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.com

generic top-level domain and country top-level domain of the United States
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.com

Summary

.com is a generic top-level domain[1]. .com ranks in the top 2% of generic_top_level_domain entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,935 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • .com is in the country of United States[3].
  • .com's instance of is recorded as generic top-level domain[4].
  • .com's maintained by is recorded as Verisign[5].
  • .com's Commons category is recorded as .com[6].
  • January 1, 1985 marks the founding of .com[7].
  • .com's official website is recorded as https://yourdot.com[8].
  • .com's sponsor is recorded as Verisign[9].
  • .com's different from is recorded as .co[10].
  • .com's different from is recorded as COM[11].
  • .com's dummy value is recorded as example.com[12].

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Definition and Type

.com's instance of is recorded as generic top-level domain[4].

Origins

January 1, 1985 marks the founding of .com[7].

Influence

Things named for .com include Realtor.com[13], a website[14], in United States[15], founded in 1995[16] and dot-com company[17].

Why It Matters

.com ranks in the top 2% of generic_top_level_domain entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,935 views/month).[2] .com has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] .com is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Entities named for .com include Realtor.com[13], a website[14], in United States[15], founded in 1995[16] and dot-com company[17].

Related Entities

United States Verisign

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . iana.org. Retrieved . iana.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . RFC 2606: Reserved Top Level DNS Names. wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [14] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). .com. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/com
MLA “.com.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/com.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_com_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{.com}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/com}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 29d ago · HelloImSteven · 2026-06-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Foldoc id → ['com', '.com', 'dot+com']
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P12946]]: .com, import FOLDOC ID ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/wikibase-cli/36ecd009bcfe7/|details]])"
  2. 4w ago · HelloImSteven · 2026-06-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by → Verisign
    Country → United States
    Sponsor → Verisign
    Official website → https://yourdot.com
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P12946]]: com, import FOLDOC ID"
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