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NamePros member @DirkS has requested that I provide an explanation for why I've registered over 3,600 .online domains in the last six months, so here goes;

First and foremost I'm a visionary. I've started dozens of business in my life. I'm 73 years old, and I started my first business while still in college in 1970. Sure I could just be saying this, but if you have doubts I would strongly suggest that you check me out.

Having learned about this industry just over three years ago I've found the .com extension for most new business names to be both unavailable and unaffordable. I've learned that if I were to start a new business today it's unlikely the name I choose for my business would be available or affordable.

Most important, like zip codes and area codes there are literally hundreds/thousands of alternatives, and .Online just so happens to be one of the alternatives. What initially attracted me to the .Online extension was when NamesCon Online (aka NamesCon.com) made the decision to have Radix (aka Radix.online) be a sponsor. Radix then created the domain NamesCon.online to compliment/match NamesCon.com.

When I realized how the .online extension matched up with names like Reservations.online, Shopping.online, Learning.online and Domains.online, I just knew i was on to something:xf.smile: Note that names like Reservations.com, Shopping.com, Learning.com and Domains.com are not only "unavailable", even if they were available, they'd most likely be "unaffordable"

Ironically about the time I noticed the .online extension, Go Daddy and Radix partnered and made .online domains available for a first time annual registration fee of .99 cents, and an annual re-registration of just 49.99 thereafter.

I've spent over a thousand hours in the last six months buying mostly one and two word .online domains, so if you were to add my time to the approximate $4,200 I've paid Go Daddy, I have over $20,000 invested in my portfolio of 3,634 domains.

My critics will say things like, you'll never be able to afford to renew all your domains at 49.99 each to which I have a twofold answer; #1 i don't need to renew a single domain and #2 whose to say the renewal fee isn't negotiable:xf.rolleyes:....as a businessperson I've learned that pretty much everything is negotiable.

Of importance to me is the fact that "if" my .online domains were .com domains my portfolio would be "valued" at over twenty million dollars. Yes, that's $20,000,000 or 20M:xf.smile:

Now is where the rubber meets the road meaning, how do I plan to sell these domains? I just started listing them with the likes of Go Daddy where my current pricing ranges from a low of $199 to $999 and I'm looking to have an annual renewal of $99.....remember, everything is negotiable.

I plan to experiment with financing, leasing/renting and licensing my domains. I also plan to form a "users group" where end users actually have an interest in promoting the .online extension to the world.

Few domains and especially .online domains will sell themselves:xf.frown: Thus I plan on having an "outbound" sales/marketing team who share my vision to make .online both available and affordable.

Finally, I owe a bit of gratitude to the monopoly Verisign for confirming my suspicions about the nature of the .com beast. While the beast is slowly dying, alternative solutions are ready, willing and able to take over.

Thank you!
 
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NamePros member @DirkS has requested that I provide an explanation for why I've registered over 3,600 .online domains in the last six months, so here goes;

First and foremost I'm a visionary. I've started dozens of business in my life. I'm 73 years old, and I started my first business while still in college in 1970. Sure I could just be saying this, but if you have doubts I would strongly suggest that you check me out.

Having learned about this industry just over three years ago I've found the .com extension for most new business names to be both unavailable and unaffordable. I've learned that if I were to start a new business today it's unlikely the name I choose for my business would be available or affordable.

Most important, like zip codes and area codes there are literally hundreds/thousands of alternatives, and .Online just so happens to be one of the alternatives. What initially attracted me to the .Online extension was when NamesCon Online (aka NamesCon.com) made the decision to have Radix (aka Radix.online) be a sponsor. Radix then created the domain NamesCon.online to compliment/match NamesCon.com.

When I realized how the .online extension matched up with names like Reservations.online, Shopping.online, Learning.online and Domains.online, I just knew i was on to something:xf.smile: Note that names like Reservations.com, Shopping.com, Learning.com and Domains.com are not only "unavailable", even if they were available, they'd most likely be "unaffordable"

Ironically about the time I noticed the .online extension, Go Daddy and Radix partnered and made .online domains available for a first time annual registration fee of .99 cents, and an annual re-registration of just 49.99 thereafter.

I've spent over a thousand hours in the last six months buying mostly one and two word .online domains, so if you were to add my time to the approximate $4,200 I've paid Go Daddy, I have over $20,000 invested in my portfolio of 3,634 domains.

