information Ever wonder what domains you can register with a $1 budget? - Here you go...

[Eric Lyon]

I see thread after thread these days of penny pinching budgets. Some, due to the economy and new members speculating with very little free capital and others, well, just trying to save a buck or two on an extension with a word they like and want to own. Maybe even for novelty purposes.

Regardless of why people look for domains they can register for a full 12-months (year) to see if they can make a profit or not, the reality is, it's true, there are still domains (extensions) that can be registered for less than $1.

There are a lot of different tools that claim to provide up to date registration costs (Not all of them do). Curious myself as to where I might be able to score a new hand registered domain for less than a buck (USD), I decided to sort the tool I use in ccTLD analysis to find the cheapest and most expensive registration costs across multiple registrars.

Here's two screenshots of what I found after going to "All TLDs" and the clicking the "Price" section title to sort from cheapest first.

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At any rate, hopefully that can help with someones shoestring budget.

Keep in mind though, depending on what you register for less than a buck, it still might not resale on the aftermarket. Worst case, you're out a buck, best case, you put a few extra bucks in your pocket.

These are the types of promos that some people leverage to double or triple their investment in a quick-flip strategy (It doesn't work for everyone).

For example:

• Someone might register 20 domains for a $15 investment
• Mark them all up 200% = $45 for the bulk lot of 20 domains - $15 investment = $30 profit
• - or -
• They might sell them individually at $4 each x 20 = $80 total - $15 investment = $65 profit

Obviously, the above is just a hypothetical example and the time it takes to manage 20 domains to get them sold might not be worth your time vs return (Depending on what part of the world you live in and the local economy).

Just figured I would share some of the cheapest registration I came across today.

What you do with that information is up to you.

Remember, at the end of the day, a domain name is truly only worth what a buyer and seller agree on.

What works for one may not work for another and vice versa.

Have a great domain investing adventure!

 

[Acroplex]

Thanks for the list, Eric. It can be an opportunity for investors to turn a small chunk into sizable profits.

Also keep in mind some (cc)TLDs have acquired a bad rep with SpamHaus due to spammers taking advantage of promotional prices.

 

[Eric Lyon]

Thanks for the list, Eric. It can be an opportunity for investors to turn a small chunk into sizable profits.

I remember back in 2009 when I leveraged the Godaddy $0.01 to $0.99 .com promos (Back then, their terms allowed multiple accounts by the same person and some promos allowed up to 5 domains per account) to play the quick-flip game and it's actually what got me addicted to domain investing. It took several hours per day managing it all, but churned $30 to $150 per day average for a while doing it in bulk.

Also keep in mind some (cc)TLDs have acquired a bad rep with SpamHaus due to spammers taking advantage of promotional prices.

Yes, agreed, a spam score or being blacklisted from email servers can devalue a domain name. A good acquisitions team will leverage a spam score to devalue a domain asset substantially since a new start-up may need to clean it up before launching a trusted and authoritative brand on it. More on that can be found here: https://www.namepros.com/threads/wh...ential-value.1351945/?utm_source=namepros.com

 

[Future Sensors]

I remember back in 2009 when I leveraged the Godaddy $0.01 to $0.99 .com promos (Back then, their terms allowed multiple accounts by the same person and some promos allowed up to 5 domains per account) to play the quick-flip game and it's actually what got me addicted to domain investing.

GoDaddy always gets the blame. Even for your addiction.

What's currently your favorite registrar?

 

[Eric Lyon]

GoDaddy always gets the blame. Even for your addiction.

What's currently your favorite registrar?

lol...

2 decades at Godaddy now and they are still my #1 go-to registrar for gTLDs, however, my new favorite registrar for ccTLDs is Netim.

So now days, I group all gTLDs at Godaddy and all ccTLDs at Netim for easy management and discounts.

 

[Hassan Javed]

I see thread after thread these days of penny pinching budgets. Some, due to the economy and new members speculating with very little free capital and others, well, just trying to save a buck or two on an extension with a word they like and want to own. Maybe even for novelty purposes.

Regardless of why people look for domains they can register for a full 12-months (year) to see if they can make a profit or not, the reality is, it's true, there are still domains (extensions) that can be registered for less than $1.

There are a lot of different tools that claim to provide up to date registration costs (Not all of them do). Curious myself as to where I might be able to score a new hand registered domain for less than a buck (USD), I decided to sort the tool I use in ccTLD analysis to find the cheapest and most expensive registration costs across multiple registrars.

