various CASINO.ONLINE gTLD sold for $201,250 on 2017-03-22 at Sedo

[RamBabuSEO]

Hi Guys,

I just got to know that CASINO.ONLINE gTLD domain sold for $201,250 on 2017-03-22 at Sedo
sales link: https://namebio.com/casino.online

Please share your views on gTLD industries.

I think gTLD truly making its ground slowly slowly towards nice growth.

 

[joro001]

My views are:

This is an incredible sale but please bear in mind this is absolutely one of if not the best .online domains you can buy. I tried to get it when .online was released but of course it wasn't available, which bring me onto my next point.

If domainiq is correct this domain was not sold by a domainer but by the Radix registry themselves as it shows them as being the owner in 2015 and doesn't show any other owner since that date, so unless i'm missing something yet again another massive sale to the registry not the domainer i.e. middle man.

 

[168]

its not about stress... ngtld lovers get excited with this sale.. and ngtld haters (not me) play it down.. all this is only natural...

the neutral people will simply inform you that you cannot take the best possible super premium keyword which is casino and match it perfectly fitting extension which is .online... and then pretend there is some conclusions or connection to be drawn from this top keyword sale and the entire ngtld industry and its future.

in short, whichever way ngtld industry will go in next say 10 years, will have exactly nothing to do with this sale.

cheers

I believe what is more important than the sale itself is : an end user seeing the value in the domain. It also presents better than
CANSINOONLINE. ANY EXTENSION
Happy Hunting

 

[Brands.International]

Great new for all gTLD investors

I am surprised this thread is not yet hijacked by new gTLD haters..what happened?? LOL

.Online is imo in particular one of the best extensions out there

And not true that all good .online terms are in hands of registry -I know many examples of great terms which are in hands of private investors (few of the are here at np), and with standard renewals. The key was to get in early.

 

[ambrose.xu]

i wish radix would reduce the renewal and the premium domains' renewal, they are both killers of .online now

 

[shayan]

It makes me laugh to read comments such as "please note, this sale only happened because it is a super name", trying to put an exception on the gTLDs. But that is just nonsense to raise such an exception. Please note, the use of gTLDs is the only way to create a super name on the internet. Anyone with some education and understanding of linguistics knows the use of gTLDs allow brands for very powerful name combinations, which improve memorability, allowing the name to be easily distinguishable, and equally important, they make search easier for internet users (casinoonline.com or casino.online ?! lol!). I know this is true, you know this is true, end-users know this is true — Let the name combination speak for itself (i.e. Mortgage.Loans, Heart.Surgery, Arabic.Media, OP.Media). If you’re still uncertain if gTLDs is the absolute way for brands, go ask your parents / grandparents / or people who aren’t so invested with the internet, they will even tell you that these names resonate with them. Why? Because they naturally work, they're simple, memorable, and did I already mention.....just damn simple!

The only reason why we have not seen more 6-figure sales with the gTLDs is simply because the market has not responded to the gTLDs yet, but, the environment is slowly changing. For those “investors” and domain community members who continue to be uncertain and disbelieve the gTLD potential, the inability for these "investors" to adapt to new changes speaks for itself, but I would also mention that these "investors" only believe something when they see it -- aka, they won't believe it until sales of gTLDs start pouring in -- and unfortunately, when they see these sales, their opportunity may very well be over for realizing great ROIs. Let it be known that the sale of Casino.Online on 2017-03-22 just increased the market value for gTLDs.

 

[JB Lions]

another "win" for domainers.

What are some of your "wins"?

Another great sale by a registry. These inspire more regs by domainers, another win for the registry.

 

[garptrader]

typical registry sale used to hype the extension and generate a bunch of newbie registrations which will get renewed a couple times and then drop when no buyer appears.

Given what we have seen from some announced registry sales, watch this one carefully over the next few years. Will they really brand their business on a new TLD?

 

[nomen]

♫ Supporters to the left of me, haters to the right
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you ♫

 

[deez007]

.Online is one of my favourites....

There has been some slow butt steady growth with .online sales.

I notice this year there seems to be an increase in German word .online domains sales as well, which is encouraging.

 

[Wass]

Whenever there is a good nGTLD sale, we have the nGTLD haters who start getting stressed...
You will see...

 

[AMRO1001]

I see nothing unexpected, the price might be a deal even

Radix sold this, and this shows registries are the new "Domain Kings"

 

[Brands.International]

typical registry sale used to hype the extension and generate a bunch of newbie registrations which will get renewed a couple times and then drop when no buyer appears.

Given what we have seen from some announced registry sales, watch this one carefully over the next few years. Will they really brand their business on a new TLD?

I totally disagree with this. For many .com investors here, all sales in new gTLDs are 'suspicious', 'used to create hype', manipulated, etc

If there are no sales reported, you say new gTLDs are about to die. If there are reported sales, you can not believe this can actually happen, so it has to be false, manipulated, or at least designed to promote hype.

For .com investors with average portfolios new gTLDs are biggest pain ever. But I guess you should finally get use to it, they are here, and not going anywhere

 

[Casey L]

Great new for all gTLD investors

This wasn't an investor sale, it was a registry sale. This sale further puts nTLD investors behind, because registries will realize that the cream of the crop nTLD domains can have high sales and they'll increase both the amount of domains and the prices in which these domains are premiumly priced.

