domain What do you think about my new gTLD domain? Advice thread.

[Brands.International]

In this thread, I will give you my opinion about your submitted new gTLD domain name.

I will focus not only on its numerical appraisal, but also will take other factors into consideration (mainly renewal fee and what you do with the name, where it is presented, etc), to debate whether it is a good investment choice (in my opinion). Just because I am a new gTLD investor it does not mean that I will give good opinion on crappy names - so I will tell you when I see no value or potential. To see examples of new gTLD domain names I personally invest in, you can check my website www.brands.international.

Rules:
1. Only 1 new gTLD domain name can be submitted daily per 1 Namepros user.
2. This thread is related to new gTLD domain names only - I can not give you my opinion about .com, .net, org or ccTLD names like .de or .co.uk names, as I do not have enough direct experience with them.
3. I am not responsible for any damages related to my advice - it is only my personal opinion, although I will really try my best to give reasonable, and well-balanced opinion.
4. You can submit only domain name you personally own.
5. For security and privacy purposes, all names submitted and discussed in replies must be in
keyword(s) / gTLD extension format (for example royal / estate, or bestgames / online)
6. Comments/opinions/appraisals from other members on any name submitted here are very welcome ​

 

[Brands.International]

highest / bid

Of course I already have my own opinion on it - nevertheless I am interested in yours.
Thanks.

I like it This is actually very clever investment and I will write in detail why:

.Bid is (from semantic point of view) extension which I personally consider a narrow one. That means, you can have only few really good combos there. Usually such high quality combos are marked with higher premium pricing (there are logical reasons behind that), but this is not the case here, which is very good.

So why I think this is a good one:

First, I will start with 1 rather negative point - obviously, there will be only limited number of end users who will find it interesting and useful, but there will be some (it can basically serve as memorable brandable for auction house, or betting site, etc). So pool of endusers is not small, but also not super large.

Now the positive one:

You managed to reg name in narrow extension, and that name is nice combo, but still you secured that with standard renewal. The best part is that you keep the name on registrar where the renewal price for .bid is exactly 0.96 USD / year. Which means that one can renew this name 10 years ahead with cost of 9.6 USD. It really can not much get better then this, and this is one of the reasons more and more people are interested in new gTLDs!

Another positive one: there are no close alternatives available for standard renewal, at least I can not find them now. In 2018, I think probability of resale is 1% for any given year, if the name has BIN price 2k. (It can maybe achieve higher price, but then that probabilty will go sharply down, imo).

Now lets do the math: 1 year cost: 0.96 USD. Projected sale price for any given year is calculated as 0.01*2000 USD = 20 USD.

So this is a great example of new gTLD investment which makes perfect sense, domain is extremely easy to hold long time, domain is very nice, and probabilities are 20 versus 1 in favours of gTLD domainer
Also, I do not need to explain really that end users will LOVE the fact that it cost 0.96 to renew, while the name is of good quality..

Imo, if one can replicate such parameters for another domains in his portfolio (this is not easy at all, of course, and it requires serious skills and actual knowledge) one can then understand how easy it is to actually make money with new gTLDs for some people. Great one!

 

[Sumeeth]

Hello. What do you think about Pizza.Yoga domain? Question to you all.

I don't see any business use of this? In any part of world do people do yoga while eating Pizza? Sorry i think it has zero value..

Thanks,
Sumeeth

 

[Brands.International]

Centro / online

Centro is spanish and italian word for "center"...that means that potential end user will come probably from this direction.
Now lets ask the question, what would be value of english version, which is center / online, and who would be the end user. Imo the name is kind of dull, too generic...in .online I love to see keywords like perfumes, cars, mortgage, refinance, etc..product names, or services where one can see thousands of obvious end users. But "center"..I personally do not really feel that.

