discuss How to register new gTLD names in 2019 (and actually sell them).

Brands.International · Feb 18, 2019

How to register new gTLD names in 2019
(and actually sell them).

This is written particularly for new domain investors - I hope it will save you some money

It is only my personal opinion, and I might be wrong (of course). So here we go:

1. Register 1 word domain name, in most cases try to avoid 2 word domain names

Example of 1 word domain name: holy.life. Example of 2 word domain name: myholy.life or ourholy.life.
Why? Because chances of selling 2 word domain name in new gTLD space is very small (consult namebio.com). Do not think you can outsmart someone with your word1word2.gTLD combo...in most cases you will not outsmart anyone, and usually you will be dropping such names after 1 year. There are exceptions from this rule of course, but safest bet is to simply avoid it, particularly when you just start with domain investing.

2. Register names with not many alternatives in new gTLD space

This simply means, that end users can not find alternatives for your name in other new gTLD extension, for reg fee.(use uniregistry.com to check that). Particularly when you ignore point no.1 and register 2 word domain name, you will usually find that your string exists in dozens of other new gTLD extensions...and is available to be registered by anyone for reg fee. This subsequently means you will have no leverage when it comes to negotiations with end users.To learn exactly what "alternatives in new gTLD space" means, read this new gTLD appraisal thread here.

3. Register names with large pools of potential end users.

You can have perfect new gTLD name, but if there are only few suitable end users who can use your name, it will usually take long time to sell it. If you register name where millions of potential end users exist (so something pretty broad and generic), you will be getting much more offers, and you will be able to close much more sales.

4. To be first is not always better...sometimes it is better to be second.

When registering new gTLD names, consider this: when extension is brand new, there is almost zero awareness about it among end users (unless there is a huge marketing campaign for it you know about).
It can take years for awareness to be created. This also means that for many extensions there is almost 0 aftermarket in early times. Usually only fellow domain investors. This is natural - if something is very new, almost no one knows about it. So if you want to be first to get best names, fine, but budget for your investments accordingly - it is not wise to expect that you will buy something totally new for USD 10, and you will be able to flip it to end user for USD 10k. It happens, but rarely. There are many experienced new gTLD domain investors, who simply wait for drops after 1st year and pick up some very nice names. But this wisdom comes with years of investing experience and is not something what can be intuitively understood, at least from what I see.

5. Make sure renewals of your domain names are sustainable.

Second most important thing in new gTLD domain investment (after quality of the name) - make sure you understand renewal fees for your domain names. In order for you to be in a long term game, renewal fees of your domain names must be sustainable (aka low). Otherwise you will be dropping almost all of your names after 1 year, and all your effort will be wasted.

6. Make proper landers for your names

Do not just let your domain names without proper landing pages. Do not be lazy and immediately prepare landers for them. Imo best option is undeveloped.com atm, but many good alternatives are available as well.
Some old school domainers are used to the fact that they were contacted by people who found their contact details in WHOIS database - this is not possible anymore, as due to GDPR legislation most records from WHOIS database are now masked. This also means that when you have new gTLD domain name, your details will be masked in most cases (again, there are few exceptions from this rule, but do not rely on them),. Buyers thus have no way how to contact you. Clear landing pages are a must in 2019.

7. Do not follow the herd.

Just because all people at Namepros are registering .panda (just an example), it does not mean you also need to register .panda...Most people are not profitable and are actually loosing lot of money - so if you will do the same thing as most people, you will have the same results as most people....

When you follow the herd, it is not only that competition is huge, but you will end up registering nonsense word1 word2 names, in times where there is no aftermarket created yet, when you do not know if there are some renewal promotions in future, when major domain selling sites not yet support that extension, and when there is no awareness yet among end users. Likely result of your action: you will drop your names prior first renewal round. This is happening since 2014 in many forms and shapes, still it seems like most people like to repeat those mistakes happily again and again.

