Also called .net · dot net
.net domain, explained
The extension was meant for networking and infrastructure organizations, and it still reads as technical. It is large: according to Verisign's Domain Name Industry Brief, .net had 12.5 million registrations as of June 30, 2026, ranking fourth among all TLDs after .com, .cn and .de.
For investors, .net is a secondary market. Resale prices are usually a fraction of the same word in .com, and the usual buyers are the owner of the matching .com, technical companies, and businesses that cannot get the .com. Before buying, check who uses the .com: if it is an active brand, the .net may catch that company's traffic and email by mistake, and buying it to sell to them invites a trademark complaint. Strong one-word .net names do sell, but liquidity is thin, so hold fewer and price them realistically against .com comparables.
Example. A software company that owns the .com of its brand buys the matching .net so customers and email cannot be misdirected to someone else.
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