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]

We lost faith in you when your renewal rate discounts were not honored. Dropped most of our single word .best portfolio. Seems like things got very unprofessional and we were disappointed. We couldn't even give away some great dictionary word .best domains as it seemed prominent domainer's and investor's had no interest .best.
That being said, we did have high hopes in .best.
We kept a few .best and still, no interest.

As a reminder, we have honored all the renewal rate discounts and price changes that were announced (more than a year ago). All domains registered after our price change announcement were all migrated to standard domains.

We even already offered the opportunity to domainers to renew all their .Best domains with a 50% discount on December 2019 already.

If you had any interest in .Best domains, I am sorry to hear that you did not see or not use those renewals promotions when they were live with your preferred registrars: Many did! Domainers from namepros did.

The good/best news is that if you kept a few, you will still be able to renew all of them for 50% off during the BEST CHRISTMAS promotion.

See below :

• BEST CHRISTMAS: All .Best renewals (including premiums) are 50% discount from December 15 to December 31st 2020 without limitations. This also includes .Best multi-year renewals. Check that .Best promo discount with your preferred registrars. (Dynadot, Namesilo, Epik, Namecheap, Netim, Domain Cost Club, ...)

If you considered our actual BEST BLACKFRIDAY 2020 registration promo pricing (at $0.75) + our BEST CHRISTMAS standard renewal 50% discount (at $7.5), it means that anybody can get/register a .best domain with a total of $0.75 + $7.5 = $8.25 for a 2 years of registration (or $4.125 / year).

Note also, that this renewal promo has no limitations in terms of nb years or premiums.

But like I said many times earlier here, domain pricing doesn't mean anything except for those investing in the long term.

Understand that domain usage is the only game to create the necessary conditions of an aftermarket.

Honestly, I still do not understand the reason for investing in ngltds in the short term. It's total nonsense. No matter what ngtld you like or are investing in, if you plan to buy a ngltd domain to resell it short-term, please, save your money, or chase directly the buyer. If you are investing and just waiting for an offer, you will have to wait until the domain usage is active and this could take years.

FYI, despite this tough period, we sold many .best premium names this year, but trust me we chased directly the buyers.

As for the market, let me please also re-explain what will it mean to own a .Best domain in 2021:

With THE.Best, we will be the first TLD to offer a free website + hosting for a .Best domain registration.

I repeat it if still not clear: With THE.Best : 1 .Best domain registered = 1 free website !

• No other TLD is doing that: Neither the dotcom or any other TLD.
• No social media is doing that: Neither the FB, IG, Pinterest, ...
• No web builder is doing that: Neither WIX, Squarespace, weebly, ...
• No CMS is doing that: Neither Wordpress, ...

But the great news is that we will not only offer a free website to our .Best domain registrants, but we'll also provide our domain registrants free organic traffic for their .best websites (from our Best social media app), and also monetization sources (from ad partners and social challenges).

In case it's still unclear, we are not here to sell domains, but to provide the maximum value to our end users.

As such:

- We'll provide a free website to merchants and business to help them promote their best products,
- We'll provide a free website to social media creators to curate content and monetize their audience,
- We'll provide a social media app to help social media browsers discover the best products and services.

It's a total brand new world that we have been created since 2 years: a Social Commerce world !

Trust me :

• 2000-2010 was the rise of e-commerce
• 2010-2020 was the rise of social media
• 2020-2030 will be the rise of social commerce

Social media users (4B) will become sellers.

And I don't ask you to have faith in me (to retake your words), I just ask you to look at how is evolving the digital market.

- E-commerce will evolve to social commerce
- Social Media will evolve into social commerce

FYI:

- 30% of online shoppers say they would are likely to buy direct from a social media network like Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter or Snapchat.

- Instagram data says that 70% of shoppers look to Instagram for product discovery : https://www.facebook.com/business/instagram/shopping

- Instagram is actually transforming its business model to enable social browsers to buy directly from social creators.

- TikTok just announced a partnership with Shopify.

- Whatsapp will become the new social "PayPal"

- In China, Social Shopping via videos is currently all the rage. There are efforts from short video apps like Douyin (TikTok’s Chinese sister) that match merchants with content creators for promotion.

- During the coronavirus lockdown, millions of consumers relied on live videos to check out products and posed questions to merchants remotely, a practice that has won endorsement from local governments as a way to drum up domestic consumption. In just Q1 this year, more than 4 million live shopping sessions took place in China.

