domain What do you think about my new gTLD domain? Advice thread.

[Brands.International]

In this thread, I will give you my opinion about your submitted new gTLD domain name.

I will focus not only on its numerical appraisal, but also will take other factors into consideration (mainly renewal fee and what you do with the name, where it is presented, etc), to debate whether it is a good investment choice (in my opinion). Just because I am a new gTLD investor it does not mean that I will give good opinion on crappy names - so I will tell you when I see no value or potential. To see examples of new gTLD domain names I personally invest in, you can check my website www.brands.international.

Rules:
1. Only 1 new gTLD domain name can be submitted daily per 1 Namepros user.
2. This thread is related to new gTLD domain names only - I can not give you my opinion about .com, .net, org or ccTLD names like .de or .co.uk names, as I do not have enough direct experience with them.
3. I am not responsible for any damages related to my advice - it is only my personal opinion, although I will really try my best to give reasonable, and well-balanced opinion.
4. You can submit only domain name you personally own.
5. For security and privacy purposes, all names submitted and discussed in replies must be in
keyword(s) / gTLD extension format (for example royal / estate, or bestgames / online)
6. Comments/opinions/appraisals from other members on any name submitted here are very welcome ​

 

[Brands.International]

Globe/Ventures

I like the name, as I can easily imagine well funded startup or financial company using it.

The name is authoritative and interesting. It is for standard renewal around 35 USD. Can someone who likes it pay 5-10k for it? Sure, the type of ideal end user will have those money. Would I be surprised if I hear that would sell for 20k? No.

On the other side, we need to take into consideration that there are still tons of people who are not aware of existence of .ventures. This of course lower the probabilities of such resale in 2018.

So my take on this is following: if you hold it passively, I feel it will be so-so investment, but I think the name will pay for itself (it will cost you 100 to hold for 3 years, and can you sell it for at least 100 during that time?
I think definitely, even on wholesale market to domainers. But If you give it some exposure in business circles to ideal end users (Linkedin is far the best for this one), someone will definitely like it and pay much more. All reasonably good names in .ventures are registered, so not easy to find some kind of reg fee alternative to end user. Good luck

 

[Rinkuji]

Website.Name

(Age: 11 Yrs)

Thanks in Advance.

 

[mat_kom]

bitcoin.republican

All of bitcoin TLD and gTLD are taken

Thanks

 

[Sumeeth]

I like the name, as I can easily imagine well funded startup or financial company using it.

The name is authoritative and interesting. It is for standard renewal around 35 USD. Can someone who likes it pay 5-10k for it? Sure, the type of ideal end user will have those money. Would I be surprised if I hear that would sell for 20k? No.

On the other side, we need to take into consideration that there are still tons of people who are not aware of existence of .ventures. This of course lower the probabilities of such resale in 2018.

So my take on this is following: if you hold it passively, I feel it will be so-so investment, but I think the name will pay for itself (it will cost you 100 to hold for 3 years, and can you sell it for at least 100 during that time?
I think definitely, even on wholesale market to domainers. But If you give it some exposure in business circles to ideal end users (Linkedin is far the best for this one), someone will definitely like it and pay much more. All reasonably good names in .ventures are registered, so not easy to find some kind of reg fee alternative to end user. Good luck

Thank you so much for your detailed appraisal! Appreciate your effort!

 

[NickB]

agriculture/mortgage

Cheers....

 

[DomainsMaven]

Price.Cheap

 

[platey]

stillage.rental

 

[NickB]

agriculture/mortgage

Cheers....

sorry put this in the wrong format - should of been agriculture/mortgage

 

[Mohsin Ali]

Mens.Social

 

[Brands.International]

Cryptology / online

Many Thanks

I know where you are coming from with this one, but it will not work out well, imo.

Main reason is the poor keyword: for example, go to uniregistry.com, and put that keyword in the search field.

At the time of writing, we have 207 new gTLD extensions still available for this keyword, while it is taken in 43 extension. For example, end user can register names with this keyword for as low as 3,88 USD for extensions like .agency, .company, .fund, .institute, .international, .express, .solutions...we call this situation "lot of close alternatives for end user for reg fee". It can happen someone will pay 200-500 for the .online name, but probabilities are so low, that it does no make sense for domainer from math point of view.

Btw, I myself did recently similar experiment (with keywords cryptic, and cryptical) as I was curious and spent around 100 to buy bunch of names which kind of make sense as combos. I have learned after few months that those names are not worth to keep, except combo in one extension which seem to get lot of traffic, and after analysis I learned why, so this one I will keep, I plan to drop others. Reality is that end users are very interested in combos with keyword "crypto" when it comes to new gTLDs, and not much in other derivatives of that term, imo.

 

[Brands.International]

Denpasar / xyz

Denpasar is the capital city and main hub of the Indonesian province of Bali.

As in previous appraisal, "lot of close alternatives for end user for reg fee" in new gTLD space.

When we check lets say at in Uniregistry.com for this keyword, we have 237 extensions available for it, while 13 are taken.

For example, end user can now register Denpasar / website for 0.99, or Denpasar / site for 1.99.

So what profit can be expected from the name? In this situation, it is not probable that someone will like exactly your name so much that he will pay anything significant to domainer holding it.

There are also other problems (like limited end user pool, people related to Dempasar), but problem with tons of close alternatives overshadow even that - so I do not feel that name.

 

[Brands.International]

Takeout / app

Thanks!

Well, this one is interesting. .App is extension owned by Google registry.

When I google "takeout" one of first thing I see is this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Takeout - so one would say after reading this basic info that it would be reasonable for registry to actually reserve this keyword, as this project certainly can be done also in form of app, therefore .app would be an excellent match. But I had just glance for 1 sec without longer analysis and have no idea whatsoever what are their plans really, so maybe my though of this is not relevant at all.

