Have you ever wondered what domain names the most successful companies are using? We did, too! So, we decided to analyze the Fortune 500 list of companies for 2020 and group them by their domain choices; here’s what we have learned.

The number of brands with .com domain name extension

Since the .com extension is one of the most used extensions, it’s not surprising that 83.2% out of 500 analyzed companies are using it.

Brands with the EBM (exact brand match) domain names

Those .com domains are divided to 5,048% dash domains (21 companies), 84,61% exact brand match domains (352 companies) and 10,33% (43 companies) other .com domains.

84,61% (352 out of 416 .com domains are exact brand match domains, which makes 70,4% of 500 analyzed brands. This means that those companies didn’t add anything to their name in order to obtain a domain, but they were smart or lucky enough to get their exact brand match domain.

On the other hand, some brands had to add a word to their brand name when acquiring a domain, and those are 43 out of 500 domains, which makes 8,6% of all analyzed domains.

21 of the analyzed companies, which makes 4,2% of them, chose to add a dash since the exact brand match is already taken.

16,8% out of 500 analyzed companies are using other extensions for their domains. Those include country-specific extensions, .net, .org, etc. What’s interesting is that the majority of this group is Chinese companies with .com.cn, which is China’s country-code domain extension.

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