But that's not only a natural evolution of social media, E-commerce platforms are also evolving to social commerce:

- Chinese e-commerce giant and pioneer of shoppable videos Alibaba is looking to recruit over 100,000 international influencers this year – rising to 1 million influencers by 2023 – to help brands sell more across the globe through the group’s international retail platform, AliExpress, which claims to have 180 million annual active consumers :

https://twitter.com/x/status/1315938584525000705

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Like I said earlier, It's not anymore a question of faith, in 2020 social commerce is a reality.

Hope this will help you better understand what does/will it means to get a .Best domain and being part of THE.Best social commerce.

Wish you all the .Best for your business.

Best,
CF

 

[bmugford]

Being the registry itself is a different business model that being a registrant.

Despite all the stuff that has been said, the promises, the hype....

.BEST is basically a dead investment as far as domain investors go. The numbers prove that.

NameBio shows 31 total reported sales for $8,623. Top tier single words are going for low $XXX.

Not real impressive.

Brad

 

[NonHipster]

We disagree.
We had .best domains at 3 different registrars and the renewal promo that you ran between Thanksgiving and Christmas 2019 was a complete mess.
The prices were all over the place and seemed exorbitant and was not consistent from registrar to registrar.
Of the 3 various registrars we used, we were told by .best that the registrar did not have to comply with your price and that your price was only a suggestion, and that each registrar was allowed to dictate the renewal price.
We had discussions with each registrar and .best regarding this issue and we felt that we were being given the royal run-around and never got satisfactory resolution.

 

[Cyril.Best]

We disagree.
We had .best domains at 3 different registrars and the renewal promo that you ran between Thanksgiving and Christmas 2019 was a complete mess.
The prices were all over the place and seemed exorbitant and was not consistent from registrar to registrar.
Of the 3 various registrars we used, we were told by .best that the registrar did not have to comply with your price and that your price was only a suggestion, and that each registrar was allowed to dictate the renewal price.
We had discussions with each registrar and .best regarding this issue and we felt that we were being given the royal run-around and never got satisfactory resolution.

Dear,

One more time: I am sorry if you missed the 2019 BF .Best promo but what you are saying isn't true.

Of course, each registrar is always free to decide to sign or not each .best promotion agreements that we propose to them; but once signed, they are applying it (simply because it is under contract).

As I said earlier, last year many registrars applied for the BF 2019 promo and many registrants renewed their .best in advance. (many .best domainers did!). I don't want to make a false assumption coz it was a year ago, but I think that @Bob Hawkes did (through domain cost club if I remember well). @Bob Hawkes correct me if I am wrong.

As proof, please find below an extract of the BF 2019 newsletter that was sent by dynadot (Dynadot was already applying the BF 2019 promo last year). I can also retrieve social media posts from some of our .best registrars if it's not enough to show you our good faith

Moreover, FYI, last year we did not only offer a 50% discount on .best renewals, but we even also offer 1 free .best domain to Dynadot existing customers, same with OVH in France, ...

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As for this new BEST CHRISTMAS 2020 promotion (50% discount on renewals from December 15 to December 31st 2020), we have selected and signed an agreement for our .best existing community with the following registrars:

• Namecheap
• Dynadot
• Epik
• Domain Cost Club
• NameSilo
• Netim
• Porkbun
• URL Solutions
• Openprovider

Like that, nobody will be able to say that they didn't know

But one more time, do not invest your money in ngtlds domains if you are expecting short term sales.

If you are expecting short-term sales on ngtlds: Save your money! No matter the price you can get.

I am totally free speech on that point coz as I explained it many times here before: we don't make money on domainers. This is absolutely not our business model. The .Best registry business model is selling subscriptions & advertising to business and brand owners to help them promote/sell their best products/services and offer value-added services to social media users through THE.Best social media.

And trust me, if our business model was selling domains to domainers, we were advertising all domainers forums and aftermarket platforms every day since 2 years. And our .best marketing team was spending all the day on namepros, DNF, and all social media domainers group...

As I explained here before, the .Best marketing efforts are fully dedicated to the usage of its .Best domains coz history showed that this is what will make the domain market liquid both for the registry and our .best domain community (registrants/investors).

Don't hesitate to contact me if you had any problems renewing your .best domains during the holiday season with the registrar list below.