My critics will say things like, you'll never be able to afford to renew all your domains at 49.99 each to which I have a twofold answer; #1 i don't need to renew a single domain and #2 whose to say the renewal fee isn't negotiable:xf.rolleyes:....as a businessperson I've learned that pretty much everything is negotiable.

Of importance to me is the fact that "if" my .online domains were .com domains my portfolio would be "valued" at over twenty million dollars. Yes, that's $20,000,000 or 20M:xf.smile:

Now is where the rubber meets the road meaning, how do I plan to sell these domains? I just started listing them with the likes of Go Daddy where my current pricing ranges from a low of $199 to $999 and I'm looking to have an annual renewal of $99.....remember, everything is negotiable.

I plan to experiment with financing, leasing/renting and licensing my domains. I also plan to form a "users group" where end users actually have an interest in promoting the .online extension to the world.

Few domains and especially .online domains will sell themselves:xf.frown: Thus I plan on having an "outbound" sales/marketing team who share my vision to make .online both available and affordable.

Finally, I owe a bit of gratitude to the monopoly Verisign for confirming my suspicions about the nature of the .com beast. While the beast is slowly dying, alternative solutions are ready, willing and able to take over.

Thank you!

The one thing I agree on with this post is the positive association the prefix work can have with the domain extension. Someone recently said of .coin that it was hard to make a case for it, but that's before you put slotmachines, or wishingwell, or casinoslots in front of it. So yes, .online can be a useful extension for some words and/or businesses. However, the big drawback, leaving aside the high renewal fees, is that you never own a .online, just as you never own a .com as both can be cancelled any time at the discretion of ICANN. Which is where .coin, .crypto and other incoming blockchain domain scores the knockout blow.
 
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The one thing I agree on with this post is the positive association the prefix work can have with the domain extension. Someone recently said of .coin that it was hard to make a case for it, but that's before you put slotmachines, or wishingwell, or casinoslots in front of it. So yes, .online can be a useful extension for some words and/or businesses. However, the big drawback, leaving aside the high renewal fees, is that you never own a .online, just as you never own a .com as both can be cancelled any time at the discretion of ICANN. Which is where .coin, .crypto and other incoming blockchain domain scores the knockout blow.
Thanks for the tips punk:xf.wink: I really didn't know what you meant by blockchain domains scoring "the knockout blow", but after a little research i registered the following;

UnstoppableDomains.online
UnstoppableTeam.online and
UnstoppableTalent.com

With regards to the "high renewal fees" for .online. My renewal fee for .online is $29.99, and even that's negotiable. I really fell in love with the non keyword "unstoppable", and since I view myself as unstoppable, I felt the need to register the domain UnstoppableTalent.com because it was both available and affordable. If it wasn't available or affordable, i would have registered UnstoppableTalent.online. And since it's just a buck, I may skip lunch (save $10) and buy it anyway.

Thanks again punk:xf.smile:
 
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Well, my personal opinion is that the pacificwine.com would be similar in price to pacific.wine. I was just noting what I've seen businesses using 10+ years after most of these extensions were released. So I would expect pacificwine.com to sell before pacific.wine if listed at the same price.

But as far as .online, I can see potential as there have been a number of .com sales ending in online in the last 5 years. I just haven't put a lot of thought or research in that area so didn't want to give a real opinion beyond sharing that many businesses seem to add words to the .com to make new options. In these cases there probably isn't any resale value with the .com version anyway as they are just looking for a cheap domain.

I don't have an opinion about .online specifically, but on the topic of nGTLDs, in general, I did lose about $7,000 as well as as losing about $28,000 in opportunity cost because I could have bought .com domains that I statistically know would have sold in the same time period. But I didn't give it a lot of time, so maybe I was bad at it.