I am surprised this thread is not yet hijacked by new gTLD haters..what happened?? LOL

.Online is imo in particular one of the best extensions out there

And not true that all good .online terms are in hands of registry -I know many examples of great terms which are in hands of private investors (few of the are here at np), and with standard renewals. The key was to get in early.

No one "hates" nTLDs, and frankly calling people who have different outlooks than you regarding them is incredibly childish. If like you say, people on this forum have names as good as casino.online, I would love to be given them so I can make offers. The disconnect is people think they have names as good as this, which they clearly do not. None of you "got in early" enough to own these domains before the registries released them. I actually have about 2 dozen preorders on nTLD domains, which could certainly have investment potential. The problem is, I originally had around 4 dozen, and as they were released with insane premium pricing and I said no thanks, as will everyone else. Rest assured that no one is getting in early enough to create a stable and steady stream of nTLD investments.

If any of you bothered to look at .online comps, there are only 28 sales. In the top 10, 5 are German words, and another 2 are random 3Ls. The fact that there is no pattern in 99% of nTLD sales makes it pretty obvious that putting money into these names is in no way an "investment", but rather simple speculation.

 

[Wass]

$201,250 yes it's a good sale but for me it's a normal price because Casino.Online is a super domain. The 2 words Casino and Online work very well together...

 

[alcy]

its not about stress... ngtld lovers get excited with this sale.. and ngtld haters (not me) play it down.. all this is only natural...

the neutral people will simply inform you that you cannot take the best possible super premium keyword which is casino and match it perfectly fitting extension which is .online... and then pretend there is some conclusions or connection to be drawn from this top keyword sale and the entire ngtld industry and its future.

in short, whichever way ngtld industry will go in next say 10 years, will have exactly nothing to do with this sale.

cheers

 

[D Haynes]

I must be the only one that doesnt rate casino.online lol. Yeah casino is an excellent keyword but it sounds wrong to me. Surely online.casino is the right way round (dont know if .casino exists). Something like bet.online or gamble.online would be prefferable in my opinion.

 

[Wass]

I must be the only one that doesnt rate casino.online lol. Yeah casino is an excellent keyword but it sounds wrong to me. Surely online.casino is the right way round (dont know if .casino exists). Something like bet.online or gamble.online would be prefferable in my opinion.

yes .Casino exists. (Bitcoin.Casino sold few days ago for $28,000)
Online.Casino is reserved by the Registry...

 

[168]

It may not have resulted in a "windfall for 1 investor" but it does raise the bar for New "G"s in general given an end user placing the value on the domain and not some "expert". This is a windfall for domainers that know a % of sales will go to end users that choose
New "G"s over legacies and it doesn't matter what the reason is.
There are plenty of premium domains not reserved by the registries to invest in.
Surely most would agree those top premium domains would have ended up in the hands of the most connected or wealthy investors anyway not the majority, and certainly not end users without paying a price that few can justify or afford.
As great sales of New "G"s to end users continue the naysayers will have less to whine about another "win" for domainers.
Happy Hunting

 

[equity78]

From DNJournal just released:

Radix, the operator of multiple new top-level domains (gTLDs), has announced the sale of Casino.online to an anonymous buyer for $201,250 in an all-cash deal. The registry made the sale through Sedo, the world’s largest domain marketplace and monetization provider. This is the highest reported price paid to date for a single domain in a new gTLD.

http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/lowdown/2017/dailyposts/20170323.htm

 

[Joseph CA]

That could be the case

As far as i'm concerned this is one of, if not the best .online out there and indeed I tried to get it when .online first came out, but surprise surprise it was unavailable.

Top name, great price is the bottom line.

It looks like Radix sold it if domainiq is correct, can't blame them for holding back the best but from a domaining perspective it is irritating to not have a chance of getting this name in the first place.

How about
Game.Online
Shop.Online
Sell.Online
Shopping.Online
And more... and more

 

[Kate]

OK. You are happy that the registries are making sales, but are you making sales ?
If you don't, then these reported sales mean nothing to your bottom line... See what I mean ?

To put it bluntly: if you're not making sales, not turning a sufficient profit, you do not have the proof of concept to convince the skeptics. Do not expect that experienced domainers will want to copycat you until there is a pattern of success
IMO it is more speculation than investment, the difference between the two is critical but domainers easily confuse the two.

@betthelot is spot on, this is nothing new at all. The script is always the same, only the players are different.

 

[Brands.International]

@dordomai I have almost 1000 new gTLDs in my portfolio and I have not even 1 name where renewal is higher then 35 USD..most of them are actually much cheaper!

So new gTLDs does not necessarily means one need to pay USD 500 renewals..you can, if you like the particular name and have enough money, but you can have also great new gTLD names very cheaply..providing that you at least more less know what you are doing

 

[Wass]

The domain is good.

 

[RamBabuSEO]

wow...who sold it? congrats to seller.

Don't know, but got to know from NameBio while searching something related to "Casino"

It will be updated soon on dnjournal.