discuss .today

[ThatNameGuy]

All...I purchased the following domains today. These domains cost me $60, but I think I may be on to something because of the .today that acts as a .com. and who doesn't want to make a deal/sale today? It was when I realized that every day is today and these names might make great eCommerce sites for all sorts of industries. Aesthetically these names look pretty good. I'm a business guy first, a marketer second, and a domainer third. What might you do if your were me? Thanks

DomainDeals.today
AutoSale.today
FurnitureSale.today
RVSale.today
ComputerSale.today
ApplianceSale.today
HomeSale.today
TruckSale.today
PuppySale.today
TireSale.today
ToySale.today
TicketDeals.today
JewelrySale.today
ArtSale.today
BoatDeals.today
BoatSale.today
ComputerDeals.today
BigScreenDeals.today
TVDeals.today
ApplianceDeals.today
FurnitureDeals.today
HouseSales.today
SkyDeals.today
PhoneDeals.today
GourmetGifts.today
YachtSales.today
BikeSales.today
GiftSales.today
WineSales.today
BeerSales.today
CruiseDeals.today

 

[robert widener]

you gotta love bulloney's enthusiasm . GO GET EM ' TIGER

 

[Aaron.A]

No problem Bulloney. All the best.

 

[ThatNameGuy]

I want to give you some encouragement. Your wasting not just money, but time.
Now go make some sales. Wellcraft aint gonna pay 90k for .today
They have Wellcraft.COM and they sell powerboats not yachts

Show us your sales pitch for why they should swap their .com for .today

Hey young man..I've owned Wellcrats, I've owned Sea Rays and I've owned Tiar's. You really don't get it do you? YachtSale.today is NOT a brand, and not intended to be a brand. YachtSale.today is simply a lead/sales generator that directs customers to the Wellcraft (the brand)...do you know any thing about sales or lead generation? I didn't think so. Thanks for the encouragement.

Bulloney

 

[JB Lions]

My final point is whereas Sea Ray (the largest boat builder in the world) might pay 500K for YachtSales.com, Wellcraft (the 9th largest boat builder) might pay 100K for YachtSales.today (why?, because YachtSales.com is sold/gone) Does any of this make sense to you?

It doesn't make sense because:
http://www.searay.com/

http://www.wellcraft.com/

They already have domains.

It doesn't make sense because .today aren't selling well.

Registering losewght.today, also doesn't make sense. You just bought a 2 word, misspelling, in a new gtld.

"YachtSale.today is simply a lead/sales generator that directs customers to the Wellcraft (the brand)...do you know any thing about sales or lead generation?"

They don't need that to do that, they can direct straight to the site. Maybe more for lead generator/affiliate type stuff for others to link to them. But they aren't going to pay 100k.

 

[Kate]

To go straight to the point: look around you, how many normal businesses use TLDs like .today or .whatever: zero. How many aftermarket sales: zero with the oddball exception. The TLD is nothing special, just another extension among hundreds of others.
Safe to say freepizza.today is worthless when the .com counterpart freepizzatoday.com is free to register.
There is no market for domains like those. You could develop them but what's the point, you can find better and more commercially viable domains for regfee.
With the same arguments, any domain is suddenly as valuable as gold. But it just doesn't work like that.

 

[Brands.International]

From end user perspective, if you want to develop these names, no objection whatsoever.

Can be great as lead generators. From some reason (I do not know why is that happening) some of the most visited names in new gTLDs I personally know about are with .today extension. Several fellow new gTLD investors have reported this, as most of us are measuring all our names in various extensions using services like bodis, etc. .TODAY is doing, as far as I know, very well from this aspect.

If we would consider them as investment, from resale perspective, I feel not value. Reason is there are too many alternatives one can create for each of your word1word2.today names. So end users will go for those alternatives, which is far more preferable option to them, comparing to paying a premium to you for your names.

So as investment no, for development (and you have some good ideas) some of your names are worth a try, imo

 

[Brands.International]

Park your names for 2-3 months and see which names get most traffic for this period - focus on those.

