new gtlds .CLUB launching 300+ LL NN today through Registrar channel

Colin Campbell said:

I think it is fair for domain investors to criticize registries for holding back names. Truth is we spend over 6 million in marketing per year so we needed to that in the early days to ensure we remain solvent. After a lot of feedback we announced on this forum a couple of weeks ago that we will no longer be doing that. This is directly related to the fact that our company has hit our goals and no longer requires the revenue generated from the drop. As of Oct. 1st .CLUB will offer an "Open Drop". Not one name will be reclaimed by the registry! Over the last 12 months we have reclaimed millions in inventory which we sell monthly (See our reports) at about 60-100K per month. It's time for the domain investors who support us to get first access now.

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Colin Campbell said:

As promised, we have announced a fully "open drop" with no hold backs by registry as of Oct. 1. Some names including 3 characters (which sell well in China) were not dropping due to some early software restrictions. Those will be released tomorrow at 10 am eastern, 10 pm Beijing time.

Interestingly, we are releasing our hold on celebrity names as well.

To see the list of these dropping names and the daily drop go to www.landrush.club.

Colin




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Colin Campbell said:

MPLS,

.CLUB has moved to an "open drop". We do not and have not recaptured any names after Oct. 1st. You are incorrect. I would even back that statement up by offering those names to you for free if you can prove they were somehow recaptured by the registry. I personally mandated that the company and the staff were not to reserve any names after Oct. 1st. and I believe that to be the case.

It is well within the rights of the registry to recapture names and we did do that as practice prior to Oct. 1st. to support the initial marketing launch however given our success we no longer believe we need to do that but instead believe in supporting domainers and a strong after market. I can tell you I check Landrush.club every day where LLL, NNN, NNNN,NNNNN sell out from the drop daily. These names continue to rise in price in China yet we let everyone go. Single words will also get snapped up. We will likely leave the "open drop" in place however if that status should ever change for whatever reason I will be happy to inform the group.

If you could share your findings with this group with respect to those 4 names, that would be appreciated.

Colin

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