And of course, there is lot of delicious food out there and apps for food delivery are on rise in every major city. Plus lot of interest and money went to .app in recent weeks. It is a great name. So either develop it and become rich, or sell it to someone who can develop it and he or she will become rich

As for competion, this is pretty limited (keywords as "food", "takeaway", maybe few more, but not too many). Renewal seems to be standard. Price for end user probably mid XXXX or maybe 10k, 15k and even more - it really depends also on who you are, how you present the name, to who you present it, and how you negotiate, etc.. Very difficult to say at the moment as aftermarket for .app is just on its very beginning. It will be more clear after year or two. But very good combo where keyword matches perfectly the extension.

 

[Ace3coiner]

MathsTutor/app

Thank you very much

 

[UXela]

go / bio

Thoughts appreciated.

 

[MadAboutDomains]

Well, this one is interesting....

Great to know you thoughts! Thanks for taking the time.

 

[Florian Haase]

cryptocash / ventures

Interesting thread.
Looking forward to know what you are thinking.

 

[Vatsal Patel]

Token / bio

 

[italsat]

foto.market and biometric.camera

 

[Brands.International]

Great to know you thoughts! Thanks for taking the time.

You are welcome

 

[Brands.International]

topup / cards

thanks

It seems like nice combo. The name is for standard renewal (25 - 30 at most registrars)

It has also interesting history: first it was registered by someone in June 2014, so at what we can consider an "early gTLD times". Then it was dropped afer 1 year, then it stayed 3 years unregistered (I am not 100% sure about this, but it seems like), and then it was recently registered by OP a month ago.

Now, when I think about value of new gTLD names, I also care about when it was first registered (good names usually are first to be taken when particular gTLD extension goes live). So an early registration is usually a good sign. The fact that it was then dropped does not mean much (it is for standard renewal, so maybe clever student with intention of flipping regged it, and because aftermarket was not formed yet, flipping was not an option and he dropped it - this is a case for tons of names, sometimes very good names)

What I find on negative side is that then next 3 years no one registered the name. Names with high value are usually immediately taken as new gTLD investors, including me, are following literally hundreds of combos (particularly with standard renewals), and we immediately reg if such combo is dropped, or try to drop-catch it even before dropping. This was not the case here.

I think it is because there will be no easy use of it in business - it sounds good, but topup cards are always just one item in telecom stores, I think it has only limited pool of end users, who in additional would need to have very clever idea how to utilize the name. I can see it as 5k - 12k name for ideal end user, maybe more, but probability of resale in any given year for this price is very low (considering also that 3 years gap when he name was not registered while it is for low reg fee). I would definitely advise to present the name to ideal end users, in which case this can become very profitable investment. If the approach is passive, it will be so-so investment, but the name will probably at least pay for itself. Nice name.

 

[Brands.International]

Website.Name

(Age: 11 Yrs)

Thanks in Advance.

I think it can be perfect name for a registrar, it is very nice. Or for a domain investor who takes his business seriously and want to have a great internet address. The name is memorable, and authoritative. Cool one

The renewal is standard, so easy to hold and wait for good offers.

I have visited the site, and I think actually the price you try to sell it at the moment of writing this is very reasonable, maybe I would increase it a bit. I know from this forum that you know well what you are doing, but it is good to remember that it is less work to make 1 larger sale, then 20 small ones. I understand though that some prefer steady cashflow, which is not steady at all if you aim for larger amounts. So everyone needs to make their decisions. The name is imo around 5k for ideal end user (registrar), and should be easily 1,5-2k for more serious domain investor Good luck!.

 

[Steven McEvoy]

Arabica Dot club

 

[Brands.International]

bitcoin / republican

All of bitcoin TLD and gTLD are taken

Thanks

The only chances to have some profit with this name is to flip it to another domain investor, who thinks the only chance to have some profit with this name is to flip it to another domain investor, who thinks ...this is the destiny of this type of names, imo.

Reason behind your registration is totally understandable, I also beat my head into a wall that I siply did not have vision just few year ago to register names with keyword "bitcoin", as would I do that in some new gTLD extensions, it would be amazing. I am sure that those who registered MEANINGFUL combos (in extensions like .network, .world, .ventures, .fund - you get the idea) will be laughing happily, sooner or later, all the way to their bank.

But it does not make sense with .republican - so try to flip with another domainer for low XXX, imo.
Btw, the name has interesting history, it seems that 2 other investors tried that since 2014::

 

[strugar]

You are very welcome friend!

There are number of domains available as very close alternatives for reg fee to the domain oddschecker / live at the time of writing my response. For example:

If you want to go social, you can reg oddschecker / social for 1,99
If you want to be cool, you can reg oddschecker / ninja for 4,99
if you want to reg some really good combination, you can go for oddschecker / software for 4,99.
I can show another 20 examples, but I think this shows the picture

Problem with analyzed domain is that there is really nothing special going on between .live and keyword "oddschecker". Because there is no special connection, your domain can be easily replaced by end user with above close alternatives which are available for reg fee. Because of that, I feel basically 0 potential for any resale profit for this domain.

Hope you don't mind if I disagree on this one. In gambling world, it is of crucial importance to have latest odds available... so, odds not to be 1 hour old, not even 1 minute old, but... live! Thus, I see these two words as a perfect connection for a service that checks odds in real time. Now, different question is the demand - there is a ton of services that provide live odds, so you cannot expect many newcomers in that area; but if one appears, they'll hardly find more suitable name. As for the existing ones, main players are on .com or co.uk, and I don't think they're dying to switch to ngtld.

You might want to try your luck of finding end user at forum at GPWA dot org.

 

[yjann]

MyCasino.online

Thanks for this thread btw!