Considering that "centro" is further limited by spanish/italian market, I feel it can go for low XXX-1k, while I would guestimate probability of resale for this price at any given year as 1%. Renewal is standard here, which is around 20-30 USD at most registrars. So for any given year of holding the math looks as following:

yearly cost: USD 30
yearly possible profit: 0.01*USD 1000 = USD 10 (when we take upper number of appraisal)

30 is 3 times more ten 10, which is the reason I do not think this will work out as profitable (if you hold it more then a first year)

 

[Brands.International]

USA / Estate

@droned your domain name usa / estate seems to have just standard, normal renewal for .estate (approx 20-25 at most registrats), which is amazing

It was first registered in July 2016, it seems it dropped recently, and it seems you have catched t it like 1 month ago. If that is so, congrats!

This is definitely a keeper, in case I am not wrong about renewal and it is indeed just a standard low renewal.

The name reminds me names like world / estate or luxury / estate which sold very nicely in past, and can sell anywhere (or should imo, based on quality of the name) between 8k-40k. The range is large, but it really depends on negotiation skills of the seller, and how much buyer will want it.

The number of buyers is almost unlimited (the name will not offend any of tens of thousands of real estate agents or agencies in USA).

So conclusion : based on how fast you want to sell, price it like 5k (in case you want to sell quickly, plus do some outbound in this case), or price it defensively as 40k and wait few years for your buyer. My personal feeling is that this should go for 20k in 2019, but I can not really back it up with hard data, as data set of reported sales is very small in namebio - this extension has only 5 years of history, as it started in 2014.

Amazing domain name!!! GL

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[4pm]

FYI

usa recipes.com was once sold for $245 (2008-05-28 GoDaddy)

now owned by BuyDomains (they handregged it in 2011 after it was dropped)
they also selling US recipes.com
asking $4,288 each

the only geo + recipes names reported sold over $1,000 are:

- caribbean $3,300 2009
- german $2,055 2005
- italian (.net) $1,088 2010

..so american.recipes would of probably been better but you are late
i would even question if "usa recipes" makes any sense

googling "usa recipes" brings next to nothing useful or promising from a domaining pov

top 10 "recipes" sales:

bestrecipes.com    45,000 USD    2012-01-31 
pressurecookerrecipes.com    39,600 USD    2017-04-27 
smoothierecipes.com    35,000 USD    2014-09-03 
drinkrecipes.com    35,000 USD    2008-02-13 
cookierecipes.com    19,999 USD    2015-10-12 
chickenrecipes.com    19,000 USD    2008-11-11 
homemaderecipes.com    15,000 USD    2014-09-03 
potatorecipes.com    14,965 USD    2017-09-05 
marijuanarecipes.com    10,000 USD    2014-09-03 
dogfoodrecipes.com 10,000 USD 2012-02-10

all corresponding .recipes are taken including
pressurecooker.recipes

The TLD went public on 05 March 2014
To this moment ~5,800 names regged
4 reported sales in 5 years (only 1 above $1,000, no geo's)

bread.recipes 3,000 USD 2018-02-22 Sedo
x.recipes 600 USD 2016-09-07 Flippa
secret.recipes 627 USD 2016-01-21 NameJet
fish.recipes 400 USD 2015-12-04 Uniregistry

i wonder where you guys get those STR 1% for each and every nTLD from?
why will a TLD with 4 sales for the past 5 years start making solid even for a mid-quality .com portfolio 1% sell throu stats in the next 5 years?
- that's not how it works in a real world i'm afraid. i get it not...

us(a)recipes .org/net/info are all avail
which also indicates that the combo is not hugely popular to put it mildly
for example, fish recipes taken in .com, net, org, info, co.uk, co


..and finally:

US.recipes is avail for ~$80
at least that's what i'm shown at Dynadot, Godaddy and Uniregistry
[ Q: what does it tell you about current USA version value? ]

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based on the above i would value the name at reg fee at best
along with its .com counterpart (sorry BuyDomains)



best

 

[Brands.International]

@lolwarrior what do you think of VR / Sexy

@UncleBrand regading vr / sexy - I admitt I am a big fan of keywords vr, virtual and virtualreality, but not exactly in connection with tlds as .sexy...it would be much better in connection with .sex or .porn, as vr porn or vr sex might be actually a pretty big thing in future.

But with .sexy, I would consider it then more as an new gTLD brandable, and thus would see it in range of $1k - $3k with STR 1% at any given year of holding, imo.

