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First Premium .Pw Sales Announced: P.pw and W.pw Sold For $8K Each

March 14, 2013 by Michael Berkens

The new .PW ‘Professional Web’ TLD launched by Directi just announced their first premium domain name sales.

The single letter domain name P.pw and W.pw were sold to the same end user for $8,000 each.

The buyer is identified as a “A European Hosting Company”

To my knowledge these are the first reported .Pw premium domain name sales.

The Landrush period for .Pw continues until March 18th and is available at over 100 ICANN accredited registrars.

During this time, unreserved premium domain names are made available at a premium price for registration to those who do not own a trademark. This is a limited opportunity to secure these names, as they may be added to the reserve list after Landrush.

During the Landrush period, .PW domains will be opened up to include 2 character ASCII names, as well as 1 character Chinese, Japanese, and Korean IDNs.

Additionally, a selection of premium .PW domains will be unreserved and made available during this period. These include high quality names such as, tours.pw, videogame.pw, expert.pw, as well as many more. T

he full list of 1,000 premium domains that will be made available can be found here: http://registry.pw/resources/download/premium_list_download.php.

 

Filed Under: .Pw, Domain Industry, Domain Sales

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. John McCormac says

    March 14, 2013 at 10:28 am

    Any news on who bought them?

  2. Michael Berkens says

    March 14, 2013 at 10:29 am

    Was not announced

  3. John McCormac says

    March 14, 2013 at 10:40 am

    Looks a bit strange but stranger things have happened. Early market sales in unproven TLDs are always a bit of a gamble but this is a repurposed ccTLD and it is unlikely to be as effective as COInternet with .co ccTLD. It is a classic newbie domainer mistake though – taking a few letters to build an acronym and trying to assign one’s own meaning to them and then trying to sell it. It might have been better marketed as a baseball TLD.

  4. Michael Berkens says

    March 14, 2013 at 10:46 am

    John

    Baseball TLD?

  5. Domo Sapiens says

    March 14, 2013 at 10:52 am

    baseball? 🙂
    don’t forget stand for the “professional web” ja ja

    Smells either like newbie or “dumb and dumber” money…
    “Someone Dumber than me” play…

  6. John McCormac says

    March 14, 2013 at 10:57 am

    Too much watching US TV, Michael, 🙂
    Isn’t it a nickname for junior league Baseball in the US and Canada?

  7. Domo Sapiens says

    March 14, 2013 at 10:58 am

    Pee Wee
    ja ja

  8. John McCormac says

    March 14, 2013 at 11:03 am

    Could be a bit embarrassing to have a website like that in Ireland or the UK though. 🙂 It is one of those classic branding mistakes.

  9. Michael Berkens says

    March 14, 2013 at 11:04 am

    The Buyer is described as a European Hosting Company”

  10. Michael Berkens says

    March 14, 2013 at 11:06 am

    You talking like the initials for Pee Wee league? I never made that connection

    If so there are some for all sports including football and hockey not just baseball

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pee_Wee

  11. John McCormac says

    March 14, 2013 at 11:20 am

    Makes a lot more sense than “professional web”. The odd thing about many European hosters is that they stick with their ccTLD brand until they become big enough to expand over a number of countries and then they flip to their .com variant as the main brand and the relevant ccTLD for each new country market. Professionalweb.com is a Marchex domain from its WHOIS. Rebranding as a .pw in Europe could be a marketing problem depending on the country and the marketshare of its ccTLD. Most European countries are 80% ccTLD/com. The only TLDs European consumers recognise are .com, their ccTLD, perhaps .eu, and the ccTLDs of adjacent countries.


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