All the .Best,

CF

 

[NonHipster]

Dear,

One more time: I am sorry if you missed the 2019 BF .Best promo but what you are saying isn't true.

Of course, each registrar is always free to decide to sign or not each .best promotion agreements that we propose to them; but once signed, they are applying it (simply because it is under contract).

As I said earlier, last year many registrars applied for the BF 2019 promo and many registrants renewed their .best in advance. (many .best domainers did!). I don't want to make a false assumption coz it was a year ago, but I think that @Bob Hawkes did (through domain cost club if I remember well). @Bob Hawkes correct me if I am wrong.

As proof, please find below an extract of the BF 2019 newsletter that was sent by dynadot (Dynadot was already applying the BF 2019 promo last year). I can also retrieve social media posts from some of our .best registrars if it's not enough to show you our good faith

Moreover, FYI, last year we did not only offer a 50% discount on .best renewals, but we even also offer 1 free .best domain to Dynadot existing customers, same with OVH in France, ...

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As for this new BEST CHRISTMAS 2020 promotion (50% discount on renewals from December 15 to December 31st 2020), we have selected and signed an agreement for our .best existing community with the following registrars:

• Namecheap
• Dynadot
• Epik
• Domain Cost Club
• NameSilo
• Netim
• Porkbun
• URL Solutions
• Openprovider

Like that, nobody will be able to say that they didn't know

But one more time, do not invest your money in ngtlds domains if you are expecting short term sales.

If you are expecting short-term sales on ngtlds: Save your money! No matter the price you can get.

I am totally free speech on that point coz as I explained it many times here before: we don't make money on domainers. This is absolutely not our business model. The .Best registry business model is selling subscriptions & advertising to business and brand owners to help them promote/sell their best products/services and offer value-added services to social media users through THE.Best social media.

And trust me, if our business model was selling domains to domainers, we were advertising all domainers forums and aftermarket platforms every day since 2 years. And our .best marketing team was spending all the day on namepros, DNF, and all social media domainers group...

As I explained here before, the .Best marketing efforts are fully dedicated to the usage of its .Best domains coz history showed that this is what will make the domain market liquid both for the registry and our .best domain community (registrants/investors).

Don't hesitate to contact me if you had any problems renewing your .best domains during the holiday season with the registrar list below.

All the .Best,

CF

Dear,

One more time: I am sorry if you missed the 2019 BF .Best promo but what you are saying isn't true.

Of course, each registrar is always free to decide to sign or not each .best promotion agreements that we propose to them; but once signed, they are applying it (simply because it is under contract).

As I said earlier, last year many registrars applied for the BF 2019 promo and many registrants renewed their .best in advance. (many .best domainers did!). I don't want to make a false assumption coz it was a year ago, but I think that @Bob Hawkes did (through domain cost club if I remember well). @Bob Hawkes correct me if I am wrong.

As proof, please find below an extract of the BF 2019 newsletter that was sent by dynadot (Dynadot was already applying the BF 2019 promo last year). I can also retrieve social media posts from some of our .best registrars if it's not enough to show you our good faith

Moreover, FYI, last year we did not only offer a 50% discount on .best renewals, but we even also offer 1 free .best domain to Dynadot existing customers, same with OVH in France, ...

---

As for this new BEST CHRISTMAS 2020 promotion (50% discount on renewals from December 15 to December 31st 2020), we have selected and signed an agreement for our .best existing community with the following registrars:

• Namecheap
• Dynadot
• Epik
• Domain Cost Club
• NameSilo
• Netim
• Porkbun
• URL Solutions
• Openprovider

Like that, nobody will be able to say that they didn't know

But one more time, do not invest your money in ngtlds domains if you are expecting short term sales.

If you are expecting short-term sales on ngtlds: Save your money! No matter the price you can get.

I am totally free speech on that point coz as I explained it many times here before: we don't make money on domainers. This is absolutely not our business model. The .Best registry business model is selling subscriptions & advertising to business and brand owners to help them promote/sell their best products/services and offer value-added services to social media users through THE.Best social media.

And trust me, if our business model was selling domains to domainers, we were advertising all domainers forums and aftermarket platforms every day since 2 years. And our .best marketing team was spending all the day on namepros, DNF, and all social media domainers group...

As I explained here before, the .Best marketing efforts are fully dedicated to the usage of its .Best domains coz history showed that this is what will make the domain market liquid both for the registry and our .best domain community (registrants/investors).