Considering that his domain name seems to carry premium renewal fee of approx $120 at many registrars (if I am not wrong), I feel that from math point of view this is not much in your favour as an domain investors (projected yearly profit of $10-$30 versus fixed yearly cost of $120).

GL

 

[Brands.International]

fission / energy

For the energy market, also a premium domain

The name seems to be registered yesterday by you, so you still have 1 full year ahead, before it's premium renewal of approx $230 would be due.

It is interesting to note that .energy came to GA (general availability) in Feb 2015, while this name was first registered by someone in August 2017 and dropped in 2019. This can indicate that someone also saw the good value here, and even with higher renewal, holded the name for 2 years. That is always a good indication.

I think you need to give your name a better landing page, because at the moment it has only default landing page of the registrar where you registered it, and potential buyers can not contact you (WHO IS is also masked). So if you purchased this for resell purpose, you need to make yourself contactable (if for development, then this is different story of course).

As per value - it sound good and fission energy is an actual thing, this is how our nuclear plans are powered now. It is very interesting to see that fusion /energy (nuclear process of future, now still unstable and still in testing afaik) is also registered and name does not have premium renewal attached to it, only standard renewal attached there.

Anyway, I feel this name in range 5k - 50k in 2019. But I am not sure with STR for this price range in case of passive holding, honestly. I think the pool of end users is pretty narrow here, and many of them will be large traditional companies, which are already branded, etc...even if I would consider STR 1% for any given year, your projected yearly profit would be 50-500, while your fixed yearly cost is 230. This would be kind of balanced. But I feel this name might have even 10 times smaller STR in reality for this price range, in which case it would be then 5-50 projected profit, versus fixed cost of 230, and this of course would not be in your favour, at all.

Difficult to say exactly, as there are too little reported sales for .energy names atm, so I am kind of taking into consideration also similar narrow new gTLD extensions when trying to (guess)timate it.

Overall, due to it's premium renewal fee, I would say that if you are in the field (or have connections) to energy sector/energy companies & have enough financial resources to hold the name for next 10 - 15 names, then this domain investment can work out pretty nicely for you.

In case you do are not in that field, do not have real connections and need to flip it quickly (in first year, or second year), I would say experiment with the name within 1st year, do some outbound and see your results/feedback from end users. Then decide for yourself.

Name is very nice semantically, but quite borderline imo from investment point of view, not easy to say for me whether to keep or drop after first year.

I hope you will have a great sale! GL

 

[MadAboutDomains]

Takeout / app

Thanks!

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

I like it This is actually very clever investment and I will write in detail why:

.Bid is (from semantic point of view) extension which I personally consider a narrow one. That means, you can have only few really good combos there. Usually such high quality combos are marked with higher premium pricing (there are logical reasons behind that), but this is not the case here, which is very good.

So why I think this is a good one:

First, I will start with 1 rather negative point - obviously, there will be only limited number of end users who will find it interesting and useful, but there will be some (it can basically serve as memorable brandable for auction house, or betting site, etc). So pool of endusers is not small, but also not super large.

Now the positive one:

You managed to reg name in narrow extension, and that name is nice combo, but still you secured that with standard renewal. The best part is that you keep the name on registrar where the renewal price for .bid is exactly 0.96 USD / year. Which means that one can renew this name 10 years ahead with cost of 9.6 USD. It really can not much get better then this, and this is one of the reasons more and more people are interested in new gTLDs!

Another positive one: there are no close alternatives available for standard renewal, at least I can not find them now. In 2018, I think probability of resale is 1% for any given year, if the name has BIN price 2k. (It can maybe achieve higher price, but then that probabilty will go sharply down, imo).

Now lets do the math: 1 year cost: 0.96 USD. Projected sale price for any given year is calculated as 0.01*2000 USD = 20 USD.

So this is a great example of new gTLD investment which makes perfect sense, domain is extremely easy to hold long time, domain is very nice, and probabilities are 20 versus 1 in favours of gTLD domainer
Also, I do not need to explain really that end users will LOVE the fact that it cost 0.96 to renew, while the name is of good quality..

