new gtlds Rightside reveals big list of 5-figure new TLD sales up to $183,000 (Video.Games)

[Wass]

Video.Games leads list at $183,000.

video.games $183,000
sex.live $160,000
porn.live $120,000
homes.forsale $75,000
personalinjury.attorney $60,000
for.sale $50,000
art.market $50,000
job.market $50,000
caraccident.attorney $50,000
auto.market $40,000

http://domainnamewire.com/2017/04/04/rightside-reveals-big-list-5-figure-new-tld-sales-183000/

 

[Wass]

accident.lawyer $40,000
global.market $40,000
organic.market $35,000
luxury.market $35,000
app.market $35,000
insurance.market $35,000
i.news $35,000
local.market $35,000
live.live $25,000
finance.market $25,000
medical.market $25,000
stream.live $20,000
church.live $20,000
berlin.immobilien $20,000
solar.engineer $20,000
drug.rehab $20,000
sex.forsale $20,000
sex.social $20,000
hollywood.live $15,000
design.studio $15,000
energy.market $15,000
flower.market $15,000
the.market $15,000
meat.market $15,000
fish.market $15,000
bitcoin.market $15,000
furniture.market $15,000
ferien.haus $15,000
houses.forsale $15,000
wetter.live $15,000
irish.pub $15,000
neworleans.attorney $15,000
edu.video $15,000
hamburg.immobilien $15,000
water.engineer $15,000
accident.attorney $15,000
injury.lawyer $15,000
porn.reviews $15,000
dot.market $10,000
koeln.immobilien $10,000

 

[Steven McEvoy]

Very Nice! Regardless if they're Premiums I still like to see ngTLDs sales going up!

 

[betthelot]

Most brought by Epik and sales are across all 40 strings.
Just imagine if 4 years ago a blog post that said rightside would have very few meaningful sales across 40 strings by 2017. Would have been seen as being negative. Now because we are in the death throes of this failed experiment it's seen as very positive.
No doubt if you looked into it there would be some smoke and mirrors with the sale price not being fully cash only.

 

[Casey L]

Just snagged SaleNewFor.House, asking $xx,xxx (see totally similar comps above)

 

[Wass]

betthelot yes the failing loser domainers are in the death throes...

Nice sales here that are not the last sales for new gTLDs...

 

[Brands.International]

houses.forsale $15,000 nice sale.

nice sale I have FORSALE.HOUSE

And I have NewHousesFor.Sale

 

[Recons.Com]

Here is a potential situation from the future:

- Competing sites at
- newhouses.for.sale
- newhouses.forsale
- new.houses.forsale

And end-user have to try to remember which one is right and most of them will still go for newhousesforsale.com as a default

 

[TLDNIC]

Nice post, Vito.

The buyer said he wanted an EMD, is this domain an EMD ? I ask because Google said they don't take the TLD into account.

Yes, they relentlessly emphasize that domain names don't matter that much and one Google employee indeed once hinted that the TLD is ignored.

Both is obviously not the case.

I was running a news aggregator on ecommerce.one for a while. Not a single line of unique content, since it was an aggregator only. It ranked on page one for the term "ecommerce one" (which would appear nowhere on the site, but was in the domain name only).

Some random examples:
https://www.google.com/#q=coffee+club
https://www.google.de/?gws_rd=ssl#q=immobilien+dresden (dresden real estate)
https://www.google.de/?gws_rd=ssl#q=fussball+news (soccer news)
https://www.google.com/#q=whisky+auction

Great post Vito,
Congrats to the buyer of video.games - looking forward to seeing this one being built out.

 

[dordomai]

the way I interpret these recent "news":

such a nice coincidence:

Sherpa features show with profitable nGTLD flip. (High renewals aren't that bad you can make money)

TheDomains features recent profitable nGTLD sales of a domain investor. Yes expert investors make money with new TLD investing.

casino.online sells for a small fortune.

Rightside release their sales lists.

that happens in a 2 week period.