Don't hesitate to contact me if you had any problems renewing your .best domains during the holiday season with the registrar list below.

All the .Best,

CF

You are sadly mistaken, we always speak the truth!

 

[Cyril.Best]

.Best Christmas 2020 Promotion is live: 50% on renewals from 15-31 December 2020.

Here it is :

https://twitter.com/x/status/1338782700933701633

 

[NameJi]

BEST CHRISTMAS: All .Best renewals (including premiums) are 50% discount from December 15 to December 31st 2020 without limitations. This also includes .Best multi-year renewals. Check that .Best promo discount with your preferred registrars. (Dynadot, Namesilo, Epik, Namecheap, Netim, Domain Cost Club, ...)

Hello @Cyril.Best -- Just tried to renew .best premium domain name at @Dynadot . Unfortunately, it is showing the full renewal price. Also followed-up with Dynadot online support, they echo that the discount is not for premium domains. Could you please help?

 

[Cyril.Best]

Hello @Cyril.Best -- Just tried to renew .best premium domain name at @Dynadot . Unfortunately, it is showing the full renewal price. Also followed-up with Dynadot online support, they echo that the discount is not for premium domains. Could you please help?

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Yes, I will. Let me send an email to the Dynadot Team beginning next week (as it's the WE now).

I know that some registrars prefer to handle their premium list manually (not using automatic EPP as for standard domains) so that could be the reason why the premium price did not automatically show up with 50% discount at Dynadot.

Please send also an email to our .Best team : [email protected] with the .best premium domains list that you would like to renew in advance at Dynadot so that we can keep you in touch.

Best, CF

 

[Cyril.Best]

Yes, I will. Let me send an email to the Dynadot Team beginning next week (as it's the WE now).

I know that some registrars prefer to handle their premium list manually (not using automatic EPP as for standard domains) so that could be the reason why the premium price did not automatically show up with 50% discount at Dynadot.

Please send also an email to our .Best team : [email protected] with the .best premium domains list that you would like to renew in advance at Dynadot so that we can keep you in touch.

Best, CF

FYI, Mail has been sent to @Dynadot. I will keep you posted.

 

[monotheist]

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...

I booked 3 of them today. However I am skeptical about their resale value.

Ranch best
Mutual fund best
Car loan best

 

[Cyril.Best]

Hello @Cyril.Best -- Just tried to renew .best premium domain name at @Dynadot . Unfortunately, it is showing the full renewal price. Also followed-up with Dynadot online support, they echo that the discount is not for premium domains. Could you please help?

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Hi,

@Dynadot just answered me.

It should be "just" a technical (EPP) problem between Dynadot and our back end operator to get the right pricing on .best premiums. @Dynadot team is already working on it to fix it.

Don't forget to send us the list of your .best domains by email : [email protected] so that the .best team can follow your specific case and make the necessary double check to keep you posted once the pb is fixed @Dynadot.

Best,

CF

 

[Cyril.Best]

FYI, Mail has been sent to @Dynadot. I will keep you posted.

The premium problem has been fixed now @Dynadot.

Wish you the .Best for your renewals.

CF

 

[karthick55]

Psychiatrist.best

 

[ArielT]

Streaming dot best

 

[bmugford]

Well, it has been 2+ years since this thread was started.

There is still no aftermarket. NameBio shows (2) .best sales in 2021 for $309 total dollars.

The extension is losing registrations.

Add it to the long list of extensions that over-promised and under-delivered. It clearly did not live up to the hype.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Zero support/participation from GoDaddy.
That's why.

 

[xynames]

There are multiple threads here where OP has claimed to have sold or about to sell .best domains for six figures or the two domains hotel / hotels.best for one million. None of these supposed sales has been verified.

Assuming this is true (I don’t believe it’s true - see below), it tends to mean that any .best domains that are deemed to be worth something (capable of being sold to end users for real money right away) are being retained for sale by the registrar itself.

It’s nice to dream but realism is what is required when there are many hotel or hotels dot extensions that have sold recently for mid to high three figures (EXample: hotels.ly $568.; hotels.ws $1250.; hotels.nu $983.) and many more available for that or less.

Why yet another non dot com extension would be worth 1000 - 2000X more than these is inexplicable - indeed, unjustified.

