I was checking out a new gTLD domain yesterday with the keyword Los Angeles at Uniregistry and I got a bunch of available domain names back with some pretty interesting pricing.
I think it’s an interesting look at the pricing of some new gTLD’s by various new gTLD registries:
losangeles.pizza
$220.00
Renewal $220.00 / year
losangeles.cars
$2,888.88
Renewal $2,888.88 / year
losangeles.xyz
$2,750.00
Renewal $2,750.00 / year
losangeles.car
$2,888.88
Renewal $2,888.88 / year
losangeles.auto
$2,888.88
Renewal $2,888.88 / year
losangeles.online
$11,000.00
Renewal $11,000.00 / year
losangeles.pics
$19.88
Renewal $19.88 / year
losangeles.host
$5,500.00
Renewal $5,500.00 / year
losangeles.blue
$76.98
Renewal $76.98 / year
losangeles.red
$76.98
Renewal $76.98 / year
losangeles.school
$108.90
Renewal $108.90 / year
losangeles.dating
$220.00
Renewal $220.00 / year
losangeles.srl
$29.88
Renewal $29.88 / year
losangeles.pink
$76.98
Renewal $76.98 / year
losangeles.rent
$55,000.00
Renewal $55,000.00 / year
losangeles.nagoya
$14.88
Renewal $14.88 / year
losangeles.yokohama
$14.88
Renewal $14.88 / year
losangeles.archi
$68.88
Renewal $68.88 / year
losangeles.okinawa
$14.88
Renewal $14.88 / year
losangeles.rocks
$55,000.00
Renewal $55,000.00 / year
losangeles.republican
$11,000.00
Renewal $1,100.00 / year
losangeles.democrat
$11,000.00
Renewal $1,100.00 / year
losangeles.dance
$11,000.00
Renewal $1,100.00 / year
losangeles.futbol
$11,000.00
Renewal $1,100.00 / year
losangeles.reviews
$2,750.00
Renewal $550.00 / year
Man…some of those renewals!
Interesting list though and makes me want to dig more.
these renewal prices is what is killing the uptake and awareness of the new gTLDs. Would have been a brave registry to allow all names to be regged at $10 and renewed at $10 but that would have created an aftermarket driven by domainers who could have collectively done the heavy lifting to create awareness. We will never know if this stratergy would have worked, as no registry sees domainers as an important part of the eco system but only as cash cows to be rinsed.
Amen @betthelot
.club has $10 renewals, so it’s just a question of working out if you can resell higher than a premium price…but premium renewals put a damper on $10 renewals because people assume higher renewals so balk
I am happy with the magical surprises between prices to register a new gTLD most impressive is to see at this time to write this comment one thing that often happens is magic and a hotbed of thriller at https: // uniregistry. com / domain name: losangeles.social
Premium Name
$ 55,000.00
Renewal $ 55,000.00 / year
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Just to clarify as much as one can do in the new G world, not all registrars carry every new extension and even those that do carry an extension may not provide registration pricing for certain tiers of domains, so if this is say the super premium tier (we can debate whether this domain should be in this tier later) Godaddy probably does not offer that pricing on a registration.
Enom shows make offer price.
The domain is reserved by the registry and its not a aftermarket domain (owned by a third party)
Thanks for the clarity Mike, as always short and straight to the point
Curious, are some of these new extensions and their renewal rate so high simply because they know they are flops in a mass interest scenario but if they can get a small following they make enough for it to make sense from a financial stand point. In other words if I know .dodododadada will never be a national or international success so pricing it at $10 is a sure way to lose my millions Ill charge $XXX-$XXXX each and know I only need X amount of sales and renewals by avid music fans and I make a buck.
@thelegendaryjp thats the approach registry(s) have all taken. Its a non verbal acceptance, that they will not go main stream and therefore the most effective business model is to sell less names at higher premiums. Interesting that the first 39 strings on launch had under 3,000 names as premiums, on average but now it averages over 35,000 on launch. CircleID did an article on this. The sunrise prices have also increased from $300 to $1000 on average – heres the article http://www.circleid.com/posts/20160210_markmontitor_looks_at_progress_on_new_gtld_program_in_report/
Look at .news. Many of the pure keywords and geo’s are $55,000. But .news is one of the best possible tld’s and offers an undeniable cachet. For local newspapers, the geo-specific .news domain offers a long awaited marketing gem and alternative to .com
I agree with that .news is one of 2 or 3 out of a 1000 that has gained traction in a niche market.
