This week Namejet.com started an auction fro 40 .college/.XYZ new gTLD domain names.
These are the first new gTLD’s to go up for sale anywhere in the world.
Today’s quick poll questions is not which domain will sell for the most, but what will be the the highest price that any one of these domain will sell for.
Again to be clear, we are not asking what the total amount of the auction will be but what is the highest price that will be paid for one of these domains.
Your choices range from under $100 all the way to over $100,000.
Please vote on the right and for bragging rights you can place your exact picks in the comment box below as well
Here are the 40 domain names in the NameJet.com auction:
I would just pay 99cent using GD coupon as all the traffic will be going to the dot com
I wouldn’t even bother paying 99cents for any of those names. Better to stick with .com and leave the crap.
.xyz $0
A couple of .college: $100-$500
A couple of them might hit $1k at max which are of course not worth anything IMO.
I wouldn’t bother paying 99cents for any of those names. Simply stick to .com and leave the crap.
The highest price will be xyz
XYZ + XYZ x XYZ $ XYZ % XYZ # XYZ + XYZ = 0
smells like piss….piss with ink.
For the most part, those names are atrocious. And they go to show that there are likely to be very few good .whatever names.
I don’t see any reason whatsoever to register a .xyz name, even in the best keywords. What a joke!
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naysayers.suck
Well every name has at least one bid at Namejet and we all know that the bids on the .XYZ extension are from .XYZ themselves. There is a lot of positive talk on the blogs about .XYZ which baffles me because its mediocre at best but like I said before whichever extensions the blogs pick to promote will have a good chance at being successful even if they are not the best extensions. I would be very surprised if any of the .XYZ get more than the one bid. Well actually I won’t be surprised because the bids will be placed by .XYZ themselves. The .COLLEGE extension has lots of potential and on this list my favorites are
loans.college
grants.college
scholarships.college
sports.college
I believe loans.college will sell the highest at probably between 2k-4k and my dark horse is sports.college. If you notice the majority are the plural form so the singular in some of these will sell higher but this could be a good benchmark. These 4 will sell for the highest amounts. Since mostly just domainers know about this auction the prices will be low. Once mainstream knows that the new extensions are finally being auctioned already more and more will come aboard and we will see the prices increase. Being that this is the first auction of the new extensions we could see these go for very high amounts not because they were bought by individuals but because of bogus bids to elevate the extension in the eyes of the world. We will see.
What are you bidding on exactly? Does .XYZ or .College even have a signed agreement with ICANN yet?
The auction states –
“In an advance auction, the highest bidder purchases an option to acquire the domain at the winning price, taking possession of the domain when it becomes available from the registry after the Sunrise period.”
When exactly is that? There is no timeline provided. It also says nothing about renewal cost. Is the winning bid a one time cost for permanent ownership? If not how much are the renewal fees?
There are several issues with selling products that do not actually even exist. What if for some unknown reason one of these extensions is not delegated, is the money refunded?
These domains visually look awful. If the final price was dictated by actual demand these would not sell for much.
However, landrush and registry run auctions are fertile grounds for playing games like pump and dump schemes to show artificial interest and demand.
Assuming that is not the case here, I would expect the highest to end in the low $XXX range, just like .PW “premiums” on NameJet.
Brad
There is a lot of .JOBS Domain “Hacks” that are Available for registration and the reason is that .whatever sucks!
I would go with a .TK instead! Its FREE.
If you don’t own a Business and need a Domain for a blog or whatever.. just go at webs.com or Wix.com or even .tk and get a free hosting.
The biggest joke is .Luxury. $1K to reg a name! Its so long to type!
I may register LuxuryCoats.com before Coats (DOT) Lunxury
Lots of terrible domains in that list – especially anything .xyz. That extension looks really bad when you combine typically valuable keywords like with carinsurance.xyz. I expect to (reluctantly) buy a few new gTLD domains for defensive registrations. But I won’t buy anything in that extension. That was such a strange choice to launch.
Do NOT bid…worthless domains!!!
Any bid above $500 is from insiders trying to promote their own gTLDs.
Do NOT fall for this scam.
Low four figures due to hype but this won’t last.
I feel that .xyz is a negative connotation for most brands. I mean really, who would be proud of saying “Our company is Whatever Inc and our site is whatever.xyz” ?
It just sounds so lame IMO.