At the same time I notice that in the pending delete lists that I monitor, more new TLDs than ever are approaching expiration.

The way I interpret this is that the registries are trying to hype their extensions as much as they can hoping that you will renew for another year.

 

[Wass]

irish.pub $15,000

I think that the new gTLDs haters should go to the Irish.Pub to drink lots of beer that their work is increasingly complicated...

 

[NigelD]

The other big ngtld news is that 'upcoming deletes' have hit 3m and over 10% of domains are in upcoming delete status. This hype doesn't alter the fact that very few people are renewing their domains - most registrations appear to be 1 year offers and promotions - i.e for a dollar or a cent.

 

[Recons.Com]

Illustration of idiotic and greedy policy choice by Rightside.

They should have gone for cheap, affordable uniform pricing with as little confusing as possible in already confusing world of right-side-of-the-dot.

Those "fantastic" sales add up to what? A million? They burn through that in a month or less.

 

[dordomai]

Here is a potential situation from the future:

- Competing sites at
- newhouses.for.sale
- newhouses.forsale
- new.houses.forsale

And end-user have to try to remember which one is right and most of them will still go for newhousesforsale.com as a default

and houses.com will drive them out of business

 

[ikhub]

Most of these sales are from the registry itself - reserved & premium. Have a doubt these are just change of hands within closed circle to create a hype. Don't find it good news for domainers if only the reserved premium sells. Unless they come clean on their renewal policy and a end user friendly approach, it will neither help them nor domainers.

 

[nomen]

Extensions like .forsale are already on life support. I doubt they will be around in a few years.

How long before we see those names on auction at Namescon (and we have another travel.agency disaster)

How long before we see whole TLDs on auction at Namescon?

 

[betthelot]

Homesfor.sale or is it homes.forsale what an insane purchase for 50k.

 

[Casey L]

Nice sales, although few outside of video.games and for.sale make much sense. Regardless, congrats to Rightside

 

[spooksy]

If they're making good money they're doing something right. It's all about throughput and liquidity. Wonder how the 3-word .coms of the salty commenters are doing

 

[dordomai]

If they're making good money they're doing something right. It's all about throughput and liquidity. Wonder how the 3-word .coms of the salty commenters are doing

as far as I know rightside are losing many millions each year..

they are a money losing operation. wake up.

domainers are thinking they can make money while even the registry owning the best terms is not profitable.

 

[Casey L]

as far as I know rightside are losing many millions each year..

they are a money losing operation. wake up.

domainers are thinking they can make money while even the registry owning the best terms is not profitable.

Correct, they had a $5.1million net loss in 2016. Not the best business to be in given the high cost of creating new extensions and only a handful creating sales

 

[dordomai]

The other big ngtld news is that 'upcoming deletes' have hit 3m and over 10% of domains are in upcoming delete status. This hype doesn't alter the fact that very few people are renewing their domains - most registrations appear to be 1 year offers and promotions - i.e for a dollar or a cent.

right, over 50% of regs are owned by domainers, renewals worth tens of millions.

publish as many sales as you can hoping that domainers will pay the full renewal fees.

 

[dgmweb]

Awesome. I've got a few .sale ones as well.

 

[betthelot]

betthelot yes the failing loser domainers are in the death throes...

ha ha ha...... never can grow tired of that joke.

 

[Vito]

Most of these sales are from the registry itself - reserved & premium. Have a doubt these are just change of hands within closed circle to create a hype. Don't find it good news for domainers if only the reserved premium sells. Unless they come clean on their renewal policy and a end user friendly approach, it will neither help them nor domainers.

I agree. There are too many ways to research and verify true sales these days. They wouldn't want to ruin their reputation reporting many false sales, in my opinion.

Plus I have very good knowledge of the big videogames sale announced today. It was a domainer/end user purchase if that makess sense. I wrote a pretty in depth article here at my new blog. Give it a read if you get a chance.

DomainNamesMatter.com - This is why Domain Names Matter to the new owner of Video.Games

Thanks,
Vito