new gtlds What are your '.best' domain names?

[Most Bay]

Hi All,
We know, one registrant has launch great discount for registering new '.best' (dot best).
My knowledge is very limited about this extension. But I have tried to register some new names. Such as:

cap.best
bat.best
ham.best
dew.best
nap.best
tan.best
yap.best
night.best
morning.best

So What are yours?
And, Anyone can help me (or us) to explain how about the future prospects of this extension (dot best) for global market?

Thank you...

 

[Cyril.Best]

GoDaddy is absent completely.
Other registrars don't matter at all, in terms of aftermarket results.

It's not about GoDaddy (Amazing 20M users) - it's about Apple and Google (4B social media users).

We call it disruption

Classic Process (100M TAM Worldwide) : End-User -> Registrars -> Registry

Best Process : (4B TAM Worldwide) : End-User -> Apple/Google -> Best App -> .Best Registrars -> .Best Registry

So basically Godaddy, as all our .Best registrars are now strategic partners (= both clients/suppliers).

 

[Joe N]

First, I do not really like the « hype » term, because it doesn’t really mean anything in terms of marketing and registry success (unless you compare the hype to a real KPI)

Hi Cyril,

I think Brad was referencing posts that extolled the virtues of .best and built excitement for the extension by providing information and statistics that don't paint a complete picture.

Examples:

• Producing a graph showing increase in renewals without including any numbers.
• Listing names using the best app platform, but not providing total number of users, details on whether that meets targets, or future projections linked to real data.
• Sharing vague stats with a positive spin, like the comparison of GoDaddy sales/users to Apple and Google app store sales/users.

Generally, your posts have had a lot of positive energy, but have been very text heavy and light on information that allows investors to make a balanced and informed choice. That's hype. You don't have to like the word to do it.

Good luck with the extension!

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

And again, in terms of aftermarket - there the same silence like in .TOP
Both TLDs are ignored by GoDaddy.

 

[Cyril.Best]

Hi Cyril,

I think Brad was referencing posts that extolled the virtues of .best and built excitement for the extension by providing information and statistics that don't paint a complete picture.

Examples:

• Producing a graph showing increase in renewals without including any numbers.
• Listing names using the best app platform, but not providing total number of users, details on whether that meets targets, or future projections linked to real data.
• Sharing vague stats with a positive spin, like the comparison of GoDaddy sales/users to Apple and Google app store sales/users.

Generally, your posts have had a lot of positive energy, but have been very text heavy and light on information that allows investors to make a balanced and informed choice. That's hype. You don't have to like the word to do it.

Good luck with the extension!

Hi Joe,

Thanks for the feedback.

About .Best numbers: all numbers about all registries (including .Best) are opened data from ICANN CZDS so we have nothing to hide.

You can get most infos about the .Best from many stats platforms such as ntldstats.com, namestat.org, ...

We just do not disclose the prices we sold our premium names coz it could affect the buyer (in a case of domain resell for instance and, some end-users also asked us to keep that info confidential).

About the Best app, like I said, we just started the Best onboarding invitation process. We have also launched beginning June 2021 the Best app sunrise period for brand and trademarks owners to protect them before our marketing launch.

Our future projections on app downloads, registered users, .Best domains and even business/marketing/sales strategy are confidential datas that we only disclose to our investors - I think that you can easily get it.

But if you have any questions about the Best app in terms of value for the end-users, for brands or whatever unclear that you want to know, please don't hesitate and I will answer them.

About Go Daddy vs Apple/Google: I just wanted to point the fact that we have a different strategy of most existing ngtlds on the market. Not a bad thing for the others - plus, godaddy has an amazing user base and is also reselling .Best domains, - but we simply do not target the same market, and most importantly, we will not distribute our .Best domains the same way too.

I can say that our Best business model is closer to a Pinterest/Wix/Shopify mix rather than Verisign for instance.

Once more, we are not here to sell .Best domain to domain investors: that's not our business strategy.

Our Best strategy is to sell .Best domain and other value-added services (advertising, trademark protection, social commerce features, ....) to social media end-users and brands to help them promote their Best content/products/services through the Best app and .Best domains.

We believe that it is the right path to create first a solid end-user market and then a liquid aftermarket for .Best domain names. The aftermarket will be a positive collateral effect of our Best app success - not the opposite.

But I can totally understand that people can be reticent or simply do not like our Best approach as this industry has lacked of innovation since the ngtld program launch and as a result is now concentrating because none really took care of the value for the end-users since 2012.

And once more, as a domainer, if you target short-term ROI, then save your money.

Don't hesitate if you have any questions about the .Best or the Best app.

All the Best!

