.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...

 

[DNScholar]

Just checked Namebio and found no .Online sale is reported for last 45 days (The last reported sale was on Feb 25th). I think something big is coming soon.

 

[DNScholar]

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

If you have premium few names than $20/year renewal is Ok. But for large portfolio renewals would be very tough. Registry should think on renewals and make it more reasonable.

 

[Kate]

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.

The same could be said about other extensions, even .tk or .pw. That doesn't mean any of those TLDs are really popular, or good investments for pure play domaining. The truth is there probably isn't a lot of high-profile websites or quality development.
Just another extension among too many. To the layman it's nothing special at all. If you say .com or the ccTLD, it means something to people. Almost everything else has zero relevance. 15-year old extensions are still struggling, so that shouldn't come as a surprise.

 

[ttfan]

The truth is there probably isn't a lot of high-profile websites or quality development.

No offense intended, but you sound like a politician when you say: "The truth is", followed by a purely personal opinion with zero evidence. :D
The world is changing, and changing at a fast rate. The younger generation may be much more accepting of the new gTLDs, and this could happen quicky. For many reasons, repeated several times in this thread, if some of the new gTLD are going to thrive, .online is likely to be one of them.

If you don't agree, I respect your views, but making blanket statements as if they're facts, while they're just your personal opinion, is not exactly giving the others here the same respect.

 

[opalxx]

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[DNScholar]

Just splurged on these.
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Still these ones are available

 

[Kate]

No offense intended, but you sound like a politician when you say: "The truth is", followed by a purely personal opinion with zero evidence. :D

OK no problem. Let's take a different approach. Question for .online investors: How many developed .online do you know, that you visit on a regular basis ? Show me evidence to counter my lack of evidence :D

The world is changing, and changing at a fast rate. The younger generation may be much more accepting of the new gTLDs, and this could happen quicky.

How quickly ? We are in the third year already.
We heard that song so many times. The truth is, the youth have grown up in a dotcom world. Or they don't bother about URLs, especially when using apps. It's not my point of view, but it's not totally wrong either. But to expect that the new generation will embrace new extensions sounds a lot like wishful thinking. It is another way of making excuses and moving the goalposts.

 

[Rainmaker-NL]

OK no problem. Let's take a different approach. Question for .online investors: How many developed .online do you know, that you visit on a regular basis ? Show me evidence to counter my lack of evidence :D

I think many many more than developed .com sites 8 months after the launch of .com.

When I search on Google for .online sites in Dutch language I get many many pages of results with developed sites. Sites like (and I will use the english equivalents of the Dutch names): suitcases.online, coats.online, flowers.online (already 3 flower ordering websites developed with .online in Holland), campers.online, slotmachines.online, bookaband.online, bathingsuits.online, floors.online, plants.online, divorce.online, mortgageadvice.online, freshpasta.online, horoscope.online, ordersushi.online, etc etc.

They are all developed. And you can already see that companies start to use the .online tld for its typical purpose. To state that you have a product or service that either is online or can be purchased online.

Some newspapers have adopted .online. In Belgium the largest newspaper now uses the .online extension.

Time will tell. But its interesting to see that people on this forum seem to measure the success rate of the new gtlds by the amount of money they can make with it. If they cant make money with it, its a failure.
Thats not the failure of the tld, thats your failure with that tld. In my opinion a tld is successfull when the company owning it, can sustain the tld and make enough money to keep it operational.

 

[Kate]

Some newspapers have adopted .online. In Belgium the largest newspaper now uses the .online extension.

I suppose it is De Standaard ? The .online is just a redirect to the .be domain. Do they even advertise their .online domain ?
Thank you for your detailed reply anyway, but apparently none of those sites are sites that you regularly visit. I can do a google search too, but it doesn't reflect my actual daily browsing patterns. My point is, if you don't visit them on a regular basis, what are the odds that other normal people will ?

 

[ttfan]

Ok, lets put htis in perspective. There are about 125M .com sites registered, compared to about 250,000 .online sites. So if they were equally popular, for every 500 new websites you visit, you'd expect to see one .online.
Now it takes me quite a while to visit 500 new websites... and have I come across any .online sites during this time? Absolutely!
Of course this does not mean they're going to be popular, but since .online has been around for less than a year and I'm already coming across some of them, is a good sign in my book.
Evidence of popularity is all we can look for at this stage... it's way to early to make blanket statements.

