Just created and purchased 7 brand new TLDs!!! What are your thoughts?

[Pavlentiy]

As the title says, I have just minted 7 brand new web3.0 TLDs. I have done tremendous amount of research and marinating, to finally pull the plug and purchase the following:

.w3live
.w3tech
.w3shop
.w3online
.w3world
.w3travel
.w3store

These are mine, forever! No transfer fees, no maintenance fees, no annual fees, nothing! What I do have and purchased along with the aforementioned, are royalty rights to each of them. What that means, is - should anyone, at any point in time, wish to create a domain on top, I am entitled to 50% of the domain cost.

The hardest part was trying to figure out what will most likely be desired - web3 vs w3. There is a really good discussion here, on one of the posts, regarding exactly this topic. As I initially thought, 'w3' has the general public's consensus. I, myself, prior to even stumbling upon the aforementioned discussion, have seen numerous 'w3' abbreviations used for in a plethora of domains. Obviously, the length, or the general desire to have TLD's be as short as possible, would naturally dictate w3 to be the winner... however, when searching for the above, I noticed some of the extensions were already purchased for web3 prefixes. Again, those who purchased them, were newbies interested in web3 content, just like me. We will see who wins but I have to say I am absolutely STOKED!!

The extensive research I did, was in regards to the traffic and popularity of the extensions (everything following 'w3') themselves. Everything that you see, is in the top 20 TLDs - meaning every TLD (e.g. .travel, .live, .tech, .online.... etc) was among the top 20 most popular TLDs... Not only that, but there is a service that tracks every single TLD indexed by ICANN and the respective account of each and every domain built in the past year on top of them. Those TLDs are also in the top 20 for most generated domains on top of them.

Anyway.... what do you guys think? By the way (and please take this as a joke, unless of course someone wants to.. because it's meant as a joke and not a shill) if anyone decides to create on top... I'll give them 25%n off, hahhah.

But seriously, as you can tell, I am extremely excited and am interested in your opinions.

 

[Surya Giri Kurniawan]

Handshake Domains, Name Base TLDs, Stopable Domains are minted on Blockchain. While regular domains like .com, .net, .org are hosted in Internet, Domains or TLDs hosted in Blockchain are different. Your domains are consider as assets on Metaverse, and Metaverse is still under development.

There are still concerns about Metaverse :

- Metaverse is on blockchain, and there are alot of blockchains : BTC, Ethereum, EOS, Doge Coin, Solana, etc. Not all blockchain has a bridge to Ethereum or between 2 blockchains. Which blockchain will be well adopted as Metaverse base aren't seen yet.
- Each Blockchain has its on money / Crypto Coin. BTC and Ethereum are the biggest blockchain. But to process Metaverse trades, it is another story from creating a Crypto in a blockchain.
- Internet domains are to masking IP address of a page in internet space. But in blockchain, address are in blocks not IP. So the use of NFT domains are to masking wallet address and block adress on a blockchain.

So we can argue now if the NFT domains are the future or not. As well as we are still waiting if Web will move from Internet to Blockchain or not, or if 10 years later Crypto will be still a trend or Crypto will be prooved as a fail.

But as an investment, buying NFT domains are OK. The same as buying new not popular TLDs like .one, .restaurant, .online, etc. Investment can be a profit or lost investment, in domaining investment is about time. We can't argue if a new domain will make a profit or not.. See .ws and .uno, they are not giving high profit after years of investment.