Here's two screenshots of what I found after going to "All TLDs" and the clicking the "Price" section title to sort from cheapest first.
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At any rate, hopefully that can help with someones shoestring budget.

Keep in mind though, depending on what you register for less than a buck, it still might not resale on the aftermarket. Worst case, you're out a buck, best case, you put a few extra bucks in your pocket.

These are the types of promos that some people leverage to double or triple their investment in a quick-flip strategy (It doesn't work for everyone).

For example:

• Someone might register 20 domains for a $15 investment
• Mark them all up 200% = $45 for the bulk lot of 20 domains - $15 investment = $30 profit
• - or -
• They might sell them individually at $4 each x 20 = $80 total - $15 investment = $65 profit

Obviously, the above is just a hypothetical example and the time it takes to manage 20 domains to get them sold might not be worth your time vs return (Depending on what part of the world you live in and the local economy).

Just figured I would share some of the cheapest registration I came across today.

What you do with that information is up to you.

Remember, at the end of the day, a domain name is truly only worth what a buyer and seller agree on.

What works for one may not work for another and vice versa.

Have a great domain investing adventure!

Great insight

 

[JB Lions]

You basically have 1 year to sell an off extension before the renewal does you in.

I picked 1 at random the .store at Namecheap, renewal $38.48

And I imagine any decent keyword in all these off extensions have either:
been reserved by the registrar as a premium
picked off by a domainer years ago when they first came out

What's left are keywords nobody wants in an extension that's usually horrible.

Better route is to load up when .coms go on sale at various registrars from $6-$7.

 

[Eric Lyon]

Better route is to load up when .coms go on sale at various registrars from $6-$7.

Though, to be fair, .com has been picked through much longer than most the newer TLDs with promos

Looking at public sales reports, there are clear signs of liquidity in some shorter single-words and 1 to 3-characters in various extensions (not just .com).

While it is true that most premiums have been cherry picked long ago, there are plenty of opportunities still out there in countless extensions for combinations and niches that have demand today or will have demand in the future.

The .com bubble already popped. The horizon is now full of alternate TLD options that are quickly being recognized by consumers and new start-ups.

To be clear, .com is still king and the de-facto go-to extension, however, one shouldn't overlook the potential and supporting data that alternate TLDs are picking up interest daily.

 

[JB Lions]

Though, to be fair, .com has been picked through much longer than most the newer TLDs with promos

Looking at public sales reports, there are clear signs of liquidity in some shorter single-words and 1 to 3-characters in various extensions (not just .com).

While it is true that most premiums have been cherry picked long ago, there are plenty of opportunities still out there in countless extensions for combinations and niches that have demand today or will have demand in the future.

The .com bubble already popped. The horizon is now full of alternate TLD options that are quickly being recognized by consumers and new start-ups.

To be clear, .com is still king and the de-facto go-to extension, however, one shouldn't overlook the potential and supporting data that alternate TLDs are picking up interest daily.

I see the sales reports here, it's usually low single digits all new gltds combined. .com dominates them all.

As far as this:

"Though, to be fair, .com has been picked through much longer than most the newer TLDs with promo"

.com can go with anything. Only a few new gtlds fit that bill.

Most new gtlds are very specific and only certain keywords make sense as a combo, again, the ones usually reserved by the registrars or already snapped up.

And then most of the new gtld sales I see are 1 worders. .com you can go much deeper, so more out there to register.

 

[Eric Lyon]

I see the sales reports here, it's usually low single digits all new gltds combined. .com dominates them all.

As far as this:

"Though, to be fair, .com has been picked through much longer than most the newer TLDs with promo"

.com can go with anything. Only a few new gtlds fit that bill.

Most new gtlds are very specific and only certain keywords make sense as a combo, again, the ones usually reserved by the registrars or already snapped up.

And then most of the new gtld sales I see are 1 worders. .com you can go much deeper, so more out there to register.

Absolutely! .com tends to hold liquidity on a broader scale than other TLDs (in today's world and market).

Though, sometimes, it takes the smaller wins when someone is just starting out to help motivate and propel them into better investments. A $1 (Or less) price point for an investment packs a less devastating loss than a $1k, $10k, etc.. investment that turned out to be a bad one.

These types of promos are a key asset to a beginners trial and error phase to dip their toes in the water before diving in head first.

I think running practice investments at promo pricing to learn how to research niches with potential to invest into is important for the process of becoming a better investor and being able to confidently sink 4 or 5-figures into a domain later, once they have made at least a few small wins and churned some profit they can leverage as reinvestment capital for better domains later.

