Reglikedomain industry desk

Domain names are trending — Same-sex marriage

Big news=domain registrations.

People are flocking to their favorite domain name registrars today to register domain names related to same-sex marriage following a Supreme Court ruling legalized gay marriage across the U.S.

Verisign Domain View shows a spike in registrations around when the ruling was released, and the numbers will surely grow throughout the day.

Among the domains registered:

TwoMenMarriage.com
GenderNeutralMarriages.com
GenderNeutralMarriage.com
MarriageEqualityDay.com
lbgtmarriage.com
lbgtMarriageLaw.com
LoveisLoveMarriages.com
Marriage-Equality.com

Here are a couple domains that could be used by someone on potentially both sides of the issue:

HasMarriageBeenDestroyedYet.com
IsMarriageRuinedYet.com

Domain View does not show results for the term “gay”, so it’s difficult to get an exact number of registrations. Interestingly, Domain View also shows “wedding” is not a safe search word.

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