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Trending term in .com thanks to these weird registrations — “Page” top

Page and history on chart thanks to one man’s curious domain name registrations.

Verisign released its list of top trending keywords for September today, led by “page” in the number one spot.

Registrations of domain names with the term page in them spiked on September 26. A Connecticut man registered a bunch of long domain names that mostly contain a famous person or brand’s name in the format theNAMEpage.com and theNAMEhistorypage.com. Examples include:

TheIntelCorporationPage.com
TheNetflixHistoryPage.com
TheTripAdvisorIncPage.com
TheConradHugesHiltonPage.com

These domains also helped history land at #3 on the chart.

Driver landed on both the .com and .net charts thanks to a bunch of driverless car domain names.

Here’s the full .com list:

1. Page
2. Driver
3. History
4. Pair
5. Harley
6. Holding
7. Tshirt
8. Payday
9. Cheese
10. Funnel

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