You need to find your niche/extensions/areas of expertise and go from there. The most lucrative way is still to buy new gTLD names from fellow domain investors, but almost no one is doing it, except few people. Typical newbie new gTLD domain "investor" will rather spend USD 10 on 200 bad names and will not sell even 1 of them, prior dropping them all, then to pay USD 2000 for 1 great name which can sell for great profit. Which leads to:

8. Get 2-3 good names instead of 200-300 bad names (which you will drop anyway).

Buy only quality new gTLD names, as only highest quality sells in 2019. And you know that you have great new gTLD domain name, if you have a good feeling renewing it 9 years in advance.This should be always your test: am I confident enought for this name, so I have no problem to pay years in advance for it's renewal fees? Now to critics which would tell you that you are blocking unnecessarily your capital by paying renewals in advance, I would like to remind:
a) renew your name years in advance if there is a great renewal promotion (you can save sometimes 90% of total cost, as some renewal promotions for new gTLDs are simply amazing)
b) when you renew your new gTLD name 9 years in advance, it tells your potential buyers something about your commitment....in my experience, it is much easier to negotiate if your name is renewed like that.

Buyers are not stupid: they will check everything possible about you and your names, and in most cases they are simply waiting if the name does not expire/if you do not drop it . But when we are in 2019 and your name is renewed until 2027, this waiting game is simply over for them, and they need to approach you if they want the name. But to play this game, you really need to have good new gTLD names.

9. Get to social media and make lot of connections.

Do not be a secret seller. Have your portfolio clearly visible to anyone, and go to Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, Youtube and Facebook at least. People with most success have great online presence, and professionally looking marketplaces.

10. Price your domain names as a pro, do not be a chicken

Look, if you price your domains with $120 price tag (for example), this will result in following: you will sell your best domains quickly for low price (and when you report it, fellow domain investors will say Congrats congrats, congrats, and you will feel great as super-seller), but at the same time you will be left with portfolio of bad domain names, which no one wants even for this low price tag. This is sure way to poor financial status and poverty. You do not want that. New gTLD names are very unique, as they are are pure phrases without any suffix, and are therefore also geo neutral. They have great value, and this value grows in time.
If you have great new gTLD name, renew it for years in advance, and do not let it go for cheap - as one day you might retire on it...

11. Bonus point - do not listen to "voices of past" with "only .com is an good investment" mantra

This is already past us and so not 2019 - luckily we see this nonsense less and less ...

What is your opinion when it comes to new gTLDs registrations ?

Ostrados · Feb 19, 2019

4pm said:
..i still dont get it

did your rules actually bring in any sales ?

why not share

..no NDA bs pls

Even if he has 0 sales what is your point?

He was kind and shared his experience with us, and his guide is 100% correct and is helpful for new gTLD investors, so why are you annoyed by this thread?! I see it as very informative and high quality thread.

BTW I personally prefer to stay away from new gTLDs (I only have 12) because they are very difficult to sell due to the numerous number of options (700+ extensions) available for end user, unless you get rare high quality domains, but those are usually premiums with hefty renewal fees which increases difficulty level even more.

Internet.Domains · Feb 19, 2019

Bob Hawkes said:
I see a future in using ngTLDs in phrases used in marketing campaigns (although will take years to happen) and that is why I am so keen on new extensions that work well on this. I just like their elegance, and how well they work as clickable links in Tweets

I agree with this. There is great potential for a unique marketing strategy in the future with NewGtlds.

I have begun to notice the youngest of computer users are finding it fashionable to use dots (.) when communicating via devices. They are using the dots to distinguish two words. You can find this often on Instagram. It's possible this style or trend transitions to marketing and propels the NewG's.

I remain diversified with optimistic views of NewGtlds and .com.

oldtimer · Feb 19, 2019

Some very good advice by the OP, here is what I can add to this discussion:

I like to go with the 80/20 rule which in this case means 80% of the portfolio should consist of .coms , ccTLDs , and other legacy extensions and 20% should be New gTLDs.

In 5 to 10 years it might go the other way around like 20/80 but no one really knows for sure so it's best to play it safe.

Regardless try to get the best New gTLDs that you can find at standard registration and renewal fees, if they are on sale that's even better. The high renewal New GTLDs were meant for end users who only want one or two domains, so unless you are a pro with deep pockets who can afford to pay $200 or more for renewal for several years on one domain and then sell it for six figures then it's best to stay away from those because most likely you'll end up dropping the high renewal domains after couple of years because they are not sustainable for the average domainer.

