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Marijuana domain names dominate .com

Marijuana domain names dominate .com

People are getting creative with marijuana domain names as legalization spreads.

marijuana The real winner in Tuesday’s U.S. elections might have been marijuana.

California, Massachusetts and Nevada passed recreational initiatives and a number of other states passed medicinal marijuana initiatives.

So it’s only fitting that four terms for marijuana were trending in .com last month. By trending, I mean they saw the biggest spike in registrations over the prior month.

Cannabis saw the biggest spike as stated by .com registry Verisign. 2,157 .com domain names counting the term were registered last month. Registrations include CannabisCropInsurance.com, HawaiiCannabisUnion.com and CannabisShake.com.

Marijuana was #2 on Verisign’s list with 1,651 .com registrations such as MarijuanaSafetyTest.com and MarijuanaLawFlorida.com.

Weed and Pot also make the list:

1. Cannabis
2. Marijuana
3. Corporation
4. Fan
5. Weed
6. Network
7. Pot
8. Cellular
9. Memory
10. Pixel

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