.now showcase and discussion

[MiamiDomainer93]

I was able to pick up these two names in the 5th day of EAP for a great price. All the highly targeted keywords like news and porn sold in the 2nd day of EAP for around $3,400 each. Please share any of your .now, and your thoughts on the potential future. For some reason, I prefer this extension to .deal that also is in EAP.

 

[NameGroove]

We’re currently conducting onboarding and OTE testing with the Amazon Registry. Our registry–registrar liaison is expediting the process, and we expect .now domains to be available for registration on our website as early as next week. Thank you for your inquiry and patience.

Any update?

 

[King]

New site was just yesterday and regged and already live as an AI desktop app.

alma.now

 

[Greg123]

Concerning "NOW", let's do some brainstorming on 2 different levels: "Reliability" and "Recognition"

1) Word comparison: Why does Signal prefer to write "White Now" but not "White Fast"? Is "Now" more reliable than "Fast"?

2) Word recognition: Why the brand prefers using "White Now" in English, even in France (and even in other countries around the world), instead of "Blanc Maintenant" in France for example?

 

[nicenic]

Any update?

Thank you for your continued interest and patience
You can now register a .now domain directly on our website.

 

[NameGroove]

Thank you for your continued interest and patience
You can now register a .now domain directly on our website.

Appreciate you adding it

But you may want to double check your pricing. You are literally the most expensive of any registrar offering it.
Maybe there was a currency conversion issue when pricing?

See comparison prices here
https://tldes.com/now

 

[scote]

Hello
What do you think of actress.now and updates.now?
How much them worth and how possibly it would sold?

 

[Velocity.Now]

Hello
What do you think of actress.now and updates.now?
How much them worth and how possibly it would sold?

Of the two I prefer updates, actress is a very limited niche. As .now is new a retail sale in the near future is not something to bet on. Best chance of a sale in the next few years is wholesale. Right now actress is probably worth $50 wholesale. Updates more I think as updates could refer to software or News updates. $100 wholesale.

 

[scote]

Of the two I prefer updates, actress is a very limited niche. As .now is new a retail sale in the near future is not something to bet on. Best chance of a sale in the next few years is wholesale. Right now actress is probably worth $50 wholesale. Updates more I think as updates could refer to software or News updates. $100 wholesale.

Thank you! Do you think end with 'ing' also good?

 

[Velocity.Now]

Thank you! Do you think end with 'ing' also good?

You me the GTLD .ing or words ending in ing ?

 

[love4ever]

helpme .now / Active web for behavioral /rehab/mental support group .

.

 

[nicenic]

Appreciate you adding it

But you may want to double check your pricing. You are literally the most expensive of any registrar offering it.
Maybe there was a currency conversion issue when pricing?

See comparison prices here
https://tldes.com/now

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Oops, our bad, we totally messed up the exchange rate
But no worries, it’s all fixed now! Thanks for catching that for us!

 

[NameGroove]

Oops, our bad, we totally messed up the exchange rate
But no worries, it’s all fixed now! Thanks for catching that for us!

Glad to see you've updated the new registration price. Perhaps you also need to update renewals? Usually regs and renewals aren't so different (guessing the currency conversion issue wasn't updated for renewals)

 

[Aleksi]

First, no one is suggesting any gTLD (or cc TLD) will replace .com.
Second, .com is quite US centric. Many ccTLDs, for example, are actually more popular than .com in their home country. I see you're from Canada, and obv .ca is ubiquitous there.

What some suggest (including me) is that certain select gTLDs (and cc TLDs) can co-exist in a lane alongside .com.
.org for example has carved out quite a lane in non-profits and healthcare. It lives successfully in that lane. People don't post "well, .org is dead and has no life since it can't replace .com". It is not necessary for it to replace .com. It has its own lane.

Obv .ai and .io have carved out lanes and .xyz seems to be carving out a unique lane in crypto & blockchain.

My thesis is that .now can also carve out a successful lane. Unlike many other gTLDs it is broad, timely, & 3 characters and 1 syllable. It strongly leans into things people want now. Such as News (which is why 3 media companies switched to .now early on). But news is only one category of timeliness. There are many more.

