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I am curious - how many people here invest in new gTLDs in 2020?
(invest in new gTLDs means you have at least 1 new gTLD domain name)

And if you can share, how many new gTLD domains do you have at the moment? And does it work for you?

Thanks for sharing :)
 
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Absolutely not. It is a complete waste of money in my opinion.
Yes they're "appealing", "cool", "modern" but people DON'T need them.
I've owned only 1 word domains such absolute club, everything club, replay club, leo one, ok network and many other.
Never receive a single offer/made a sale at sedo.
3 sales in 6 years via afternic ($5k in total and for me is nothing).
I've earned 1 month salary in 6 years with newGTLD.
Look at namebio, dnjournal, the ratio is 99% .com, maybe 1% newGTLD.
Sometimes several weeks passes before we see a newGTLD sale (most of time registry sale, not domainers).
My next step in domain industry is to take $10k and invest ALL in quality com.
Look at @AbdulBasit.com or @TERADOMAIN , they have success but they invest only in quality com.
And I want to do the same.
PS: I could have made more money if I had bought lottery tickets instead of newG. In the worst case scenario, I would have lost 60% of the invested capital, perhaps I would have gone in balance but I would have hardly lost 90% as happened with newG. Stay away from them.
PS2: I am still waiting for the newGTLD succesfull domainer, and I am not talking about selling newGTLD for $500k and have 50k to renew to renew (NET after renewal, commissions and taxes at the end of the year $12k aka $1k per month).
 
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Never invested and don't plan to invest in the future as well.
Totally agree with what @mpls said.
 
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Absolutely not. It is a complete waste of money in my opinion.
Yes they're "appealing", "cool", "modern" but people DON'T need them.
I've owned only 1 word domains such absolute club, everything club, replay club, leo one, ok network and many other.
Never receive a single offer/made a sale at sedo.
3 sales in 6 years via afternic ($5k in total and for me is nothing).
I've earned 1 month salary in 6 years with newGTLD.
Look at namebio, dnjournal, the ratio is 99% .com, maybe 1% newGTLD.
Sometimes several weeks passes before we see a newGTLD sale (most of time registry sale, not domainers).
My next step in domain industry is to take $10k and invest ALL in quality com.
Look at @AbdulBasit.com or @TERADOMAIN , they have success but they invest only in quality com.
And I want to do the same.
PS: I could have made more money if I had bought lottery tickets instead of newG. In the worst case scenario, I would have lost 60% of the invested capital, perhaps I would have gone in balance but I would have hardly lost 90% as happened with newG. Stay away from them.
PS2: I am still waiting for the newGTLD succesfull domainer, and I am not talking about selling newGTLD for $500k and have 50k to renew to renew (NET after renewal, commissions and taxes at the end of the year $12k aka $1k per month).
Thanks for sharing your personal experience with new gTLDs, it is much appreciated!
And I hope the .com investment will work nicely for you :)
 
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Never invested and don't plan to invest in the future as well.
Totally agree with what @mpls said.
I am 100% sure you are doing very well with your current investment strategy, reading about many of your very nice sales. And if that works well for you, no need to change that. IMO. Thanks for sharing :)
 
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new gtlds is not new. anymore. and i am not investing in them
 
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I am not buying any more "new" gtlds anymore (as I buy sorority.shop for $2) but I am getting some 4 figure sales along with several under $1k.

