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.

 

[Dave]

One more thing that's bad about accepting top domains that aren't. What if some newcomer to domaining sees those posts and believes they're genuinely top domains and they blow their money?

To any newcomers reading this. Snoopily and Sapphiric ARE NOT top domains with min $1k wholesale. DO NOT BUY.

I really think you guys need to remove those domains pronto before some newcomer makes a terrible decision.

 

[Beezy]

Mods, please move those names to the barain bin section. Thank you.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I applied for a “top domain” for my do.ca earlier this year but was rejected.

You may submit it again. Sometimes, it may be approved, and other times, it may be declined.

Learn more.

Is it the same person/people who say yes or no when it comes to a top domain or is it always different?

There are different people, and the people change over time.

If thats the case you can't reject any submission now since every name has potential

It's not about potential. The question posed was, "how many must be" (not "how many may be").

It comes across as somebody hooking somebody up with 2 names that obviously shouldn't be there.

It genuinely just looks like someone is hooking a friend up with a couple of top domain listings.

While it may appear that way to you, we hope you realize that we have no special relationship with this seller and never have.

We will provide more details in our next post.

 

[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.

 

[golan]

I saw a domain on auction recently - Hardened-php.net It sold for over 60k.

That was unbelievably powerful SEO domain. Probably the most powerful drop i ever seen in my SEO life. Few of my buyers would grab it for $10k easily. If someone has a right knowledge of how to use drops, he can easily pay these $60 back in a few months.

 

[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

 

[JB Lions]

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

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.

While it may appear that way to you, we hope you realize that we have no special relationship with this seller and never have.

We will provide more details in our next post.

Didn't see it. You have to look at it from a normal domainer perspective. 2 names I wouldn't even hand reg, in the Top Domains section from same person. They stick out like a sore thumb.

 

[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

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Hello,

Breaking.News would likely get approved by everyone on the team if there were slots available. Express/News may only get approved by some team members when slots are available.

Please keep in mind that if a domain name is not approved today, it could still get approved on a different day when there are more slots available. Learn more.

book.club, wine.club, travel.agency type of new gtld, then I would let those thru

Agreed.