.ONL Does anyone have any? Opinion sought.

[OzWorks]

Hi, I have several .onl domains. I see them as an alternative to .online. Does anyone else have any? What is your opinion of this extension. It is difficult to get much info on as there are few (no) listed sales that I can find. The ones I hold have Epik values of mid to high $x,xxx and one at $xx,xxx. I was speaking to someone who thought the extension may be pretty worthless and the appraisals based on the prefix alone. Would be interested in your feedback. Cheers

 

[GoodKindName]

Hi, Thank you for your thoughtful response. I appreciate your considered approach. I'm in a similar position - the prefixes I hold are brilliant but several have been classified as premium since I bought them and the renewal price on them is hefty. Trying to decide what to do with them. If, as you speculate, it might take some time for the extension to kick off (if it does) the cost of holding them could be untenable. Decisions, decisions

Are you saying that you registered them for standard regfee and they made them premium after that? This is strange. I heard of few cases like this but that's rare. I just checked the renewal prices of my names and they are all standard. How much are renewals of your repriced names now?

 

[OzWorks]

Are you saying that you registered them for standard regfee and they made them premium after that? This is strange. I heard of few cases like this but that's rare. I just checked the renewal prices of my names and they are all standard. How much are renewals of your repriced names now?

Yes, that's exactly what they did. And that's in the context of having advertised the renewals at the same price as the purchase price when I bought them. I've had this experience with numerous domains, including other extensions. I always check the renewal cost when buying a domain so when this happens I'm always aware that the renewal has increased from the advertised renewal cost. It really angers me as it is symptomatic of a largely unregulated industry that engages in all sorts of cowboy practices. I now have several renewals they want over $300 for. By the way, this is what Godaddy says of .onl.....".onl is one of the most often-used search terms, recognized by search engines and people the world over as an abbreviation for “online".

 

[GoodKindName]

Yes, that's exactly what they did. And that's in the context of having advertised the renewals at the same price as the purchase price when I bought them. I've had this experience with numerous domains, including other extensions. I always check the renewal cost when buying a domain so when this happens I'm always aware that the renewal has increased from the advertised renewal cost. It really angers me as it is symptomatic of a largely unregulated industry that engages in all sorts of cowboy practices. I now have several renewals they want over $300 for. By the way, this is what Godaddy says of .onl.....".onl is one of the most often-used search terms, recognized by search engines and people the world over as an abbreviation for “online".

Wow 300 per name is crazy for this extension. This is very unfair what they`ve done with your renewals. It was their job to decide on what's premium and what's not prior to your registration. I heard XYZ registry had also done that which is not cool. Haven't heard of Donuts doing that so far. Anyway, I think .onl registry is shooting themselves in the foot by doing so. That repels people from adopting their extension which is the worst thing for such an unpopular one.

The Godaddy statement is incredible. I'm sure we can think of a few a bit more popular terms than ONL

 

[HotKey]

Yeh that's pretty underhanded to be doing that for active registrations. All the more reason to stay away imo. I've had it happen once or twice with a new G, but no more than a dollar or two, and never have had one made a premium renewal.

I can understand how difficult it might be to let them go but you're probably right:

I wonder if it's just the before the dot prefix that is informing this.

They are probably figuring on targeting end users for themselves but I think the business model of cutting out investors is flawed especially with an extension that falls into a gray zone of adoption.

 

[iAdam]

.Onl y you

 

[OzWorks]

.Onl y you

 

[ShowMeDomains]

I own one, eSportsBetting()onl

 

[OzWorks]

I own one, eSportsBetting()onl

Given the feedback to my question, I remain divided about this extension. I'm planning on holding on to a couple of the good ones and seeing what happens with time. although this extension is not popular now, it just strikes me that ()onl is a far more efficient version of ()online. And, I have to say that, when you have single English word prefixes (as I do) it's seems to be a much better choice than some of the other ridiculous extensions available.