 

[xynames]

Indeed, if you go to hotels dot best there are clues that it is nothing more than a blog created by the OP , Cyril dot best himself. And hotel dot best resolves to nothing. Neither clearly sold at all, let alone for “about a million.”

 

[Cyril.Best]

Well, it has been 2+ years since this thread was started.

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Thanks Brad for the input.

Please allow me the opportunity to provide an update about the .Best for namepros.

First, regarding .Best live domains, your extract from ntldstats is totally right.

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. (FYI : down to 50K a registry has lower annual ICANN fees)

Why ?

1. The Best app is now live in stores and as explained here before, we are now fully focusing on the usage of our .Best domains (not #regs). To download the Best app : https://app.best/
2. To clean the .Best registry of prior/old/abusive brand/trademark registrations,
3. To liberate few names for new .Best end-users & domainers,

How ?

Since 1.1.2021, we have decided to increase our « 1st year promo wholesale reg price » from $1 to almost $4 with all our .Best registrars in promotion.

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Where I do not agree with you is about the hype.

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).

For a registry, the « success », if this is what you would like to mention, is something that you don’t measure from « live domains » but from « domain renewals ».

A registry success is not having 7M live domains (in china). Doesn’t mean anything to sell cheap domains in China if you don’t renew them. Ask .icu, .xyz, or .loan about it

So, as we are here talking about success, let me please share the .Best renewal evolution chart of the .best registry since 3 years :

As you see now, it’s not about a registry hype : It’s all about a registry success build on a real and long-term usage strategy of .Best domains through the Best app!

Now, I perfectly get that the success of the .Best registry doesn’t mean the success of .Best domain investors.

History shown that (success) difference between registries and domainers is all about Time.

Time to recruit/acquire enough end-users (=potential domain buyers) to make the market liquid enough for domain investors.

Let me just remind here to people why most ngtlds domainers failed and will continue to fail investing in ngtld if they learn from people asking for hype or short-term return on investment.

1. you will fail if you listen people telling you that there is a possible aftermarket without a prior end-user market : It’s simply impossible.

2. Secondly, there is no overnight success : It tooks about 10Y to the .com and most cctlds to create a solid aftermarket.

And it’s about the same for almost every digital asset : Bitcoin was created in 2009 and the big ramp-up for investors was : 2020 (11Years later!)

Now, I am not sayin that because value needs time, nothing happened or will happen in the next years but if you are not able to wait and renew your ngtlds domains on the long-term, then please save your money.

As for the .Best, to answer your question, don’t worry, I will not report here all our .Best premium sales but if you follow us on twitter, you might already know that we sold more premium names in the past year than we did from the beginning : site.best, bestofthe.best, party.best, human.best, 365.best, whatis.best, makeup.best, highest.best, native.best, orlando.best, vps.best, roi.best, fragrance.best, trading.best, ride.best, escrow.best, red.best, bali.best, …

But once again, please save your money if you still believe that people will run/chase after you because you have a great .Best domain in hand in the next weeks. It's not gonna happened like that.

Last week, I received a call from a .Best domainer that bought missouri.best in 2018 and was upset because he received a great buying proposal on sedo while he did not renew the domain.

Of course that’s domainer life but if you work and plan your roi on ngtld on the short term, you will fail and /or be disappointed at the end.

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Lastly, as for the Best app, I just want to mention that the Best app in now live in all app stores : https://app.best/

And talking about the hype (as you might like it) :

1. the .Best is now the first and unique registry to sell domains directly from Apple and Google !

2. A .Best domain gives you now instant access to a free website through the Best app.

So you can now get either your .Best domain :

a) Directly from your favorite registrars (starting $4 for the first year)

b) Directly from Apple or Google through the Best app (for less than $0.99 / month)

We started the onboarding process from private invitations to allow Best Brands, official trademarks and social media influencers/creators to register first but if you want to get your private invitation register here : https://app.best/register/

Ex of .Best domains already connected to the Best app : https://show.best/ , https://joao.best/ , https://pizzas.best/ , https://sonia.best/, https://miami.best/ , https://vegas.best/ , https://artist.best/ , https://money.best/ , https://monsieur.best/ , https://music.best/ , https://laptops.best/ , https://mickael.best/ , https://cars.best/ , https://restaurants.best/ , https://heloise.best/ , https://confitures.best/ , https://wines.best/ , https://design.best/ , https://fashionista.best/ , https://luxury.best/ , https://chillout.best/ , …

All the Best

CF

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

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