The Friday following Thanksgiving is called Black Friday because it is estimated to be the first day of the year that retailers become profitable or get out of the red, and in to the black. While searching for a good Black Friday website on Google I found a lot of different Black Friday websites that showed advertisements and gave daily updates. I wondered how many websites there were, so I did some domain name digging and found the following statistics:

There are currently 1140 .COM domain names with “black” and “friday” somewhere in the name. That is a 78% increase over the 639 domains that were registered last year. I found it interesting that there were fewer Cyber Monday domains considering that it is wholly an online phenomenon. The .COM Cyber Monday domains grew from 163 to 323 over the same period, a growth rate of 98%.