CF

 

[Joe N]

Hi Joe,

Thanks for the feedback.

About .Best numbers: all numbers about all registries (including .Best) are opened data from ICANN CZDS so we have nothing to hide.

You can get most infos about the .Best from many stats platforms such as ntldstats.com, namestat.org, ...

We just do not disclose the prices we sold our premium names coz it could affect the buyer (in a case of domain resell for instance and, some end-users also asked us to keep that info confidential).

About the Best app, like I said, we just started the Best onboarding invitation process. We have also launched beginning June 2021 the Best app sunrise period for brand and trademarks owners to protect them before our marketing launch.

Our future projections on app downloads, registered users, .Best domains and even business/marketing/sales strategy are confidential datas that we only disclose to our investors - I think that you can easily get it.

But if you have any questions about the Best app in terms of value for the end-users, for brands or whatever unclear that you want to know, please don't hesitate and I will answer them.

About Go Daddy vs Apple/Google: I just wanted to point the fact that we have a different strategy of most existing ngtlds on the market. Not a bad thing for the others - plus, godaddy has an amazing user base and is also reselling .Best domains, - but we simply do not target the same market, and most importantly, we will not distribute our .Best domains the same way too.

I can say that our Best business model is closer to a Pinterest/Wix/Shopify mix rather than Verisign for instance.

Once more, we are not here to sell .Best domain to domain investors: that's not our business strategy.

Our Best strategy is to sell .Best domain and other value-added services (advertising, trademark protection, social commerce features, ....) to social media end-users and brands to help them promote their Best content/products/services through the Best app and .Best domains.

We believe that it is the right path to create first a solid end-user market and then a liquid aftermarket for .Best domain names. The aftermarket will be a positive collateral effect of our Best app success - not the opposite.

But I can totally understand that people can be reticent or simply do not like our Best approach as this industry has lacked of innovation since the ngtld program launch and as a result is now concentrating because none really took care of the value for the end-users since 2012.

And once more, as a domainer, if you target short-term ROI, then save your money.

Don't hesitate if you have any questions about the .Best or the Best app.

All the Best!

CF

Thanks Cyril. It's a novel approach for sure. I don't knock it, and I wish you the best of luck. Just wanted to help clarify why some might feel that the extension has been "hyped" here.

 

[Cyril.Best]

Thanks Cyril. It's a novel approach for sure. I don't knock it, and I wish you the best of luck. Just wanted to help clarify why some might feel that the extension has been "hyped" here.

Thanks Joe. No problem, I like when people challenge us in a constructive way as it helps to clarify things with the community.

Have a nice WE.

Best,
CF

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

And again, in terms of aftermarket - there the same silence like in .TOP
Both TLDs are ignored by GoDaddy.

.TOP is even stronger.
I sold 2 .TOPs for 850 USD and 350 EUR.

In .BEST - no any inquiries, even lowball inquiries.

 

[bmugford]

It has now been (3) years since the first post in this thread.

It looks like not much is going on with this extension. As you can see below the registrations have dropped dramatically.

There are hardly any after market sales.
(42) total sales for $21,700 all time. The highest sale being Meta.best for $10K.

Only (3) sales above $1,000.

There also doesn't appear to be much going on with the promised app.

It seems like just another extension in a long line that make promises and predictions that did not pan out. The hype did not match the reality.

 

[frank-germany]

It has now been (3) years since the first post in this thread.

It looks like not much is going on with this extension. As you can see below the registrations have dropped dramatically.

There are hardly any after market sales.
(42) total sales for $21,700 all time. The highest sale being Meta.best for $10K.

Only (3) sales above $1,000.

There also doesn't appear to be much going on with the promised app.

It seems like just another extension in a long line that make promises and predictions that did not pan out. The hype did not match the reality.


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spamming in order to promote an extension is never a good sign
so I never invested in .best
bragging is no good way to promote stuff
claiming to be best is stupid

 

[Cyril.Best]

n tell that is fully part of our Best strategy to go « just down » to 50k live domain

It has now been (3) years since the first post in this thread.

It looks like not much is going on with this extension. As you can see below the registrations have dropped dramatically.

There are hardly any after market sales.
(42) total sales for $21,700 all time. The highest sale being Meta.best for $10K.

Only (3) sales above $1,000.

There also doesn't appear to be much going on with the promised app.

It seems like just another extension in a long line that make promises and predictions that did not pan out. The hype did not match the reality.

Thanks again Brad for the input - you could not find a better time for us as we just announced in France the Best app opening plans with the support of the French domainers & SEO community during the nddcamp forum this March 1st : https://nddcamp.alsace/

For the US market, after 2 years of patience (thanks to the pandemic), the Best app (www.app.best) will be presented in Washington during INTA 2022 in May.

