question Domain registry for sell ever?

[digitalocean1]

is there any news of ever a domain registry being offered for sell?

 

[digitalocean1]

bump up!

 

[bmugford]

New extensions trade hands quite frequently.

There are probably many underperforming extensions available, for the right price at any given time.

Brad

 

[Alessandro Couteau]

is there any news of ever a domain registry being offered for sell?

The fee for the application alone to start your own .extension through ICANN is $175,000 USD ...

The fee to acquire an existing extension varies ... for .health Verisign wanted $25M

https://www.icann.org/en/system/fil...asco-iii-exhibits-a-c-redacted-11dec18-en.pdf

 

[alcy]

he prolly meant registrar

 

[LoveCatchyDomains]

The fee for the application alone to start your own .extension through ICANN is $175,000 USD ...

The fee to acquire an existing extension varies ... for .health Verisign wanted $25M

https://www.icann.org/en/system/fil...asco-iii-exhibits-a-c-redacted-11dec18-en.pdf

Is there really a market now for registries to sell their TLDs? Wow!

 

[digitalocean1]

he prolly meant registrar

Nope, I mean domain registry only

 

[Alessandro Couteau]

Is there really a market now for registries to sell their TLDs? Wow!

Absolutely, it’s one of the reason why my partner and I have invested in some of the most valuable banking keywords that exist

mortgage.loans

easy.credit

e.credit

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https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db

^ more so take a look at this in your spare time, this represents a list of about $500M in application fees, some .extensions are better then others and privately “yes” they do trade at private auctions and private sales ... Verisign alone whom owns .com won and paid $135,000,000 USD to own .web

Interesting huh ?

Verisign also signed a $100M (20) year contract in 1999 for .tv through the island of Tuvalu ... when the contract expired ^ GoDaddy took ownership ...

Welcome to the corporate world of domain trading

Oh one more thing,

Charleston Road Registry is Google

Binky Moon is Tencent

NuDot Co is Verisign

 

[jmcc]

Binky Moon is Donuts/Identity.digital

Frank Schilling sold his Uniregistry new gTLDs. Godaddy has moved into the gTLD business in a big way. Google is still a bit clueless on gTLDs.

There's a lot of consolidation in the new gTLDs. The evaluation fee for the 2012 round of new gTLDs was $185K from what I remember. There are talks about launching a new round of new gTLDs in the next few years but many of the 2012 round are struggling with poor sales and poor renewals. There are some good new gTLDs though and some of the gTLDs targeting the US/EU/AU markets are doing well.

Far from being the licence to print money that some 2012 registries expected, many of the new gTLDs failed to meet expectations. Some resorted to heavy discounting to build their zone files but it is not unusual to see some of those discounters have a >95% replacement of a zone in a year. The theory behind it is simple. The discounted domain names renew at full fee (often a multiple of the .COM regfee) and that small percentage keeps growing the core of the zone each month.

There's a great line from the movie "Rounders" that every domainer should remember: "If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker."

Do your research before investing.

Regards...jmcc