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However, its content and even the (now defunct) company that registered it are far less important than the boom it ignited: In 1997, more than one million .com web domains were registered, and in 2000 the .com bubble burst, resulting in an inevitable IT slowdown.

The .com crash proved the IT experts that a .com name alone is not sufficient to be succesful. But the coming years proved .com is inevitable and is not very important part of everyone’s online lives. Despite many other top-level domains available, .com is still the most coveted TLD — the one that many people still associate with the world wide web in general.

.com has made more than a few hundred Top millionaires around the world. Right now, around 700,000 .com sites are registered every month.

If we were to go back to 1985 and ask this question, “Do you know how many web domains were registered in the whole of 1985?”

Its not more than 6 (Jus six???)

P.S: Well, In 2010 a small web site designing company in any corner of the world would register more than 6 domains on any given working day..!