.online .online nGTLD

[bluebox]

What are your thoughts on .online domains?
It's very generic and not as ugly as .xyz for example, so that's a plus - but perhaps a little too long to have any success...
Plus most good names are either unavailable or premium...

 

[000]

Care to share any of these gems?

 

[Grego85]

the drops from last year are even better

 

[brindle123]

Care to share any of these gems?

I would love to put up a list of all the stuff I've snagged but it would give away my strategy. Plus I'm still looking. It's not any one niche that I'm finding stuff in.

I'm a little more secretive about what I'm doing and buying then most people on here. Everyone puts up every domain they buy and it gives away ideas to others who then swoop in and buy domains based on your purchase. I've done it and others have done it to me when I list something on here.

But I will tell you that they were single keyword category killers. They go great with the extension too!

the drops from last year are even better

Picking up the drops, you have to pay the high renewal fee correct?

That would be ok if the domains were awesome ones, but for mediocre domains, I wouldn't want that high fee. Plus there are still some gems left on the table.

I need to get these listed for sale then maybe I'll post some. I hate to be secretive but I have to be for now.

 

[doubleU]

Picking up the drops, you have to pay the high renewal fee correct?

You can try to pick them up at expired domain auctions before the registry has a chance to increase their renewal fee.

 

[brindle123]

You can try to pick them up at expired domain auctions before the registry has a chance to increase their renewal fee.

You still wouldn't be able to renew at $.88 would you? Even if it had a couple months left?
I haven't picked any .online up in the aftermarkets yet so I'm not clear on the renewal fees at that point.

I did notice something interesting on one the other day though. It was a .online listed on namecheap that was for $5, but it said below it that the renewal was $.88. That was odd. I'm sure it was someone who owned the domain and just listed it for $5, but the renewal fee of $.88 threw me off. I should have written the domain down just to follow it or post it on here for others to check it out. It said the domain was "premium" too. I thought it was funny to have that listed on a $5 domain.

 

[Jacks86]

Nice, .Online just surpassed .Party yesterday

Next is a big leap to .RED, .REN and .SCIENCE, but those are terrible gtld's and given that .online still adds 1000+ registrars on average, it will get to the 300k level in by end of June if everything remains constant.

per page: 1 COM 108,098 61,861 127,889 46,237 0 125,796,169
NET 11,193 8,203 11,993 2,990 0 15,676,267
ORG 7,971 5,659 10,390 2,312 0 10,914,697
INFO 5,970 4,521 4,667 1,449 0 5,497,150
XYZ 3,464 1,415 3,039 2,049 0 2,671,984
BIZ 1,145 2,148 1,873 -1,003 0 2,269,217
TOP 23,005 477 2,693 22,528 0 1,892,270
US 1,150 831 1,142 319 0 1,671,244
WANG 0 0 0 0 0 1,064,728
WIN 555 53 59 502 0 888,400
CLUB 961 203 778 758 0 740,575
MOBI 250 439 345 -189 0 716,920
LINK 193 272 369 -79 0 358,965
PRO 379 124 1,390 255 0 357,651
SITE 1,038 5 1,521 1,033 0 348,357
BID 411 3 471 408 0 336,647
XN--SES554G (XN--SES554G 17 6 229 11 0 333,501
SCIENCE 78 2,162 4,262 -2,084 0 329,916
RED 75 11 11 64 0 304,158
REN 202 28 48 174 0 294,674
ONLINE 1,010 13 604 997 0 235,539
PARTY 69 10 124 59 0 235,243
ASIA 224 176 155 48 0 231,627
LOAN 829 0 73 829 0 227,481
CLICK 490 280 714 210 0 208,258
DATE 95 2 42 93 0 176,587
WEBSITE 353 183 154 170 0 152,280
SPACE 289 126 409 163 0 137,921
NAME 69 126 65 -57 0 133,582
KIM 21 2 4 19 0 119,782
TEL 98 128 0 -30 0 108,371
XIN 713 248 0 465 0 108,329

 

[Jacks86]

You still wouldn't be able to renew at $.88 would you? Even if it had a couple months left?
I haven't picked any .online up in the aftermarkets yet so I'm not clear on the renewal fees at that point.

I did notice something interesting on one the other day though. It was a .online listed on namecheap that was for $5, but it said below it that the renewal was $.88. That was odd. I'm sure it was someone who owned the domain and just listed it for $5, but the renewal fee of $.88 threw me off. I should have written the domain down just to follow it or post it on here for others to check it out. It said the domain was "premium" too. I thought it was funny to have that listed on a $5 domain.

Questions, but technically someone doesn't have to renew a .online right? I mean you can pay for the luxury of keeping the domain and making sure nobody takes it. Or just let it drop and then buy it back a day later for the low price, but have a small chance of someone taking it from you.

So if you had a list of 100 LLL.ONLINE and didn't want to pay for the renewal, let them drop and buy back the list after they've dropped and it should still be the low price.