Imo, if one can replicate such parameters for another domains in his portfolio (this is not easy at all, of course, and it requires serious skills and actual knowledge) one can then understand how easy it is to actually make money with new gTLDs for some people. Great one!

Thanks, I appreciate your detailed view on it.
Maybe you should start a "domain - feedback - service" - website, I am sure you would do great.

 

[Brands.International]

In 2014 i was manage to get these domains. What do you think?

Price.(cheap)
Cyber.(watch)
Guru.(report)
Programmer.(codes)
Broadway.(company)

Just to name few.

Thanks

@DomainsMaven Only 1 domain per user as per thread rules, so I will pick cyber / watch, which I think is the most valuable from the set.

This domain has standard renewal attached to it for .watch (around 25 at many registrars).

This is 3-8k name imo in 2018, prob. of resale 1% for any given year, renewal fee is around 25, therefore we see projected profit per any given year as 30-80, while cost is 25. End user pool is large here, any tech company in cyber security area, name is pretty memorable and brandable.

This is a nice investment imo, and I think it is a keeper which will make money to domain investor holding it, and will grow in value in time as well.
GL

 

[Brands.International]

I read your gTLD post and think it was a great read and view. I picked up a couple that were on special and I think I did ok as far as renewal fees. I am new at this but noticed them and about lost my SHHHT!

I know it says one appraisal per day so if you don’t get to all of them, I will get repost later.

Dog / fund
Safe / fund
Safe / Repair
Rental / Expert
Portal / Cab
Apartment / Photo
Apartment / Supply

Thanks Warrior,

@The RealDomainLord I like 2 of them very much, which are Rental / Expert and Safe / Fund. Those 2 are amazing!

As for the rest Dog / Fund, Safe / Repair, Portal/ Cab, Apartment / Photo and Apartment / Supply, they sound good on first hearing, but I simply feel they have small potential from investment point of view (you submitted several names, so I will not explain for each in detail why is that, so just a very quick a feedback here for those worse names).

So now back to our 2 winners, which I will comment in detail:

Rental / Expert - The name has premium attached to it, which seems around 110-140, depends on registrar. It was first registered in early new gTLD times, in May 2014 then someone dropped it, which is a big mistake imo. The name has amazing potential to become global brandable, it is obviously 10k plus name for ideal end user, but I would feel it around 20k, maybe 40k even in 2018. And in future it will be even more imo. You do not need to think much about it , it is simple - 10 years of holding cost will cost you 1100-1400 USD, while you will sell it for much much more with very high probability. Size of end user pool is huge, basically almost any real estate company can utilize it. This is for me the best domain name I saw so far in this thread.

Safe / Fund - This is another amazing name, it was first registered in August 2014, and you were very lucky to register it in 2018 a very short time after someone dropped it recently. It has premium renewal attached to it, which is around 80 - 90 / year.
As for resale price, this can be imo 6 digit name (XXX XXX), totally depends on your ability to present the name, reject offers, etc. This is type of name you can basically retire on in future, of course wih some luck as well, but the base for it is already present here in form of very high quality of the name. Amazing financial potential. And probably the second best name I have seen here so far.

So my advice is this: do not care about / pay for garbage names and keep your Rental / Expert and Safe / Fund with you until the deal with right end user is not made. This can take several years of course, but when its done, you will love domaining. They are not cheap to hold, so you need to budget properly for it, but it does not matter in this case, as potential of those 2 names is very large.

GL

 

[Brands.International]

@lolwarrior

First of all, I appreciate the time you took and continue to take looking into the requests on this page.

The Gtlds that I listed are the only ones I have. I don’t plan on getting any more unless I run into some really good ones. I will definitely take your advice about keeping them for a while until I get a very good offer. Hopefully my marketing skills will help get these to the right business sooner than later.

Thanks again,

You are welcome friend. I too thing it is much better to have few good names then 1000 names which you are not going to resell. It is all about quality, quantity does not matter here much

 

[Brands.International]

Withdraw // Online

@NamesNewbie I like your domain name withdraw/ online..good combo, and you have it only for standard renewal! Can be 5k-20k sale in 2018 imo, with probability of 1% for any given year of holding.