Also don't be afraid of two word domains if they make sense, because in my opinion two words that make sense and that are a good match for the extension are better than a second rate single word with a less popular extension.

Here are some examples of some of my two word New gTLDs that in my opinion make sense:

HomeLoan.company
HomeMortgage.loan
SmartPhone.center
SmartHomes.forsale
SelfSustaining.homes
3dPrinter.forsale
FlyingCars.forsale
PreAssembled.homes
VacationHome.agency
ArtificialIntelligence.systems

And lastly try to get a few high quality New gTLDs that you might actually want to develop yourself in case you can't sell them. You can't play the numbers game with New gTLDs the way some people do with .coms who register hundreds or even thousands of domains and then try to sift through them, for one thing I don't think any one can find a thousand high quality New gTLDs since most are reserved by the registry and also paying the renewals for several more years even at discounted prices might not be sustainable for most domainers without having some sales which at the moment are kind of rare for New gTLDs

So it might be best to register domains (or buy them) that make sense and that you actually enjoy owning incase you want to put them to some good use some day yourself.

Disclaimer: this is just my opinion based on my own experiences, there are many different paths to success, you have to find the one that suits you. Domaining is just a hobby for me to keep my mind active since I am now really an Oldtimer

johnnie018 · Feb 19, 2019

Bob Hawkes said:
To make the numbers of the name profitable I think (may have this part slightly wrong) he needs I think about double the number he currently has . Anyway, I agree that the amount paid can be legitimately debated, but just wanted to share his view on it.

Bob

It would have already peaked because the only reason why these sites rank at all is publicity from the domain sale. As time goes on those ranking will drop. Vacation.rentals traffic has fallen 95% from a year ago, home.loans is tanking hard as well. Google doesn't want sites like this ranking.

Very similar for those selling new tld domains, peak interest is in the first couple of years after the extension launches, it does not grow over time. If people are not profitable in the first 1-2 years they never will be.

johnnie018 · Feb 19, 2019

oldtimer said:
I like to go with the 80/20 rule which in this case means 80% of the portfolio should consist of .coms , ccTLDs , and other legacy extensions and 20% should be New gTLDs.

That is like saying invest 80% of your money on the NYSE and 20% on the Bolivian Moose Exchange. If the 20% is an obscure investment that nobody uses then you are just gambling the 20%.

92% of the market is .com, less than half of 1% is new tlds, so your investment is skewed badly.

johnnie018 · Feb 19, 2019

Ostrados said:
Even if he has 0 sales what is your point?

He was kind and shared his experience with us, and his guide is 100% correct and is helpful for new gTLD investors, so why are you annoyed by this thread?! I see it as very informative and high quality thread.

BTW I personally prefer to stay away from new gTLDs (I only have 12) because they are very difficult to sell due to the numerous number of options (700+ extensions) available for end user, unless you get rare high quality domains, but those are usually premiums with hefty renewal fees which increases difficulty level even more.

If he has no sales then the advices is garbage! He doesn't know how to "actually sell them" which is what is in the title.

BrandEntrance.com · Feb 19, 2019

Interesting reading.

NameLlama · Feb 19, 2019

Better to have a few really good domains with higher renewals (not too high) than 100 so-so names that renew at $15 to $30 each.
5 x $200 for great phrases
or
50 x $20 for lower quality

But there's so little opportunity that it's not worth your time looking. People who think they have found cheap gems are usually wrong or cannot replicate it often.

Best deal is 100 x $10 for .com.

Kate · Feb 19, 2019

Unfortunately the reported sales figures are skewed by registry sales, meaning that no domainer made a profit.

One example: reported sales for .global (source: Namebio)
Namebio has 416 entries total, but as a guest I can only see the top 100. Maybe someone who has an account can fetch the whole list.