I have a few detailed posts here.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/no...ened-by-new-gtlds.1147822/page-2#post-7342190

As investors, we have a tendency to only see what we want ... 5 years ago your statement about seeing only .com would’ve been true, 95% of business’ only knew .com, however in the past year, many businesses’ have had to transition to online, hence we have seen many domain sales even in the pandemic ^

Last year alone, I’ve see “many many” examples of new extensions that are being heavily marketed, and or are making a lot of money and usually when companies make a lot of money, they have a lot of eyes on them, wether it’s media, speculators, or investors and investors usually hang out with other investors,

I wouldn’t bash on someone like TNG who is only making the domain market more valuable for everyone here ... if he wants to own all the .online domains, by all means,

I’m comfortable co owning - easy.credit - when easycredit.com is $26M ^ and I am not even asking $500K for - easy.credit - TNG makes a fair point, valuable .com domains have reached a peak, and the balancing act is based on wether or not a fortune 500 company wants to own the names we horde ... well you cannot have a market with just domain investors trading amongst each other, haha

All that said ^ I thought you may enjoy a few examples of successful GTLDs that are growing the value of your domain investments, wether you know it or not

https://coinflip.tech

https://chain.link

https://yearn.finance

https://polkadot.network

https://green.energy

https://apple.watch
(reroutes to .com)

https://registry.google

https://amazon.shop & https://amazon.store
(reroutes to .com)

https://shop.app
(acquired by Shopify for $200K)

https://the.club
(reroutes to invitedhome.com)

https://vacation.rentals

https://casino.online

https://mortgage.biz
(reroutes to Citi Bank)

https://block.one
(paid $35M for https://voice.com)

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The companies I listed above combined have a market valuation of $1T + ... and in 5 years, some major moves have been made, I expect it will not be long till we see a public seven figure GTLD sale

Maybe more then https://sex.xxx for $3M

So if you’re gonna invest, invest in strong exact match keywords in valuable industries, wether a .com or a GTLD
 
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As investors, we have a tendency to only see what we want ... 5 years ago your statement about seeing only .com would’ve been true, 95% of business’ only knew .com, however in the past year, many businesses’ have had to transition to online, hence we have seen many domain sales even in the pandemic ^

Last year alone, I’ve see “many many” examples of new extensions that are being heavily marketed, and or are making a lot of money and usually when companies make a lot of money, they have a lot of eyes on them, wether it’s media, speculators, or investors and investors usually hang out with other investors,

I wouldn’t bash on someone like TNG who is only making the domain market more valuable for everyone here ... if he wants to own all the .online domains, by all means,

I’m comfortable co owning - easy.credit - when easycredit.com is $26M ^ and I am not even asking $500K for - easy.credit - TNG makes a fair point, valuable .com domains have reached a peak, and the balancing act is based on wether or not a fortune 500 company wants to own the names we horde ... well you cannot have a market with just domain investors trading amongst each other, haha

All that said ^ I thought you may enjoy a few examples of successful GTLDs that are growing the value of your domain investments, wether you know it or not

https://coinflip.tech

https://chain.link

https://yearn.finance

https://polkadot.network

https://green.energy

https://apple.watch
(reroutes to .com)

https://registry.google

https://amazon.shop & https://amazon.store
(reroutes to .com)

https://shop.app
(acquired by Shopify for $200K)

https://the.club
(reroutes to invitedhome.com)

https://vacation.rentals

https://casino.online

https://mortgage.biz
(reroutes to Citi Bank)

https://block.one
(paid $35M for https://voice.com)

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The companies I listed above combined have a market valuation of $1T + ... and in 5 years, some major moves have been made, I expect it will not be long till we see a public seven figure GTLD sale

Maybe more then https://sex.xxx for $3M

So if you’re gonna invest, invest in strong exact match keywords in valuable industries, wether a .com or a GTLD

I agree with some of what you said, but you need to be honest with yourselves and other new gTLD investors. The first of these extensions launched more than 7+ years ago.

At the time all the people jumping in were talking about them being a game changer, paradigm shift, etc. I am pretty sure most of these investors expected far more traction 7+ years later.

.COM certainly was not "AM Radio". It has only become more valuable and in demand since new extensions launched.

If you own top tier terms/combinations an argument can be made for new extensions.

There is no world where marginal two word terms in .online are going to have resale value, in a sea of 1000+ extensions. Without a primary market there is no secondary market.

Brad
 
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It will please you to know that I'll also be sharing Nameworth's appraisal of $29,500 of the .com version, and pointing out the FACT there's zero technical difference between using .com and .online for they're only a means to an end/website

The same argument can be made for .horse or .hiphop, or any other lame domain extension as well.

Brad
 
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Garett....the one thing I do know is unlike .coms, new gTLD's don't sell themselves. Why? Because "end users" simply don't know about them or understand them. A friend of mine owns a multi million dollar specialty sandwich business called "Taste" for which he has a registered TM Taste Unlimited®. Now he does own the domain TasteUnlimited.com (for over 20 years), and guess where it forwards to?....Taste.online

btw, I didn't sell this to him, or even recommend it for that matter. He registered the name in 2015 long before I picked up on it in January of this year. Obviously he would have preferred Taste.com, but 500K was pretty steep even though I know my friend could afford it.

