mxverify / dot.com

Sites where “dot.com” is a top search keyword

One site on record lists “dot.com” among the searches that send it the most visitors, by traffic estimates. It is searched about 90.5K times a month on Google, worldwide (Google Ads, Sept 2026), at about $1.78 a click in search ads: a month of its searches would cost about $161.1K as search ads. Each site checked on the backlink value checker adds its top five search keywords, so this list grows as sites are checked.

Keyword intelligence

90.5KGoogle monthly search volume+22% since Oct 2025

+8%Last 3 months vs 3 beforesteady

62/100Demand scoremoderate

49/100Keyword difficulty (US)possible

NavigationalSearch intentlooking for a site

$1.78Google Ads cost per clicktop-of-page bids $0.27–$2.03

4,310Third-party estimated keyword demandSept 2026

1Sites getting visits from itSept 2026

What the data says

Demand is up on the year, now levelling off: Google searches for “dot.com” rose 22% (74K to 90.5K) from Oct 2025 to Sept 2026.
The listed site takes about 390 visits a month from “dot.com”, 9% of its 4,310 searches (traffic estimates). The other 91% goes to sites not on record here, or ends without a click.
At $1.78 a click (Google Ads), the listed sites' 390 visits a month from “dot.com” would cost about $694 as search ads. That is what the traffic would cost to buy, not what it earns.
The two sources differ about 21 times for Sept 2026: Google Ads counts 90.5K searches, the traffic estimates 4,310. Read each for its trend, not as an exact count.

1Demand

Search demand, month by month

Google monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide)Third-party estimated keyword demand (right axis)

Every month's figures

	Oct 2025	Nov 2025	Dec 2025	Jan 2026	Feb 2026	Mar 2026	Apr 2026	May 2026	Jun 2026	Jul 2026	Aug 2026	Sept 2026
Google monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide)	74K	60.5K	60.5K	74K	60.5K	74K	60.5K	60.5K	74K	60.5K	60.5K	90.5K
Third-party estimated keyword demand (right axis)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4,310

Google monthly search volume: Google Ads, worldwide, read 1 Nov 2026. Third-party estimated keyword demand is a separate source, many times apart in size, so it has its own axis at the right: read the two lines for their trends.

2Who gets the traffic

Share of the visits, Sept 2026

Site	Share	Visits	As ads	DR	Linking sites
dot.com	100%	390	$694	91	25.5K

Each site's latest estimate of its visits from this keyword; “As ads”: those visits at its cost per click, what they would cost to buy; DR: Ahrefs Domain Rating; linking sites: sites linking to it (third-party link index).

Where these sites' visitors are

India100%

The listed sites' own visitors by country (all their traffic), weighted by each site's visits from this keyword: their audience, not where the keyword is searched.

3Ranking competition

49/100Keyword difficulty (US)possible

27/100Ranking easehard

DR 97First page, median Ahrefs DR

550Linking sites per top-ten pageaverage, US

On Google's page:AI OverviewPeople also askVideosKnowledge panel

Google's first page, United States

#	Site	Page title	DR
1	youtube.com	How Dot Com Bubble Indirectly Started The 2008 Crisis	99
2	youtube.com	Dot-Com Bubble vs. Today's AI Boom: What's Different? #shorts	99
3	medium.com	The Dot-com Bubble Is Happening Again, But Nobody ...	94
4	youtube.com	Is AI the next dot-com bubble? Sam Altman's prediction & ...	99
5	reddit.com	eli5: What was the “dot com” bubble and how did it pop?	95
6	cartoonstock.com	Dot Com Companies Cartoons and Comics	72
7	youtube.com	Are we re-running the dot-com crash? #shorts	99
8	wikidata.org	dot-com company	90

Google's results for “dot.com” in the United States, in English, read 1 Nov 2026. DR: Ahrefs Domain Rating; “—”: Ahrefs gives no rating.

Keyword difficulty is 49 of 100 for US results: possible on the vendor's scale.
youtube.com holds 4 of Google's top 8 results for “dot.com”: Google treats it as a search for that site.
None of the 1 sites listed here is in Google's US top 8 for “dot.com”.
The first page's median Ahrefs DR is 97; the lowest-rated result, cartoonstock.com at #6, has DR 72.
The top ten pages have about 550 linking sites each on average (US results, third-party link index).
Google shows an AI Overview for “dot.com”, citing 4 sites: it sits above the results and takes clicks from them.

4Intent and related searches

Navigational: looking for a site
The searcher's goal, as a third-party keyword database classifies it (US).

Questions people ask

What is a dot-com website?
What caused the dot-com collapse?
Is the tech bubble bursting?
What companies did well during the dot-com crash?

5Opportunity

62/100 · Demand score, moderate

How much searching there is and what advertisers pay for it.

Searches	79	90.5K a month · weight 40%
Year	57	+22% since Oct 2025 · weight 20%
Momentum	58	last 3 months +8% on the 3 before · weight 20%
Commercial	36	$1.78 a click (Google Ads) · weight 20%

27/100 · Ranking ease, hard

How open Google's first page is: 100 minus its difficulty and strength.

Keyword difficulty	51	49 of 100 (US) · weight 50%
First-page strength	3	median Ahrefs DR 97 · weight 50%
One site's results	50	youtube.com holds 4 of 8; ease capped at 40 · weight 0%

What to do with it

Treat it as a brand search: Google answers “dot.com” with the brand's own pages, so a third-party page competes for what is left.
Google answers part of it in an AI Overview: the pages it cites get a link above the results.
The listed sites take 9% of its searches: most of the traffic goes to sites not on record here.

A business score needs your own figures (conversion, deal value) and is not made here. Scores are fixed formulas over the figures shown; they are not Google's.

6Sources

Google monthly search volume, Google Ads cost per click, bids and paid competition: Google Ads, worldwide, read 1 Nov 2026.
Third-party estimated keyword demand, cost per click and each site's visits (est.): third-party traffic estimates, Sept 2026.
Keyword difficulty, intent, SERP features, top-ten links: a third-party keyword database, United States, read 1 Nov 2026.
Google's first page, AI Overview, related searches: Google search, United States, read 1 Nov 2026.
DR: Ahrefs Domain Rating. Linking sites: a third-party link index.

Tiles, findings, scores and actions are worked out from the figures on this page by fixed rules.

Site	Report	Visits (est.)	Month
dot.com	Valued	390	Sept 2026

Listed A–Z. A top search keyword is one of the searches that bring a site the most visitors, by estimate. It is not a position in Google, and the order here is not a ranking. Visits (est.): the traffic estimate's own figure for the keyword on that site, which behaves like visits a month, not an amount of money (2026-09-29: it had been shown in dollars). Ad value is what advertisers pay for the keyword — its searches × cost per click — not how hard it is to rank for. This page is kept out of search results until 15 sites share the keyword.

Searches, cost per click and ad value above: Google Ads, worldwide. Sites and their visits: third-party traffic estimates, Sept 2026. The traffic estimates' own searches figure for the keyword is in the section below; the two sources often differ several times over.