sales Unusual Week for Domain Sales: Non .Coms Outnumber .Coms 11-9 on New Top 20 Chart

[Ron Jackson]

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. As you know, .Coms normally dominate our weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart but this was one of those rare weeks when that wasn't the case. The .coms did, as usual, post the week's biggest sale and they had more chart entries than any other single TLD - nine in all - however, this time around the track, non .com domains shared in the bounty as well. They piled up 11 places on the leader board including seven non .com gTLDs (five of which were new gTLDs, including one of the year’s 10 biggest in that category) and four ccTLDs. You can get all of the details here: http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2018/20180815.htm

 

[Brands.International]

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. As you know, .Coms normally dominate our weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart but this was one of those rare weeks when that wasn't the case. The .coms did, as usual, post the week's biggest sale and they had more chart entries than any other single TLD - nine in all - however, this time around the track, non .com domains shared in the bounty as well. They piled up 11 places on the leader board including seven non .com gTLDs (five of which were new gTLDs, including one of the year’s 10 biggest in that category) and four ccTLDs. You can get all of the details here: http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2018/20180815.htm

Very interesting read, thank you

 

[Grego85]

get used to it, this will be common in the 2020's.

 

[NYJimbo]

AirConditioning.online = $19,500

I really want to see what they do with this.

 

[werty]

I think it's mainly because supply/prices are tighter in .com not because there is more demand for non .com extensions. Example, how much would AirConditioning dot com cost if it were for sale? But this is my opinion of course and I could be wrong. Premium .coms are on strong hands while much inferior extensions might be on weaker hands.

 

[Brands.International]

AirConditioning.online = $19,500

I really want to see what they do with this.

I just assume: probably they will be selling airconditioning devices online, I would be really surprised by any other use of this domain name

 

[jamesau]

get used to it, this will be common in the 2020's.

If that is the case 'domaining' will be dead.

Those premium domain sales were straight from the registry. There is no room for domainers in new gTLDs.

 

[vravis9]

I read this before...
https://www.thedomains.com/2018/07/...e-list-of-first-half-premium-sales-for-radix/

The above mentioned sales from Radix are occured in first half of this year... I.e 1st Jan to 30th June...

So the week is not so miraculous in terms of sales... just they found their place in list but sale was done long ago...

Am I correct!?

 

[urljunky]

I just assume: probably they will be selling airconditioning devices online, I would be really surprised by any other use of this domain name

It could be big service company and use it for PPC campaign.

 

[Furquan]

Interesting,

 

[lock]

If that is the case 'domaining' will be dead.

Those premium domain sales were straight from the registry. There is no room for domainers in new gTLDs.

There are plentry of gems available at low prices not every premium is 1k a year.
Sure there are plenty with no room for movement and you could also say all the good dot coms are taken. One can argue and prove both points.

 

[Furquan]

If that is the case 'domaining' will be dead.

Those premium domain sales were straight from the registry. There is no room for domainers in new gTLDs.

I don't think its called domainimg dead, but I call it "no more .com dominated market".

Today I saw p2p dot co appeared in namebio for more then $17k

 

[cooljub]

AirConditioning.online = $19,500

how much would AirConditioning dot com cost if it were for sale?

probably they will be selling airconditioning devices online

It could be big service company and use it for PPC campaign.

I think decent 'air quality' names might be good to have right now.

 

[BRANDERX]

AirConditioning.online is a mess, doesn't mean much actually. lack of creativity probably led them to making the purchase.

imo

 

[GeorgeK]

I read this before...
https://www.thedomains.com/2018/07/...e-list-of-first-half-premium-sales-for-radix/

The above mentioned sales from Radix are occured in first half of this year... I.e 1st Jan to 30th June...

So the week is not so miraculous in terms of sales... just they found their place in list but sale was done long ago...

Am I correct!?

Yes, DNJournal even stated so in their article:

Those came from a list Radix Registry just released of their top premium domain sales in the first half of this year.

Rather than trickle them out week-by-week (where they'd have little impact on DNJournal's weekly chart), Radix batched them into one semi-annual report (which will have an unusual impact this one week, but things will revert back to normal in future weeks).

 

[Bob Hawkes]

i was interested that while it is still true that the vast majority of major ngTLD sales are for short names (either 2 or 3 letter, or the short single words like home.loans), we now have two (at least) that are long and at relatively high prices.

BroadwayTickets in nyc extension (15+3) sold for $25,000
AirConditioning in online extension (15+6) sold for $19,500

Does anyone know of similar length, or longer, ngTLDs that have sold in $20k + range?

BTW I agree that most large sales are registry, and that by releasing them at once, gives more impact and you should take a longer term view. A better measure is to look at the top sales YTD. On that list at DNJ I think currently 5, including a couple in top 10, are new extensions. If that holds up rest of year, it will be a good year for the ngTLDs.

Had the .news sales package deal been released with the exact individual prices ( 5 sold for over $19,000) each would have dominated the week announced. If the registries are going to release information I think they should do it fully and weekly. Just mho.

 

[JB Lions]

get used to it, this will be common in the 2020's.

There was hope in the beginning of the thread, then reality came a knockin'

But it's never too late, you can always be....

 

[Josytal]

Thanks for sharing. Happy to see nTLDs picking up.

 

[JB Lions]

Thanks for sharing. Happy to see nTLDs picking up.

It's not picking up. You just had 26 weeks of Registry sales dumped in that chart vs. 1 week of .com sales. Then there were only 5 that made that top 20 list.

 

[Grego85]

^ still not too shabby.