In case someone is still buying, here are some decent ones available (imo).
robotics.camp
snipe.auction
auction.guide
 
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Absolutely not. It is a complete waste of money in my opinion.
Yes they're "appealing", "cool", "modern" but people DON'T need them.
I've owned only 1 word domains such absolute club, everything club, replay club, leo one, ok network and many other.
Never receive a single offer/made a sale at sedo.
3 sales in 6 years via afternic ($5k in total and for me is nothing).
I've earned 1 month salary in 6 years with newGTLD.
Look at namebio, dnjournal, the ratio is 99% .com, maybe 1% newGTLD.
Sometimes several weeks passes before we see a newGTLD sale (most of time registry sale, not domainers).
My next step in domain industry is to take $10k and invest ALL in quality com.
Look at @AbdulBasit.com or @TERADOMAIN , they have success but they invest only in quality com.
And I want to do the same.
PS: I could have made more money if I had bought lottery tickets instead of newG. In the worst case scenario, I would have lost 60% of the invested capital, perhaps I would have gone in balance but I would have hardly lost 90% as happened with newG. Stay away from them.
PS2: I am still waiting for the newGTLD succesfull domainer, and I am not talking about selling newGTLD for $500k and have 50k to renew to renew (NET after renewal, commissions and taxes at the end of the year $12k aka $1k per month).


Everyone has their own strategy. Data is very important behind any strategy.


Never invested and don't plan to invest in the future as well.
Totally agree with what @mpls said.

Agree with my dear friend @AbdulBasit.com . NGTLD is not part of my current plan and most probably won't be in near future. Will stick to quality .com . Try to keep drilling that area to keep improving with time.

Thanks
 
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Every year tens of thousands of high school athletes aspire to one day play professional sports. 99.99% of them will never make it the professional leagues and even the rare exception will only last a few years before injury or the annual new crop of competitors will retire them. A similar fate falls those who aspire to be actors or professional musicians. In any field there are those who will perform better than average but why enter a field with a high failure rate. Domains are speculative to begin with and while most forum members believe in the branding power of domains, the reality is the vast majority of domains used by business were acquired for under $100 - not the five figure sales that attract newbies into domaining. Alternative extensions have a poor track record and the addition of hundreds of competing alternatives does not create scarcity for the domain seller. When an end user can easily find an alternative to an aftermarket domain for under $50, there is no reason to pay a premium price to acquire one. Of course there will be the Michael Jordan and LeBron James of new TLD investing but the majority of such investors will not fare so well.
 
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Short answer; Yeppers!

Nice to see you pop in lolwarrior. Do so more often.
 
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Thanks for sharing your experience so far with new gTLDs Ray.

Star/media is a beautiful name and happy you had a nice sale.

A $15,000 offer for TV/media is pretty low IMO, so no wonder it was not accepted by Mike.

I do like fantasy/media a lot, sounds like a very nice name. Hopefully one day someone can spare 20k - 30k for it!

Nice names :)

Just turned $30,000 on another .media. buyer came up from $12,500 but Mike was not interested, now of course when you are worth tens of millions $30,000 is a rounding error.
 
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@equity78 You may have already shared but what extensions do you see getting the most offers / sales? And yes, it doesn't matter the extension as long as it is a good combination but just wondering.

I'll just say my best selling extension is .work
 
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@equity78 You may have already shared but what extensions do you see getting the most offers / sales? And yes, it doesn't matter the extension as long as it is a good combination but just wondering.

I'll just say my best selling extension is .work

Lately it has been .media. Mike and I both had have offers coming in the past two weeks.

Now I will be the first to say I thought .media would have produced more reported sales and it has not. Now I also did not invest a ton so I am up. But it's nothing to jump and down over.

I only have a small sample size in .life but I had three offers on theater.life.

I think the overall thing when looking at new gtlds is will the juice be worth the squeeze. I certainly was not willing to get really involved like Mike Berkens or Chad Wright or Marek.

But look @DNGear that lady is doing really well in an extension I had no interest in, .xyz, she sold Mesh.xyz for $9,888 today. That's a great sale in my opinion.

If you said to me Exuberance.com will sell on Aug 3 and Mesh.xyz will sell on Aug 4 which will sell higher to an end user. I am pushing all my chips in on Exuberance.com. Mesh.xyz beat it by almost $2,000. DNGear is just on her game.
 
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Lately it has been .media. Mike and I both had have offers coming in the past two weeks.

