Yesterday we saw the launch of three new gTLD’s
Once of the most anticipated new gTLD, .NYC for New York City finished its first day of general availability (GA) with .NYC domain registrations with a total of 28,858 registrations.
.NYC had some 6,000 landrush and Sunrise registrations already on the books before GA.
Meaning that .NYC gained some 20,000 domain name registrations in its first day of GA.
AdAge.com published a story in which it wrote that over 100,000 people participated in Landrush, which late in the day corrected the story to say that it made an error and that only 10,000 people participated in landrush.
With about 5,500 landrush applications already processed, it indicate there maybe as many as another couple of thousand landrush domains in auction which will be added to the zone files and actions are settled.
Rightside.co launched .Lawyer and .Attorney yesterday and had very good results taking into account that a lot of generic domains carried premium prices ranging from about $3K to $60 per registration and for each renewal.
Last night we confirmed that the domain name Accident.Attorney and injury.lawyer both sold which carried a registration and renewal premium price of up tp $60,000
I’m going to go through the zone file and pick out some of the best and expensive registrations and publish those later this morning
That’s a lot of reg domains for a first day, considering its only registrations from new york.
“Last night we confirmed that the domain name Accident.Attorney and injury.lawyer both sold which carried a registration and renewal premium price of up tp $60,000”
The same person purchased both names.
So thats $120K which is insane in itself for 2 unproven extensions.
That said,….please tell me the renewals are not 60K each or that is TRULY INSANE.
I Agree, they must have some SOLID plan to pull that …. out of a hat. They are paying for it , like its printing money. I will take risk on nyc because i think i have a good shot there, but as far as attorney looks like it just looks like pure gambling.
Even though lawyers are usually up to speed on this stuff, it is probably a domainer or somebody who think they are.
There are actually at lot of end user registrations for .attorney and .lawyer
I did consult an attorney on online recently, and most of them have to be web savvy to get traffic. And competition is cut throat, so .lawyer and .attorney is still a better idea then most gtlds since they are going for relatively tech savvy audience.
I don’t know what they paid
My rate at enom would have been $55K not $60K, maybe they made a package deal
I don’t know what they paid but it wasn’t cheap and there are others that sold that had $3K a year and higher prices
@Berkens,
“I don’t know what they paid”
As a matter of fact, you don’t know anything but what was reported, and unverified, by these extension operators right? It doesn’t pass the smell test, right? As a matter of fact, a lot of hyperbolic claims made on, or before launches have always panned out to be exactly that, unreal numbers, right?
So why not report something that is verified? Do you really think it’s fair to keep pumping this $60,000 a month crap? Do you?
The buyer in both cases (Accident.Attorney and injury.lawyer ) is an end user lawyer but only he knows his business vision.
I think a re-newal of 3k+ let alone 60k renewal is totally insane.
This is not Park Ave…
its a crap shoot.
I think I said that it was the same buyer in the post
No you did not
🙂
that was the price the other day when the domain names were availabl; $60K rake rate $55K my rate though enom
I don’t operate these registries
Amazingly, they are not going to tell me what the amount the registrants paid
Berkens,
That is NOT the issue! You are smarter than most people in domaining, are you trying to say you actually believe these $60,000/yr renewal or registration numbers?
Or the 100,000 dot NYC number?
I DON’T think so. So, please be careful how you report to us. Or I will lead a boycott of your blog. I don’t want to do it.
I wonder why you do not react the same way about unverified reports that are negative for the new gtlds, Domenclature. Every time there is a negative report about them you are the first to acknowledge them, without verifying the facts yourself I imagine, and the first to jump on the occasion to repeat again and again like so many others here how the new gtlds are crap and will never work and are a waste of money and com will always remain king and so on and so forth, but as soon as there is a hint of a positive news about them, then if it is unverified surely it must be wrong, right?
Or it could be that end user really paid $60,000 for them. Regarding the 100,000 figure, it was a mistake which was later corrected.
@leo
I am basically trying to get to the facts, erring on the cautious side.
If someone reported to you that they saw a unicorn, you will demand proof, or verification, much more than if they told you they saw a big chested woman.
Domencreature – please, please, please do not lead a boycott of Michael’s blog – it would be far less entertaining reading the posts here without your obvious anti new gTLD statements. Dot com yesterday, today and tomorrow, forever, Amen.
@David De Jongh Weill
I’m NOT anti-New GTLDs.
I’m anti-False.
Amen.
The 100K number was reported by adage.com and was adjusted down to 10K
Heads up, NYC is around 38k domain regs mark after first week and not slowing down. It will likely over take .london shortly.
London shot themselves in the food by having 66k domains as premium. Its hard to pay 40 pounds for crap, and anything even remotely ok seems to be 100+ pounds.
their strategy is to buy then sue the registry for unfair practices to get their renewal rates reduced.