 

[HotKey]

@Bulloney don't get too fixated on one extension...trust me you'll see a year from now when renewals come up. There will never be a replacement for .com, and that's not what the new G's were meant for. It is useless comparing the two, you'll be running circles.

Focus on only the best matches, and be aware there are literally thousands for people to choose from. .today is great, sure, for stuff like News/Today, Weather/Today, Finance/Today, Travel/Today but generally everyone wants everything today, they don't need an extension to tell them so.

.Today, and many others, are a niche market, not a one size fits all.

 

[ThatNameGuy]

@Bulloney don't get too fixated on one extension...trust me you'll see a year from now when renewals come up. There will never be a replacement for .com, and that's not what the new G's were meant for. It is useless comparing the two, you'll be running circles.

Focus on only the best matches, and be aware there are literally thousands for people to choose from. .today is great, sure, for stuff like News/Today, Weather/Today, Finance/Today, Travel/Today but generally everyone wants everything today, they don't need an extension to tell them so.

.Today, and many others, are a niche market, not a one size fits all.

Thanks Ben. I see you've been doing this a long time, and I appreciate your input. I visited you Genuine Domains Site and I like it very much. btw, you might be interested in knowing I registered the domain GenuinelyCreative.com just a couple of weeks ago. Heck, how would I have known I'd run into the guy who owns Genuine Domains. Just to let you know, I'm diversified alright. I have almost 600 domains, of which only 120 are .today domains. Of the 120 I own, about 20 of them are one word .today domains similar to the ones you listed, but not quite that good. However, I do believe the two word .today domains I own are just as good if not better than the single word. For example; AmazingSale.today, AutoSale.today, MarijuanaDeals.today, ComingHome.today, SportsOdds.today, and GoldRush.today. Each of these two word domains fit well with the .today extension imho.

Ben, I'll reach out to you later about not only my .today niche, but about a couple of other niche's I've carved out. Thanks for your help.

Bulloney

 

[robert widener]

Thanks Ben. I see you've been doing this a long time, and I appreciate your input. I visited you Genuine Domains Site and I like it very much. btw, you might be interested in knowing I registered the domain GenuinelyCreative.com just a couple of weeks ago. Heck, how would I have known I'd run into the guy who owns Genuine Domains. Just to let you know, I'm diversified alright. I have almost 600 domains, of which only 120 are .today domains. Of the 120 I own, about 20 of them are one word .today domains similar to the ones you listed, but not quite that good. However, I do believe the two word .today domains I own are just as good if not better than the single word. For example; AmazingSale.today, AutoSale.today, MarijuanaDeals.today, ComingHome.today, SportsOdds.today, and GoldRush.today. Each of these two word domains fit well with the .today extension imho.

Ben, I'll reach out to you later about not only my .today niche, but about a couple of other niche's I've carved out. Thanks for your help.

Bulloney

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[robert widener]

bulloney has domain fever , lol . my advice is get to a doctor as soon as possible ...... & do yourself a favor & cut up your credit cards .

 

[Fancy.domains]

& do yourself a favor & cut up your credit cards .

.Today is less than 2 bucks at many registrars at the moment, so probably no worries until the renewals are coming up.

 

[gilescoley]

@Fancy.domains

The problem is its not just .today names there are over 500 in other extensions too. Nobody should be that new to domaining and own that many names, its a tactic we see all the time and these domainers dont last 18 months usually, reality kicks in about November 2018 when you get those first renewal emails

My advice to new domainers is never to register more than 20 names before making your first sale.

 

[yameen]

graphicdesign.today

 

[Fancy.domains]

@Fancy.domains

The problem is its not just .today names there are over 500 in other extensions too. Nobody should be that new to domaining and own that many names, its a tactic we see all the time and these domainers dont last 18 months usually, reality kicks in about November 2018 when you get those first renewal emails

My advice to new domainers is never to register more than 20 names before making your first sale.

Sounds good...

My advice to new domainers is to not focus on hand-registering names, but rather concentrate in snapping drops and / or bid at auctions. And even more important, to analyze each name regarding existing data (search volume, history, CPC, popularity, trends and so on).

