.Buzz goes live today and like all new gTLD registries they are entitled to keep 100 domains for their own use for marketing and other purposes, but going through the list of .Buzz reserved domains it maybe the strangest list of 100 (actually 85 by my count) that I have seen for any registry.
Bill Doshier who owns the DotStrategy the company which applied to operate the .Buzz registry is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet, but having reviewed a bunch of these 100 domain registry reserved lists, I’m going to call this one the strangest one I have seen to date.
Keep in mind there is nothing to stop the registry or anyone associated with it from registering domain names once they go live as well, which makes the use of some of the allotted 100 domains pretty strange.
Bigfoot.buzz, BillDoshier.buzz, CrowBar.buzz, DotStrategy.buzz, Hogs.buzz, Trout.buzz, Zombie.buzz just to name a few
Lets just say I don’t think those need to be restricted for the registry’s use.
I’m pretty sure those and many others on this list would have been available to be registered.
Of course we wish Bill and his team the best of luck today
Here is the list:
| adoption.buzz |
| all.buzz |
| amanda.buzz |
| app.buzz |
| austin.buzz |
| baseball.buzz |
| basketball.buzz |
| beach.buzz |
| beer.buzz |
| bigfoot.buzz |
| bike.buzz |
| bill.buzz |
| billdoshier.buzz |
| bitcoin.buzz |
| book.buzz |
| bret.buzz |
| buzznames.buzz |
| contact.buzz |
| cotton.buzz |
| coupons.buzz |
| create.buzz |
| crowbar.buzz |
| dad.buzz |
| destin.buzz |
| diet.buzz |
| dotstrategy.buzz |
| fantasy.buzz |
| fishing.buzz |
| food.buzz |
| football.buzz |
| free.buzz |
| fun.buzz |
| gear.buzz |
| get.buzz |
| green.buzz |
| hashtag.buzz |
| health.buzz |
| help.buzz |
| hiphop.buzz |
| hogs.buzz |
| hollywood.buzz |
| hot.buzz |
| iain.buzz |
| indie.buzz |
| kid.buzz |
| kiwi.buzz |
| launch.buzz |
| mars.buzz |
| michael.buzz |
| mom.buzz |
| names.buzz |
| ndd.buzz |
| new.buzz |
| nic.buzz |
| nita.buzz |
| oly.buzz |
| online.buzz |
| press.buzz |
| racing.buzz |
| radio.buzz |
| run.buzz |
| runners.buzz |
| sales.buzz |
| search.buzz |
| sex.buzz |
| soccer.buzz |
| social.buzz |
| space.buzz |
| startup.buzz |
| support.buzz |
| teen.buzz |
| thedaily.buzz |
| thereal.buzz |
| tickets.buzz |
| trout.buzz |
| uca.buzz |
| vegas.buzz |
| vip.buzz |
| wear.buzz |
| wearable.buzz |
| whois.buzz |
| wiki.buzz |
| wine.buzz |
| you.buzz |
| zombie.buzz |
Keep in mind they can reserve as many domains as they want. The 100 are just ones activated.
Why does enom have so many .buzz domains registered to them ie) seo.buzz many of them premium keywords?
yup but the 100 are generally for the marketing and use of the registry
So like create.buzz or register.buzz or buy.buzz are or should have been on this list
The other domains reserved are usually earmarked for sale as premiums
Anyway a few strange list don’t you agree?
Interesting at first glance. When I search them, though, I found some reasons.
Consider crowbar.buzz. Google “Crowbar Buzz” and the first result mentions Crowbar Russell at the .buzz launch party.
Probably could have just reserved some of these, though.
I know one! I know one!
Hogs.buzz
Dot Strategy is located in Arkansas – as in, Arkansas Razorbacks.
“Go Hogs” can be heard for miles…
Whoever has the answer for “Zombie” wins the game…
😀
Final point: Mike is correct. Bill is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet. I hope he is successful with his new endeavor. Great guy.
