discuss .Online Domains - Why 3,634 and counting

[ThatNameGuy]

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 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....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

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 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!

 

[ThatNameGuy]

(shopping.online) is registered in 2019, it's probably not yours because you claimed you've been doing hand-reg for the last 6 months.
(reservations.online) & (learning.online) are not even registered yet. (domains.online) is reserved by the registry.

May I know the best 10 domain names with .online extension you have?

I was just showing examples of a few .online extensions that fit perfectly with the name left of the dot. There's another thread here on NP where I've shared hundreds of my domains for anyone interested. Keep in mind I'm only marketing to "end users" like banks, lawyers, doctors, educators who are transacting more and more business online every day....thanks for your input.

 

[Grego85]

Actually I've been successfully naming businesses etc. all my life, and I'm able to create names/domains cheaper, better and faster than any names I might pick up from any drop list. I guess you would have to see my portfolio to understand. Thanks for the suggestion though.

faster for sure

not cheaper, certainly not better

 

[ThatNameGuy]

faster for sure

not cheaper, certainly not better

at .99 cents for a domain, its not cheaper? You don't know me, but "better" is in the eyes of the beholder

 

[Grego85]

at .99 cents for a domain, its not cheaper? You don't know me, but "better" is in the eyes of the beholder

nope, same as they cost after they drop, the only thing it costs extra is some patience and discipline

I'll put my only dozen or so .99c .online names against your top dozen .online
with 3000+ to choose from and your naming expertise this should be easy bragging rights for you
How about it?

 

[ThatNameGuy]

nope, same as they cost after they drop, the only thing it costs extra is some patience and discipline

I'll put my only dozen or so .99c .online names against your top dozen .online
with 3000+ to choose from and your naming expertise this should be easy bragging rights for you
How about it?

My times way to valuable to screw around with games. It's over a thousand hours of patience and discipline that went into accumulating my "custom" portfolio. Do you even know what a "users group" is and how it works? Do you care?

 

[arjun29]

I want to see a rap battle between the OP and that TOPTOPTOPTOPTOPTOP guy...

 

[Grego85]

My times way to valuable to screw around with games. It's over a thousand hours of patience and discipline that went into accumulating my "custom" portfolio. Do you even know what a "users group" is and how it works? Do you care?

it would take a small fraction of the time you've already spent on all of these .online threads

I know what a "user" group is, I'm not sure why you're incorrectly pluralizing it, but I'm guessing its because of a domain you settled for and are now trying to rationalize.

Since your time is so valuable, go ahead and save it. Settling for wrong uses of plural in domains is nothing new or creative and is a bad idea imo

 

[ThatNameGuy]

it would take a small fraction of the time you've already spent on all of these .online threads

I know what a "user" group is, I'm not sure why you're incorrectly pluralizing it, but I'm guessing its because of a domain you settled for and are now trying to rationalize.

Since your time is so valuable, go ahead and save it. Settling for wrong uses of plural in domains is nothing new or creative and is a bad idea imo

From Wiki

Users' group

Type of club focused on the use of a particular technology

A users' group (also user's group or user group) is a type of club focused on the use of a particular technology, usually (but not always) computer-related.

Then again you seem to be a whole lot smarter then I am so I defer to you

 

[Grego85]

From Wiki

Users' group

Type of club focused on the use of a particular technology

A users' group (also user's group or user group) is a type of club focused on the use of a particular technology, usually (but not always) computer-related.

Then again you seem to be a whole lot smarter then I am so I defer to you

oh ok, its just the much less used and nearly unheard of version. Where does the creative part come in?
Also, that isn't one of your best ones though right?

I dont think I'm smarter, but I believe I have better .online domains than you. (and I'm willing to prove it) Names that were acquired for the same price as yours but without needing to shell out thousands of dollars on so many

 

[ThatNameGuy]

oh ok, its just the much less used and nearly unheard of version. That isn't one of your best ones though right?

Last time I'm messing with you.....just Google "user group" and see what you get

You win

 

[Grego85]

So are they all two word .online domains? Might I even venture to guess there are more 3 words than one word?

and wow, according to namebio not even one "usersgroup" domain has ever sold.. nothing with that string.. not even one... wow, honestly don't think I've ever ran a search that got nothing. Yet, that one out of 3000+ was important enough for you to specifically mention. Not a good sign.

 

[ThatNameGuy]

So are they all two word .online domains? Might I even venture to guess there are more 3 words than one word?

and wow, according to namebio not even one "usersgroup" domain has ever sold.. nothing with that string.. not even one... wow, honestly don't think I've ever ran a search that got nothing. Yet, that one out of 3000+ was important enough for you to specifically mention. Not a good sign.

I wasn't going to mess with you anymore, but I didn't buy UsersGroup.online to sell to anyone, but rather for "users" or buyers of any .online domain to become a member in order to promote the .online extension. Since you claim to own a few .online domains maybe you might want to join our users group?

I trust very few people on a message board who aren't transparent, however if you would like to join the users group I'm starting just reach out to me (the transparent one)

Have a nice evening

 

[Grego85]

I wasn't going to mess with you anymore, but I didn't buy UsersGroup.online to sell to anyone, but rather for "users" or buyers of any .online domain to become a member in order to promote the .online extension. Since you claim to own a few .online domains maybe you might want to join our users group?