There's no question that .com is king.

I think we should be looking at these promos more in the light of training potential with micro-investment entry fees and digestible losses for the sake of learning, that won't break the bank as initial mistakes and miscalculations are made.

 

[JB Lions]

These types of promos are a key asset to a beginners trial and error phase to dip their toes in the water before diving in head first.

We'll just have to agree to disagree on this one. Getting newbies into these horrible extensions usually leads to a higher chance of failure, frustration and future Domaining is dead threads.

Good for me tho, keep them away from the .coms. I think newbies should load up on .cyou, it's less than $1.

 

[GoKaizen]

You would have to pay me to take those domain extensions.

 

[Eric Lyon]

We'll just have to agree to disagree on this one. Getting newbies into these horrible extensions usually leads to a higher chance of failure, frustration and future Domaining is dead threads.

Good for me tho, keep them away from the .coms. I think newbies should load up on .cyou, it's less than $1.

You would have to pay me to take those domain extensions.

Die-hard .COMer's. nothing wrong with that.

Everyone does it differently.

Though, there are plenty of five-figure and six-figure acquisition examples in non-com extensions to justify potential outside of the .com space

 

[JB Lions]

Die-hard .COMer's. nothing wrong with that.

Everyone does it differently.

Though, there are plenty of five-figure and six-figure acquisition examples in non-com extensions to justify potential outside of the .com space

From recent less than $1 new gtld hand regs? Not really. I would be interested in seeing such a list, recent less than $1 new gtld hand reg that sold for 6 figures. Maybe there are some outliers out there.

 

[GoKaizen]

Vacation.Rentals is dead.

Many other similar examples.

Though, there are plenty of five-figure and six-figure acquisition examples in non-com extensions to justify potential outside of the .com space

 

[Eric Lyon]

From recent less than $1 new gtld hand regs? Not really

Vacation.Rentals is dead.

Many other similar examples.

There's probably just as many .com examples of $1 regs and dead after acquisitions.

I lost track of all the .com sales reports i come across when evaluating domains of similar combinations in .com for 5 to 6 figures that remained on landers or parked after sales reports 10 to 20 years later.

I don't think there's justifiable data to proclaim all TLDs other than .com being unworthy of investment potential.

 

[GoKaizen]

We had new gTLDs @Eric Lyon.

.info
.biz
.mobi

Hard enough selling good .com domains.

 

[JB Lions]

I don't think there's justifiable data to proclaim all TLDs other than .com being unworthy of investment potential.

The daily sales reports posted here where it’s broken down by extension. Do you have link to those

 

[JB Lions]

The daily sales reports posted here where it’s broken down by extension. Do you have link to those

This is what I’m talking about, look at it - https://www.namepros.com/threads/bysports-com-sold-for-18-995-ccctracker-com-for-18-851.1363611/

gTLDs - 423
New gTLDs - 5
ccTLDs - 49

 

[MarkedMarket]

We had new gTLDs @Eric Lyon.

.info
.biz
.mobi

Hard enough selling good .com domains.

You mention that good .com's are hard to sell, which is confirmed also by the fact that you are selling your whole Premium Atom .com portfolio without any reserve. There is no doubt that .com has competition from repurposed ccTLDs (e.g. .ai), and new GTLDs.

The daily sales reports posted here where it’s broken down by extension. Do you have link to those

Not everything is reported, and it's good to keep in mind that it's also about adoption. End-users do register and use other extensions (and premium GTLD registrations could in some way also count as "sales"). With every new GTLD website, the new extensions get more exposure and become more "normalized".

You basically have 1 year to sell an off extension before the renewal does you in.

I picked 1 at random the .store at Namecheap, renewal $38.48

And I imagine any decent keyword in all these off extensions have either:
been reserved by the registrar as a premium
picked off by a domainer years ago when they first came out

What's left are keywords nobody wants in an extension that's usually horrible.

Better route is to load up when .coms go on sale at various registrars from $6-$7.

You can still register common English dictionary words in various extensions. You can't do that for .com. You can also not get any decent .com's from the aftermarket for less than say $100 USD (many go for over $1000). That amounts to many years of "renewal". Good .com's are expensive to acquire and relatively cheap to hold. New GTLDs are cheap to acquire, but relatively expensive to hold.

My main point would be to keep an "open mind". It's ultimately the "buyer" that decides which domains they buy and with premium .com's often very far our of reach in terms of budgets, many will be looking for alternatives.