Garett....i've now talked with enough business peers and potential "end users" who think the extension .online is pretty cool, and especially if their business is 100% "online".

extensions like .xyz, .icu, .top and even .com mean absolutely nothing when it comes to a name for a business that's 100% online. However .online is an extension that actually makes sense when you think about it:xf.smile:

If the plan is to have a sales pitch for the domain, then anything is possible. That’s why I didn’t want to get involved in that discussion. Too much unknown for me.
 
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If the plan is to have a sales pitch for the domain, then anything is possible. That’s why I didn’t want to get involved in that discussion. Too much unknown for me.

Bulloney has been talking about what he is going to do for years now. At some point you need to turn business theory into business reality.

Before it was .online it was .homes, .realty, etc.

.Online is just the current flavor of the day.

Brad
 
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I agree with some of what you said, but you need to be honest with yourselves and other new gTLD investors. The first of these extensions launched more than 7+ years ago.

At the time all the people jumping in were talking about them being a game changer, paradigm shift, etc. I am pretty sure most of these investors expected far more traction 7+ years later.

.COM certainly was not "AM Radio". It has only become more valuable and in demand since new extensions launched.

If you own top tier terms/combinations an argument can be made for new extensions.

There is no world where marginal two word terms in .online are going to have resale value, in a sea of 1000+ extensions. Without a primary market there is no secondary market.

Brad

I agree, the keyword(s) have to make sense or the name has no value ... I am not an investor in double keywords, however TNG made a fair point by listing the example,

LifeInsurance.online

That’s a solid double keyword combo, and when comparing LifeInsurance.com ($50M+) name to LifeInsurance.online - there’s a case to be made ^ that if I want to enter the Life Insurance market space online, and I only have a few million to develop w/ then I have another option versus buying a made up name and spending tens of millions to market it as such - similar example to zebra.com being used for “printers, barcode scanners”

Adding to your other point, yes if you’re gonna be an investor in anything, you have to be patient and some investments require more patience then others, the last 7 years we have had a lack of marketing interest; however in just the last few years - crypto has gone up substantially creating 5,000,000 new millionaires during the pandemic, and DeFi has come to fruition,

The whole idea of decentralization has given a lot of praise to supporting new ideas and with new ideas, we have support for new names, new names that have just started to gain traction, albeit a small traction; it is there, and I truly do believe that traction will continue in the same line as we had witnessed .com take ... took 10 years for .com to hit a major sale

That all said, as investors we should not put all our eggs in one basket, it makes sense to invest in a successful market and it makes sense to invest in the growing side of the GTLD market ^ in which the left keyword and right keyword extension match up,
 
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If the plan is to have a sales pitch for the domain, then anything is possible. That’s why I didn’t want to get involved in that discussion. Too much unknown for me.

Well maybe you should acquire NameSeller.com haha / jokes aside

All domains are difficult to sell, they all need a sale plan, if you own a lot of names then you have a higher chance of selling, or if you own priced cheap premium domains then you have a higher chance to sell

But selling domains is not easy, I represented VR.com and brought the owners a $3M offer from HTC directly and the owners declined ;) the name is still for sale and VR doesn’t have quite the hype anymore
 
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The same argument can be made for .horse or .hiphop, or any other lame domain extension as well.

Brad
So CaliforniaWines.Online is equivalent to CaliforniaWines.Horse or CaliforniaWines.HipHop:xf.confused:

I don't know about you Brad, but I could build one hell of a business behind the name "California Wines" using the domain CaliforniaWines.Online. Note, CaliforniaWines.com is for sale at GD, and has been registered/hoarded for well over 20 years....the asking price is $200,000:xf.rolleyes:

Brad...i'm a pretty creative and innovative business guy regardless of what you think, and I don't believe you'd be here trashing my every post unless you thought I might be on to something. Thanks for adding to my credibility:xf.wink:
 
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I agree, the keyword(s) have to make sense or the name has no value ... I am not an investor in double keywords, however TNG made a fair point by listing the example,

