Nepal, Cuba and IoT are trending in domain names

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

News stories generate domain name registrations. 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.
IoT, short for Internet of Things, ranked #6.

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

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