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Remember Those Free .Realtor Domains? They Do Not Appear Free To Renew

November 24, 2015 by Michael Berkens

Remember when the new gTLD .Realtor rolled out giving members of the National Association of REALTORS as well as the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) the chance to register a  free .Realtor domain name?

.Realtor went to far to warn its members just over a year ago not to “pre-register or pay money to an outside company for a .REALTOR top level domain because NAR will oversee registrations for .REALTOR…only NAR members are eligible for a .REALTOR domain and membership will be verified via the NRDS system at registration.  Additionally, NAR plans to provide members a free .REALTOR domain that is associated with their name for one year on a first-come, first-serve basis”

Well the 1st year is now over and the cost (rack rate) to renew a .Realtor domain name appears to be $39.95 according to the .Realtor website

.Realtor reached over 110,000 registrations but now that domains are coming up for renewal and renewals appear not to be free, the number of registered domain names has dropped closer to 98,000.

We will keep our eye on this extension to see the percentage of domains that get renewed.

 

Filed Under: Domain Names, Domains, New gTLD's Tagged With: .realtor, domain name, domain names, domain renewal rates, domain renewals

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. John UK says

    November 24, 2015 at 9:26 am

    Good business model I guess. Get them to build up a business/reliance on the domain and then start charging.

  2. Dino RE says

    November 24, 2015 at 9:40 am

    When these realtors got their FREE domain names were they set up as auto-renew or did they have to make a choice to auto-renew or not?

    Did .Realty .Realestate , .Real, .Property get launched? In which case what were the first year registration charges and renewal rates for alternatives ?

  3. todd says

    November 24, 2015 at 9:57 am

    Registrants are lucky they are only charging them 40 bucks to renew. I bet the renewal rate will be very high.

  4. SoFreeDomains says

    November 25, 2015 at 1:42 am

    Nothing is absolutely free, even in Freetown. Let’s hope majority of these realtors are able to renew these domains.


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