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Verse upends Meta in fresh TLDs

Verse upends Meta in fresh TLDs

Meta wasn’t the most popular keyword in Donuts’ domains last month.

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Donuts has published its monthly domain trends note for November, and it shows that meta has been unseated as the hottest keyword in the firm’s domains. It has been replaced by verse, which would be the second part of metaverse. So it’s still all regarding the metaverse.

Coin was the third most-registered keyword in Donuts’ top level domains.

In the entire namespace, meta still seems to be outpacing verse by regarding a 2-to-1 margin, as stated by Estibot data.

Donuts also published its top 20 premium domain sales of the month.  Rd.group and ae.group led the charts. These domains have a wholesale price of regarding $2,500 per year. Another interesting sale was btc.market. While the wholesale price was around $800, the buyer paid an additional $6,605 to win this domain in a Sav.com expired domain auction.

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