You’re both right about .news — it is Rightside’s best performing TLD.
My team picked up a few priority registrations during launch, including:
channel1.news channel8.news and other GA LLLs such as btv.news, gtv.news wtv.news to name a few. They all get over 100 visits on average, monthly.
The fact that “los angeles” is a premium keyword, yet so many extensions are still available tells you all you need to know about the real value of new gTLDs. losangeles.xyz was registered, but the registrant let it expire. They’re all worthless scrap.
and yet we are to believe that 1.xyz was sold for 180,000USD last week, more than the cost of the string, reported at sold.domains. Great PR, disasterly misleading for domainers
Your time is very valuable. Considering all the hours, days, and now years you’ve spent thinking and writing about gTLD’s, you could have saved yourself a lot of money had you simply bought a couple of good 3 letter XYZ’s for $10 bucks a piece, and forgotten about it.
When a reporter insisted on repeatedly asking Trump why he won’t fire his campaign director, Trump replied, “Actually it would be a lot easier for me to fire him than to spend hours talking to you about it”.
Only been thinking and commenting in the last 6 weeks on the new gTLDs, obviously made an impact on you.
Spend a few on a pair and make it worth your while.
Thanks for the advice. Steve good luck with your endeavors.
losangeles.rent = 65.000$
i got
los-angeles.rent for 8,88$
i guess for 8,88 $ i can give it a try for 1 year
and .rent makes sense
villas for rent in LA ?
los-angeles.pw ( 0.88 $ ) available
los-angeles.rocks ( 7,88 $ ) availabe
namecheap
I am the only person in the .uno space to have 2 “Geo” Names LosAngeles.uno and KansasCity.uno I am so grateful.
@Berkens
Looks like losangeles.pics has been registered and a quick page put up on the site.
in europe ( 500 million people ) nobody will recognize losangeles because it is Los Angeles
2 words
we like Los-Angeles… more
It’s true that Europeans (especially German speakers) find hyphens less repellent than do Americans. But they’re also accustomed to American websites where hyphens – which tend to be a sign of poor quality – are seldom used.
Europeans are smart enough to recognize “LosAngeles” without a hyphen. If not, then that civilization has utterly collapsed!
iguessthanwedontneedaspaceanymoreforeverysentencewewritebecauseitiswasteoftimeandspaceright?ornot?:)justkiddingdontthinkinenglishthinkglobalifyouwantinternationalguesttoyourwebsiteorinternationaltraffictomakemorebusinesstobecontinued
@mike,
Did you get lost on the way to TheDomains.com? 5 minutes spent staring at The-Domains.com, scratching your head, wondering what went wrong?
No. I rest my case.
facts
LosAngeles
Baidu : 百度为您找到相关结果约 8,930,000个
Bing : About 35,600,000 results
Google : About 850,000,000 results
Los-Angeles
Baidu : 百度为您找到相关结果约 16,700,000个
Bing : About 36,000,000 results
Google : About 841,000,000 results
Los Angeles
Baidu : 百度为您找到相关结果约 16,200,000个
Bing : About 104,000,000 results
Google : About 841,000,000 results
unitedstatesofamerica or United States of America ?
@michael erhardt,
Actually, those stats show nothing. Google reports the same number whether you enter a hyphen or a space. That’s why you see the identical number for “Los Angeles” and “Los-Angeles”. The number would also be identical for “Guess What” / “Guess-What” or “Wrong Answer” / “Wrong-Answer”.
Not sure where you got that 841,000,000 number, by the way. Google reports 1,220,000 monthly searches for [Los Angeles] globally.
Oh, you’re talking about search results not search queries. Anyway, same problem.
Jo
what do you see here :
donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft
german longest word !
i guess you recognize this not as a word ?
just a little fun
Why not purchase a domain on .LA and get the best of both worlds?
Good grief. The generic dot-com losangelesrent.com has been parked and rusting out since 2000. Did we need an even more obscure version? And when are we reaching critical mass on .rent at 55K each?
“Everybody needs money. That’s why they call it money.” -Mamet. The competitive market for dot-com was foreseen and intended: it takes weight off of overburdened government agencies. An expensive URL transfers fraud control to the providers, who naturally strive to preserve their asset’s value via customer satisfaction. And the relative scarcity of dot-coms forces business to take the time to coin new, distinguishable trademarks, thus taking weight off of drowning global trademark institutions. This is not background esoterica. This flows into the application value of a URL.
