The con.com domain is in active use.

As of December 26, 2011, there are 664 web sites using con.com and 7091 subdomains handling email. There are also a substantial number of non-web/non-email services that use con.com as part of their domain name.

This domain was registered in 1993 in order to do exactly what it's doing. It has been in constant use since that time. The web sites under this domain receive approximately 2 million unique views per month. Around a million email deliveries are made per month.

A few times a week, someone asks to buy the domain. The offers are regularly between US$5000 and US$15,000. This does not begin to cover the cost to migrate services from the domain. The current price of the domain is US$307,820 ($250 for each web site, $20 for each email subdomain). As time goes on, this price will increase.