As medicinal and recreational cannabis takes the country and the world by storm, economic experts expect the legal cannabis market to reach an impressive $38.2 billion by the end of 2022. Cannabis is one of the fastest-growing and sustainable markets due to the plant’s versatile medicinal uses, creative & cultural cache, and wide industrial application. Cannabis’s medical value is well-known and recognized across the scientific community. Studies show that cannabis can help with depression, anxiety, inflammation, muscle tension, nausea resulting from chemotherapy, seizures, insomnia, chronic pain, and much more. In addition to its medicinal functions, cannabis has deep roots in artistic and scientific circles. The plant is known to be part of the creative process for plenty of history’s most visionary creators & thinkers, from Willie Nelson to Louis Armstrong to Stanley Kubrik to Pablo Picasso to Richard Branson to Carl Sagon.

Beyond its medical and creative purposes, the cannabis plant has the power to revolutionize various industries with a particular fiber that grows from the plant, Hemp. Hemp is a sustainable fiber that has been used throughout history by humans as an eco-friendly substitute for fuel, building material, food, paper, clothing, plastic, concrete, and more. Interestingly, Henry Ford’s first Ford Model-T was built with hemp. Additionally, CBD is one of the many compounds found in the cannabis plant. CBD is not psychoactive and has plenty of scientifically proven medical benefits in its own right. Understandably, the CBD market is also thriving as it is expected to hit $29.91 billion by 2025.

Introducing Cannabis.net, a comprehensive website sitting at the intersection of Leafly and Weedmaps, but with a better domain. Cannabis.net offers enthusiasts a plethora of resources to engage with the revolutionary plant. Committed to providing value to the industry, Cannabis.net enables both aficionados and novices to learn about cannabis and stay up to date with the market via its blog and news section. Similarly, Cannabis.net has an indispensable strain guide with detailed visual and written aides to hundreds of strains. This extensive website also provides resources to help individuals figure out how to start a career in the cannabis industry & peruse job boards by the state. Additionally, people can use the website to find cannabis-related events, dispensaries, doctors, & lawyers. Individuals can also purchase CBD & hemp products, top-of-the-line accessories, & fun merchandise directly from the website. Cannabis.net even has a social media platform for enthusiasts to interact with one another. Finally, the Cannabis.net brand has apps in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.

While it is safe to say that Cannabis.net is truly one of the most encyclopedic, practical, and valuable websites in the cannabis space due to all of its resources and offerings, from a business perspective however, that is not the most interesting aspect of the website. As an exact match domain, Cannabis.net is one of four exact match domains in the cannabis industry. An exact match domain is a website URL that is comprised of a keyword directly matching the industry or unique selling point of the company. As an experienced computer scientist and lean startup entrepreneur, Cannabis.net owner Curt Dalton understands that cannabis websites with traffic are the most undervalued asset in the industry. In fact, this is precisely why he purchased the domain at auction in 2016. Dalton realized that, as is the case with any industry, exact match domains are incredibly valuable, consistently gaining more traffic, clicks, and other key SEO markers compared to websites in the same space without exact match domains.

As the cannabis industry is growing and interstate commerce in the market has not yet been unleashed since some states are slow to legalize, businesses that can facilitate these transactions will grow exponentially. Beyond the value that exact match domains can extract from the already thriving cannabis market, Dalton understands that high-traffic cannabis-related websites will be even more valuable in the near future as commercial laws become more lenient. Soon, multi-state operators will look to have their products be found or sold via high-traffic websites. Similar to how Amazon beat the margins of brick-and-mortar competitors, high-traffic cannabis-related websites, like Cannabis.net, are poised to disrupt the cannabis retail sales market as soon as the industry opens up. In addition to his entrepreneurial vision of incorporating a nationally-reaching cannabis-focused e-commerce arm to Cannabis.net, Dalton has aspirations to receive a license for the company as well. Of course, as a high-traffic website, Dalton can also offer digital real estate for advertisements and promotions in the cannabis industry, earning money while helping other entrepreneurs reach potential consumers.

Dalton is not alone when it comes to putting a premium on exact match domains. The holding company that owns Weedmaps bought the other three exact match domains in the cannabis space for multiple millions of dollars

As the average consumer becomes even more reliant on the internet, high-traffic, exact domains will continue to be valued at a premium. As the cannabis industry continues to grow and entrepreneurs are pioneering new business ventures in the space every day, cannabis-related exact match domains are positioned to harness these opportunities.

With a visionary leader at the helm, a comprehensive set of offerings, and an exact match domain, we are excited to see what Curt Dalton and Cannabis.net do next.

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