 

[DNScholar]

Hi .online domainers,
It is great to see that this extension is still going really well. On my calculations, it should break into the top 8 by August and top 6 by the end of the year. I just have too many now and want to offload some to get my list back down to approximately 50.
In your opinion, where is the best place to sell/list domains as a package: ie, a group of domains. The first group i am looking to offload would be some geo domains that i do not have time to develop or look for end users like the following:

Angkor
Corfu
Cuzco
Easter Island
Fraser Island
Great Wall of China
Ha long bay
Kathmandu
Kuala Lumpur
Manchester City
North Korea
Panama City
Rocky Mountains
Seville
South Australia
South-Korea
Statue of Liberty
Stone Henge
Taj Mahal
Tower of London
Vatican City
Victoria Falls

Any recommendations of the best place to sell these as a group?
Cheers,

Sedo is good for ngtlds

 

[brandnow]

No offense to anyone here. But honestly I see no future for .online.

Registrations are only .88 cents a year right now. So is anyone surprised that .online adds 500+ new registrations? Same thing happened today with .loan and other extensions too.

I see in this thread that there have been 05 (FIVE) confirmed .online sales in 2016? And only one sale that was above $1,000? What does that tell you?

At .88 cents it's not a bad deal especially if you pick up HIGH QUALITY names. But if you paid $10 or more for .Online names (except for the Lodges.Online guy - congratulations) I'm afraid 99% of you wasted your money on this extension.

Just throwing my .05 cents of advice to this thread.

full disclosure: I own 0 (ZERO) .online names.

 

[Jacks86]

No offense to anyone here. But honestly I see no future for .online.

Registrations are only .88 cents a year right now. So is anyone surprised that .online adds 500+ new registrations? Same thing happened today with .loan and other extensions too.

I see in this thread that there have been 05 (FIVE) confirmed .online sales in 2016? And only one sale that was above $1,000? What does that tell you?

At .88 cents it's not a bad deal especially if you pick up HIGH QUALITY names. But if you paid $10 or more for .Online names (except for the Lodges.Online guy - congratulations) I'm afraid 99% of you wasted your money on this extension.

Just throwing my .05 cents of advice to this thread.

full disclosure: I own 0 (ZERO) .online names.

Brandnow, appreciate your opinion on this extension. However, same thing could be said about many other extensions, including the one you like .xyz which is also $0.88c. Yes it's got 2.6 million registrations and multiple sales per month, but it's been around for almost 2 years whereas .online has been around for only 8 months. Certain extensions can take off in the blink of an eye as we've all witnessed over the last 6 months.

http://www.newcoupons.info/domains-only-88-cent-at-namecheap/

If your theory of cheap gtld's is correct, more of the other $0.88c extensions should be registered daily.

.xyz.press.site.website.online.pw.space.tech.top.bid.trade.webcam.club.accountant.download.loan.racing.win.review.date.faith.party.cricket.science

Not trying to start a fight here but saying buying a certain gtld is a waste of time/money when so little time itself has passed doesn't make sense right now. Most people here bought between December to March and continue to do so. Also, people here are selling .online including myself, just privately and not at xxx, but to buy a domain for $1 and sell it for $10 to $50+ to an end user(which I did several times) is still a good I think.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and if you say you don't like the gtld, that's fine I accept and respect that. But going beyond and saying it's a "Waste of time or money", that's just premature. People said the same thing about .xyz in early 2015 and look at it now. If by December there are little to no sales and registrations are flat or declining, then I would say your estimation of wasted time/money was correct. Reason I chose that date is because it's around 16 months, same time frame .xyz had before it really picked up in sales.

In the end, the true test of all these cheap gtld's will be renewals and how many are kept and how many are dropped.

 

[brandnow]

Keep in mind.. I have friends who have invested in .online and I'd give my friends the same advice.. even if they tell me to shut up. haha So I just am giving my honest .05 cents. I posted the same thing on the gtld board last year. I just wanted to mention my thoughts on NP too. I really wish the best for you guys and hope you sell them. So I don't have any bad wishes or feelings toward investors. I just feel worried FOR YOU.. kind of empathy.. because I think the renewal prices are "too damn high." In the end, it's each investor's decision about what to invest in and which domains / extensions to keep in their portfolio.

tl;dr: don't listen to me... just do what you feel is right. good luck everyone!

 

[johnnywj]

I own about 400 .Online and gone register many many more. I'm doing what i feel is right.

Not all sales are public. I have had some high $xxx sales last few months and one low $xxxx and said no thanks to other lower offers on keywords names and 2 word names. But number names have not been so easy to sell. But most of the .Online names i register are keywords etc that's Popular in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia etc. But have some good names for Asia also.
Most of these names i will hold on for atleast 4 to 5 years before i'm gone start selling.

 

[DNScholar]

I said it before .Online is one of the best ntlds. It will take 3 years to make extension popular and see good aftermarket sales.

 

[Rainmaker-NL]

No offense to anyone here. But honestly I see no future for .online.

