new gtlds .blog is available today & the prices are crazy

[Atta]

Hi everyone,

As many of you have already known (from NC newsletter) that .blog is now available. I was one of the persons who rushed to check what is left for registration. To my surprise, none of the keyword, I searched, was under 6 figures yearly price. For example,

WebHosting.blog --> $130,000/yr
Free.blog --> $130,000/yr
website.blog --> $130,000/yr
guide.blog --> $130,000/yr

These are crazy prices. Not sure who is going to purchase these domains at such a high price. In this price, anyone can easily buy one word premium .com instead.

Does anyone of you able to get a good .blog domain at cheap price? This looks impossible to me.

 

[bucky811]

Since content is king, blogs will always have a big role to play, they are far from outdated.

 

[Domainatic]

At some point, they might try to give them away for free in order to bring development and life to the TLD. Without development, TLDs are dead and useless.

I agree..

Who's gonna pay 130k for renewal and that too for a .blog every year.
Oh..the Greed is eating up people's minds..

Need to do some long term thinking

 

[Nattydomain]

only one at reg-fee worth buying
AmateurRadio.blog

Now is MINE
and before anyone asks, I am VK4MU

I was a freebander 27.555 don't hurt me :p

 

[barefoottech]

I agree..

Who's gonna pay 130k for renewal and that too for a .blog every year.
Oh..the Greed is eating up people's minds..

Need to do some long term thinking

They are not 130k for renewal, that is the PRICE to buy a PREMIUM .Blog
Renewal for mine is the same as it's purchase price $24usd

 

[Atta]

They are not 130k for renewal, that is the PRICE to buy a PREMIUM .Blog
Renewal for mine is the same as it's purchase price $24usd

Check again. You didn't buy a premium .blog! So renewal price should be same.

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

I went to goodaddy to see pricing. Searched .blog and it said
Sorry, this domain extension is not available.
?

 

[Atta]

I went to goodaddy to see pricing. Searched .blog and it said
Sorry, this domain extension is not available.
?

It is available at NameCheap.

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

Ya, but i was searching names at daddy and now it says extension not available, which it didnt this morning

 

[Atta]

Ya, but i was searching names at daddy and now it says extension not available, which it didnt this morning

Not sure why. I didn't check at GD.

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

Its working again.
BuyerBeware.Blog

 

[Atta]

Its working again.
BuyerBeware.Blog

lol.. great pick I must say :D Create a landing page and put a bold message "Buyer Beware .Blog Is Not For Blogging" on it :D

 

[CJ6]

Has anyone checked to see if ripoff is taken?

 

[Asfas1000]

Jackpot.blog $139,000 ? lol dilusional !

You can save $19,000 !!! by buying from Dynadot for 120,000

Kidding aside I am not sure Greed is the word to describe the situation.... they have paid a few mil for this extension and the only way to recoup this investmen is by charging high prices.

 

[decode]

Who needs Black Friday or Cyber Monday with 6 figure .blogs available...hours later and I still can't believe these prices.

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

lol.. great pick I must say :D Create a landing page and put a bold message "Buyer Beware .Blog Is Not For Blogging" on it :D

I didn't buy that. I have more important things to do than criticize a stupid overpriced extension.Just stating buyer beware in my warped way.
New numbers are in https://namestat.org/blog. Already 11 sites in alexa top 1 million
Interesting geographic spread, Germany and USA slugging it out for first in # of registrations.
Don't count out the chinese.
And watch those russians too

 

[Name Trader]

I took a look yesterday. Blog will possibly be a successful gTLD. It aught to be with Wordpress behind it. I found nothing interesting available. There are just too many premium reserved domains, and everything below 4 chars. With the price at a tad under $30, and nobody offering any discounts. At these prices, I thought twice about buying my 4L.BLOG. and decided to keep my 4LBLOG.COM instead. At which point I lost interest in actually trying to make any money out of the .BLOG gTLD. 4 times the price of the .com/yr was too much a price to pay, for an, as yet, untested gTLD. Those $30/yr soon add up. No problem, if you already have a profitable blog. But how many blogs are for profit?

 

[daica85]

Those $xxx,xxx price are for premium .blog only, I see the normal price of .blgo is about $18 at GD.

 

[HotKey]

But how many blogs are for profit?

Far and few between. Just as the profit to be made from investing in it. Bloggers blog, they care for the content, more than the headline. If one is taken, they will think of another.

 

[Name Trader]

Those $xxx,xxx price are for premium .blog only, I see the normal price of .blgo is about $18 at GD.

I only checked at DomComp where Uniregistry were $29.88

 

[Corey]

Uniregistry less TopCoins..make it cheaper

Cheers
Corey