So among the 100 latest reported sales, 97 are registry sales.
The remaining 3 are:

Code:

tourism.global    700    2019-01-28    NamesCon
cheapflights.global    400    2019-01-28    NamesCon
converter.global    3000    2018-05-25    Flippa

This may be an extreme example, but what's left for domainers is the crumbs. Here, 3%.
Again based on a sample of 100 sales out of 416. Maybe the percentage is a bit higher if you look at the whole data but not very encouraging though

Asfas1000 · Feb 20, 2019

Kate said:
Namebio has 416 entries total, but as a guest I can only see the top 100. Maybe someone who has an account can fetch the whole list.

You can find all 416 sales if you break them down by price eg. 0-1,000 , 1001-2000 etc

johnnie018 · Feb 20, 2019

Kate said:
Unfortunately the reported sales figures are skewed by registry sales, meaning that no domainer made a profit.

One example: reported sales for .global (source: Namebio)
Namebio has 416 entries total, but as a guest I can only see the top 100. Maybe someone who has an account can fetch the whole list.

So among the 100 latest reported sales, 97 are registry sales.
The remaining 3 are:

Code:

tourism.global 700 2019-01-28 NamesCon cheapflights.global 400 2019-01-28 NamesCon converter.global 3000 2018-05-25 Flippa

This may be an extreme example, but what's left for domainers is the crumbs. Here, 3%.
Again based on a sample of 100 sales out of 416. Maybe the percentage is a bit higher if you look at the whole data but not very encouraging though

The namescon ones would be registry sales also, so that leaves 1 sale.

Bob Hawkes · Feb 20, 2019

While I have no doubt that what @Kate says is true for Global sales it is because that is one of the few registries that report their sales, or at least all over $1000. Virtually none of the other registries do that. Top report in a sort of ad hoc way many of their significant sales but certainly not all. Radix twice a year report a selection of their higher sales from their 9 extensions, but certainly not all. Almost all of the other report none. Therefore you can't apply the Global numbers as though that applied to all ngTLD sales.

In my series of monthly analysis of ngTLD sales (I know life has intervened and I am a couple of months late) I do make an effort to work out by number and sales volume the ratio registry for that month. It usually is about 20% by number of sales are registry while about 50 to 55% by sales volume are registry (because they dominate the top 10 sales each month).

You can get links to my monthly reports at: (I will add the last couple of months there as well when I do them)
https://domainworld.info/main/ngTLD.html

I only started doing the registry stats at a suggestion of a NPs member so the first few do not have it.

I also in the last number of reports give information on how the sales break down by type of name - i.e. how many 1 word, 2 word, very short, etc. What I found is certainly consistent with the advice that @lolwarrior gives.

Bob

Here are the stats from the last few reports:

month ending Nov 22:
Registries accounted for almost 51% of dollar volume and about 27% of the sales by number this month.

month ending Oct 22:
Registries accounted for almost 64% of dollar volume, but less than 19% by number.

month ending Sept 22:
Registries accounted for just over 40% of the dollar volume of these sales, but less than 10% of the number of sales

Henry Y · Feb 20, 2019

Kate said:
Unfortunately the reported sales figures are skewed by registry sales, meaning that no domainer made a profit.

One example: reported sales for .global (source: Namebio)
Namebio has 416 entries total, but as a guest I can only see the top 100. Maybe someone who has an account can fetch the whole list.

So among the 100 latest reported sales, 97 are registry sales.
The remaining 3 are:

Code:

tourism.global 700 2019-01-28 NamesCon cheapflights.global 400 2019-01-28 NamesCon converter.global 3000 2018-05-25 Flippa

This may be an extreme example, but what's left for domainers is the crumbs. Here, 3%.
Again based on a sample of 100 sales out of 416. Maybe the percentage is a bit higher if you look at the whole data but not very encouraging though

Why just look at .global? I can see from NameBio that the latest 100 .xyz, .app, .chat sales are all from domainers.

It is a selection bias if making conclusion about ngTLDs by just looking at only one ngTLD extension. We should make conclusion based on all ngTLDs.

Henry Y · Feb 20, 2019

johnnie018 said:
These registry sales are not verified by anyone.

All sales are reported after verification. The parties do not report any sales that are not supported by valid sales documents.

johnnie018 said:
How can someone uninvolved in a transaction provide "evidence" that a reported sale is fake?

