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The .online gTLD is a very popular extension among the domaining community, and as of recent times, is proving to be a popular alternative to the king extension ".com"
The keyword "Online" in itself, has a fantastic sales record, and is up there with some of the most expensive domains. A great example is the domain name "OnlineIndia.com," which sold for $650,000 back in December 2017.
Another few examples are "SinglesOnline.com" which sold for $125,000 in January 2007, "OnlineCasino.co.uk" which sold for 100,000 GPB in June 2009.
The top 100 domain names that sold, and included the word "Online," ranges from $15,000 right up to $650,000. That's a lot of money for an attachment to the English word Online.
But what about the more recent gTLD extension .online? How does it compare to the .com sales? Aso, why are many of the .online domain names in today's market priced so heavily? Could it be consumer sentiment or is it more to do with other market forces?
Let's look at the top selling .online domain name first. That would be a March 2017 sale that amounted to an enormous figure of $201,000. The preceeding sale though, in October 2017, was sportwetten.online, and this sale was of a more modest figure that was $15,000. In fact, it's the only 5 figure sale in the history of the extension.
How are other gTLD's fairing?
The .wang extension dropped down from 1.1 million registrations to 100,000, then miraculously grew to 900,000 over 40 days.
So the pricing and absolute number of registered gTLD's is moving around, a lot!
A recent boom in the service of masternodes might help explain something; from hosting to providing VPS services, and even custody.
If you want to learn to become a masternode, well the website masternode.pro will help you, if you want to compare node performances then just head to masternode.online. In fact, many new tech services today are opting for new extensions... One could speculate that this might have something to do with the lack of market competition, and so a .com, with greater SEO ranking, might not be necessary because there is no one to compete with. And besides, the URL is read from left to right by search engines. Recruitment.agency would be read as "Recruitment Agency." So why bother with the RecruitmentAgency.com when it has mostly the same effect.
Having said all this, more and more people are upgrading to the .com once they have grown, or feel that it would benefit their search engine marketing.
Some businesses choose .com because they feel the .com has a better reputation and appearance. But had the gTLD have been available they might have chosen that too. It's all competition.
To complete the question of why are the .online, and some gTLD's highly priced, using sales data and speculation, I think a conclusion following that the gTLD has a place in today's modern market, and can be the most cost effective choice where little competition is present.
The .com on the other hand, is a prized gem, and plays a great role in the pricing of the gTLD.
Sales data sourced from dnpric.es for free. Some understanding also came from NamePros.com
The keyword "Online" in itself, has a fantastic sales record, and is up there with some of the most expensive domains. A great example is the domain name "OnlineIndia.com," which sold for $650,000 back in December 2017.
Another few examples are "SinglesOnline.com" which sold for $125,000 in January 2007, "OnlineCasino.co.uk" which sold for 100,000 GPB in June 2009.
The top 100 domain names that sold, and included the word "Online," ranges from $15,000 right up to $650,000. That's a lot of money for an attachment to the English word Online.
But what about the more recent gTLD extension .online? How does it compare to the .com sales? Aso, why are many of the .online domain names in today's market priced so heavily? Could it be consumer sentiment or is it more to do with other market forces?
Let's look at the top selling .online domain name first. That would be a March 2017 sale that amounted to an enormous figure of $201,000. The preceeding sale though, in October 2017, was sportwetten.online, and this sale was of a more modest figure that was $15,000. In fact, it's the only 5 figure sale in the history of the extension.
How are other gTLD's fairing?
The .wang extension dropped down from 1.1 million registrations to 100,000, then miraculously grew to 900,000 over 40 days.
So the pricing and absolute number of registered gTLD's is moving around, a lot!
A recent boom in the service of masternodes might help explain something; from hosting to providing VPS services, and even custody.
If you want to learn to become a masternode, well the website masternode.pro will help you, if you want to compare node performances then just head to masternode.online. In fact, many new tech services today are opting for new extensions... One could speculate that this might have something to do with the lack of market competition, and so a .com, with greater SEO ranking, might not be necessary because there is no one to compete with. And besides, the URL is read from left to right by search engines. Recruitment.agency would be read as "Recruitment Agency." So why bother with the RecruitmentAgency.com when it has mostly the same effect.
Having said all this, more and more people are upgrading to the .com once they have grown, or feel that it would benefit their search engine marketing.
Some businesses choose .com because they feel the .com has a better reputation and appearance. But had the gTLD have been available they might have chosen that too. It's all competition.
To complete the question of why are the .online, and some gTLD's highly priced, using sales data and speculation, I think a conclusion following that the gTLD has a place in today's modern market, and can be the most cost effective choice where little competition is present.
The .com on the other hand, is a prized gem, and plays a great role in the pricing of the gTLD.
Sales data sourced from dnpric.es for free. Some understanding also came from NamePros.com