 

[ThatNameGuy]

@Fancy.domains

The problem is its not just .today names there are over 500 in other extensions too. Nobody should be that new to domaining and own that many names, its a tactic we see all the time and these domainers dont last 18 months usually, reality kicks in about November 2018 when you get those first renewal emails

My advice to new domainers is never to register more than 20 names before making your first sale.

Giles....I'm beginning to like you I'm addicted to life, but this domain thing was a total accident. I have about 5K tied up in domain names, but in the big scheme of things, that's nothing. Heck, the average price of a new care in 2017 is $33,560....hard to believe, but check it out for yourself.

Of all the names I own, I'm looking to develop just one, "FirstCarMemories".com where I've built a pretty solid business model that will generate 10M in annual revenues in 5 years. While that's a priority of mine, I do have two more priorities/opportunities that I will working on in the coming years, and one of them is buying/selling/developing domains. I need a partner to help me with this, but with the domains I own, combined with my marketing background, I believe there are both a lot of FUN and MONEY to be had. For if you're having fun, you're mostly likely making money.

That's all I got for now....I'm headed to church with one of recent domains I purchased, GodBless.Today
Maybe God will take pity on me, and help me sell it to a high powered evangelist

 

[Kate]

Anybody can make money by working hard, but if you end up making money in your business ventures it will not be because of the domain names.

Premium domain names can really boost a business by providing credibility, brandability and memorability but for the vast majority of businesses that's the opposite: the domain name is worthless if you remove the company behind it. Google would be worthless (or almost as it could work as a brandable), but a name Apple would always be worth something to countless end users.
Many end users have bad names, names that really drag them down and hinder their growth.

Even .com domains can be challenging to advertise, or simply spelling an E-mail address over the phone can be difficult. Let alone with oddballs TLDs nobody knows.
Try running a real-life business on an nTLD and you'll see
I have never come across a real business using a .today so far. There is a reason why real businesses stay away from unpopular extensions.

 

[eurorealtor]

.today suits most to a news companies, but they still reach to .com IMHO.
@Bulloney you are really hard to argue with. Let's see next year, how much of the 120 .today you'll still have. Good luck

 

[dordomai]

gracedelete.today

 

[ThatNameGuy]

Anybody can make money by working hard, but if you end up making money in your business ventures it will not be because of the domain names.

Premium domain names can really boost a business by providing credibility, brandability and memorability but for the vast majority of businesses that's the opposite: the domain name is worthless if you remove the company behind it. Google would be worthless (or almost as it could work as a brandable), but a name Apple would always be worth something to countless end users.
Many end users have bad names, names that really drag them down and hinder their growth.

Even .com domains can be challenging to advertise, or simply spelling an E-mail address over the phone can be difficult. Let alone with oddballs TLDs nobody knows.
Try running a real-life business on an nTLD and you'll see
I have never come across a real business using a .today so far. There is a reason why real businesses stay away from unpopular extensions.

Kate...you're missing the point totally. The majority of my .today domains are not meant to be businesses or brands. Take the two new .today domains I registered a few minutes ago. BoatLoans.today and
Re-Finance.today. Neither of these names are meant to be businesses or brands. However, they are meant to be sales/lead generators to anyone in the lending business who see's the value I see in them. So are they as good as BoatLoans.com or Refinance.com? No, but those two domains aren't available, and even if they were, they'd be 100K or more. Note...I did a real big no-no by putting a hyphen-dash in the name, but it wasn't available without the hyphen-dash. Besides, if the domain is appealing to my neighbors eye who is a mortgage broker, that's good enough for me Do you have any idea how many boat loans or refi's are done every year in the US?

I know you're one of my biggest fans from the legal discussion board, lol! As an fyi, I already have one of the special domain "Memories" groups working with me, and a Nationally recognized Wounded Warriors group to promote special memories for their patrons. While there's a chance I could make a buck or two from this, it's not my intent. I won't share with you who it is because I'm sure you would do your best to blow my cover....in which case if you tried, you better have good E&O or Professional Liability Insurance.

Bulloney