If you don't have evidence, it is defamation if you say they are fake. You can suspect they are fake, but don't firmly say they are fake. When you have evidence, I am welcome to hear you say they are fake.

johnnie018 said:
The writing though is on the wall,

-Each sale price a few hundred more than the last 500k sale.
-The buyers doing media interviews about the purchases and talking up these tlds.
-2 out of 3 buyers speaking at Namescon.
-No non registry sales anywhere near these levels.

These points are not evidence to show the sales are fake:
1. It may be coincidence. Or it may be that the buyers made purchases or the seller sold domains based on previous similar sales. It is very common that sellers want to sell higher than previous similar sales and buyers don't want to pay much higher than previous similar sales. So the result is next sales are slightly higher than previous sales.
2. The buyers might be invited to have interviews by domain media because the sales were record-breaking ngTLDs sales. It is common for businessmen to attend interviews and events as it is a great chance to promote their business and to gain awareness, especially they are startups. If the buyers bought .com, would they have the interview chance? Obviously no.
3. Same as my point 2.
4. Donuts held lots of extremely great domains. That's why their sales were higher. Some other 6 figures sales were from domainers actually.

johnnie018 said:
Real business people don't go to Namescon after they buy a name, that conference is for people in the domain industry.

Real business people try to attend every event that can gain business awareness and investor's attentions. And I believe the buyers were invited to attend NamesCon because the sales were one of the big items in 2018. You are right that NamesCon is for people in the domain industry, but you should note that the buyers bought the domains, so they have the right to speak in the conference.

johnnie018 said:
Do you believe beauty.cc and fund.com sales also? They sold for 7 figures according to reports.

I believe all sales reported by credible sources. There is a rumor that gay/app was sold for $1 million. I don't believe that sale because it is not verified, and NameBio and DNJournal does not report the sale as well.

johnnie018 · Feb 20, 2019

henrypcyeung said:
Why just look at .global? I can see from NameBio that the latest 100 .xyz, .app, .chat sales are all from domainers.

It is a selection bias if making conclusion about ngTLDs by just looking at only one ngTLD extension. We should make conclusion based on all ngTLDs.

The latest 100? .app only has 13 sales reported, .chat has 9.

.xyz you'd need to go back years to get 100, most of the domainer sales are names going for peanuts, cinema.xyz, $163, designer.xyz $201, car.xyz $255.

johnnie018 · Feb 20, 2019

henrypcyeung said:
All sales are reported after verification. The parties do not report any sales that are not supported by valid sales documents.

Dnjournal and Namebio do not verify these sales, what you are claiming is incorrect.

Henry Y · Feb 20, 2019

johnnie018 said:
The latest 100? .app only has 13 sales reported, .chat has 9.

.xyz you'd need to go back years to get 100, most of the domainer sales are names going for peanuts, cinema.xyz, $163, designer.xyz $201, car.xyz $255.

I mean 100 .xyz, not saying 100 .app and 100 .chat.

Almost all domainer sales, including .com sales, are low ball sales.

Henry Y · Feb 20, 2019

johnnie018 said:
Dnjournal and Namebio do not verify these sales, what you are claiming is incorrect.

@Ron Jackson, the credibility of DNJournal is being challenged by @johnnie018. He said the sales of Online/Casino, Vacation/Rentals and Home/Loans reported in DNJournal were fake and not verified by DNJournal.

Bob Hawkes · Feb 20, 2019

I really like the @oldtimer 80/20 approach clearly outlined above. In conventional investing I believe that it makes sense to make an informed decision re what your ratio of stocks/bonds/cash like/alternative investments should be. Also diversification across regions makes sense in conventional investing.

I see many benefits of some degree of diversification in domain portfolios as well, and one way to do it in a controlled way is to set some ratio and try to keep your portfolio near that. This could be more than just ngTLD and com, and you might want some part of holdings in org, io, co, country codes etc.

Thanks for the excellent suggestion.

