.Art Domains

I have furniturem.art available here or on Sedo. The exact phrase gets about 15k searches per month (certain to rise with Christmas coming up) and the phrase is currently contained in 450k searches.

nomen said:

The funniest (and saddest) part of the whole thing is of course that most artists are soooooo poor.

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So Sad So True... Glad I was able to get dustie.art for 9.99. Guess it didn't figure into it's 3.5 million domains worth money.

I do predict that someday .art will realize they are going to be stuck with 3 million domain names that could be promoting the .art TLD if they'd only lower the prices enough that artists could actually afford one. When that time comes, I see .art being one of the favorite domains! There are a lot of starving artists in the world who would love to have a .art domain.TLDs

dordomai said:

it is not only premium it is premium renewal. That means you have to pay it each year.

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If that be the case, there will be many premium domains dropped every year when renewals come through. I give these guys about 3 more years before they realize their plan isn't working at all. The hype helped high premium sales in the beginning, but that bubble has already busted...they just haven't heard the pop yet.

Backorder-ing.com said:

In aporx. 1 year they will relase most of them.No logic here. 3.5 million word that including alomst foreign languge.
Very very stupid, they think will made big money like that LOL

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Nope, didn't happen and they are nearly two years past that prediction. Wish they would though.

At least it looks like GoDaddy is starting to allow some .arts to be listed as Premiums? Well, at least 1 anyway.

Well...and now I've gone and bought dusty.art for 1600.00. I think I have high hopes for the .Art domain! And No, I do not work for .Art!

It's not registered...
But dustie.art was registered on 09 April.

You can register dusty.art at Dynadot for less:
$966.00
Renewal $36.00

(Seriously, don't do it)

Trying to rescind my purchase. It didn't complete with payment so hopefully the registrar, .ART, will cancel my attempted purchase with no problems. I've not heard from them, but it is Easter Sunday so I don't expect word until tomorrow. I still very much like the.ART tld though, and think that someday they will be pretty popular in the art world. They just need to get more reasonable on pricing their "premium" names.

In a year .ART only has just over 50K regs, and has 3.5M "premium" reserved domains.
https://ntldstats.com/tld/art

It is a pretty bad launch IMO.

If they want more traction they need to remove the premium status from about 99% of their reserved domains.

Brad

My FAV is Moz.art

I settle for mo.zart.tech

ALSO

Mo.zart.ICU

Mo.zart.press

Mo.zart.today

U guys want some dart sub domains...

*zart

I've got a cute hack:

B u t t e r t . a r t

(I'm Canadian, and we poop buttertarts)

The renewal @ $10 doesn't bother me.

bmugford said:

In a year .ART only has just over 50K regs, and has 3.5M "premium" reserved domains.
https://ntldstats.com/tld/art

It is a pretty bad launch IMO.

If they want more traction they need to remove the premium status from about 99% of their reserved domains.

Brad

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They failed before they even started

bmugford said:

It is a pretty bad launch IMO.

If they want more traction they need to remove the premium status from about 99% of their reserved domains.

Brad

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I agree that it was a bad launch. However I don't think they need to remove premium status from 99% of their reserved domains. If they just priced them at 150.00 each they'd sell them, make a boat load of money, and for 30.00/pop renewals, continue to make a boatload of money! Even 1/10 of those premium domains at that would make them 45 Million Dollars and 9 Million Dollars a year every year thereafter (If the math is right...I never was very good with math.) I do think that would allow the original investor to recoup his 25 Million dollars just fine! And I don't think 150.00 is anything an artist can't afford, unless they are a pretty bad artist!

Dustie said:

I agree that it was a bad launch. However I don't think they need to remove premium status from 99% of their reserved domains. If they just priced them at 150.00 each they'd sell them, make a boat load of money, and for 30.00/pop renewals, continue to make a boatload of money! Even 1/10 of those premium domains at that would make them 45 Million Dollars and 9 Million Dollars a year every year thereafter (If the math is right...I never was very good with math.) I do think that would allow the original investor to recoup his 25 Million dollars just fine! And I don't think 150.00 is anything an artist can't afford, unless they are a pretty bad artist!

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That would have done them wonders, but hey I guess they'll live and learn. Hopefully they can pivot to a new pricing strategy before it's too late.

otismo said:

My FAV is Moz.art

I settle for mo.zart.tech

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You've got moz.art, but settle for a subdomain in .tech? confused..

Dustie said:

If they just priced them at 150.00 each they'd sell them, make a boat load of money, and for 30.00/pop renewals, continue to make a boatload of money!

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But how many people happily buy domain names priced in that range, especially with so many other extensions to choose from ?
Besides, the most obvious option would be yourname + art + .com, provided that yourname.com is not available.

They wouldn't make a 'boatload of money', since the consumer demand is very limited overall...

Dustie said:

And I don't think 150.00 is anything an artist can't afford, unless they are a pretty bad artist!

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Until recently you didn't even know about the extension. Hurdle number one.

But I think it is crazy that the registry designated 3.5 millions domains as premium. The registry will never attain that kind of volume. So there is a huge inventory that nobody wants and that is overpriced.

Personally I am also worried about the long-term financial health of new extensions. Some are going to go bankrupt and will be retired. It's already happening.

I would never build an online presence on an extension that I am not confident will still exist in five years.

Picasso said :

Good artists copy

Great artists steal

And I am not a good art.ist

I have ZERO

.art domains

Think its a great .ext

Just reg a bunch of .autos

Only game to play, in my not so h.o.

The only reason .art is not well know is that

1. It's less then two years from launch. Of course, domain name people know about and some others "in the know" about his kind of thing.... but it takes time for the common folks to realize it's actually out there...it's all word of mouth, person by person. I'm active both online and locally with my art and didn't know this TLD existed until two weeks ago. Now I do and I'm spreading the word among my artists friends and it will go on from there.

2. They had a really really awful plan to launch with! I believe they did themselves a huge injustice by pricing the common words/name/phrases.art way out of the average Artist, Gallery, Art Store, etc, reach. That was just crazy, and still is. I believe that will change eventually. Hopefully that will be sooner then later.

I've a question...are any of you artists, actually selling art, either online, at a gallery or locally, such as at art and craft shows or Farmer's markets? They are the end users of this domain and world wide there are many millions of us. .Art defines us more then any other domain out there. It tells who we are as soon as you give out your website or your email address. It's exactly that, combined with the the sheer numbers of us, that I believe it will, when more reasonable minds prevail, raise this TLD to a whole new popular level.

To me the question is not if this will happen, but when will that be?

Artists are one of the most adament and subjective professionals in the world. They only choose the domains that can best represent themselves because poorer domains can negatively affect their professionalism and careers. So attractiveness of a domain weighs more than objective factors.

.com in this case may not be the second best option or probably the worst option as they believe "less is more" and hate the redundant part ".com".

.Art can become popular unless some influential artists use the extension and other artists follow suit. However, while it is a good extension for end users, it is currently not a good extension for domain investors due to high cost of premium .art domains.

henrypcyeung said:

However, while it is a good extension for end users, it is currently not a good extension for domain investors.

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You'll get no argument from me about that thought!

Most the good .ART names are totally locked up as Premium Domains and are too expensive already to make any profit on. I have a few that I've bought at GD reg price of 9.99, that I have hopes for when a few folks greed glands receed, but for every one found I had to do a whole heck of a lot of looking. the .ART exchange is not one I'm going to spend a lot of time in now with name investing in mind.

Just reg otismo.art

When I read here

Dustie.art $10.00

But I also reg

otismoart.com



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