LifeInsurance.online

That’s a solid double keyword combo, and when comparing LifeInsurance.com ($50M+) name to LifeInsurance.online - there’s a case to be made ^ that if I want to enter the Life Insurance market space online, and I only have a few million to develop w/ then I have another option versus buying a made up name and spending tens of millions to market it as such - similar example to zebra.com being used for “car insurance”

Adding to your other point, yes if you’re gonna be an investor in anything, you have to be patient and some investments require more patience then others, the last 7 years we have had a lack of marketing interest; however in just the last few years - crypto has gone up substantially creating 5,000,000 new millionaires during the pandemic, and DeFi has come to fruition,

The whole idea of decentralization has given a lot of praise to supporting new ideas and with new ideas, we have support for new names, new names that have just started to gain traction, albeit a small traction; it is there, and I truly do believe that traction will continue in the same line as we had witnessed .com take ... took 10 years for .com to hit a major sale

That all said, as investors we should not put all our eggs in one basket, it makes sense to invest in a successful market and it makes sense to invest in the growing side of the GTLD market ^ in which the left keyword and right keyword extension match up,

Sure there is a small handful of two word terms with high commercial value; terms like "life insurance", "car insurance", "real estate", even top tier geos like "Las Vegas" could be great.

These terms in .com would likely sell for tens of millions.

These are not the quality of two word .online domains that Bulloney has showcased.

Terms like "Pacific Wine" or Unstoppable Domains" in .online are clearly not comparable to these top tier commercial keywords.

Brad
 
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Brad...i'm a pretty creative and innovative business guy regardless of what you think, and I don't believe you'd be here trashing my every post unless you thought I might be on to something. Thanks for adding to my credibility:xf.wink:

You know what would actually build some credibility? Actual results.

Quit talking about it and Make Something Happen.

Brad
 
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Adding to your other point, yes if you’re gonna be an investor in anything, you have to be patient and some investments require more patience then others, the last 7 years we have had a lack of marketing interest; however in just the last few years - crypto has gone up substantially creating 5,000,000 new millionaires during the pandemic, and DeFi has come to fruition

I mean this is factually untrue, and can easily be proven with statistics.

The entire crypto market cap is around 1.4T last time I checked.

Take 1.4T and divide it by $1M (the bare minimum it takes to be a millionaire).

If the crypto holdings were perfectly balanced between all accounts (which they are not) 1.4M is the total maximum people with $1M+.

In reality, the actual number is far less as there is a lot of crypto consolidated in a relatively small number of accounts.

Brad
 
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Sure there is a small handful of two word terms with high commercial value; terms like "life insurance", "car insurance", "real estate", even top tier geos like "Las Vegas" could be great.

These terms in .com would likely sell for tens of millions.

These are not the quality of two word .online domains that Bulloney has showcased.

Terms like "Pacific Wine" or Unstoppable Domains" in .online are clearly not comparable to these top tier commercial keywords.

Brad

But Brad....i do own plenty of two "keyword" domains in .online similar to CaliforniaWines.online where Go Daddy says;

Valuable keyword:
California Wine is a high value keyword that has an average sale of $1,942

Out of the 3,800 .online domains I own at least couple hundred of them fit into this category. Have you not been paying attention?
 
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But Brad....i do own plenty of two "keyword" domains in .online similar to CaliforniaWines.online where Go Daddy says;

Valuable keyword:
California Wine is a high value keyword that has an average sale of $1,942

Out of the 3,800 .online domains I own at least couple hundred of them fit into this category. Have you not been paying attention?

California Wine is great. Napa / Napa Valley Wine is great. Sonoma Wine is great.... in .COM.

These terms are not comparable to life insurance. At least this one is clearly higher quality than many others you posted though.

When are you going to quit talking and start doing? Isn't your slogan "Make Something Happen"?

Maybe your slogan should be "Talk about making something happen".

Brad
 
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I mean this is factually untrue, and can easily be proven with statistics.

The entire crypto market cap is around 1.4T last time I checked.

Take 1.4T and divide it by $1M (the bare minimum it takes to be a millionaire).

If the crypto holdings were perfectly balanced between all accounts (which they are not) 1.4M is the total maximum people with $1M+.

In reality, the actual number is far less as there is a lot of crypto consolidated in a relatively small number of accounts.

