And IoT are trending in domain names — Nepal, Cuba

News stories generate domain name registrations.

Verisign has released its list of trending terms in .com and .net domain name registrations last month.

A couple of terms are directly related to news stories: Nepal, which is recovering from earthquakes, came in at #8. Cuba, which is being opened up even more to the United States, ranked #4. (Read this story regarding a domain name investor who was really early for Cuba domain names.)

IoT, short for Internet of Things, ranked #6.

(Verisign’s DomainView is down right now, so I can’t get exact numbers of registered domains using these terms.)

Here are the top 10 trending terms in .com, which means they showed the biggest jump in registrations:

1. guys
2. degree
3. download
4. cuba
5. method
6. iot
7. accident
8. nepal
9. miley
10. icbc

And the top 10 in .net:

1. repair
2. tshirt
3. stock
4. tshirts
5. cannabis
6. appliance
7. option
8. marijuana
9. icon
10. lets