adam.now, david.now and jack.now are more of my sales.
@Pusang Gala a reason "now" is appealing in relation to first names is
now pages which are growing in popularity. A lot of people would love to have a first name domain name but most gTLDs don't really fit with their website, e.g: tim.hair, tim.tours and tim.dentist are all available but aren't relevant to most people called tim. A lot of people search their first name when looking for a domain, so while these domains definitely won't have a high conversion rate (because most individuals aren't prepared to spend more than registration fee on a domain) I think they will probably have a higher than average sell through rate because the volume offsets the reduced conversion rate with the TLD that is a good fit for a personal website.
That said, I did not register these domains to sell. I bought them at launch of .now because I was building a service that provides domains specifically for now pages. I've since moved on from that project, so I am selling the domains. Although the sell through rate is good, and I am in profit, I will not be registering more. The domains I have are the most popular names amongst now page users.
I don't advocate for registering first name .now domains as an investment strategy as that wasn't my intent when registering these domains. Based on my experience so far, it seems like it
might be a good investment strategy, but that's not something I'll be pursuing further, I'm just offloading what I already have, and sharing the information because it's interesting
My updated stats:
| Name | Price | Status | Spaceship Views | Namecheap Search Views |
|---|
| adam.now | $1,000 | Sold | - | - |
| chris.now | $300 | Sold | - | - |
| david.now | $1,000 | Sold | - | - |
| jack.now | $1,000 | Sold | - | - |
| matt.now | $3,995 | Sold | - | - |
| michael.now | $1,000 | Sold (LTO) | - | - |
| will.now | $1,000 | Sold | - | - |
| ben.now | $1,995 | Listed | 21 | 944 |
| dan.now | $1,995 | Listed | 12 | 774 |
| tim.now | $1,995 | Listed | 8 | 737 |
| daniel.now | $1,000 | Listed | 7 | 525 |
| tom.now | $1,995 | Listed | 9 | 525 |
| john.now | $1,000 | Listed | 7 | 473 |
| ryan.now | $1,000 | Listed | 5 | 412 |
| mike.now | $1,000 | Listed | 5 | 405 |
| nick.now | $1,000 | Listed | 1 | 401 |
| paul.now | $1,000 | Listed | 7 | 371 |
| george.now | $1,000 | Listed | 2 | 337 |
| josh.now | $1,000 | Listed | 3 | 331 |
| joe.now | $1,995 | Listed | 3 | 303 |
| simon.now | $1,000 | Listed | 6 | 257 |
| noah.now | $1,000 | Listed | 4 | 251 |
| phil.now | $1,000 | Listed | 2 | 248 |
| dave.now | $1,000 | Listed | 3 | 239 |
| ella.now | $1,000 | Listed | 2 | 224 |
| peter.now | $1,000 | Listed | 1 | 215 |
| julian.now | $1,000 | Listed | 0 | 205 |
| jake.now | $1,000 | Listed | 3 | 204 |
| luke.now | $1,000 | Listed | 7 | 199 |
| andy.now | $1,000 | Listed | 4 | 196 |
| isla.now | $1,000 | Listed | 0 | 196 |
| scott.now | $1,000 | Listed | 2 | 176 |
| olivia.now | $1,000 | Listed | 0 | 162 |
| evan.now | $1,000 | Listed | 7 | 152 |
| greg.now | $1,000 | Listed | 1 | 151 |
| sophia.now | $1,000 | Listed | 0 | 144 |
| harry.now | $1,000 | Listed | 2 | 136 |
| hannah.now | $1,000 | Listed | 1 | 134 |
| chloe.now | $1,000 | Listed | 0 | 128 |
| jamie.now | $1,000 | Listed | 3 | 125 |
| liam.now | $1,000 | Listed | 3 | 118 |
| cory.now | $1,000 | Listed | 1 | 98 |
| nate.now | $1,000 | Listed | 1 | 71 |
| ellie.now | $1,000 | Listed | 0 | 70 |
| amelia.now | $1,000 | Listed | 0 | 68 |
| derek.now | $1,000 | Listed | 1 | 47 |
| zoey.now | $1,000 | Listed | 2 | 21 |
I'm going to experiment with pricing. My current expectation is that the higher views are more likely to sell but we'll see.
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