Brad

I meant to say there had been 5,000,000 millionaires created in the pandemic, not just from crypto

https://amp.theguardian.com/news/20...d-52m-new-millionaires-in-covid-crisis-report
 
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If the plan is to have a sales pitch for the domain, then anything is possible. That’s why I didn’t want to get involved in that discussion. Too much unknown for me.
"If the plan is to have a sales pitch for the domain, then anything is possible"

Exactly!.....why do you think I'm even in this crazy business. I know I own some great names, but until such time I'm able to get my outbound marketing plan in motion, they're just great names:xf.frown:

AnythingisPossible.Online:xf.grin:
 
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California Wine is great. Napa / Napa Valley Wine is great. Sonoma Wine is great.... in .COM.

These terms are not comparable to life insurance. At least this one is clearly higher quality than many others you posted though.

When are you going to quit talking and start doing? Isn't your slogan "Make Something Happen"?

Maybe your slogan should be "Talk about making something happen".

Brad

Coming from someone who co owns part of a winery, wineries normally use family names or a brand to define their winery

I could see California Wines being used a e-commerce marketplace online for all wines in California and if I was a potential enduser I would certainly look at both options

CaliforniaWines.com

CaliforniaWines.online

Honestly though, If I had a limited budget, I’d go for CaliforniaWines.tv and build a podcast showcasing different wines in California and charging a marketing space fee to retailers and other endusers in the wine space

Anyhow TNG, Brand isn’t picking on you, I think he just finds your way of investing funny, everyone has their own way, some work, some don’t, but if you can sell each of your names for a profit, then it’s a success, right ? I’d focus on high caliber keywords though in valuable industries and would limit two keyword investments to only “the best of the best” like LifeInsurance.online CarInsurance.online etc.
 
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Coming from someone who co owns part of a winery, wineries normally use family names or a brand to define their winery

I could see California Wines being used a e-commerce marketplace online for all wines in California and if I was a potential enduser I would certainly look at both options

CaliforniaWines.com

CaliforniaWines.online

Honestly though, If I had a limited budget, I’d go for CaliforniaWines.tv and build a podcast showcasing different wines in California and charging a marketing space fee to retailers and other endusers in the wine space

Anyhow TNG, Brand isn’t picking on you, I think he just finds your way of investing funny, everyone has their own way, some work, some don’t, but if you can sell each of your names for a profit, then it’s a success, right ? I’d focus on high caliber keywords though in valuable industries and would limit two keyword investments to only “the best of the best” like LifeInsurance.online CarInsurance.online etc.

Ironically I own; TusconyWine(s), SonomaWine(s), NapaWine(s) and CaliforniaWine(s) all online, and those four domains cost a total of $4 and change. You may have heard me say that a friend of mine, the founder of Dollar Tree (stock symbol DLTR) sells wine in their California stores for $1, thus I own DollarWine.Online and i may own DollarWine.com, but I have to check. My point is, wineries in California are going into and out of business daily....enough that they're able to buy tens of thousands of bottles of wine for .30 cents a bottle....it blew my mind when I learned it, but it goes to show "Anything is Possible"

Based on this and my business background, I have an idea/plan for how to best monetize DollarWine.online that adds considerable value.

Thanks for your contribution here Allesandro(y)
 
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Ironically I own; TusconyWine(s), SonomaWine(s), NapaWine(s) and CaliforniaWine(s) all online, and those four domains cost a total of $4 and change. You may have heard me say that a friend of mine, the founder of Dollar Tree (stock symbol DLTR) sells wine in their California stores for $1, thus I own DollarWine.Online and i may own DollarWine.com, but I have to check. My point is, wineries in California are going into and out of business daily....enough that they're able to buy tens of thousands of bottles of wine for .30 cents a bottle....it blew my mind when I learned it, but it goes to show "Anything is Possible"

Based on this and my business background, I have an idea/plan for how to best monetize DollarWine.online that adds considerable value.

Thanks for your contribution here Allesandro(y)

always my man ! I gotta tell you though, drinking $1 bottle of wine is a waste of time

You come over to Italy / Slovenia, will pop open the good shit ;) even got some french bottles lying around here,
 

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always my man ! I gotta tell you though, drinking $1 bottle of wine is a waste of time

You come over to Italy / Slovenia, will pop open the good shit ;) even got some french bottles lying around here,
no doubt you have the good shit stuff Allesandro, but the point I was making is that even some of the $1 wine I'm referring to was pretty good. How so? With almost 5,000 wineries in California, there's at least one going out of business every day with at least a thousand bottles of uncorked or fresh wine. In lieu of the BK court taking them over, they'd sell them to Dollar Tree for 20 to 40 cents per bottle and Dollar Tree would sell them to customers for a buck. I know first hand that some of the Cabs, Merlot's and Shiraz were pretty good, but I never had any of the whites.