Aron
Not a great example of what the The New gTLD domains were meant to offer:
promote competition, diversity, innovation and consumer choice… they will just seat there collecting dust as well as many other hoarded by the other registries…
Andrew, congratulations on your first new gTLD registration…
it seems after weeks of trying at last you were successful.
Some people keep talking/mentioning the new gTLD aftermarket…uh?
where is it? 🙂
seriously.
It would be disingenuous to speak of a new gtld aftermarket imo. There is not one currently, hopefully it develops but for domainers not developers, the number one question has to be and remain at the forefront, Who is going to buy these names from me ? How much profit can I make where the end user buys without going to high and they say I will wait for the next bus, I mean extension.
You are right Ray, there isn’t one yet, but I think there will be down the road. As the 60-day locks pass and end users get approached over time with matching names, businesses and technologies, I think you will see some profitable sales in the new gTLDs, despite the gluttony of choices upon them. It really does depend on the name and how much homework you’ve done before you rolled the dice buying them. There sure does seem to be a lot of bad names being registered though in these new gTLDs though, so for those people, your question “Who is going to buy these names from me?”, will likely never get answered.
@Hackney,
There IS a new gTLD aftermarket. The Domainers and Bloggers are the end-users; the Registries and registrars are the domainers. There’s a new paradigm at work.
Well right now you have a point, but those domainers are looking to sell them, they will not remain the end user, if they get trapped into that, they will just drop. But I do understand what you are saying.
I don’t just mean that semantically. If you go to UniRegistrar.com and attempt to check on their latest TLD, dot link, you’ll begin to see the psyche, and the plan. The registry actually has most of the names at “Make an Offer” prices; first when you enter a name, such as Cuff.link etc, it will prompt you that the name is “not available at regular registration price”, and ask you to click it where you’re asked to make an offer.
Question, when was the last you you tried to Register a virgin dot com at “make an offer” prices?
You only see that language in Aftermarket” domains. That is exactly what you have with New GTLDs, the Registry is the domainer. It will become apparent as time goes on.
There’s a naked trust that should exist between a Registrant, and the Registry; that trust is predicated on the serious point of the Registry NEVER ever coveting a domain name; if the Registry is into retailing domain names, you cannot trust your domain names in the hands of such Registries, and Registrars. For one, if the names ever become very successful, and expensive in the aftermarket, the employees, and agents of these Registries/Registrars can do enormous damage to the Registrants assets, and that is giving the benefit of doubt to the proprietors themselves.
90 percent of the domainers would sell today with a half decent offer, that’s what makes them domainers. This is not a $8 renewal, most good terms are running $80 to 300 on renewals. This is pure speculative gamble, only downside right now is that end users do t care as the majority of them will never get access to these names. The .com is a better immediate investment if available, or just add a word or city, or state. Anyone bother to read TOS of your gtlds you should, and you might not register anymore. I played a bit, but now I’m backing off and using it as a learning curve. Domainclature makes a good point.
The consultants are just leading big companies down this path, then the trickle down effect of funds down the pipeline. Pretty soon accounting will see this expense, and question it, might be 1000 extensions in.
@Domenclature.com, that’s exactly it
Selected Excerpts:
Talking about the Non=existent new gTLD Aftermarket:
“There is not one currently, hopefully it develops but for domainers not developers, the number one question has to be and remain at the forefront:
Who is going to buy these names from me ? ”
“You are right Ray, there isn’t one yet, but I think there will be down the road.”
“It really does depend on the name and how much homework you’ve done before you…. rolled the dice ”
“There sure does seem to be a lot of bad names”
““Who is going to buy these names from me?”, will likely never get answered.”
“The Domainers and Bloggers are the end-users; the Registries and registrars are the domainers”
“but those domainers are looking to sell them”
“This is pure speculative gamble, only downside right now is that end users do t care as the majority of them will never get access to these names.”
Conclusion:
Houston ,we have a problem.
I like the mashup of all the commentary Domo, nice job.
Thanks Raymond, it saved me some work.
IMO NO Aftermarket =
to HIGH… : I L L I Q U I D I T Y
as others already pointed.
a hard Gamble to understand.