Anyone ever watch shark tank, and you see people invest so much into one idea, that they just can’t accept it is a failure, well I happen to believe this is a failure. It is about making the connect with the buying public, I would rather purchase .biz, than .xyz anyday of the week. This person has gone so far, they cannot go back now, they have to see it thru, no matter what it takes. It sure does not look pretty, I think the consensus is most domainers won’t be supporting this, so what is the point of selling it via namejet.
AHHH NAMEJET Management you do not accept private .com portfolios easily, yet you pump this crap, what is the take back percentage on the auctions 90% to namejet, well 90% of regee is not much.
I can imagine friends, and family trying to bid on this, to raise it’s perception in the public, anyone remember the .mobi auction over at sedo…
This registry seems setup to be just that, get enough hype, and reg to pay it’s operational costs, the keywords being auctioned off are decent, but with a dead extension they become worthless. Personally .college is worthless as well with .edu, and the private school sites in themselves the trust factor will be greatly tested.
Brad
They are certainly in the grey area
ICANN is pretty clear that your not suppose to sell or allocate domains until the end of the sunrise period which hasn’t even started.
Domains on the collision list can’t be put into use or sold for at least 120 days from delegation.
I don’t know if these domains are or are no on the delegation list.
So what in essence your buying is the right to own the domain, assuming its not taken in Sunrise in which case you won’t get it or on the collision list meaning you won’t get it at least for a while.
“They are certainly in the grey area” – Berkens
@Berkens,
The Registries cannot start off operating in the grey area; businesses are finicky; no one wants to build-out a business in new outfits operating in grey areas.
And, they are in this together; if one is operating in a grey area, all will be assumed to be unreliable.
Like bees, if one individual bee stings you, you are weary of the entire swam…
You don’t spend time tracking the recalcitrant bee. You lump’em all together.
Okay then, I will save the 99cent and buy a stick of cigarette and smoke myself to death but wait…..I can get a good chocolate smoothie at Mcdonald on their $1 menu.
if you reg a dot college, chances that you will get sue from a college.
@Domenclature.com
heh, im assuming you wernt around when the entire internet was a “grey area.”
loans.college
Can’t people see that the domain “might” have been decent if it was the other way around?
college.loans or college.loan
@onlinedomain
As it is the domain loans.college is decent but college.loans is outstanding. The one thing that is great about GTLDs is you don’t have to remember the extension but just the keywords and add a dot in the middle. Consumers are going to catch on a lot faster than we think.
@online domain
Well lucky for you there is going to be a .loan and a .loans so you may get your chance
Thanks Michael, but no thanks!
hey they aren’t mine
loans.college
grants.college
scholarships.college
sports.college
uh?
That is some f**cked up english there…
algorithms are not stupid nor have dyslexia.
But since “There’s a sucker born every minute” I am sure some dumbarses will go for it…
@todd
Here is what consumers will have to remember:
loans.college
loan.college
college.loans
college.loan
collegeloans.com
collegeloan.com
loanscollege.com
loancollege.com
college-loans.com
college-loan.com
loans-college.com
loan-college.com
I bet collegeloans.com and collegeloan.com are going to get 99% of the traffic.
And I can’t wait until someone buys cheap-loans.college. I am laughing already…
on re; .xyz
I would say that even xyz.com stinks as a stand alone domain…
still scratching my head over this one…
X Y Z
I don’t even think there is a word in the dictionary that uses that sequence of letters…
An calling the domains “premium”… it’s nuts.
@onlinedomain
It’s funny I was watching Monday Night Football and a Honda commercial came on and ended with yourchallenge.honda.com and if they use this same campaign in the UK it would be yourchallenge.honda.co.uk and let me tell you if a consumer can remember all those dots they can surely remember 2 very memorable words with a dot in the middle.
@Todd:
Del DOT icio DOT us Rebrands as Delicious DOT com: A Lesson for Entrepreneurs – ‘AWKWARD’ domain name slowed growth of site.
domainnamewire DOT com
Aug 01, 2008
Any clearer?
no, because del.icio.us was a horrible hack to begin with. if they had real words to make “real hacks” with they probably would have done that originally.
one main reason those shitty hacks existed in the first place was because the lack of good, cheap, one word .com domains… it shows people are interested in alternatives and “hacks” where you break up one single word doesnt cut the muster, main reason being you cant say it out loud (i.e. radio test)
when thousands of real actual words are out the tired argument of O.co and “del.icio.us” type examples will be old and outdated.. it should be clear there arnt many examples to site by how often folks continue to bring up the handful of examples like O.co and shitty desperate “break up one single word” hacks that were a bad idea to begin with.
instead of constantly thinking these examples “clear it up” we should rather be reasonable and acknowledge there is actually, at this point, not enough information to determine.
hi 2014.
