This week namejet.com auctioned off several prime generic .PW domain names thereby setting the value of these types of .PW domains.
Some of the domains that sold this week had some of the best prime generic terms like search.pw, internet.pw, blogs.pw and money.pw and creditcards.pw .
As new gTLD’s rollout each registry is going to have to consider if they are going to throw much of their “premium” inventory into liquidation type auctions or keep them reserved for higher priced sales to end users for years to come through other sources than the auction houses.
All the new gTLD’s registries, should be aware that to the extent domain names like internet, gold, money and search sell in the $200 range its going to be awfully hard to get serious four figure and five figure sales for other prime terms.
Here is a list of the domain names that sold this week on Namejet.com and as you can see they sold between $95 and $270.
| High Bid | |
| search.pw | $280 |
| network.pw | $95 |
| money.pw | $180 |
| internet.pw | $222 |
| gold.pw | $250 |
| creditcards.pw | $232 |
| account.pw | $210 |
| blogs.pw | $115 |
| bank.pw | $270 |
Marijuana (pw) is the best
for new gTLD’s i’d warehouse them.. even the first set of liquidation style auctions will probably be embarrassingly low because people KNOW there are more coming. but you’re not gonna get this many registries to agree on this type of thing… some will go for it and if enough do they will probably get these types of $xx and $xxx prices for super generic stuff and geographic locations.
for .PW this was their only hope getting any money at all before the new gTLD’s… although i’ll bet if they thought it was gonna turn out like that they would have just not done it.
the .PW rebranding was stupid anyway… like anyone wants to be explained to that it means “professional web” when actual real words are gonna be used as TLD’s. i wonder if they realized this or actually thought they had a have successfully rebranding the ccTLD for Palau as if it were .TV or something with meaning. hardy har har
When I think of Palau, I see Obese people in those island. They have one of the highest diabetes rates in the world.
Anyway sucker buyers…all you can do is brag that you bought a generic dot whatever.
pw aka professional web, what an irony, I get spams from dot pw .
Awful results.
The problem with the greater fool model is when you run out of fools to buy your product.
There is no compelling reason to own a .PW. It is a repurposed ccTLD using a forced acronym. No one is going to think PW = Professional Web.
The registry might as well dump the premium terms while they can.
The main reason the registry has so many registrations is the extension has become the new darling of spammers and scammers.
Brad
Hey at least the sold. I thought there was a > 0% chance that one might not sell when I heard the initial announcement.
People buying these names are going to lose a lot less money than some people buying premium .com names but people don’t talk about that.
If anyone can explain why gold.pw is a significantly worse name than gold.cc, gold.info, gold.me, please do. My assumption is that .cc, .info, .me are overvalued rather than .pw being undervalued?
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Agreed
Not to mention the sheer volume of inventory that will be available
“If anyone can explain why gold.pw is a significantly worse name than gold.cc, gold.info, gold.me, please do. My assumption is that .cc, .info, .me are overvalued rather than .pw being undervalued?”
Not all domain extensions are created equal. You have .COM at the top of the totem pole and NET/ORG below it. You also have popular ccTLD near the top in local places. .PW is near the bottom. In the middle there are extensions with varying levels of user awareness, usage and credibility.
It is not like premium .WS and .CC sell for huge amounts in general. .WS, .CC and .PW are all similar extensions. They are all repurposed ccTLD of tiny places that don’t really mean anything to the average person.
Brad
As we sit today .pw is a ccTLD for a very small island county and is treated as so by Google.
As we know Google treats some ccTLD’s are TLD’s like .tv, me and .co.
One day Google may treat .pw in this fashion but as we sit today they do not.
.Info on the other hand is a TLD not a ccTLD and of course treated as a TLD by Google
There are 13,000 .info ranked in the top Alexa 1 million
RE:
> There are 13,000 .info ranked in the
> top Alexa 1 million
OR, 1.3% of the top million Alexa sites are .INFO.
OR, for every 1,000 domains in the top Alexa million, 13 are .INFOs.
Both of those statements sound much more impressive. Go .INFO!
As an aside to my comment above, I can’t wait to see what percentages of Alexa’s top million site that many of the new gTLDs will attain. If they’re numbers are anywhere near as impressive as .INFO, the skies the limit, it appears!
No surprise, I don’t see why this extension would have any real value, just like when .ws said “it means WebSite”, I don’t think the acronym thing works so well with extensions when you have to tell somebody what it stands for. At least cc’s like .tv, .me, and .co and g’s like .info don’t need explanations.
And I would rather have internet.shop, browse.web, gold.sale etc than any of these in .pw.
There are 2 political parties in the US – sure they carry different names besides –
Realists
and
Others
And this carries to domains – I believe .com = “realists” – and I am very confident that non.com means “others”
So are you are you a “realist” or are you an “othe
i wrote another novel guys. as long as the registries can survive financially, i think most of the domainers of today have the way of thinking completely wrong. not even close in fact..
some of you guys sound like you will be looking for .THIS and .THAT to either crash and burn or rocket to success where everyone now knows the .NEW tld that rose above the 100’s of others that failed terribly! of course most domainers say they ALL will fail but if pushed they will say things like “well, stuff like .WEB or other ones may do well but they’ll be in the minority”
probably not gonna happen like that. its just gonna be words seperated by a dot.. like you wont be able to predict that since the .web TLD had some blockbuster sales that the trend will continue. no, the new way is just phrases.. words separated by a dot, which almost makes domaining in the first several years impossible unless you’re domaining the new way (being a registrar/registry)
you want to be the O.G. of the internet? get the .COM. but everything else will be viable too… to the point about tiny percentages like the .info TLD is only 1% of the top internet sites…. lemme ask you then.. what happens when there are 100’s of “one percents”
ah ha. understanding clearer now? so its probably not gonna be 1 or 2 or 10 TLD’s in the minority that will gain traction… it will be .COM and “everything else.”
“everything else” will not be a negative thing or even strange. “everything else” will probably be one bulk category and nobody in the future will think less of you for using a domain like Golf.pro or Travel.deals…. even when they see a TLD they have never seen before they’ll have no qualms about visiting it.
then in however many years when “everything else” has been around a while maybe domaining will be more viable in it and certain TLD’s within that pool will be more popular than others.. first several years it will be a pretty fun mess though if you stay objective and follow the situation as it unfolds..
lol nevermind domainers wont be objective what am i thinkin… cause they want their sports team (read: TLD) to win the championships.
.pw launched only in April. Afternic posted this sale:
QR.pw $6,500
this past week, so I think .pw is doing pretty good!
This is what I have been saying for some three years now
i know i just copied you and reworded it a little. nah the reason nobody wants to admit that is there is nothing sexy about it. the game possibly changing for regular domainers? well thats unfair right..it must be.
everyone would rather chant slogans and use group think than just follow reality as it happens.
its almost like people are still debating *IF* such a crazy thing like 1,000+ TLD’s were to happen in such a short period of time… then comparing that to like 10 TLD’s that have been staggered released over 10 years. so 1 a year average…
um, hey domainers of rational thinking: 1 and 1,000 are not similar. you can only reference O.co and .mobi so many times…..
Louise and Mike:
Are you joking?
“so I think .pw is doing pretty good!”
if you are not, I want some of that “kool aid”…