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Donuts Gets At Least 20 Two Letter Domain Registrations On Day 1 Of EAP For up To $12,500 Each

September 10, 2015 by Michael Berkens

Donuts released over 200,000 two character domain names across all of its extensions in its Early Access Program (EAP) and we counted at least 20 registrations, on Day 1 although we are sure there are more.

The domains that were registered on day 1 ranged IMHO to great domains well with the money to domains I wouldn’t have registered in General Availability.

The wholesale cost for a EAP day 1 domain name registration is $10,000.  The retail price varies by domain name registrar but seems to be as high as $12,500.  Some of the domains names also carry a premium registration and renewal price in addition to the EAP price.

Here is what we found:

QR.codes

We.Insure

We.Care

We.Discount

Ad.Agency

At.Business

Of.Business

On.Camera

NY.City

TV.Deals

TV.Cool

TV.Today

Dr. Plumbing

An.Education

Co.Coupons

DP.World

PC.World

HS.Football

SF.Football

RX.Delivery

We counted at least 7 registrations by our new friend Ken Bramon of KB Productions who registered 15 .loans domains in day 1 of EAP a few weeks ago.

The public company JD.com bought at least two new gTLD’s including:

JD.Company

JD.Finance

As for us we picked up just one of these domains, ad.agency which we originally had for day 2 of EAP but moved it up once Donuts put out a Facebook post highlighting what they thought were the best two letter domain names and put ad.agency on top, which was also our top pick, so we stepped up and grabbed it on day one.

We also like NY.city and  QR.codes but were not willing to pay day 1 prices.

 

Filed Under: Domain Industry, Donuts, New gTLD's

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. janedoe says

    September 10, 2015 at 7:50 am

    Tv.show is gone as well

  2. SoFreeDomains says

    September 10, 2015 at 8:32 am

    I like we.care and we.insure.

  3. Tom says

    September 10, 2015 at 9:34 am

    Wecare, and we insure, have a ton of live trademarks registered against them.
    This probably renders these domains useless based on those trademarks classes.

    Total waste of money

  4. Filiberto says

    September 10, 2015 at 10:05 am

    Ny.Life created on 09/09/2015

  5. Harry Shields says

    September 10, 2015 at 10:33 am

    Mike, I believe that you picked up the best one. Great pick!

  6. Jason says

    September 10, 2015 at 10:54 am

    Where do you register these domains? I went to donut.co and they say available but then redirect me back to the standard Godaddy and United domains website and it says domain is not available.

    • Chris Backe says

      September 15, 2015 at 12:51 pm

      Try Uniregistry.com or Name.com. The latter has a great bulk search and EAP pricing if that’s your thing.

  7. Peter says

    September 10, 2015 at 10:56 am

    What is (wholesale and retail) pricing for Day2, Day3, …?

  8. puneet says

    September 10, 2015 at 12:22 pm

    I like on.camera

  9. Andee Hill says

    September 10, 2015 at 1:00 pm

    @Jason, The domains need to be registered at the registrar. As a registry, Donuts does not sell the domains to the public. If the registrar indicates the domain is not available, it is most likely registered by another party. You can verify this by checking the public whois record. If you find a name that you want that does not have a public whois record and the registrar states it is unavailable, I can verify it for you. Andee @ Donuts.Email

  10. Andee Hill says

    September 10, 2015 at 1:42 pm

    @Peter, only the retail pricing is published and it varies per domain/extension.

    • Peter says

      September 10, 2015 at 4:09 pm

      Which registrar published pricing for days ahead? None. It’s shame we cannot see pricing. Example: uniregistry.com just check the name and shows current price. No information what is a renewal cost, no information what pricing would be for other days.

      • Andee Hill says

        September 10, 2015 at 4:27 pm

        @Peter, most publish the price. Check https://www.name.com/eap/

        The following article also references how the EAP is priced, http://onlinedomain.com/2015/09/09/news/donuts-releases-over-200000-two-character-domain-names/#comments

        • Peter says

          September 10, 2015 at 5:27 pm

          @Andre, click on your name.com link above and enter 88.porn – nothing. Then try the same with Uniregistry.com or 101Domain.com.

        • Peter says

          September 10, 2015 at 5:30 pm

          Sorry for misspelling your name, @Andee.
          I know .porn is not your extension, so it may not be relevant to you, but I am talking about new gTLDs – it’s a mess.

        • Peter says

          September 10, 2015 at 5:49 pm

          @Andee, check availability of 88.company with Name.com – and YES, it’s your (Donuts) extension ?

      • Filiberto says

        September 10, 2015 at 5:06 pm

        @Peter visit Hexonet(.)net

        • Peter says

          September 10, 2015 at 5:21 pm

          @Filiberto, thanks for the information.
          They are one of better ones, but still far from great. For example 88.porn is impossible to register there due to “Domain has too few chars” error, but Uniregistry.com and some other registrars allow to register it.

  11. frank.schilling says

    September 11, 2015 at 2:08 pm

    If you search multiples, the price (and renewal fee) will be in the cart at Uniregistry

    • Peter says

      September 11, 2015 at 2:49 pm

      Why renewal prices are not shown for simple queries?

  12. Sam says

    September 13, 2015 at 9:02 pm

    Hs / sf football were not EAP. Those were about $100 each I think.

    Here’s some more day 1 or 2 (mostly day 1) from KB productions:

    PR.agency
    MC.cafe
    NO.credit
    NO.tax
    DR.dental
    NY.legal
    NY.digital
    LA.tours
    AC.repair
    PC.repair

    VC.fund also went day 1 and NY.city was the first of all the names taken.

  13. Imran says

    September 17, 2015 at 3:28 pm

    you mentioned 20 domains. However exactly 58 domains were registered on day 1. You can get the names in domaining.pro and check it in the whois.
    Here is the list.
    on.camera
    at.business
    of.business
    we.care
    jd.cafe
    mc.cafe
    ny.city
    qr.codes
    jd.company
    tv.cool
    tv.deals
    rx.delivery
    ny.digital
    we.discount
    an.education
    ef.education
    ma.education
    jd.email
    jd.express
    jd.finance
    we.finance
    hs.football
    sf.football
    re.fund
    we.insure
    jd.international
    re.lease
    we.lease
    no.life
    ny.life
    rv.loans
    tv.network
    mr.pizza
    re.place
    dr.plumbing
    wb.plus
    az.rentals
    ny.rentals
    ac.repair
    ab.school
    do.school
    jd.school
    md.school
    rn.school
    tv.show
    dr.tax
    no.tax
    us.tax
    01.taxi
    51.run
    ny.today
    tv.today
    mo.town
    en.vision
    re.vision
    we.watch
    dp.world
    pc.world


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