I finished my research regarding the 360 suffix Domain Names of COM TLD I believe it maybe useful for new domainers starting with this type of names It is also useful for everybody to make his own conclusions regarding this trend In any case i'm positive and i support the 360 suffix names My advice for new registrations is to search and register the domains that look promising according to your opinion, at least the ones you believe you can sell With a quick view we see that most of these domains are registered to be sold but as i said in previous threads only big 360 suffix developed sites will equally push the sales of the other plain domain names Here's the data : ------------------------------------------------------------ Registered 360 suffix (COM TLD) Domain Names on 26-Aug-2006 ------------------------------------------------------------ Total Registered : 13,804 WHEN THESE DOMAINS WERE REGISTERED - AMOUNT OF REGISTRATIONS ------------------------------------------------------------ 2006 5086 2005 5662 2004 1284 2003 610 2002 444 2001 271 2000 253 1999 100 1998 27 1997 13 1996 2 1995 1 WHEN THESE DOMAINS WILL EXPIRE - AMOUNT OF DOMAINS -------------------------------------------------- 2016 15 2015 23 2014 13 2013 17 2012 19 2011 88 2010 125 2009 248 2008 805 2007 9635 2006 2766 DOMAINS WERE REGISTERED UNDER THE FOLLOWING REGISTRARS - TOTAL OF REGISTRATIONS PER REGISTRAR --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GO DADDY SOFTWARE, INC. 5100 MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE 1826 SCHLUND+PARTNER AG 843 TUCOWS INC. 738 NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC. 711 ENOM, INC. 605 WILD WEST DOMAINS, INC. 474 REGISTER.COM, INC. 277 XIN NET TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION 250 BULKREGISTER, LLC. 173 HICHINA WEB SOLUTIONS (HONG KONG) LIMITED 158 ONLINENIC, INC. 132 DOTSTER, INC. 111 SPOT DOMAIN LLC DBA DOMAINSITE.COM 109 MONIKER ONLINE SERVICES, INC. 102 ABACUS AMERICA, INC. DBA NAMES4EVER 97 INTERCOSMOS MEDIA GROUP, INC. D/B/A DIRECTNIC.COM 97 NAMEKING.COM, INC. 84 BEIJING INNOVATIVE LINKAGE TECHNOLOGY LTD. DBA DNS.COM.CN 79 DOMAINDOORMAN, LLC 79 AAAQ.COM, INC. 78 BIZCN.COM, INC. 66 DIRECT INFORMATION PVT LTD D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM 66 WEB COMMERCE COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED DBA WEBNIC.CC 59 KEY-SYSTEMS GMBH 57 GANDI 54 DSTR ACQUISITION VII, LLC 53 COMPANA, LLC 49 COMPUTER SERVICES LANGENBACH GMBH DBA JOKER.COM 49 INNERWISE, INC. D/B/A ITSYOURDOMAIN.COM 49 BELGIUMDOMAINS, LLC 48 CAPITOLDOMAINS, LLC 48 