So, please allow me a short update about the .Best for namepros users:

First, regarding .Best live domains, your extract from ntldstats is totally right : I even announced it here in my previous thread in June 2021 (read below my previous thread) : "I can even tell that is fully part of our Best strategy to go « just down » to 50k live domains by the end of 2021."

And this is exactly where we are right now! See how good I am in prediction.

BUT, what you did not mention again or do not show here is that our .best renewal traction is exactly the opposite : Indeed, since 3+ years our monthly renewal traction is constantly growing!

We probably do not share the same marketing consideration as :

+40 successive months of solid renewal growth has nothing to do with the hype!

Especially during the pandemic with +10M domains losses from 2020 to 2021!

Plus, None is measuring the success of a TLD on live domains but on renewals and domain usage. So please, do not hesitate to show the +40 months renewal traction of the .Best to namepros users.

On live domains, I even have another prediction: our internal objective is now to go around 35K live .Best domains in the next coming weeks to liberate again few names for our Best app end-users.

Why ?

1. We would like to totally clean the .Best registry of abusive registrations for the brands,
2. We would like to liberate again few good names for our social media end-users,

Furthermore, as I explained many times before, we don't make money on selling domains (not our strategy) but on selling added-value services to end-users: social media users, brands & business owners.

This year, we started offering pre-connected .Best domains directly from Apple, Google and our Best registrars.

We even just became the first TLD with domains distributed and sold directly by Apple on the App store - now on a monthly basis : $0.99/month: Test it!

As for the Best app launch with our registrars: In France, Gandi just signed a deal with us to offer 100K .Best domains (pre-connected to our Best app) to reward and onboard their best french users. Gandi campaign will start on 1st April 2022 and will be replicated with different registrars in several countries.

That said, I can totally understand that you do not understand or simply do not like our Best approach.

Once again, and as I said earlier, as a domainer, if you target short-term ROI on the .Best, then save your money.

It took about 10 years for most platforms coz end-users acquisition needs money + time.

Chris (Sommerlatte) was the one that probably invests the sooner registering many .best domains and the one that sold meta.best for $10K.

---

For those who already own a .Best domain you can now:

- Download the Best app: https://app.best/download
- Connect your .best domain to the Best app: https://connect.best

I saw some of you already started to connect their .best domains.

Once connected, you'll get a free website to share your best content, brands, experiences and start monetizing them. See for ex: https://realestate.best/

We'll add +20 content monetizations partners in the next weeks.

We even added a personal mode if you just want to share your best life/family moments (out of the app). i.e : https://milans.best/, https://linos.best/, ...

FYI: Next Best app version is coming Q2 2022 and will include "best or not" swipe, ranking algorithm, .best email, user certification, in-app notifications, and social commerce features for brand and business owners.

As per the demand of some domainers, in Q3/Q4 2022, we'll probably add a domain reselling feature for those who simply want to connect their .best domain to the Best app (without posting content) to resell it to end-users.

Let me know if you need more information.

In this uncertain period, I wish you all the Best in your different projects.

CF

 

[bmugford]

Thanks again Brad for the input - you could not find a better time for us as we just announced in France the Best app opening plans with the support of the French domainers & SEO community during the nddcamp forum this March 1st : https://nddcamp.alsace/

For the US market, after 2 years of patience (thanks to the pandemic), the Best app (www.app.best) will be presented in Washington during INTA 2022 in May.

So, please allow me a short update about the .Best for namepros users:

First, regarding .Best live domains, your extract from ntldstats is totally right : I even announced it here in my previous thread in June 2021 (read below my previous thread) : "I can even tell that is fully part of our Best strategy to go « just down » to 50k live domains by the end of 2021."

And this is exactly where we are right now! See how good I am in prediction.

BUT, what you did not mention again or do not show here is that our .best renewal traction is exactly the opposite : Indeed, since 3+ years our monthly renewal traction is constantly growing!

We probably do not share the same marketing consideration as :

+40 successive months of solid renewal growth has nothing to do with the hype!

Especially during the pandemic with +10M domains losses from 2020 to 2021!

Plus, None is measuring the success of a TLD on live domains but on renewals and domain usage. So please, do not hesitate to show the +40 months renewal traction of the .Best to namepros users.

On live domains, I even have another prediction: our internal objective is now to go around 35K live .Best domains in the next coming weeks to liberate again few names for our Best app end-users.

Why ?