Most people don't understand the business model for Dollar Tree, but my friend Macon Brock (considered the Sam Walton of the dollar world) was brilliant. Before he died a few years ago he wrote a book titled, "One Buck at a Time" Macon and his brother-in-law Doug Perry were worth 500M each selling shit stuff for a dollar.

The last thing I'll share is how I'm able to register so many pretty decent/good .online domains. For example, Sedo just came out with their weekly sales report, and one of their domains WarriorTraining.com just sold for $23,399. When I see that I go to work to see if WarriorTraining.online is available? Well it is, but I passed and bought CrossTraining.online and WeightTraining.online instead. Note that our friend Garett from Nameworth appraises WeightTraining.com for $74,500 and CrossTraining.com for $94,500. Furthermore, I just bought/registered these two domains for $2. If none of this makes sense, it's not suppose to, but therein lies the opportunity in my not so humble opinion.
 
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no doubt you have the good shit stuff Allesandro, but the point I was making is that even some of the $1 wine I'm referring to was pretty good. How so? With almost 5,000 wineries in California, there's at least one going out of business every day with at least a thousand bottles of uncorked or fresh wine. In lieu of the BK court taking them over, they'd sell them to Dollar Tree for 20 to 40 cents per bottle and Dollar Tree would sell them to customers for a buck. I know first hand that some of the Cabs, Merlot's and Shiraz were pretty good, but I never had any of the whites.

Most people don't understand the business model for Dollar Tree, but my friend Macon Brock (considered the Sam Walton of the dollar world) was brilliant. Before he died a few years ago he wrote a book titled, "One Buck at a Time" Macon and his brother-in-law Doug Perry were worth 500M each selling shit stuff for a dollar.

The last thing I'll share is how I'm able to register so many pretty decent/good .online domains. For example, Sedo just came out with their weekly sales report, and one of their domains WarriorTraining.com just sold for $23,399. When I see that I go to work to see if WarriorTraining.online is available? Well it is, but I passed and bought CrossTraining.online and WeightTraining.online instead. Note that our friend Garett from Nameworth appraises WeightTraining.com for $74,500 and CrossTraining.com for $94,500. Furthermore, I just bought/registered these two domains for $2. If none of this makes sense, it's not suppose to, but therein lies the opportunity in my not so humble opinion.
I just hope renewals are one buck each.
 
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I just hope renewals are one buck each.

Windoms....please don't be concerned about me. With regards to renewals, the published renewal fee is $29.99, and I know even that is negotiable. My educated guess is if I were to renew at least 500 of my .online domains I could do it for $20 each in which case I'd be paying $10,000 spread out over six months. Why six months? Because I've accumulated my .online names over the last six months.

What you don't seem to understand is that I actually have a plan for how to market industry specific .online domains. Even Garett owner of Nameworth.com who posts here on occasion said, "If the plan is to have a sales pitch for the domain, then anything is possible."

Finally Windoms, thanks for your inspiration:xf.smile: With it i just registered;

ThinkSuccess.online
TeachSuccess.online
LearnSuccess.online

and yes, we have a plan:xf.wink:

 
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What I don't like about new TLDs is that they are mainly used as domaim hacks or domain shorteners.. they are not treated as true extensions by end users.. Like some of the examples mentioned above green.energy & apple.watch, the use is very limited to few names here and there.

On the other hand generic extensions gTLDs & ccTLDs are much more useful, they are not limited and can be used by almost any company. Thats why extensions such as .co .io & .tv have been much better in competing with .com than nTLDs.

My advice to OP see what happens in 6 months:
  • If you succeed : don't renew your remaining .online domains
  • If you fail: don't renew your .online domains

The expensive renewals make your adventure in this extension a 1 year try only.

I don't thing there is a point in keeping top names you have because all were hand reged so I don't think there are names worth holding.. maybe keep only top 5 names.

My 2nd advice is to start investing in .com because it is the only thing that makes money in domaining.

The problem is thar you are trying to avoid .com thinking that there is an easier route.. but believe me cheaper is not easier they are 2 different concepts. I believe .com is the easiest root even if it is more expensive.
 
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