new gtlds The future will be good...

[Wass]

New gTLD sales: Sex.Live: $160.000 / Porn.Live: $120.000
The future will be good for good new gTLDs.

 

[Jasonn]

Yes, Porn.Live and Sex.Live are 2 super unique domains: multi-billion dollar business...

hardly. you obviously know very little about the porn business. the top companies make nothing near a billion dollars....

 

[Kate]

We are in a different era now I think: We have 2000 new gTLDs...

No. The collective value of new extensions is diluted, because there are so many. In the past, new extensions were seldom released, and most of the time it was one by one. So they were a bit special but still not desirable.
Now the supply has increased exponentially, but they are still not desirable.
And when you have more choice, you have less incentive to pay a premium price for a given domain name.

 

[Wass]

hardly. you obviously know very little about the porn business. the top companies make nothing near a billion dollars....

Pornography is big business–with $10 billion to $14 billion in annual sales.
http://www.forbes.com/2001/05/25/0524porn.html

 

[Wass]

No. The collective value of new extensions is diluted, because there are so many. In the past, new extensions were seldom released, and most of the time it was one by one. So they were a bit special but still not desirable.
Now the supply has increased exponentially, but they are still not desirable.
And when you have more choice, you have less incentive to pay a premium price for a given domain name.

Good new gTLD =
The future will be good...
If you don't believe in new gTLDs, good for you...
Good luck to you too.

 

[Jasonn]

Pornography is big business–with $10 billion to $14 billion in annual sales.
http://www.forbes.com/2001/05/25/0524porn.html

thats an article from 2001. things are very different now and that number was exaggerated to begin with. free porn has ruined the adult industry.

 

[Domain Lead Finder]

Domain Price Date Venue
music.mobi 616,000 USD 2007-12-05 Sedo
flowers.mobi 200,000 USD 2006-11-25 Moniker
poker.mobi 150,000 USD 2007-12-12 Moniker
ringtones.mobi 145,000 USD 2007-12-12 Moniker
casino.mobi 135,000 USD 2009-09-09 Moniker
sportsbook.mobi 129,800 USD 2007-01-17 Private
porn.mobi 110,000 USD 2008-03-25 Moniker
news.mobi 110,000 USD 2007-11-28 Moniker
sports.mobi 101,000 USD 2007-12-05 Sedo
hosting.mobi 101,000 USD 2007-10-03 Sedo

Only 2 out of those 8 actually resolve to a website. How strange to spend 6 figures on something you have no intention of developing. The porn.mobi that is one of the working .mobi-s resolves to a super cheap porn tube kind of thing.

I am not questioning that these sales were listed, I am just wondering about the 80% non-development rate.

 

[Wass]

thats an article from 2001. things are very different now and that number was exaggerated to begin with. free porn has ruined the adult industry.

Yes sorry: I have a new article for you(2014): porn is a $97 billion industry
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/porn-industry-feeling-upbeat-about-2014-n9076

 

[Kate]

Maybe for you everything is new, because you are (ahem) new, but for us History keeps repeating itself. We have been seeing the exact same stuff for at least 10 years.

BTW it's not that I don't believe in new extensions, I believe in sales. Why should I believe in new extensions, when the end users don't ? Ponder this for a while.

 

[dordomai]

publishing high registry sales for a new extension does it's job since at least 10 years. works every time. It's always the next big thing. Look at the huge sales that are happening. This will be big. Must buy now before it is too late.

 

[Jasonn]

Yes sorry: I have a new article for you(2014): porn is a $97 billion industry
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/porn-industry-feeling-upbeat-about-2014-n9076

think whatever you want, that number comes from a sociologist. not someone who knows actual numbers. anyways, its not the point. the point is registries are the ones who are going to make money from new gtlds, not domainers.

 

[Wass]

Maybe for you everything is new, because you are (ahem) new, but for us History keeps repeating itself. We have been seeing the exact same stuff for at least 10 years.

BTW it's not that I don't believe in new extensions, I believe in sales. Why should I believe in new extensions, when the end users don't ? Ponder this for a while.

For you end users will not believe in new gTLDs. I disagree. This is the point.
for me the future will be huge for new gTLDs...


We think differently. No problem Good luck to you my friend.

 

[Wass]

think whatever you want, that number comes from a sociologist. not someone who knows actual numbers. anyways, its not the point. the point is registries are the ones who are going to make money from new gtlds, not domainers.

Yes, agree: it's not the point.

 

[deez007]

Lol.... I promised myself not to get involved in nGTLD conversations/debates anymore. It's a on going tennis match with no end.

 

[Wass]

Lol.... I promised myself not to get involved in nGTLD conversations/debates anymore. It's a on going tennis match with no end.

Agree...

 

[Obtain Domains]

Everyone has their opinion. And a market needs both buyers and sellers to be heathy; short sellers and long holders.

I seriously doubt that ngltds are all going to crash and burn. Some will be successful, some will not.

.com and the legacy tlds will probably face some pressure from all the new domains, but are also not going away anytime soon. And a good .com will definately hold its value for the foreseeable future.

This is a fight nobody can win. A fight about an unknown future.

Now, let's talk about something that is much less controversial - the coming US election; there's an argument you can win....

 

[nitro91]

sex.xxx was reported to have sold for a record $3 million. Strangely the .xxx extension then died rather quickly and we don't hear anything about big sales anymore. These early sales don't tell us much about the future potential of an extension.

I guess who ever bought it for $3 million went broke afterwards, the "site" it's just a landing cams page and it's laughably shitty

3$ million for that HAHAHHAHA

sex keyword doesn't worth anything in the porn world, sex, lol
only 6 year old type "sex" for porn on Google

 

[ilovedn]

Looks like fake. It is made by the company.

 

[Weber]

 

[garptrader]

Who knows what might happen ten to fifteen years from now but for now developers and end users generally are very reluctant to pay a premium to a domain investor. They will sometimes pay high $XX to low $XXX to a registry but usually will just add an extra keyword or a hyphen or use an abbreviation or an available TLD (we now have close to a thousand TLDs). In the meantime, I have ten to twelve year old .Net and .TV domains priced $XXX while XYZ and other new TLD holders have the same keyword priced at five figures (Godaddy Auctions).

 

[pfj]

wine.club sold for $140.000

But did it actually? I don't think so, and many others don't believe it either.

The address goes to a holding page. Do you think that's likely for a domain that sold for $140k?

I don't think those numbers are real. Do you?