 

[Amit V]

I got

.cbdc
.agi
.sats

on Decentraweb.org, day before yesterday but am really not sure if its a good investment. Time will tell

 

[Pavlentiy]

I got

.cbdc
.agi
.sats

on Decentraweb.org, day before yesterday but am really not sure if its a good investment. Time will tell

Daaang... how much was the agi and .sats? I mean those are specific but on freename, they each, especially the last two, would cost 29k. .sats might be less but anything 2, 3 letters is 29 grand. I have never even heard of the decentraweb. Gotta check it out. I was really lucky to have got mine.. all for 1200 bucks and i promise in two years, I wont think about letting any go for less than 10 grands. Icann will have mo choice but to start indexing, as decentralization keeps taking over. As to the other post here - yes, who knows... but various blockchains have nothing to do with these domains... these domains are not specific to a particular chain. Meaning.... well, lets take one of mine for example... w3shop... it's now mine... there cannot be w3shop on BSC, or polygon, or ethereum... imaginr the confusion and mis-traffic it would cause. Soooo, in essence, once they start being indexed, we're game. I just hope someone will want to use mine
But again "w3" seems to be the universally adopted abbrv for web3. And even though, technically, we can create as many as we'd like or possible... conformity and pteferen e to standardized tld's will remain. What i mean is, even though someone could create .shopbestshoesintheworld tld... it will alsways be a one off vs the preferred bestshoes.w3shop

At least I hope so

 

[Amit V]

Daaang... how much was the agi and .sats? I mean those are specific but on freename, they each, especially the last two, would cost 29k. .sats might be less but anything 2, 3 letters is 29 grand. I have never even heard of the decentraweb. Gotta check it out. I was really lucky to have got mine.. all for 1200 bucks and i promise in two years, I wont think about letting any go for less than 10 grands. Icann will have mo choice but to start indexing, as decentralization keeps taking over. As to the other post here - yes, who knows... but various blockchains have nothing to do with these domains... these domains are not specific to a particular chain. Meaning.... well, lets take one of mine for example... w3shop... it's now mine... there cannot be w3shop on BSC, or polygon, or ethereum... imaginr the confusion and mis-traffic it would cause. Soooo, in essence, once they start being indexed, we're game. I just hope someone will want to use mine
But again "w3" seems to be the universally adopted abbrv for web3. And even though, technically, we can create as many as we'd like or possible... conformity and pteferen e to standardized tld's will remain. What i mean is, even though someone could create .shopbestshoesintheworld tld... it will alsways be a one off vs the preferred bestshoes.w3shop

At least I hope so

Well in total for all three, around 410€ . I just wanted to try it out. Until the browsers and website possibilities dont improve its all speculation.

 

[DrJacoby]

It seems to be the .mobi of 2023. No value as I see it. Stick with .com would be my advice.

 

[Amit V]

It seems to be the .mobi of 2023. No value as I see it. Stick with .com would be my advice.

I do that but got to try new things out. Just the way I am.

 

[Recons.Com]

I got:

... (it is pronounced as dot dot dot. So, the first dot is the dot and the other two are to the right of the dot).

I am sure it is going to be the next big thing, the dot com killer. I already had Amazon calling. They want to secure amazon... (amazon dot dot dot), but I said I'll let them know when the sunrise pre reg period starts.

Anyway, what do you guys think?

 

[kor]

Rubbish.

 

[Pavlentiy]

I do that but got to try new things out. Just the way I am.

I am with you. Even if it doesn't pan out. I am certain that I will be able to recoup the fraction they all cost, of what any decent .com would cost annually. I'm seeing a lot of crypto projects hosted on domains that are not ICANN managed or listed, yet they do not care. It's coming, that's for certain. But yes... it will be a boom and many will tank.

I do think, however, most do not like chaos and having an endless amount of varying TLDs will not be celebrated as having choice, etc. Just hoping mine will be ones that are somewhat desired.

 

[Pavlentiy]

BTW, I see my first post has earned me a negative impact score... Friendly community here I see

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

Good luck
Ya those invisible downvotes are great way to welcome new people.

 

[VivifyDomains]

As the title says, I have just minted 7 brand new web3.0 TLDs. I have done tremendous amount of research and marinating, to finally pull the plug and purchase the following:

.w3live
.w3tech
.w3shop
.w3online
.w3world
.w3travel
.w3store

These are mine, forever! No transfer fees, no maintenance fees, no annual fees, nothing! What I do have and purchased along with the aforementioned, are royalty rights to each of them. What that means, is - should anyone, at any point in time, wish to create a domain on top, I am entitled to 50% of the domain cost.

