Industry secret revealed: Top 10 terms for brand abuse of .com
We often hear from our customers that domain pirates have registered their rightful domains. In the following you will discover how one action task will improve considerably your online brand protection. This action task will ensure that you are one step ahead of a domain pirate or another 3rd party.
A new study conducted by Corporation Service Company has identified the 10 most common terms for brand abuse of .com domains. We have created a domain search engine below for the 10 terms. Insert your brand and see which .com domains are still available.
The study concludes that domain pirates are more skilled than brand owners at using domain names to obtain direct traffic to their own web sites.
47 top brands were examined for 100.000 brand-specific domain names and the results were surprising. 72% of all domain names did not belong to the brand owners. The traffic revenue generated from these domains was sufficient for domain investors to become domain pirates.
The study furthermore revealed that the most abused business sectors are :
- Banking and financial services
- Consumer electronics
- Telecoms
- Computer industry
.com is by far the top level domain where most brand abuse is happening. Other popular brand abuse domains are generic top level domains (org,biz,info,net) and European top level domains where there are no restrictions: .de, .co.uk, .be and .eu.
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