You can now keep .online domains with less then USD 7 renewals at some registrars if you look well...so in case yearly cost would be lets say 7, your projected yearly profit is 50-200, while your holding cost is 7. Should be highly profitable, imo. GL

 

[Brands.International]

Hi

I would like to know your opinion on: safe pay / solutions

@IridiumThunder your domain name safe pay / solution is 2 worder, which is generally not recommended for most names, but this combination makes good semantic sense. Lot of potential end users.

There are, however, also tons of available alternatives in new gTLD space (visit uniregistry.com, and put your keywords in search field, you will see what I mean).

This means, you will have almost no leverage to command price higher then 1k, imo. Considering the name has standard renewal for .solutions, around USD 15 at most registrars, it is not that bad, but it is still shifted not in favour of domain investor, when you take math into consideration. One should always look (before registering) how many available alernatives are there, for reg fee...GL!

 

[Brands.International]

Apps / pro

@Londoneli I think apps / pro is an amazing name, and can sell for 5-10k in 2019, with probability of 1% for any given year to sell it in this price range. The name has standard renewal, around USD 10 at many registrars.

Which means it is an perfect investment name imo: projected yearly profit is USD 50-100, while holding costs is USD 10.

APP / APPS is a trendy keyword now, and huge pool of end users exists for the name. I think many people who are creating apps would like to operate from web address like this, it is pretty attractive.

.PRO sells very well, so there is really nothing more to say to this...very good name plus very good investment math! GL

 

[ecalc]

... investment / name ... The name has standard renewal for .name, which is around 15 at many registrars. I think it can resell in price range of USD 400-1500 with prob of 1 % for any given year of holding. Surprisingly, .name is with us for a long time, but not many sales are reported, and those which are reported (for the names of similar quality) are in this price range. Investment math for this investment / name is following: projected yearly profit is USD 4-15, while yearly holding cost is USD 15. This means math is slighly shifted against the domain investor holding the name.

GL

Your appraisal method and retail price range are reasonable but I can’t find a shred of evidence that a dot name of that caliber has a 1% chance of sale in that price range in a given year. Namebio shows one dot name sale in the last 5 years, a 2900 USD sale (#1 all time highest) dated 02-Jan-2019, twelve days after the name’s creation date 21-Dec-2018, nothing fishy there. Namebio’s #3 all time highest dot name sale, 2190 USD 07-Oct-2009, is now available to hand reg. Please allow me to suggest that the math is shifted like Niagara Falls against the domain investor holding dot name or similar tlds.

 

[Brands.International]

flights (dot) blue

@SHOVON your name flights / blue has standard renewal for .blue, which is around USD 12 at many registrars.

It was first registered in Jul 2014, and then it change hands in 2016, then you got it 2 days ago. So the name must be interesting if few people already agreed that it is worth registering.

When I visited this domain name, it immediately redirected me to jetblue / com website. If you are part of jetblue managementk fine If not, I do not think it is a good strategy, honestly, and would recommend to you to cancel that redirection asap, from many many reasons.

When I google "flights blue" I can see many airlines who has blue colour or word "blue" somewhere...but I feel as an investment, the best way to sell it is to just put it on undeveloped / com, give it some nice price like 2k-8k, and wait. If someone is interested, they will contact you, if not, so not. But this kind of redirects, etc, this is something I really would recommend to avoid, Just imo.

GL

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[Brands.International]

Crowd. Finance

@platey I like crowd / finance, it is a nice combo

The domain seems to have premium renewal attached to it, which is approx. USD 80 at many registrars.

It was first registered 5 years ago in 2014, and that person had it for all this time .. obviously it was worth for them to pay this renewal. It dropped recently and you was lucky to get it 4 days ago.

Now regarding value : when I check namebio, I see that pretty good names were sold for mid XXX - 1,5k for this extension, while I am also sure they were almost solely domainer purchases - like auto / finance for USD 667 at Dynadot in 2018, that would be (most probably, I have no time to check more now) their expired domains section thing.

So good names in this extension will be probably around mid XXX in 2019 when we speak WHOLESALE value.