The hardest part was trying to figure out what will most likely be desired - web3 vs w3. There is a really good discussion here, on one of the posts, regarding exactly this topic. As I initially thought, 'w3' has the general public's consensus. I, myself, prior to even stumbling upon the aforementioned discussion, have seen numerous 'w3' abbreviations used for in a plethora of domains. Obviously, the length, or the general desire to have TLD's be as short as possible, would naturally dictate w3 to be the winner... however, when searching for the above, I noticed some of the extensions were already purchased for web3 prefixes. Again, those who purchased them, were newbies interested in web3 content, just like me. We will see who wins but I have to say I am absolutely STOKED!!

The extensive research I did, was in regards to the traffic and popularity of the extensions (everything following 'w3') themselves. Everything that you see, is in the top 20 TLDs - meaning every TLD (e.g. .travel, .live, .tech, .online.... etc) was among the top 20 most popular TLDs... Not only that, but there is a service that tracks every single TLD indexed by ICANN and the respective account of each and every domain built in the past year on top of them. Those TLDs are also in the top 20 for most generated domains on top of them.

Anyway.... what do you guys think? By the way (and please take this as a joke, unless of course someone wants to.. because it's meant as a joke and not a shill) if anyone decides to create on top... I'll give them 25%n off, hahhah.

But seriously, as you can tell, I am extremely excited and am interested in your opinions.

Good luck with it mate, interesting idea. Let us know when someone registers one, might look into it as well haha

 

[Pavlentiy]

Good luck with it mate, interesting idea. Let us know when someone registers one, might look into it as well haha

Absolutely bruv... will do!

Over the weekend I will also put them up on Opensea.io to see what (if any) offers they will commend. I'm seeing some really interesting stuff - numeric TLD, representing not sure what, with the last sale price of 5 eth (somewhere around 9 thousand bucks)... insane.

Will let everyone know as soon as there is any movement anywhere.

 

[Pavlentiy]

Sooo, I just came onto a very interesting and bothersome discovery. I was browsing through opensea to get an idea of what TLDs are going for and came up against country TLDs like .au or .mx, or .ru for sale. All created on decentraweb. Hmmm, those are unauthorized and cannot be sold as TLD's as they are managed/owned and belong to countries. Then I decided to check against mine and see that technically they are listed as available and can be minted. WOW!!! Will let you know when I find out more details.

 

[Pavlentiy]

Good luck with it mate, interesting idea. Let us know when someone registers one, might look into it as well haha

So, just got my first royalty for a domain created on .w3online tld... hahaha a few bucks only but... its a start

 

[ryan29]

I don‘t see how any of the blockchain / web3 domains can work out in the long run. Unless ICANN gets on board, and they‘ve historically been resistant, it just doesn’t work in my opinion.

The biggest problem is that with no authority, or regulatory organization, anyone can sell web3 TLDs. You registered w3tech on freename.io, but I can register it on a dozen other blockchains. The value with ICANN domains comes from being the definitive owner of a global namespace. With web3 domains you own one of the broken pieces in a fractured namespace.

ICANN will never let anyone else create TLDs, so the best hope would be for each blockchain to get an ICANN TLD so they can map their domains into the ICANN namespace.

For example, if freename.io had .fns as an ICANN TLD, they could at least turn your TLDs into (ex) w3tech.fns, etc.. That‘s not a great domain, but it’s better than a bunch of competing, fractured domain name systems.

Maybe at some point browsers could support blockchain protocols that could use the ICANN namespaces to identify the blockchain. For example, go.w3tech.fns could be translated to something like w3+fns://go.w3tech.

However, I can’t imagine that ever happening. Google owns registries in the ICANN system, so that’s already a disincentive to helping the use of blockchain domains. Additionally, Google is doing pretty good in the current system (using http), so there’s no reason to start supporting alternate web3 protocols in the browser, right?