Now I will be the first to say I thought .media would have produced more reported sales and it has not. Now I also did invest a ton so I am up. But it's nothing to jump and down over.

I only have a small sample size in .life but I had three offers on theater.life.

I think the overall thing when looking at new gtlds is will the juice be worth the squeeze. I certainly was not willing to get really involved like Mike Berkens or Chad Wright or Marek.

But look @DNGear that lady is doing really well in an extension I had no interest in, .xyz, she sold Mesh.xyz for $9,888 today. That's a great sale in my opinion.

If you said to me Exuberance.com will sell on Aug 3 and Mesh.xyz will sell on Aug 4 which will sell higher to an end user. I am pushing all my chips in on Exuberance.com. Mesh.xyz beat it by almost $2,000. DNGear is just on her game.

Thanks for the great reply! I will share one sale I had from 12 months ago but it was on a payment plan that completed this month... we[.]money for $4,888
 
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Thanks for the great reply! I will share one sale I had from 12 months ago but it was on a payment plan that completed this month... we[.]money for $4,888

There is an error that I updated my point was I did NOT invest a ton.
 
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Sure, but I greatly respect your opinion. I also did not get involved as much as the others you mentioned.
 
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@equity78 You may have already shared but what extensions do you see getting the most offers / sales? And yes, it doesn't matter the extension as long as it is a good combination but just wondering.

I'll just say my best selling extension is .work
I totally believe your best selling extension is .work, because you have some very good .work domains afaik :)
 
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I only own 2
NewgTLD.domains
Fintech.Express
the rest I own are all .coms
 
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It would be good if registries waive the premium and reserved names
 
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I was already domaining when .info .biz and .us (yes I know is a cctld) were the new thing. I didn't like any of them so much so I didn't invested a lot, a few thousands in .info that to be honest at the beginning in some niches (geo, med, and few more) were selling in the aftermarket.

It didn't last long. Many loose a lot of money on these extensions. I was also really lucky to hate .mobi, I didn't really understood this extension, I still had a phone without internet at the time, good for me, lol!

When all this new gtld were announced to be released I just thought: "ok good the .com will became even more valuable". I wasn't wrong I guess. But I passed on many good .net and .org thinking that the new extensions at least would be able to compete with them. I was wrong, nothing really changed a lot.

I don't like gtld, too much problems to handle them, is already difficult to sell a .com to the right enduser for the right full price, why invest in something harder to sell?

Anyway I see here people who buy and probably sell all these new extensions with good results, so as the French people say "chapeau"!
 
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It would be good if registries waive the premium and reserved names
It would be good, but we do not live in socialism :)

They had to pay, in some cases tens of millions of dollars just to get the right to operate just one extension. They also have to pay yearly maintenance fees and they have to pay their employees who are actually operating the extension.

So to waive premium and reserved names, so we, domainers are happy, sounds good in theory, but registries are private companies, and they are not charities for us :)
 
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I was already domaining when .info .biz and .us (yes I know is a cctld) were the new thing. I didn't like any of them so much so I didn't invested a lot, a few thousands in .info that to be honest at the beginning in some niches (geo, med, and few more) were selling in the aftermarket.

It didn't last long. Many loose a lot of money on these extensions. I was also really lucky to hate .mobi, I didn't really understood this extension, I still had a phone without internet at the time, good for me, lol!

When all this new gtld were announced to be released I just thought: "ok good the .com will became even more valuable". I wasn't wrong I guess. But I passed on many good .net and .org thinking that the new extensions at least would be able to compete with them. I was wrong, nothing really changed a lot.

I don't like gtld, too much problems to handle them, is already difficult to sell a .com to the right enduser for the right full price, why invest in something harder to sell?

Anyway I see here people who buy and probably sell all this new extensions with good results, so as the French people say "chapeau"!
Thanks for sharing your experience!
And sorry to hear new gTLDs have not delivered better for you.
 
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