sales For the 2nd Week in a Row a 6-Figure New gTLD Takes the Top Spot on DNJ's Domain Sales Chart

[Ron Jackson]

The new weekly domain sales Report is out at DNJournal.com. The new gTLDs are starting to make some noise in the domain aftermarket. It is still very early in the game but for the second week in a row a new top level domain has taken the top spot on our all extension Top 20 Sales Chart. Just a week after Wine.club topped the elite list at $140,000, another new gTLD climbed to the summit with a $100,000 sale that also ranks as the 4th highest non .com gTLD sale reported so far this year. A second new gTLD reach the top ten. Still, the .coms devoured the lion’s share of the chart entries taking 15 of 20 places overall. You can get all of the details here: http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2015/20150701.htm

 

[enterscope]

These new gTLDs are like Tulips. Just how high are people expecting them to go? I mean... you could register most of these for reg fee just a couple months ago, and now people pay 6 figures?

I'm excited about the gTLDs and see the potential of disrupting the market, but do you really think Google will trade Google.com for some gTLD like Google.Search ?

 

[danimda]

It all depends on what Google decides. If Google changes the way they rank search results, and they will in due time, then there will definitely be a huge market for the gTLDs.

Saying that it doesn't need to be just Google. If another search engine takes over a chunk of the market and they rank search results via the gTLDs then there will be quite a change in the market and once one big boy does it the others will follow. It's only a matter of time. However I don't see the dot com dying out regardless of the outcome.

There is only one dot com for a specific string and the same applies to the gTLDs, there is also only one gTLD for a specific string.

 

[RJ]

Thank you Duke. Top notch reporting as always.

 

[AndyM]

I'm personally not a huge fan of the new gTLDs, but with reports like this coming through it may be time to re-think what I spend my hard earned cash on.

 

[venturefile.com]

It all depends on what Google decides. If Google changes the way they rank search results, and they will in due time, then there will definitely be a huge market for the gTLDs.

Saying that it doesn't need to be just Google. If another search engine takes over a chunk of the market and they rank search results via the gTLDs then there will be quite a change in the market and once one big boy does it the others will follow. It's only a matter of time. However I don't see the dot com dying out regardless of the outcome.

There is only one dot com for a specific string and the same applies to the gTLDs, there is also only one gTLD for a specific string.

Why would GTLDs be ranked higher? Yes they will get equal ranking power to .com (if they don't have it already) but I don't see them getting any special treatment.. Sites rank according to good content and backlinks, the domain is a very small ranking factor.

 

[danimda]

Why would GTLDs be ranked higher? Yes they will get equal ranking power to .com (if they don't have it already) but I don't see them getting any special treatment.. Sites rank according to good content and backlinks, the domain is a very small ranking factor.

They will only be ranked higher when people get used to typing wine.club if they are looking for a wine club instead of wineclub.com. It's more about psychology rather than anything else.

However saying that in my post I never said they would be ranked higher even though there is the possibility down the line.

My personal opinion would be that the internet is split in categories(well it already is). Google.search would be different to Google.email (even though Google have Gmail). So a company/website could be split into multiple sections.

So with sites like Google who obviously would have good spot on content, if I am looking to search the web Google.search is much more relevant than Google.com and if Google wakes up and decides to start selling flowers, and I am looking to buy flowers, then Google.flowers would be the most relevant to me. Saying that Google is a special case since Google applied for its own gTLD. So probably the inverse would be true .i.e. search.google and trends.google.

Again this is just what I am speculating, and to be clear I never said that they would be ranked better than dot coms or that they would be more expensive. I only said that once the algos that rank search are optimized to give weight to the right side of the extension then there would be a much bigger market for the gTLDs.

A relevant gTLD with quality relevant content could and probably will equate to a higher ranking down the line.

 

[Kate]

The problem is that when big new TLD sales occur, the seller is almost always the registry. For the ordinary domainer, that doesn't change a thing.