Bob

oldtimer · Feb 20, 2019

johnnie018 said:
That is like saying invest 80% of your money on the NYSE and 20% on the Bolivian Moose Exchange. If the 20% is an obscure investment that nobody uses then you are just gambling the 20%.

92% of the market is .com, less than half of 1% is new tlds, so your investment is skewed badly.

It might be a gamble, but it is a calculated gamble based on the fact that most domainers can not afford the true investment grade domains in .com and even though most of the top keywords are reserved or owned by the New gTLD registries, but you can still find some keywords that you could only dream of with .com , it doesn't sound unreasonable to have 20% of your portfolio in New gTLDs incase they take off and surprise everyone and if not it is still an acceptable risk and wont be the end of the world if you choose your domains carefully and don't go overboard registering every domain that you see. And we should not bunch up all New gTLDs together since even though some might be a little obscure and awkwards, but there are also some that are the perfect match for certain keywords that makes them very promising.

I don't believe that it is prudent for you or anyone else to tell others not to register New gTLDs because in all honesty no one really knows what will happen to New gTLDs in a few years either way, as long as people are willing to accept the risks the only thing that you can tell them is to wish them good luck. IMO

Bob Hawkes · Feb 20, 2019

Nice to see a $7000 non-registry sale in second place on the newly released NameBio data (sale at Sedo, 319 days old domain name) 'new' in the video extension. But I thought ngTLDs never sold, or when they do it is always the registries? I must have misread this thread

https://namebio.com/new.video

I have no idea who the seller is, but let's see how it rates with the advice @lolwarrior gives in the beginning of this thread.

Generally a single word - check.
Not competing extensions available. A broad question, but if the application is video, then I guess would check the name with film, but the registry want about $7000 for it, the name in .tv is not available. I did not do a full count but the word new is gone or high premium in most extensions that could infer video even by a stretch. So I would say - check
Large number potential users. I think a definite - check
Don't rush in the first days of availability. This was picked up just under 1000 days after TLD became available - definite check
Make sure your renewals are sustainable. This is a premium with it would appear a renewal of about $40 (did not shop around, may be slightly less some places). That is not low, but not a killer for such a high quality name. I would say (arguably perhaps) - check
Make proper landers. Although this sold through Sedo, it used Undeveloped landers in the past year, among the best imho. So I would say - check
Do not follow the herd. This was not a blockchain, cannabis, etc. name. Good old fashioned generic word with a nice match new TLD. - check
Get a small number of quality names. Not sure how many seller had, but this is definitely quality. I would say - check
Use social media - unknown
Be bold with your pricing - I would say check. $7000 is a very nice price. Some might say it could have gone for even more. I checked for exact word 'new' sales on NameBio and there have been 10, this places 5th on that list. Interestingly the highest price is also a new extension sale, in the .earth TLD, by LegalBrandMarketing within the past year and it would appear also a non-registry sale. It sold for $18,800. The .tv went for $8000, so I would say this went for about the right price.

Congrats @lolwarrior. You score 9 plus one unknown out of 10. A+ work!

Bob

johnnie018 · Feb 20, 2019

Bob Hawkes said:
I really like the @oldtimer 80/20 approach clearly outlined above. In conventional investing I believe that it makes sense to make an informed decision re what your ratio of stocks/bonds/cash like/alternative investments should be. Also diversification across regions makes sense in conventional investing.

I see many benefits of some degree of diversification in domain portfolios as well, and one way to do it in a controlled way is to set some ratio and try to keep your portfolio near that. This could be more than just ngTLD and com, and you might want some part of holdings in org, io, co, country codes etc.

Thanks for the excellent suggestion.

Bob

Making an oversized investment in one type of asset isn't "diversification" (maybe look up the term?). New tlds are less than 1% of the market so 20% is the opposite of spread the risk. If they go down significantly in value (e.g. to zero like .mobi, .biz etc) then domainer will likely make a negative or very poor overall return. What other non .com crap is in the 80% also since it sounds like it includes a bunch of cctlds, .me, .ai, .io, other turd?

3sixty · Feb 20, 2019

I really like the ntld for the aesthetic on some domains (______.Agency > _____Agency.com for example) but how are you pitching outbound?