@domo sapiens
That’s all you got? One crappy example of a ridiculous hack that couldn’t even be properly separated into syllables. Please give us all a better name to analyze.
Why don’t you girls “hold hands” and analyze this?:
“There is no one gTLD that will displace the Dot Com…It’s not going to happen”
by Frank Schilling.
10/21/2013
gTLD Madness: Team Schilling vs Team Schwartz, Part II
(Youtube it at Minute 19.30)
So much for the ‘AM radio’ comment…
Most people missed this comment which it proves my theory that someone in London
‘spiked’ Frank’s red Solo cup of Pink Kool-Aid …
that statement seems most likely true, no one TLD will displace .com..
sounds like you’re interpreting this stuff too literally dude.. so you tell me what to you determine from that statement: is it that random .gTLD’s wont be more normalized than they are now?
@todd
I for sure can’t remember these addresses unless I type them immediately.
The next day most people will type honda.com and search for the contest there.
You mention .co.uk as an example of too many dots.
The thing is that .com and .co.uk are embedded into people’s minds.
When they see these ads they only have to remember honda and they just add the extension.
Most people seeing loans.college will think that is just some fancy way of writing a slogan. They will not see a web address so they will just go to google and type “loans college” or “college loans”.
@Domo Sapiens
Frank said from the beginning that “your .com will always have value.” Frank knows that .com will have value but he also has to sell the new gTLDs. Only way to do this is throw out some vague predictions for the future like “things will change”.
Things change every day. Things were changing before new gTLDs arrived.
These predictions are targeted to the people not owning the valuable .com. That is the market for the new gTLDs.
” so you tell me what to you determine from that statement: is it that random .gTLD’s wont be more normalized than they are now?”
as normalized as the current “Rolling tumbleweed’ extensions” :
.info .tv .tel .mobi .biz .museum .asia .coop .pro .us .eu .ws etc etc and let;s not forget the upcoming “Rolling Tumbleweed” the Dot .co
(check this week sales reports if in doubt)
@onlinedomain Dot Com.:
There is an abysmal difference from;
“will have SOME value” (AM RAdios) and “There is no one gTLD that will displace the Dot Com… It’s not going to happen”, Frank was very candid and realistic during the debate, he made much more sense than the rest of his team. he is a very patient man, he knows pricing needs to be at a competitive level* to the Dot com plus fixed vs variable pricing (short term pain hoping for Long term gain) lastly he also knows “There is a Sucker Born Everyday”.
* so far it seems only ‘dot club’ is listening, the rest seem awful greedy…
Rolling Rolling Rolling….now I have that song stuck in my head:)
@Domo
He didn’t say some value.
He said: “YOUR.COM will always have value”.
That is light years away from the AM Radio statement which I think that he regretted.
guys, what do you expect.. the AM radio statements and other “bad” analogies are being made.. there is no perfect analogy because nothing like this has happened unless we wanna keep pretending “we’ve seen it with .mobi .biz .info”
why are people acting like this many at once is the same thing? that one factor itself is going to make this whole mess a lot more interesting. im not saying it going to go mostly positive because of that but its going to get noticed by the public this time.
but like for example i think prices will have to be spread pretty thin with this many at once (or close to “at once”)… but as far as general public angle of being aware of .whatever, which has always been a barrier, that angle is completely different this time simply because of how many are being released at once. but then again other factors are involved like free domains..
You are right, however if you put the 2 comments together anyone would assume that he implies that dot com will become nearly worthless …
“Dot Com will become like AM radio”
“YOUR Dot COM will always have value but the “upside” in value will be limited by the changes to come.”
The second comment couldn’t be anymore vague kind of a “Hail Mary pass”, “the changes to come”? uh?
No one here can predict what will it happen tomorrow, nevertheless we have already Historical data and trends in the form of the ‘path to nowhere’ the “Rolling Tumbleweed’ Extensions” have taken… not even Rod Beckstrom could explain their current catatonic state when asked at an ICANN meet.
(his ‘red faced” reply is priceless)
I stay with the last more realistic statement by Frank:
“There is no one gTLD that will displace the Dot Com..It’s not going to happen”
Displaced: moved or put out of the usual or proper place.
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Numero Uno.
I noticed that Namejet removed a bunch of names from the auction list and then found your other post about it. I put the link here for those that didn’t catch the post on Nov 19.
http://www.thedomains.com/2013/11/19/namejet-com-pulls-all-16-new-gtld-domain-names-on-collision-list-out-of-auction/