NETBENEFIT PLC AKA NETNAMES 48 DOMAINDISCOVER 41 NAMESDIRECT.COM, INC. 41 TLDS, LLC DBA SRSPLUS 36 CRONON AG BERLIN, NIEDERLASSUNG REGENSBURG 32 BLUE RAZOR DOMAINS, INC 31 EMARKMONITOR INC. DBA MARKMONITOR 30 FABULOUS.COM PTY LTD. 30 NEW DREAM NETWORK, LLC 30 DSTR ACQUISITION PA I, LLC DBA DOMAINBANK.COM 29 REGISTERFLY.COM, INC. 29 NETFIRMS, INC. 27 NAMESECURE.COM 26 DSTR ACQUISITION. I, LLC DBA 000DOMAINS.COM 25 NAMESCOUT CORP 22 PSI-USA, INC. DBA DOMAIN ROBOT 19 ASCIO TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 18 CORE INTERNET COUNCIL OF REGISTRARS 17 GKG.NET, INC. 17 PRIMUS TELCO PTY LTD DBA PRIMUSDOMAIN/PLANETDOMAIN 17 TODAYNIC.COM, INC. 16 OMNIS NETWORK, LLC 14 PAIRNIC 14 BASIC FUSION, INC. 13 DOMAINPEOPLE, INC. 13 ALLINDOMAINS, LLC 12 ARSYS INTERNET, S.L. D/B/A NICLINE.COM 12 NAMEVIEW, INC. 12 EASYSPACE LTD 11 THE NAME IT CORPORATION DBA NAMESERVICES.NET 11 TOTALREGISTRATIONS 11 (.....other registrations below 11) NAMESERVERS OF THE DOMAINS - AMOUNT OF DOMAINS ------------------------------------------------------------ SEDOPARKING.COM 4004 SECURESERVER.NET 2038 1AND1.COM 597 YAHOO.COM 447 NAME-SERVICES.COM 214 XINNETDNS.COM 186 HICHINA.COM 147 DNS-PARKING-SERVICE.COM 119 WORLDNIC.COM 108 HSDNS.CA 91 IPOWERWEB.NET 89 REGISTER.COM 74 DNS.COM.CN 69 DREAMHOST.COM 68 PROREDIRECT.COM 66 DNS.HOSTWAY.NET 65 DNS-DIY.COM 63 SECURE.NET 53 DNSNAMESERVER.ORG 47 FABULOUS.COM 46 VWH1.NET 46 DIRECTNIC.COM 44 JOMAX.NET 43 NS.ULTSEARCH.COM 42 CHESTERTONHOLDINGS.COM 41 GODADDY.COM 41 DOMAINSERVICE.COM 39 CYBERLYNK.NET 38 RACKSPACE.COM 38 123-REG.CO.UK 37 TRAFFICCLUB.COM 37 NAMERESOLVE.COM 36 NEXTGEN.NET.MT 36 BLUEHOST.COM 35 EASILY.CO.UK 35 ABAC.COM 34 NAMESERVERS.NET 34 MYDOMAIN.COM 33 LIVEDNS.CO.UK 32 FASTPARK.NET 31 OVH.NET 31 PARKED.COM 31 AFTERNIC.COM 30 TRAFFICZ.COM 30 1AND1.CO.UK 29 INTERNET-DNS.NET 29 GANDI.NET 28 CNOLNIC.NET 26 TECHNORAIL.COM 24 GOLDKEY.COM 22 NETFIRMS.COM 21 OFFICELIVE.COM 21 4EVERDNS.COM 20 FAST-HOSTS.ORG 19 DOMAINDISCOVER.COM 17 RENEWYOURNAME.NET 17 TODAYISP.COM 17 EV1SERVERS.NET 16 K--SERVICE.COM 16 CNMSN.NET 15 GPN.REGISTER.COM 15 MEDIATEMPLE.NET 15 MEGANAMESERVERS.COM 15 NAMESECURE.COM 15 PUREDNS.COM 15 1AND1.FR 14 AMCITY.COM 14 RENTALQUEUE.COM 13 DNS.NET.CN 12 DNSFAMILY.COM 12 HOSTGATOR.COM 12 PARKEDNAMESERVER.COM 12 DEDICATEDNS.COM 11 DOMAINSATCOST.CA 11 POWWEB.COM 11 1.NAME.NET 10 CNOLNIC.COM 10 EDONG.COM 10 HOST4SITES.NET 10 IXWEBHOSTING.COM 10 LCN.BIZ 10 MYHOSTADMIN.NET 10 NS.INTERLAND.NET 10 PHASE8.NET 10 SOUTHCOASTINTERNET.COM 10 STARTLOGIC.COM 10 UDAGDNS.NET 10 (...other nameservers with less than 10 domains)