Some of the largest domain industry companies are publicly traded on major stock markets. GoDaddy, Verisign, Neustar, Web.com, Tucows, and others are actively traded.
Because of my business, I have enough domain industry exposure, and I don’t invest in domain name stocks. It’s possible there are some investments in various funds that involve domain industry companies, but I don’t really track that closely.
I’ve heard people discuss getting exposure to the new gTLD domain names via stock investments rather than through owning individual domain names, but that’s not really my thing.
Do you own stock in domain industry companies?
If they appear in the S&P 500 index, yes.
Investing in new gTLD companies is a bad idea.