Now if you sell it to end user, that would probably bring something like 5k-10k for right one with STR 1% for any given year for this price range...this is just my wild guesstimate, as we do not have enought data in this point of time, it is still very early. It can be 3k, it can be 50k or more (very very small probability thought for 50k)...this type of name is pretty unique, and difficult to appraise exactly - I believe it very much depends on the seller, not only on the willing buyer.

The great thing is that I simply do not see many close alternatives to your name (you can not easily replace this new gTLD extension by another new gTLD extension without loosing semantic connection between lef and right side of the dot), and that is always a great news when it comes to value.

But your renewal is 80 USD / year...I think that STR for portfolio of this quality would be 1% atm for any given year for price range 5k-10k, so you would need to sell at least for 8k to be even (on average with this type of names). This is probably realistic, but even in this case, this investment is only so-so...as your projected yearly profit would be equal to your yearly renewal fee payment.

Personally, I like to get names (not easy task of course) when it is 10x-100x in my favour (so my projected yearly profit is 10x-100x more then my yearly cost I need to pay). This can usually be achieved when renewal fees are very low (few dollars).

So, math is so-so, but I still think it is an amazing name per se! GL

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[NickB]

FYI

usa recipes.com was once sold for $245 (2008-05-28 GoDaddy)

now owned by BuyDomains (they handregged it in 2011 after it was dropped)
they also selling US recipes.com
asking $4,288 each

the only geo + recipes names reported sold over $1,000 are:

- caribbean $3,300 2009
- german $2,055 2005
- italian (.net) $1,088 2010

..so american.recipes would of probably been better but you are late
i would even question if "usa recipes" makes any sense

googling "usa recipes" brings next to nothing useful or promising from a domaining pov

top 10 "recipes" sales:

bestrecipes.com    45,000 USD    2012-01-31
pressurecookerrecipes.com    39,600 USD    2017-04-27
smoothierecipes.com    35,000 USD    2014-09-03
drinkrecipes.com    35,000 USD    2008-02-13
cookierecipes.com    19,999 USD    2015-10-12
chickenrecipes.com    19,000 USD    2008-11-11
homemaderecipes.com    15,000 USD    2014-09-03
potatorecipes.com    14,965 USD    2017-09-05
marijuanarecipes.com    10,000 USD    2014-09-03
dogfoodrecipes.com 10,000 USD 2012-02-10

all corresponding .recipes are taken including
pressurecooker.recipes

The TLD went public on 05 March 2014
To this moment ~5,800 names regged
4 reported sales in 5 years (only 1 above $1,000, no geo's)

bread.recipes 3,000 USD 2018-02-22 Sedo
x.recipes 600 USD 2016-09-07 Flippa
secret.recipes 627 USD 2016-01-21 NameJet
fish.recipes 400 USD 2015-12-04 Uniregistry

i wonder where you guys get those STR 1% for each and every nTLD from?
why will a TLD with 4 sales for the past 5 years start making solid even for a mid-quality .com portfolio 1% sell throu stats in the next 5 years?
- that's not how it works in a real world i'm afraid. i get it not...

us(a)recipes .org/net/info are all avail
which also indicates that the combo is not hugely popular to put it mildly
for example, fish recipes taken in .com, net, org, info, co.uk, co


..and finally:

US.recipes is avail for ~$80
at least that's what i'm shown at Dynadot, Godaddy and Uniregistry
[ Q: what does it tell you about current USA version value? ]

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based on the above i would value the name at reg fee at best
along with its .com counterpart (sorry BuyDomains)



best

Very nice breakdown of the facts, thank you for putting in the time and effort to do so......

I think it is important to get a balanced view on any appraisal, not everyone will agree but it shows both sides of the coin, so to speak.........

 

[Brands.International]

I appreciate the feedback!
The renewal at Godaddy for me was around $108...
It's a bit weird it wasn't registered immediately, because it's one of the first obvious names.
I think sometimes registrars hold some premiums and make them available later than usual. This happened with "lighthouse.International". It wasn't available in GA, so i assumed someone regged it. When i checked Whois, it said it was registrar hold/restricted. I never saw this before. Anyway, I was able to snap it up soon after. I think I placed a backorder and got it as soon as it was released.