It goes without saying people want more than "now". They, as you said, want dependability, and many other adjectives alongside. But that does not reduce .now's impact, it strengthens it. For those companies providing dependable products & services alongside timeliness - .now fits quite well. Better, I'd argue, than .com solely when looking at the 2 words side by side. Obv because .com started 30 years ago it has become ubiquitous but there is nothing inherent in it's structure that makes it so. The abbrev for company (com) simply does not have the powerful resonance as now. Over time, in its lane, I believe .now will carve out quite a lane for itself due to that reason (and many add'l reasons such as the fact that single dictionary coms are mostly in use or priced out of reach of 99% of businesses). So, for most, the choice becomes a com mashup, hyphens, numbers. misspellings, etc., vs a short dictionary .now.

it is not so simple to say a gTLD can't replace com so it is dead in the water. There is incredible nuance beyond your thesis. Further, solely within com, I'd suggest the bulk of people's com folios, which include mashups. hyphens, numbers, misspellings, etc are "dead in the water" as well.

com leads because it was first, not because it is best.

It has a moat due to time, but that moat is slowly and inevitably being whittled away.

Good post! I totally agree with you, but .net was the first.

In the early days of the Internet, users were mainly from research and academic world and the attitude towards commercial users was negative. E.g. you were looked down upon, if you sent an email from a .com domain. Also Jon Postel (the God of the Internet) tried to prevent commercial entities from gaining too much power and registered all remaining single-character .com domains.

.com became popular because it had the fewest restrictions on who could register one. Also .us had such stupid restrictions that it made .com as the de facto country code for the United States.

As a interesting detail, this attitude from the early days of the Internet can still be found today. There is a one small registrar whose legendary owner developed one of the most important services of the early days of the Internet, but he really doesn't want or care to be seen. The real kings of life can be found somewhere other than the X.com.

I'm not saying I agree or disagree, but he certainly doesn't believe any of those.

We all know that Mike Mann is the AliExpress version of Rick Schwartz in the .com world (quantity over quality). I wouldn't ask his opinion on the new gTLDs. Instead, it would be interesting to hear the opinion of a successful new gTLD investor. Check out this post from the thread "I was shocked to see .ME sales".

I did well with .me domain sales between 2008-2013
probably spent about 150 k on premium one word domains - sold about 850 k - 1 million usd worth in sales - and i believe all were acquired by end-users

i recently received an offer of 5 k on afternic on a .me that i had forgotten to renew, and i dropped one last year that was picked up by a company from india that uses .me as its main site and it scored 55 million usd in funding recently

i still have at least 50 premium one word .me domains that are taken in 300 extensions or more

not many offers, as between 2008-2014...

well, lowball offers from domainers, but i'd rather donate them than sell a domain that i paid 7500 usd in 2008 as a tax write off than sell to a domainer seeking a flip and 10-20% ROI

but that's .me

Everything has a lane. Some lanes are broader than others. But there is nothing inherently wrong with a 4 character TLD. .tech sells plus raises funds from VCs. So does .health and others. Of course, in domaining, shorter is generally better.

.info was also quite ok in the early 2000s.

 

[love4ever]

sinema .now / Turkish web for movies .

.

 

[love4ever]

Guys, DonaldTrump .now expired and nobody wanted him for $130 wholesale !
Why like this ? He is a good guy, And want to make peace around the world !

.

 

[alop]

Guys, DonaldTrump .now expired and nobody wanted him for $130 wholesale !
Why like this ? He is a good guy, And want to make peace around the world !


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he gonna come and sue for billions and billions

 

[NameGroove]

sinema .now / Turkish web for movies .
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This is a nice find, as they left the ccTLD to use .now. The .cc forwards to .now (

It is quite small though, the owners email is gmail and he neglected to change the logo (although it has only been live for <3 days, so perhaps he's working on it).

Still, .now leapfrogged the shorter ccTLD which is notable

 

[scote]

You me the GTLD .ing or words ending in ing ?

.now end with 'ing'
like updating.now discussing.now?
Which kind of .now worth more in your opinion?
Verb, noun, adj etc...
Let discuss together

 

[NameGroove]

Two more ICANN registrars joined in (TLDes does not list all registrars and is missing 11 registrars who sell .now)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1997735590096486660

 

[nicenic]

Glad to see you've updated the new registration price. Perhaps you also need to update renewals? Usually regs and renewals aren't so different (guessing the currency conversion issue wasn't updated for renewals)

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Thanks for pointing it out, and for taking the time to compare the numbers.

For renewals, we don’t always sync prices 1:1 with new registrations, because registry fees, FX rates and our own cost structure can change at different times, and we try to avoid changing renewal fees too frequently for existing users. Instead, we focus on keeping renewals as stable and predictable as we can, while making sure the domains themselves stay safe, managed properly, and supported by a real team you can reach when something goes wrong.