 

[Rainmaker-NL]

I suppose it is De Standaard ? The .online is just a redirect to the .be domain. Do they even advertise their .online domain ?
Thank you for your detailed reply anyway, but apparently none of those sites are sites that you regularly visit. I can do a google search too, but it doesn't reflect my actual daily browsing patterns. My point is, if you don't visit them on a regular basis, what are the odds that other normal people will ?

I never visit adult sites. I havent visited a car sales websites in years, I have never visited a divorce website for my private purposes, I visited a website for suitcases 4 years ago, I booked a band 10 years ago for my wedding, etc etc.
If I let my registration behavior depend in the frequency that I visit sites myself I would have registered newspaper.online and ignored a lot of domains.
I registered the Dutch version of bible.online although I am not religious and have never visited a bible website (after my registration I did, but not for deep religious purposes ). Like I said, I got a € 600 inbound offer for it and rejected it. So the english version bible.online should easily be worth much more.

I think the fact that they registered the domain and forwarded it to their original website is already a sign.
Did they do that with standaard .net .com .co .mobi .nu ? No.
Did they do that with standaard .rocks .club .tech ? No.
Did they do that with standaard .news ! Yes.
It makes perfect sense what they are doing. They choose the tlds that have a function for their product.

But you are right. There is no hard proof yet. Time will tell. Maybe I should have registered fortuneteller.online.......

 

[Intratec]

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.

Googling site:.online can really give you a good idea about how many online registrations are already developed, thanks for the tip. But I just found out that the results depend on which language you choose in google's 'search tools', that is at least from where I stand / live. The regular search gives me 27 pages of results, whereas the german search gives me 22 pages of sites, the dutch search gives me 16 pages of sites, the french search gives me 11 pages, and the spanish search gives me 9 pages. I have to admit that not all results represent a true developed online website, and ofcourse some are just used to redirect, but most of them do. But anyway, my conclusion for now is that the regular search doesn't even show all the online websites world wide. That's something to consider.

 

[Domain Galleria]

I will be adding 5 very soon

 

[DNScholar]

I put 08888888.online here at auction, check below for link.

 

[Jacks86]

Another site with just gtld stats that someone posted on another thread: https://namestat.org/

There's even a total summary chart: https://namestat.org/s/newgtld-summary

.ONLINE at 241K. We should be around 250K this time next Sunday.

 

[Jacks86]

It even has a section that shows by Usage, that's very important. .XYZ is suppose to be the new big gtld with over 10 times as many registered domains as .online. Yet when compared to sites running, there's only 5 times as many.

All Fastest Growing gTLDs
1 .xyz 2172 95
2 .top 1028 60
3 .club 932 39
4 .online 425 54
5 .tech 303 35
6 .website 261 14
7 .link 260 11
8 .site 246 27
9 .pics 228 9
10 .space 227 15

 

[JB Lions]

It even has a section that shows by Usage, that's very important. .XYZ is suppose to be the new big gtld with over 10 times as many registered domains as .online. Yet when compared to sites running, there's only 5 times as many.

All Fastest Growing gTLDs
1 .xyz 2172 95
2 .top 1028 60
3 .club 932 39
4 .online 425 54
5 .tech 303 35
6 .website 261 14
7 .link 260 11
8 .site 246 27
9 .pics 228 9
10 .space 227 15

Jack, you're seeing these aren't selling either. The reported sales are horrible. Just 3 short months ago in January you said:

Just checked, 2401 left. Sold one today for $10. When your buying generic gtld's for $1, it's not hard to make your money back on it. Odds are even just cash parking the domain will give you back $1 over a year, maybe more. Flipping it in a few months for $5-10+ won't be that difficult either.

And a few months later, today, you have a thread selling them for $2.

Some others have posted they're getting sales, leaving out details of the name.

Some say wait a few years, but some aren't and selling now. Other extensions are getting sales now.

Wait a few more years, wait till there are more options like .web and the prices will go up? The other way seems more likely.

All that Chinese stuff in .com is going down, if .com is going down, that doesn't bode well for these other extensions, if you were into buying Chinese stuff in second rate extensions.

 

[SirDrago]

@JB Lions
Where's that thread?

 

[JB Lions]

@JB Lions
Where's that thread?

What thread? If you're talking about the $2 LLL.online, right in his sig.

 

[SirDrago]

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And a few months later, today, you have a thread sellingthem for $2.