This is really my first premium renewal.. $44 is probably the most i spent prior. But I saw the potential too. As you said, I will experiment with it for the next 1-3 years, do some outbound and hope i get the higher end of your appraisal range

Cheers & great thread btw

You are very welcome!
It can be the case with reserved keyword during that first year after GA, agreed.
Wish you a great sale

 

[Brands.International]

Tenant / Loans

Bought for reg fee

@platey about your domain name tenant / loans - quick google search shows there are plenty of companies which are actually providing variations of products named "tenant loans"...so hopefully you will be succesful to sell them this domain name.

I was experimenting with approx 20 .loans domain names (not surprisingly, after I heard about super sale of home / loans).

Personally, I was, unfortunatelly, not able to make a sale within a first year period of holding those names, and then I decided to drop the names. It was because math did not hold for me at that time - standard renewal fee for .loans is about 70 at many registrars, and if you have like 20 names, you need to cashflow such of set of names a lot in advance for years to come. Maybe (I now suspect so) I gave up too early on them, as since I dropped them I learned at least 2 of those names are now reserved by registry (at the moment of writing). They were actually very good names. But I have far too many names, and have some financial restrictions when it comes to profitability of my porftolio, so prefer much lower renewals in general. And in addition I was not able to give a required attention to all of them (which is a mistake, as a more attention you give to your names, the more profitable you are, at least when it comes to new gTLDs).

Now, your name is actually very good, and you should be able to sell it for 7k (minimum, just my feeling), and maybe much much more, to relevant end user. As for how much more, really depends on your skills. This is type of name where you need to contact relevant end users, and do good presentation what the name can bring to them (one can learn a lot from home / loans example). But I do not think this is name just to hold passively (due to it's renewal), until you have only few new gTLDs, in which case that would probably be sustainable. All above is just my opinion, and I can be pretty wrong here, as it is pretty unique and good combo, with not much available alternatives for it in new gTLD space, afaik.

So great name with tons of potentual, but I would do lot of active outbound for this one.
GL

 

[Brands.International]

Just picked up benefit / network . One of my first gTLDs. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

@onni about your name benefit / network : not really sure about a keyword, which kind of make some semantic sense with .network, but it is definitely not the strongest keyword for .network out there by far ...there are so many options to invest in new gTLD names, so I feel this one is just so-so.

The domain name has standard renewal for .network which is 15 at many registrars, and can sell for approx 1.5k in 2019 with STR 1%. So this investment will be basically just holding your money, as projected yearly profit is 15, while yearly cost is also 15.

Number of available alternatives (although each with slighly semantic meaning) is pretty high (check keyword benefit in uniregistry.com to see what is available).

When we check string "benefitnetwork" in .com, that one is for sale, in .net and .info, it is available to register atm of writing, and in .org it is developed .. so overall, not really impressed by this as in investment - just imo.

Saying that critical thing, I wish you lot of success with your domain choices!
GL

 

[Brands.International]

indiavacation / rentals

@naruto_hokage about your domain name indiavacation / rentals ...I am not big fan, because:

First thing which comes to my mind, that it might compete with india.vacation / rentals, in case owner of vacation / rentals decides in future to create this subdomain.

This is simply the destiny of many domains in word1word2.gTLD format, where it might, at least in theory, compete with subdomain word1.word2.gTLD, where word2.gTLD is usually domain name of much higher quality comparing previous one.

So for me it is actually very difficult to imagine someone would want to build their business on such name, (of course I can not rule it out, but those probabilities are very tiny, I feel).

Saying that: there are some word1word2.gTLD domain names with great value (but usually when word1word2 are actually acting as 1 worder - example: virtualreality / store - here, name like reality / store might maybe generate less interest comparing to virtualreality / store, because "virtualreality" actually makes more of semantic sense, comparing to keyword "reality" with .store. And that might again change a bit in case you put .show instead of .store as an extension in this example, lol).

So I hope you will have a nice sale, but personally I do not feel this domain name much. All above is just imo.
GL