Colors and domainers, an interesting research.
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet.
Ah, the colors of the visible spectrum – it’s what the average human being sees during daytime.
While these six colors form the official range of distinct visible light colors, there are many more; adding to a whopping 500+ according to use by Wikipedia.
We decided to run a check on the use of the most common colors as .com domains.
You might be surprised by the results – click on the links to visit each web site.
| RED.com | Developed – Active company: Video camera manufacturer | |
| ORANGE.com | Developed – Active company: French Telecom | |
| YELLOW.com | Developed – Active company: Yellow Pages | |
| GREEN.com | Parked | |
| BLUE.com | Developed – Forum / Social media | |
| VIOLET.com | Developed – Active company: Gifts | |
| BLACK.com | Developed – Antiracism | |
| WHITE.com | Parked | |
| CYAN.com | Developed – Active company: Video Games | |
| PURPLE.com | Developed – For lease – Not for sale | |
| BROWN.com | For lease or sale | |
| PINK.com | Parked (Porn) |
Nice! can’t believe green.com is parked. It’d make a fantastic ecology web site.
nice post. how about an honorable mention?
I was going to suggest CornflowerBlue.com
Ahhhhh, cute 😀
Green.com was an amazingly crafted site that recently went dark. IAC launched it as a tween social networking site within an immersive virtual world framework — all focused on Green/Eco. I believe it would’ve succeeded if IAC had targeted ‘everyone’ instead of just the younger crowd – its very hard (not impossible) to monetize that demographic online. I suspect that they’ll relaunch it as a green-focused ecommerce/search play. More proof that a category-killer domain, backed by substantial funding still doesn’t guarantee success. But the domain remains a valuable asset that can be developed over & over again while looking for the right formula.
Forgot to mention, IAC is parking Green.com with Sendori, the parkling solution they acquired through Ask.com
Rhee – many thanks for the insightful information. Green.com is my choice of color from the list – if it were ever possible (by monetary means alone) to acquire.