registrars About Google .page

a single reported sale on namebio :o
status.page for 1200$ 2019-08-03

noneisnone said:

a single reported sale on namebio :o
status.page for 1200$ 2019-08-03

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Google sold 300K+ domains and now in 1st place
2nd place namecheap and just 4K+ domains.
.page is gonna be worth, I guess.

I hope you are aware that .page needs SSL to resolve. Which means that you can't really use most (if not all) of the marketplaces' Nameservers.
Not that it's *that* important but I felt I should let you know in case you didn't already know about that small detail.

One piece of advice though:
try to keep yourself away from two-word domains when investing in any ngtld, no matter how good the keyword term is.
Forex.page or News.page = great. ForexNews.page = not so great.

noneisnone said:

a single reported sale on namebio :o
status.page for 1200$ 2019-08-03

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@Ariff BD @Bob Hawkes

Yes a truly impressive sale. Without specific name, and on payment plan, it won't appear in the official lists until the end of the payments, many years.

As I noted in my social media comments, .page has never deep discounted and has moved steadily in registrations since first released. It is currently the 18th most registered new gTLD according to nTLD stats, with more than 320,000 registrations.

There are few aftermarket sales compared to .app, but I suspect also far fewer being held by investors.

Bob

Hypersot said:

Which means that you can't really use most (if not all) of the marketplaces' Nameservers.

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I assume the marketplace needs to have https on landers to work. I only have a couple .page, which I have at Porkbun. They do work directly with Porkbun for sale landers. They also work forwarded to DAN landers, which I currently am using.

My one .app uses DAN DNS and it works without problem, so presume that would work for .page as well.

Bob

Bob Hawkes said:

Yes a truly impressive sale. Without specific name, and on payment plan, it won't appear in the official lists until the end of the payments, many years.

As I noted in my social media comments, .page has never deep discounted and has moved steadily in registrations since first released. It is currently the 18th most registered new gTLD according to nTLD stats, with more than 320,000 registrations.

There are few aftermarket sales compared to .app, but I suspect also far fewer being held by investors.

Bob

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Hi @Bob Hawkes

The number of domains in the .page TLD zone file (139,142) is more accurate on ntldstats (and DNS Coffee).

There's some inflation in reporting the number of domains, market shares, and rankings, especially by some TLD registries. I think the number of active domains that are present in TLD zone files is the best way to compare "popularity" for domain investors. The number of 320K probably includes expired/non-active/premium names held by the registry.

https://ntldstats.com/tld/page

https://dns.coffee/zones/PAGE

Thanks for information, @Future Sensors
While the two are always different, this seems particularly large for a non-discounted TLD.
Can I ask a question about zone files. The TLDs .app, .page and .dev (perhaps others) are secure spaces requiring a https for the domain to be recognized. Does that mean if I have a .page domain registered, but not set up with a security certificate, that it is not considered in the zone map because of the security requirement on the TLD? If that is right, it would help explain the big difference.
Bob

PS Or is the large difference in registration numbers related to this Google Workspace promotion to let you use a .page domain name for a year with your plan, as I understand it. I only stumbled on this in researching .page just now.

Bob Hawkes said:

Thanks for information, @Future Sensors
While the two are always different, this seems particularly large for a non-discounted TLD.
Can I ask a question about zone files. The TLDs .app, .page and .dev (perhaps others) are secure spaces requiring a https for the domain to be recognized. Does that mean if I have a .page domain registered, but not set up with a security certificate, that it is not considered in the zone map because of the security requirement on the TLD? If that is right, it would help explain the big difference.
Bob

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Having a TLS certificate or not for .app etc, is not relevant on the DNS level. A domain can be registered without a TLS cert, but you will have problems running a website on it, because all major browsers check HSTS Preload lists for domains and TLDs and send you to the secure https version. If there's no TLS certificate, you get an error.

https://hstspreload.org/

Thanks.

Do you have a theory why the big difference in this case? Normally there is a large difference between different registration numbers when there was a big promotion just over a year ago, and many domain names have been dropped from one list but not the other.

To my knowledge .page has never done a major discounting (they did slightly tick down price a bit ago but not limited time promotion), and their registration curve does not show the dips of TLDs with major promotions, so having trouble to see why the numbers are so different. See graph below.

But perhaps the answer is in part of your original note - that unsold premiums may be being counted. I think .page has a lot of low cost premiums, in addition to the higher level ones. I think it is unlikely due to recent deletions, unless something radically different has just started.

Bob

PS For example, I would have thought .dev is comparable, but there the two numbers are only slightly different 255k and 250k. Tagging @jmcc the master of zone files in case he has idea why .page numbers in zone are so much less than registration number.

Bob Hawkes said:

But perhaps the answer is in part of your original note - that unsold premiums may be being counted. I think .page has a lot of low cost premiums, in addition to the higher level ones.

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This

According to the experience of .app, .page has some limitations. This domain name is limited by the suffix meaning.Unless you can get those combinations with special meaning, it's not very optimistic at present.