status-resolved What happened to Top Domains?

[slader23]

Can someone explain to me why on Earth Snoopily.com is considered a top domain?

The domain was registered in August.

The minimum requirement to be selected is $1k wholesale value.

There is no tld demand. No retail use. No sales history. No trends. No backlinks. No traffic.

No offense to the owner whatsoever, such a name is not worth more than $xx. So how did it get past the selection process?


I think a proper explanation from the mods is needed.

 

[slader23]

This is a fun analogy, but the valuation of domain names is much closer to art than cars. Your analogy does not work with art, and it does not work with domain names either.

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Debates are ineffective without the right questions.

The question that should be asked is how many domain investors must be willing to pay at least $1,000 for a domain name before it qualifies as worth $1,000 at wholesale?

What's your opinion?

I think there needs to be 20 more valuation related questions to ask before you get to that question. Additionally you are limited to the size of your network with that question so it should not be considered as paramount to determining $1000 min wholesale value although it can be considered relevant towards a selection.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Snoopily and Sapphiric are NOT top domains.

It's debatable, but it's not open for debate with us because our reviewers make those decisions for Top Domains.

Even on our team, some agree and some disagree on which domains should be in Top Domains. That's how it's always been, and that's how it will always be because the valuations of very few domains are universally agreed upon.

For the rest of domains, the value is too subjective to debate and a pointless endeavor to do so. Even internally, debating the value of a domain name is not worth our time because we know it leads nowhere. Everyone can argue their point of view and no one can say for certain who is right. There are universally-bad domains, just like there are universally-good domains, but we're not talking about either of those. Everything in-between, even close to the edges, is debatable.

Important: When we have a lot of good submissions, you'll notice the quality of the selected domains is better. When there are fewer good submissions, then the quality will be lower and cause more disagreements.

If you want to help, please submit your domains that you believe should be in Top Domains. That's the only way to help improve the quality of domains that appear in Top Domains.

Thanks.

 

[Brands.International]

So, I submitted one of my better names, domain name express / news into Top section, as following:

"Taking serious offers ($ xxx xxx) on probably one of 3 best domain names in .news extension. Express / News can form truly global brand for any news organisation worldwide.
Registrar - Name.com (Transfer OUT is OK). Renewal is only $120 / year.
Payment Options - Escrow.com or Dan.com imported escrow"

Was NOT choosen.

What I am learning from it: person who made selection process seems to believe, that express / news is "less liquid / less valuable / less ... you define it" that snoopily / com and/or similar names which are curently choosen to be in Top secton. No one can argue with this - as it was correctly stated above, valuation is more art then science.

But the Top domain section should (just my assumptiom here) serve us, Namepros Users - and if you do make poll to ask Namepros Users what they would prefer to have in Top section, there is a large probability it would not be snoopily

Also, it is a fact that 5 years after introduction of new gTLD domain names, we can not get even very good new gTLDs to Top section and actually there are 0 new gTLD names there at the moment of writing. This is not in favour of those of us who invest in this category of names. I do not wish to invest in legacy names, and I do not have time to go via mostly very bad quality submissions in New gTLD section, or to always open WLTB threads and basically to investigate which Namepros User has which good new gTLDs. If there is something of high quality and with reasonable renewal fee, I would like to see it in Top section

 

[Brands.International]

There hasn't been a reported .news sale over $1,000 in over 2 and 1/2 years, just 1 reported sale this year for $122. Now, if somebody submitted a book.club, wine.club, travel.agency type of new gtld, then I would let those thru.

@JB Lions sure, that is true, but it is because .news is so called narrow new gTLD extension. It means (you know that of course, so I just re-iterate) that you have few really good keywords which makes absolutely perfect match with it. Few of those good names are (as I have researched for .news already long time ago) distributed among private investors like me, while majority of good keywords for this extension are, of course, held by registry, and if they are sold, they would be sold for pretty high price (if I can guesstimate that, as we all know this registry made already some record sales in new gTLDs). And so this is the reason why you do not have tons of reported sales on namebio. But once good combo would be sold in this extension, you would probably see new new gTLD record. Just my prediction.

Just to add, would that be broad extension, like .top or .global, you would have much more reporting in namebio. So purely from number of records in namebio we can not derive value of particular new gTLD extension ... especially when it is pretty niche, like .news