Registrations are only .88 cents a year right now. So is anyone surprised that .online adds 500+ new registrations? Same thing happened today with .loan and other extensions too.

I see in this thread that there have been 05 (FIVE) confirmed .online sales in 2016? And only one sale that was above $1,000? What does that tell you?

At .88 cents it's not a bad deal especially if you pick up HIGH QUALITY names. But if you paid $10 or more for .Online names (except for the Lodges.Online guy - congratulations) I'm afraid 99% of you wasted your money on this extension.

Just throwing my .05 cents of advice to this thread.

full disclosure: I own 0 (ZERO) .online names.

.online has been growing at a very steady pace ever since it launched. So also when it wasnt 0.88.

I myself have sold one for around $600, I traded another one for a online subscription to a website worth around $700, and I refused an offer for another .online of $600, and I refused an offer where someone wanted to buy a .online where I didnt want to sell at all (i'm gonna use it for my business). I dont know what they wanted to pay since I refused immediately when they contacted me.
So all in all, thats 4 possible sales. And I havent anything on auction. The two sales were outbound, where I contacted the buyer. And they were my ONLY outbound calls. So at this moment I have a 100% success rate with outbound (targeted contacting).

And this is just me. So I dont believe for a minute that there are 5 sales. My sales are listed nowhere.

The function of a tld will change. A tld has no function. A country tld will identify the country, but thats it. With that mindset it is logical that people say that the tld has to be as short as possible, because the tld is a nencessary evil, a pain in the ass.
This is changing. The tld will become part of the domain and serve a function within the domain name. For example, FOX could use the tld to identify the service they offer: FOX.NEWS, FOX.MOVIES, FOX.BLOG. A large US newsoaper is already doing this.
And I said this before, flowersonline.com or flowers.online. Its easy to see wich one is better.

Time will tell if it is successfull. I remember that a lot of people had the same attitude when internet was relatively new. I started a website and a businessman told me "the internet hype is over". Im still laughing over that quote......

 

[namerav]

Yes .Online is still naive and surely blossom in the future.

 

[Kate]

Not trying to start a fight here but saying buying a certain gtld is a waste of time/money when so little time itself has passed doesn't make sense right now.

It's true, but people want to see some signs of life until the TLD becomes noticeable.
The truth is that the individual expectations are not clear. Investors should articulate their own criteria and time horizon for deciding on success/failure and whether to enter/remain/exit the market. Instead, domainers keep making excuses and moving the goalposts: give it some more time, in 3 years the TLD will blossom and we will see an aftermarket, etc. They already forget that we are into the 3rd year.

.online or .whatever will have made it when random people are capable of quoting at least ONE prominent website that uses that particular extension. Right now I see only one possible example, it could be .xyz (Google, that is ABC), but it's already old news and since it's not a consumer facing website it will be forgotten very soon.
By that measure, all new extensions are failures, because not one has been able to capture the mindsets of consumers. They are all equally irrelevant. This is the brutal truth.

 

[geoonlinedomains]

Brandsnow - That is a ridiculous statement.
.online broke all the records when the price was a minimum of 10 dollars. They only recently reduced the price because all the good names are now gone. It will break into the top 8 by the end of the year. Just simple maths. No future in .xyz. Seriously sounds stupid. Good luck

 

[ttfan]

If you Google "site:.online" you'll get over 1M results, and you'll see tons of unique sites using the .online extension. It's hard to compare to other extensions, but it looks very positive to me.

 

[geoonlinedomains]

Nearly all sales will be private as it is only 8 months old. I also have sold 1 for low xxxx as have many other people i know. Paid for all my .online names already with just one sale.

Kate - good to see the same old dribble from you. Have a nice day.

 

[brandnow]

It's true, but people want to see some signs of life until the TLD becomes noticeable.
The truth is that the individual expectations are not clear. Investors should articulate their own criteria and time horizon for deciding on success/failure and whether to enter/remain/exit the market. Instead, domainers keep making excuses and moving the goalposts: give it some more time, in 3 years the TLD will blossom and we will see an aftermarket, etc. They already forget that we are into the 3rd year.

.online or .whatever will have made it when random people are capable of quoting at least ONE prominent website that uses that particular extension. Right now I see only one possible example, it could be .xyz (Google, that is ABC), but it's already old news and since it's not a consumer facing website it will be forgotten very soon.
By that measure, all new extensions are failures, because not one has been able to capture the mindsets of consumers. They are all equally irrelevant. This is the brutal truth.

For me it's also about not just time, but mainly about my balance sheet.

I don't mind going long on my .club, .xyz, .work, .one, .link, etc. investments.. because it's not too expensive. When you start investing in extensions like .top or .online that cost $20 - $30 bucks every year to renew.. well personally that just seems like a waste of money.

Maybe for some investors it is not a waste of money.. again depending on which names you own. It's all about the names you own. However though again I will say that maybe 99% of people are just wasting $30 a year for no reason when instead they could be investing in .com or heck, even Apple Inc. stock. :P