Think of it this way…. I can add .com to my Bind9 (DNS) server and sell the rights to it for $1k. Would anyone buy that? Not likely unless the browser supported my alternate DNS root and that‘s never going to happen. Blockchain / web3 domains are the same concept, but with fancy, new buzzwords thrown in.

I’ve registered a single blockchain domain. It’s the .eth version of my main .com. I think they’re the only blockchain that might be able to build some kind of ecosystem and I figured 10 years of registration for $150 was worth spending as a hedge just in case it ever gains traction.

Sorry for the negative sentiment, but that’s the opinion I have on pretty much all blockchain / web3 domains.

 

[Pavlentiy]

I don‘t see how any of the blockchain / web3 domains can work out in the long run. Unless ICANN gets on board, and they‘ve historically been resistant, it just doesn’t work in my opinion.

The biggest problem is that with no authority, or regulatory organization, anyone can sell web3 TLDs. You registered w3tech on freename.io, but I can register it on a dozen other blockchains. The value with ICANN domains comes from being the definitive owner of a global namespace. With web3 domains you own one of the broken pieces in a fractured namespace.

ICANN will never let anyone else create TLDs, so the best hope would be for each blockchain to get an ICANN TLD so they can map their domains into the ICANN namespace.

For example, if freename.io had .fns as an ICANN TLD, they could at least turn your TLDs into (ex) w3tech.fns, etc.. That‘s not a great domain, but it’s better than a bunch of competing, fractured domain name systems.

Maybe at some point browsers could support blockchain protocols that could use the ICANN namespaces to identify the blockchain. For example, go.w3tech.fns could be translated to something like w3+fns://go.w3tech.

However, I can’t imagine that ever happening. Google owns registries in the ICANN system, so that’s already a disincentive to helping the use of blockchain domains. Additionally, Google is doing pretty good in the current system (using http), so there’s no reason to start supporting alternate web3 protocols in the browser, right?

Think of it this way…. I can add .com to my Bind9 (DNS) server and sell the rights to it for $1k. Would anyone buy that? Not likely unless the browser supported my alternate DNS root and that‘s never going to happen. Blockchain / web3 domains are the same concept, but with fancy, new buzzwords thrown in.

I’ve registered a single blockchain domain. It’s the .eth version of my main .com. I think they’re the only blockchain that might be able to build some kind of ecosystem and I figured 10 years of registration for $150 was worth spending as a hedge just in case it ever gains traction.

Sorry for the negative sentiment, but that’s the opinion I have on pretty much all blockchain / web3 domains.

I don‘t see how any of the blockchain / web3 domains can work out in the long run. Unless ICANN gets on board, and they‘ve historically been resistant, it just doesn’t work in my opinion.

The biggest problem is that with no authority, or regulatory organization, anyone can sell web3 TLDs. You registered w3tech on freename.io, but I can register it on a dozen other blockchains. The value with ICANN domains comes from being the definitive owner of a global namespace. With web3 domains you own one of the broken pieces in a fractured namespace.

ICANN will never let anyone else create TLDs, so the best hope would be for each blockchain to get an ICANN TLD so they can map their domains into the ICANN namespace.

For example, if freename.io had .fns as an ICANN TLD, they could at least turn your TLDs into (ex) w3tech.fns, etc.. That‘s not a great domain, but it’s better than a bunch of competing, fractured domain name systems.

Maybe at some point browsers could support blockchain protocols that could use the ICANN namespaces to identify the blockchain. For example, go.w3tech.fns could be translated to something like w3+fns://go.w3tech.

However, I can’t imagine that ever happening. Google owns registries in the ICANN system, so that’s already a disincentive to helping the use of blockchain domains. Additionally, Google is doing pretty good in the current system (using http), so there’s no reason to start supporting alternate web3 protocols in the browser, right?

Think of it this way…. I can add .com to my Bind9 (DNS) server and sell the rights to it for $1k. Would anyone buy that? Not likely unless the browser supported my alternate DNS root and that‘s never going to happen. Blockchain / web3 domains are the same concept, but with fancy, new buzzwords thrown in.