1. We would like to totally clean the .Best registry of abusive registrations for the brands,
2. We would like to liberate again few good names for our social media end-users,

Furthermore, as I explained many times before, we don't make money on selling domains (not our strategy) but on selling added-value services to end-users: social media users, brands & business owners.

This year, we started offering pre-connected .Best domains directly from Apple, Google and our Best registrars.

We even just became the first TLD with domains distributed and sold directly by Apple on the App store - now on a monthly basis : $0.99/month: Test it!

As for the Best app launch with our registrars: In France, Gandi just signed a deal with us to offer 100K .Best domains (pre-connected to our Best app) to reward and onboard their best french users. Gandi campaign will start on 1st April 2022 and will be replicated with different registrars in several countries.

That said, I can totally understand that you do not understand or simply do not like our Best approach.

Once again, and as I said earlier, as a domainer, if you target short-term ROI on the .Best, then save your money.

It took about 10 years for most platforms coz end-users acquisition needs money + time.

Chris (Sommerlatte) was the one that probably invests the sooner registering many .best domains and the one that sold meta.best for $10K.

---

For those who already own a .Best domain you can now:

- Download the Best app: https://app.best/download
- Connect your .best domain to the Best app: https://connect.best

I saw some of you already started to connect their .best domains.

Once connected, you'll get a free website to share your best content, brands, experiences and start monetizing them. See for ex: https://realestate.best/

We'll add +20 content monetizations partners in the next weeks.

We even added a personal mode if you just want to share your best life/family moments (out of the app). i.e : https://milans.best/, https://linos.best/, ...

FYI: Next Best app version is coming Q2 2022 and will include "best or not" swipe, ranking algorithm, .best email, user certification, in-app notifications, and social commerce features for brand and business owners.

As per the demand of some domainers, in Q3/Q4 2022, we'll probably add a domain reselling feature for those who simply want to connect their .best domain to the Best app (without posting content) to resell it to end-users.

Let me know if you need more information.

In this uncertain period, I wish you all the Best in your different projects.

CF

You had a similar sales pitch after my year 2 update on 6/11/2021.

It doesn't seem like much has changed since then.

Best of luck.

Brad

 

[Cyril.Best]

You had a similar sales pitch after my year 2 update on 6/11/2021.

It doesn't seem like much has changed since then.

Best of luck.

Brad

You're right: same pitch, same strategy, +40mo of renewal growth, ...

But after 3 years of development, 2-year of pandemic, 1 year of app invitation and testing, since 1st March 2022 we are now live in stores for our end-users and ready to execute our vision.

Thanks for the support.

Cyril

 

[bmugford]

It still doesn't look like much is going on with .BEST, despite all the hype over the years.

1.) There is virtually no resale market.

There are (4) reported sales in 2022 for $1,303 total.

2.) Total registrations continue to drop monthly.

3.) The.best APP is still basically non-existent.

If you look at the APP on the Google Play Store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.best) it shows the following -

Installs 50+.
No reviews.

4.) The registry is also now going down the path, some would call it a protection racket, of trying to collect revenue from TM holders for blocking worthless domains.

https://domainincite.com/27871-another-single-tld-brand-protection-service-planned

This again, is a good lesson in hype not matching reality.

Brad

 

[noneisnone]

did a quick search to see whats available out of 3000 commonly used English words about 1000 are available to register not really a good sign for the extension ^^ to put it in perspective for the same list only 20 names are available to register in the .us extension

if anyone is interested in the names pm me i will send you the list

 

[bmugford]

Almost 10 months after the last post, not much appears to be happening.

.BEST has (10) reported sales in the last year for $3,716 total. All the reported sales were in the XXX range.

The app now has "100+" downloads on the Play Store with no reviews.

I guess you can add this to the long list of new extensions that overpromised and underdelivered.

Brad

 

[bmugford]

Another update... 2+ years later.

The extension has 71K domains in the zone file.

The app on Google shows 10K+ downloads.

The extension is still dead when it comes to resale.

(11) sales for $4,268 in the last 2 years.

Of those, (4) were one character domains going in a range from $193 - $565.

Brad

 

[bmugford]

It's probably time to stick a fork in this extension.

There have been a total of (65) reported sales on NameBio for a total of $33K going back to 2017.

It's kind of a good learning lesson when it comes to marketing horseshit.

Look at all the new investors (AKA the bag holders) who were lured in by the hype.

Brad

 

[HiFiNames.com]

I am not renewing best domains expiring / expired
Biology.best
Zoology.best
BusinessLending.best

 

[Vertibox]

It's a poor extension (as all extensions generally are since extensions started being pumped out as fast as they could dream them up from thin air), as it isn't good English to say things this way.
That won't change, ever.

Another one bites the dust.