form of business while .net signifies that you are dealing with a network of different services. An .org is always special to non-profits while .biz always signifies that you are dealing with some business services.

For commercial business purposes, you will need to buy .com domain because most web surfers have the habit of adding.com extension at the end of their keywords. Make sure that you buy the .com name extension first before buying other extensions. Otherwise, someone else may pick up your .com name. In this way, .com name extensions are always so invaluable.

Almost all search engines will check your domain names before allowing someone to search your name. You must ensure that the site content and the domain name extension are in complete resonance with each other so that search engines can easily index your web site. Major search engines like Google and Yahoo always respect and value top-level domain names. It is possible to check the availability of a top-level name by trying the plural version of the names. However, domain owners are very intelligent and smart because they will always make sure that they register plural forms of their main domain name.

Top-level domains are possible when you add numbers to the domains. Experts recommend adding numbers to choose and register some top-level domain names. Adding numbers to the main body text of the domains may help you register some top-level domain names. Some people use substitutions of the letters to some original letters of the domain name. For example, you can substitute the word four with 4.

Top-level domain names are in excessive demand while people will go any lengths to register such names. If you fail to get these names, you can always choose and buy an expired domain. Expired domain market could be a very good source of very good top-level domain names. However, get ready to pay very high price for a very good top-level expired domain name.

Top Level Domain Names

Actually you'll find that millions of people have already gone and registered every name, product, saying, misspelling, etc. out there. So your chances of getting lucky are very slim anyway.

The names on the below list are taken from soldnames.com ? and indicate the actual sale price at the time. They do not reflect their current market value (Business.com has recently been valued at $400 million)

Okay so let us begin:

1Sex.com200614.0 Mil

2Porn.com20079.5 Mil

The first two are pretty obvious. Watch out for Spam. They will sell a lot of links to make that back.

3Business.com20057.5 Mil (Recently sold for over $300 million)

This is a Directory. It is a site that is divided into categories and filled with all kinds of links business products and service providers. Just like your own phone directory.

4Diamond.com20067.5 Mil

A shopping site that will sell you, you guessed it, diamonds. They have everything from loose diamonds to rings and necklaces. They also have everything categorized by price for gift shoppers.

Beer.com20047.0 Mil

A site chock full of things that beer lovers like, scantily clad women

Casino.com20035.5 Mil

This is a free online casino with links to other pay sites.

AsSeenOnTV.com20005.0 Mil

Everything that you have ever seen for sale on television is right here. If you can't get the phone number in time, don't worry, it's just a click away.

Korea.com20005.0 Mil

This is the online gateway to Korea. News, weather, blogs, travel and culture are just some of the things available on this site.

Shop.com20033.5 Mil

This is another obvious website. Geared primarily toward women, this site has a lot of links for just about any type of clothing you could want to shop for with a few categories thrown in to try and attract men. Maybe they should have a link to beer.com.

Wine.com20033.3 Mil

This is a well designed site for selling wine. There are a lot of gift ideas and there is even a section for educating users on the different types of wine.

AltaVista.com19993.25 Mil

This is a very powerful search engine but going up against Google has got to be an uphill struggle. The term ?google? has become the generic term for searching for something on the internet.

Software.com20053.2 Mil

Here is yet another obvious website. They offer downloadable software for just about any application you could think of.

Vodka.com20063.0 Mil

Right now, this site is just an advertisement for a new site they are attempting to put together; the world's online vodka community. I guess that is OK as long as they don't sell cars.

Loans.com20003.0 Mil

Bank of America has cleverly redirected this domain name/search term to their banking site.

Wines.com20042.9 Mil

Designed to appeal to the high end wine connoisseur, there is a forum for discussing wines as well as the obvious goal of selling wine.

CreditCards.com20002.75 Mil

If you are looking for a credit card with certain features, you have come to the right place. You can search by banks, features, rates and more.

Tom.com19992.5 Mil

This is a Chinese language site with no translation buttons so I could not tell what was on this site but I would have to guess that it would be similar to Korea.com.

Autos.com19992.2 Mil

They review and sell automobiles and trucks. That is the perfect use of a domain name.

Coupons.com20002.2 Mil

I guessed that this site would be all about coupons. I was correct.

Telephone.com20002.0 Mil

Here is a site with a ?come back soon? message. There is also an email sign up box so they can contact you when they are ready to launch. I bet they are putting together a site for wireless communications.

There is an additional 25 names that sold for 1M or over and out of the top 100, there are only 5 that have other TLD's. A TLD is a top-level-domain, which means the suffix, such as .com, .net, .org. etc. The .com is certainly the most popular of the TLD's and pornography is at the top of the list.

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