The two letter domain MD.org name just sold for $555,5650 in what we think is an all time record for a sale on Namejet.com
Interestingly its one of the only .Org domains to sell in the past two weeks on Godaddy.com or Namejet.com each of which had single letter and single numbered .org domains for sale with what appears to be reserves of $50K each.
We are pretty sure that bidding on Md.Org came down to National A-1 which owns Free.com (the Bidders name was Freedotcom) and the group that recently launched Md.Com led by Ari Goldberger.
Other .Org domain names which did not hit reserve this week on Namejet.com include 7.org (high bid of $15K); J.org (high bid $31K); 9.Org (high bid of $10K); 8.Org (high bid $23K); B.Org (high bid $31K); 0.Org (High bid of $16,500)
Some other two letter .org’s also failed to hit reserve and sell including Tx.org (high bid $19,100) FL.org (high bid $15,300)
The one letter .org’s on Godaddy had a starting bid of $50K each which none of them generated a starting bid of $50K for .
Smh.
$555,650
I am sure it is no coincidence that MD.org was put into auction after MD.com was launched. I do not get into non.com auctions – so which bidders won.
A good sell any TLD, is a good sell for all TLDs.
let’s google site:md.com
about 19,500 results
pretty of the gap between those claimed 500,000 sites they already have…
@Brian
The winning bidder is winters
Keep your fingers crossed the winner is MD.com/Ari, otherwise whoever plonked 1/2 million on the .org of a developed, warhorse .com must have lots of cash to waste.
A great result for NameJet and very impressive for a .org !
Nice Work ~~
Question: How much would it cost to get the .MD extension? Because I’d rather own .MD than MD.org.
@Tony not much. But good ones like 2nd.md are taken and are actual.ly used.
Great job! you guys helped generate nice buzz. Love it!
Another reason why new gtld hopefuls should be worried. Dot MD is actually available now, and nobody cares, or knows about it. Doctors.MD is there, and not used for much. So tell me, if Doctors are not rushing to replace their .COM with .MD, why would musicians go for .MUSIC, etc?
.md is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Moldova.
“the .md top-level domain was once heavily marketed toward people in the medical profession at a premium price. As of 2012 it is marketed toward the general public for $150.00 per year and there are approximately 20,000 .md registrations.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.md
So if the numbers are correct that $3.5M a year for the registry
Yes, but what for the Registrant? What does the Registrant get? In terms of recognition, reell value, traffic share, solid rewards? What? It’s always the Registry this, registry that….. believe it or not, others have to win too for any sustained success to endure. WIN-WIN situations must be the focus, or expect a bust at some point. People, businesses, entrepreneurs are not going to do it for altruistic reasons, or for vanity sake. Most rational humans try to maximize utility. This idea of “don’t believe your lying eyes” is getting tiresome. What the world needs today is not another stupid TLD, we have enough of those, we need innovation in the ones we’ve got. I’m just saying.
And Berkens, take a position and stick with it. Are you for the new TLDs or not? This your “I’m a journalist that calls it like I see it” is irritating. The new TLds is for the Registries in your opinion, then come out boldly and say so.
Not every post can be an opinion piece some stuff is just news
My opinion on the new gTLD’s hasn’t changed in several years.
Some of the new gTLD’s will be very profitable for the registries.
As a domainer if I could get condos.nyc or condos.miami or some prime domains I would as well.