Sitting and waiting on inbound on a domain extension few are aware of seems an almost impossible waiting game.

I would love to read @Fancy.domains thoughts as he seems to have been very successful with nTLD sales.

@Bob Hawkes , New.Video is resolving to an undeveloped sales page with the domain being listed by Donuts. I am not sure the Sedo sale is accurate.

johnnie018 · Feb 20, 2019

3sixty said:
I really like the ntld for the aesthetic on some domains (______.Agency > _____Agency.com for example) but how are you pitching outbound?

Sitting and waiting on inbound on a domain extension few are aware of seems an almost impossible waiting game.

I would love to read @Fancy.domains thoughts as he seems to have been very successful with nTLD sales.

@Bob Hawkes , New.Video is resolving to an undeveloped sales page with the domain being listed by Donuts. I am not sure the Sedo sale is accurate.

No inbound means a bad domain. Sending spams won't help.

Don't buy domains that you like, it is about what other people like. Liten to the customer, always right.

Brands.International · Feb 20, 2019

Bob Hawkes said:
Nice to see a $7000 non-registry sale in second place on the newly released NameBio data (sale at Sedo, 319 days old domain name) 'new' in the video extension. But I thought ngTLDs never sold, or when they do it is always the registries? I must have misread this thread

https://namebio.com/new.video

I have no idea who the seller is, but let's see how it rates with the advice @lolwarrior gives in the beginning of this thread.

Generally a single word - check.

Not competing extensions available. A broad question, but if the application is video, then I guess would check the name with film, but the registry want about $7000 for it, the name in .tv is not available. I did not do a full count but the word new is gone or high premium in most extensions that could infer video even by a stretch. So I would say - check

Large number potential users. I think a definite - check

Don't rush in the first days of availability. This was picked up just under 1000 days after TLD became available - definite check

Make sure your renewals are sustainable. This is a premium with it would appear a renewal of about $40 (did not shop around, may be slightly less some places). That is not low, but not a killer for such a high quality name. I would say (arguably perhaps) - check

Make proper landers. Although this sold through Sedo, it used Undeveloped landers in the past year, among the best imho. So I would say - check

Do not follow the herd. This was not a blockchain, cannabis, etc. name. Good old fashioned generic word with a nice match new TLD. - check

Get a small number of quality names. Not sure how many seller had, but this is definitely quality. I would say - check

Use social media - unknown

Be bold with your pricing - I would say check. $7000 is a very nice price. Some might say it could have gone for even more. I checked for exact word 'new' sales on NameBio and there have been 10, this places 5th on that list. Interestingly the highest price is also a new extension sale, in the .earth TLD, by LegalBrandMarketing within the past year and it would appear also a non-registry sale. It sold for $18,800. The .tv went for $8000, so I would say this went for about the right price.

Congrats @lolwarrior. You score 9 plus one unknown out of 10. A+ work!

Bob

Cheers Bob, it is appreciated, and one of the reasons the article was created!

Generally I am pleasantly surprised how many people here are seriously discussing new gTLDs at the present time - 2 years ago, situation was very different, discussions were pretty heated. Some people were posting pictures of tombstones with texts like "RIP new gTLDs" or "gTLDs 2014-2016" etc, they were almost hysterically crying "new gTLDs are dead", etc. Exciting times for good debate! Those people now behave in much more civilised manner, and I think most people who are dealing with new gTLDs (at least partially) are now coming to very similar ideas and conclusions, and some general consensus starts to form as of how to approach this investment asset, in a best way possible.

For people like @johnnie018 : I am not going to disclose my sales to you or anyone else. One of many reasons: if I would disclose them, you would not believe it anyway and would call them fake. If I would present my bank statements as supporting evidence (which I would never do, but just for the argument's sake), you would call them fake as well. So you can never be satisfied: if new gTLD investors / registries do not report sales, you conclude they make no sales. If they report new gTLD sales, you call it fake (you just did that directly in this thread several times, with no proof whatsoever...)

My conclusion: new gTLD investors or registries are simply not able to satisfy you in any way possible - I thus truly believe only YOU can satisfy yourself - by your own effort, and results.

GL

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