Verisign released their Top trending keywords for all of 2016. After releasing a monthly list they have compiled the data for all of 2016.
Trump topped the list for .com, research, bot and pokemon all made the list.
Verisign included the following:
Keywords and Changing Politics
This year’s U.S. presidential election was one of the biggest influences in domain name keyword trends for 2016. It’s no surprise that with the keyword, “trump,” emerging as a trend in February, March, May and November, it has topped the 2016 .com list and is second on the .net list. “Donald” also made it to the top 10 on both lists. While “Hillary” was not a top keyword in any specific month this year, it was a trending keyword overall.
.COM |
.NET |
| trump | research |
| research | trump |
| reality | pokemon |
| bot | bot |
| pokemon | near |
| donald | driver |
| hillary | donald |
| current | architecture |
| towers | hillary |
| keto | optics |
