.com completed 25 years

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Dot com registry led the celebrations today completing 25th anniversary of the first ever .com address to be registered.
The anniversary coincides with research by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), which founded that the internet economy drives more than US$1.5 trillion in global annual economic activity.

Most of this revenue is derived from 11.9 million e-commerce and online business websites recorded by VeriSign�s Internet Profiling Service. A further 1.8 million sports-related sites and 4.3 million entertainment-related sites are also registered with a .com web address.

The most popular words among .com URL�s include "home" (1.2 million), "online" (1 million) and "land" (891,000), according to the firm. This 25th anniversary of .com was an important milestone and a good chance to remember how the internet has changed the world.

Anyone under the age of 30, they probably don�t remember when the internet wasn�t in their life. It has become such an essential part of how people work, live and play.
As part of the development of the .com infrastructure, the company outlined the proceeding roadmap for 2020, promising to be able to offer capacity 1,000 times greater than it currently provides in order to handle four quadrillion queries per day.

The first .com address to be registered was symbolics.com, and today there are more than 80 million .com web sites registered.