domain Please Appraise -F.clothing, N.clothing

[joshny]

Hi

I completely agree about the fact that
1.The new gtld's are all about hype
2.they're glorified domain hacks
3.only limited keywords would work
4.this enthusiasm wouldn't continue, and .com would prevail maybe .web and a couple more may prevail but not as significantly as .com

i bought a single letter domain as only 5-6 of them were released, rest of them were reserved (sounds to me like they are RARE),
Now i intend to TRY to sell it within the next 2 weeks ,
THERE WERE A TOTAL OF 9 SINGLE ALPHABET DOMAINS RELEASED so they are 2 of the 9
and i intend to get rid of them during the hype

so with that in mind i'd like you all to appraise these ,even if you think that they are worthless


F.clothing and N.clothing


can stand for fashion.clothing and new.clothing

 

[bmugford]

It is impossible to appraise new extensions at this point.

Brad

 

[joshny]

Yeah you are probably right, that is why i am going to try and get them out before their price plumet or anything
And i don't think it's a bad investment since i never had any intention of buying 1000-10,000 new domains justa couple which i did

 

[Kate]

I agree, can't appraise names until there has been a history of sales. On the other hand, you are allowed to say they are worthless

Now I think one letter domains are only good for
a. branding
b. URL shorteners

In a ccTLD, a one-character domain is just 4 characters including the dot. Example: x.co
Actually it doesn't get any shorter than than.

But I don't see the point of a one letter domain when the extension (.clothing) is 8 characters long without the dot...

 

[joshny]

it definitely is not for url shortening
i think it would probably go for branding

 

[bmugford]

Also, just because something is rare does not necessarily mean it has value.
It still needs to have demand to have value.

There is no idea what the demand for these will be.

Brad

 

[joshny]

just because it is rare does not give it any value, true that
just hoping to sell it to any clothing brand for a decent price ,as not many of them would know domaining or anything about what's happening out here

Just an example, I know the release of new domains is senseless when we think of it in a traditional domainer's point of view but i was just thinking,
what if i am a photographer,
I have a photography company , Let us suppose by the name of Cool
now i want a website to display my photography portfolio
and i want to print my business cards,
Would i go for coolphotography.com which if in case is unavailable is another issue, and i wouldn't want to pay to much for a website since it's not a really required thing maybe 50-100$
or would i buy cool.photography which is for 40-80$ and looks better as well
I am a photographer so i know nothing about seo , google's indexing algorithm, or anything of that sort
Don't the new domain extensions make sense for such people since they don't know much,rather than for us, wouldn't they be the ones buying these rather than domainers because no one would want to pay a premium now for any domain unless internet is their main source of business

 

[Kate]

In general there is no aftermarket for oddballs extensions.
The reason is simple: an end user who is willing to buy on the aftermarket would rather buy an established extension. Look at reported sales.

I could imagine that a few end users would buy a .clothing for regfee - I mean that's the whole point of new extensions: more choice, so we are told... - but it's quite unlikely they will buy one at a premium from a domainer.

 

[joshny]

In general there is no aftermarket for oddballs extensions.
The reason is simple: an end user who is willing to buy on the aftermarket would rather buy an established extension. Look at reported sales.

I could imagine that a few end users would buy a .clothing for regfee - I mean that's the whole point of new extensions: more choice, so we are told... - but it's quite unlikely they will buy one at a premium from a domainer.

Exactly what i am trying to say, why would endusers buy from domainers when they can register new domains
so the whole new domain extension system is going to work only on the basis of end users
and that too only if it works
i mean it's almost a dead end for domainers but a huge opportunity for small-mid end users
as High resource ones would obviously buy a .com

 

[-EM-]

But I don't see the point of a one letter domain when the extension (.clothing) is 8 characters long without the dot...

I don't have anything else to add!

 

[Yo]

The value is what you paid for, It's too early to give appraisals on newly gTLD's.
There's a reason why some single letter domains were not reserved by the Registry.

Good Luck

 

[DnEbook]

I believe an actual word works better, especially if there is confusion regarding the extension, who knows if a clothing company starts a brand with these single leters they may be worth money down the road, good luck

 

[joshny]

thank you, actually fashion.clothing was never out so i bought this

 

[DnEbook]

thank you, actually fashion.clothing was never out so i bought this

As mentioned, it has to make at least some kind of sense by way of a word, now for example there are many suit,dress,costume businesses that hire out clothing., The domain name hire.clothing is available and makes more sense to me. I think it would be a much easier sale than a single letter …… imo. If you have some luck let us know

 

[RU]

Nclothing.com, Fclothing.com would be best. imo

 

[gilescoley]

There will be no market for names like this, new extensions like this have been popping up all the time and they all end up exactly the same...dead!!! Unless you can get a really strong keyword that suits the extension perfectly, you are wasting your time.

Rather stick to tried and tested extensions, it will save you money in the long run

Good luck

 

[MadAboutDomains]

I'm not sure that calling a domain with an extension that long can really be called a 1 character domain lol. They look terrible imho

 

[Magicpig2]

Since when has a one letter TLD ever been worthless? Look at experienced domain investors like Michael Berkens, Adam Dicker, etc, they've also gone and put their money into similar investments. If you're going to invest in new GTLD's, I think "L.Whatever's" are the way to go. It might take 2-5 years to eventually realise a profit, but as long as the .clothing extension doesn't fold before then, (it's not one of the catchiest is it?), why not take a punt. There's plenty of less significant .com's out there for the same kind of money..
Plus, new fashion start up's may well consider branding themselves 'F' or 'N' if the price is right as it's not impossible that it'll be new businesses that benefit most from the wide availability and choices now hitting the market.

 

[joshny]

Also there is a very big misconception amongst domainers which i read from various posts, that since there are going to be approx 1000 new gtlds, 26000 new single letter domains are coming out.
THIS IS NOT THE CASE,most of the single letters are reserved by the registry so fairly few are coming out.
Eg, only 9 came out in .clothing extension,
even though they may not retain the original single letter value , it's still not common

 

[lll]

$0 to me