I’ve registered a single blockchain domain. It’s the .eth version of my main .com. I think they’re the only blockchain that might be able to build some kind of ecosystem and I figured 10 years of registration for $150 was worth spending as a hedge just in case it ever gains traction.

Sorry for the negative sentiment, but that’s the opinion I have on pretty much all blockchain / web3 domains.

No buddy, do not apologize. I actually really enjoyed reading your thoughts... truly. Its the - "you're an idiot...web3 sucks... its dying and already died" comments that I absolutely cannot stand. And we can agree that (I am going take a chance and speak for the both of us here, based on your comment) this goes for everything - I abhor statements made out of pure conjecture. Everyone is allowed to their opinions, just not their own facts. So, this is my elaborated way to actually thank you for such a well constructed thought and response.

You very well may be right about a lot of these things. However, I do not see ICANN continuing to matter if they do not get on board. The entire premise of web3 is to circumvent regulatory bodies and centralized entities with a grip on content... this, in essence, was the foundation of many blockchains at least. With everything from cloud services to domains supported by a web of individuals, there is no need for icann. So, my prediction is - despite their apparent hesitancy, should they choose to remain valid, they will be forced into supportive regulation. The question remains - which tlds will they support, which system can regulate a clearly limitless web of tlds. But I think, just as you, yourself mentioned, there will be a solution that will simply convert tlds. Just as you reasoned, today, it is exactly how it works. For example I also own a few .wallet domains. One of them is attached to my web3 crypto wallet. So, instead of typing out a sequence of 30+ random characters, it is translated and attached to cryptoagent007.wallet

The problem I see and myself have already experiences is exactly what you described - multiple registrars issuing the same domains and extensions. Freename will not let you create something that belongs to icann or has a recognition value.. for example i will not be able to create nike.web3 But idiotic, money hungry morrons at decentraweb will. Not only will they, but they have allowed people to create ccTLDs!!! Can you believe that?? A part of me wants to say - "those who minted ans paid for tlds like .uk, .ca, .mx, .online, etc, deserve the rude awakening when ICANN shuts them down and they lose all they spent... should know better than to recreate cctld's or gTLDs already managed by icann" but the problem is that one of my tlds has been minted on there. They mint their on eth chain while freename mints using other chains. Interesting what will happen once they bring in eth chain compatibility, as they currently plan to.

Freename has also launched an extension which allows for surfing web3 domains and tlds. Currently it queries wallets, domains and tlds from unstoppable domains, freename and ENS. Interesting what will happen when someone purchases another ens tlds on decentraweb and is baffled when all traffic goes to me. Soooo - this is a problem, a big one! You are 100% correct and no matter the calls for decentralization, somwthing will have to govern.

Right now, there is a web3 domain alliance that has 51 member registrars. They aim to do exactly that. I believe their policy is to recognize whoever was first to create a particular tld in question.

All in all, very interesting to see how everything plays out. Again, thank you, you have absolutely valid points and fears. I took a thousand dollar gamble and hope it works out

 

[Amit V]

Look , I have .AGI and .ASI Tlds (Ethereum) and companies are falling over themselves to get them. Yesterday I received an 1 eth offer for one of them. I refused. Now being offered partnerships . Not accepted anything as yet.
Same with all of them. First nice, then threats and then again nice.

 

[Pavlentiy]

Look , I have .AGI and .ASI Tlds (Ethereum) and companies are falling over themselves to get them. Yesterday I received an 1 eth offer for one of them. I refused. Now being offered partnerships . Not accepted anything as yet.
Same with all of them. First nice, then threats and then again nice.

niiiiice! Congrats my man. Hoping to at least get some perpetual income for the ones I own. I literally added a w3 prefix to the top 20 and growing tld on .com After seeing that all tech prefers w3 over web3 in their registrars, that is what I went with. Love to see that you are getting traction!