I trust very few people on a message board who aren't transparent, however if you would like to join the users group I'm starting just reach out to me (the transparent one)

Have a nice evening

The landing page says it is for sale at only $199 (over-priced imo)

 

[DaveX]

Nothing wrong with a little high risk investing. I will say this though. 3600 domains is quite a big number of domains to sell no matter the extension.

I personally wouldn't go the route of building a team or anything of the sort for that project. It's mostly automated and you can probably contract telemarketers.

Since you've already registered them, I'd say sell them cheap. Super cheap. Turn that $4200 into $20k selling them for $6 each. Sell them on liquidation sites. Even if only half sell at $6, you make 10k.

Anyway, I hope it works out.

 

[Charybdis]

The problem with these exotic extensions is that only domainers or tech savvy people know them
Namescon.online - sure, domainers visit this site, you can use the .online extension.

Other than that, regular customers don't know .online. They think that internet = .com.
Just ask 10 people who are not domainers or tech savvy about this .online extension.

They see an address ending with ".online" and they get confused.

And it screams "I don't have the money to buy a proper .com domain name for my business".

.io is popular, because .io is used by tech companies, where their target market is tech savvy customers, they know that .io is just another domain extension like .com. But people who are not tech savvy might not know this.

But I get your point, maybe in the future .online will be popular.

 

[ThatNameGuy]

Nothing wrong with a little high risk investing. I will say this though. 3600 domains is quite a big number of domains to sell no matter the extension.

I personally wouldn't go the route of building a team or anything of the sort for that project. It's mostly automated and you can probably contract telemarketers.

Since you've already registered them, I'd say sell them cheap. Super cheap. Turn that $4200 into $20k selling them for $6 each. Sell them on liquidation sites. Even if only half sell at $6, you make 10k.

Anyway, I hope it works out.

Thanks Silentptnr....i respect your thoughts and opinions. As a professional realtor I'm sure you know that 99% of all homes are showcased "online". You needn't go any further than to Homes.com to see what I mean. As such you and i both know the residential real estate market is huge and virtually all Geo domains like FloridaHomes.com are either in use, or whoever owns the domain is asking so much the "average" end user just can't afford it. Assuming this is correct, wouldn't you buy FloridaHomes.Online and all 49 other states "if" you could for .99 cents each? How about names like LAHomes.online or MiamiHomes.online?

I just checked and I own 61 xxxxxxHomes.online domains like this. Think risk vs. reward for the $61 I paid for these domains. While I don't intend to sell them for $6 each, i do intend to sell them a whole lot cheaper than their .com equivalents. Make sense?

Anyway, thanks for your input

 

[ThatNameGuy]

The problem with these exotic extensions is that only domainers or tech savvy people know them
Namescon.online - sure, domainers visit this site, you can use the .online extension.

Other than that, regular customers don't know .online. They think that internet = .com.
Just ask 10 people who are not domainers or tech savvy about this .online extension.

They see an address ending with ".online" and they get confused.

And it screams "I don't have the money to buy a proper .com domain name for my business".

.io is popular, because .io is used by tech companies, where their target market is tech savvy customers, they know that .io is just another domain extension like .com. But people who are not tech savvy might not know this.

But I get your point, maybe in the future .online will be popular.

Charybdis....i agree with your point that few end users know the extension .online even exists. You might say that's my problem, but I view it as my opportunity. Online is actually a keyword whereas names like con, net, org etc. are not. A big part of my marketing strategy involves education where I can teach an "end user" that .online is an affordable alternative to the .com, especially when the .com isn't available. I'm sure there are some end users I can convince it's even better than the .com, and i can certainly make the case that Learning.online is better than Learning.com when I get the chance.

Thanks for your input

 

[Charybdis]

Charybdis....i agree with your point that few end users know the extension .online even exists. You might say that's my problem, but I view it as my opportunity. Online is actually a keyword whereas names like con, net, org etc. are not. A big part of my marketing strategy involves education where I can teach an "end user" that .online is an affordable alternative to the .com, especially when the .com isn't available. I'm sure there are some end users I can convince it's even better than the .com, and i can certainly make the case that Learning.online is better than Learning.com when I get the chance.

Thanks for your input

But it's very, very expensive and hard to change your customers' mind and habit.

And aren't you afraid of the upcoming .web extension? I think .web will be better than .online, simply because .web is shorter:
.online: 6 letters, 2 syllables
.web: 3 letters, 1 syllable

But maybe .online is the next big thing, who knows...

 

[ThatNameGuy]

Sorry....my bad

 

[ThatNameGuy]

But it's very, very expensive and hard to change your customers' mind and habit.

And aren't you afraid of the upcoming .web extension? I think .web will be better than .online, simply because .web is shorter:
.online: 6 letters, 2 syllables
.web: 3 letters, 1 syllable

But maybe .online is the next big thing, who knows...

I like .web as well, but it isn't a "keyword" like online is. And what's very very expensive?....a domain that costs me just .99 cents and renews at $29 a year? Somehow I don't think we're communicating about the same thing? Sorry, but I've tried to be very explicit.

Thanks for your comments, and I'll be looking to create a portfolio of .web domains when it becomes available.