Pretend we’re not all on the Aspergers spectrum, but are capable of empathy with real-world site visitors. Or just note our own surfing. Like, how irritating it is to have auto-generated mirror sites in infinite gTLDs clogging Google. Or how chary we are of handing over our data, until we check the address bar for the dot-com. QED, dot-com works. (Hobby, cost-free, trend cycle sites, etc. aren’t the same arena.) It follows that the application value of rando gTLDs isn’t there for end users, so speculation is untenable. Unless your objective is to deceive startup founders, or to lose money just to be in the game.
Does anyone need to have lost money ‘personally’ on .net in the 90s to know this stuff? Historia vitae magistra.
.la makes sense, all these others are just noise.
.la definitely makes sense, but few people are even aware that this Laos country code domain has been adopted by some marketers in Los Angeles.
.LA needs to be taken over by a marketing team that can spin this into THE Los Angeles City domain.
Page Howe has been working on that for about a year.
@Michael
Pretty sure you met the .co team in Miami. I did on several occasions. They were working deals non-stop, hosting events and connecting with Silicon Valley VCs and angels. They were relentless in raising the value proposition of .co. Not sure it still has that after the extension/registry was acquired.
I’m sure Page is outstanding. But this requires non-stop meetings, events, branding, and more. There are so many tech and media starups in LA – tinder, snapchat, whisper. There’s a big opportunity to leverage this with the .LA brand/extension.
I’m just surprised someone hasn’t run with this. I realize it would take serious resources to amp this up, but it seems like a big opportunity for an exit (acquisition) if the .LA (as Los Angeles) could take off: short (2 letters), and most people call Los Angeles LA.
Probably best for Page to weigh in on these comments regarding .LA given his role with CentralNIC. I can say that several companies and individuals are using .LA in LA. Some are using .LA for Latin America and Louisiana, i.e., Intel.LA.
LosAngeles.online and LosAngeles.Rent are good gTLDs. There is good potential to launch these extensions and build nice brands. $55K annual registration is way too much!
I believe SanFrancisco.Rent and NewYorkCity.Rent would be better names.
@Ray
I agree. Would be good to hear from Page. Interesting — I didn’t even think of Latin America.
I guess spinning country codes into new geo designations is a lot harder than spinning .TV, .ME, .IT
@Steve
Several years ago, LA Names Corporation considered the idea of marketing subdomains on CC.LA domains, i.e., MX.LA, BR.LA, etc. The strategy involved using these domains as a .EU equivalent in Latin America. I believe this initiative was later cancelled due to limited demand. Perhaps they may reconsider given the advent of the new geos and use of .LA in Latin America
Some additional information on .LA:
https://twitter.com/ladomains
@ all
this is not losangeles
this is :
Los Angeles
This article is about the U.S. city. For the county in California, see Los Angeles County.
“L.A.” and “City of Los Angeles” redirect here. For other uses, see L.A. (disambiguation) and City of Los Angeles (disambiguation).
Los Angeles, California
Charter city
City of Los Angeles
Los Angeles skyline
Hollywood Sign Echo Park Lake
Los Angeles City Hall Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport
Vincent Thomas Bridge Venice Beach
Clockwise from top: Downtown Los Angeles skyline, Echo Park, Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport, Venice Beach, Vincent Thomas Bridge, Los Angeles City Hall, Hollywood Sign
Flag of Los Angeles, California
Flag Official seal of Los Angeles, California
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Nickname(s): “L.A.”, “City of Angels”, “Angeltown”, “The Entertainment Capital of the World”, “The Big Orange” “La-la-land”, “Tinseltown”
Los Angeles is located in USA Los AngelesLos Angeles
Location in the United States
Coordinates: 34°03′N 118°15′WCoordinates: 34°03′N 118°15′W
Country United States of America
Website http://www.lacity.org
Los Angeles (Listeni/lɒs ˈændʒəlᵻs/, Spanish for “The Angels”),[14] officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L.A., is the second-largest city in the United States after New York City, the most populous city in the state of California, and the county seat of Los Angeles County.
so WHY you name it : losangeles ?
back to the roots
will anyone google ( search ) : losangeles or Los Angeles ?
if you want global ( international ) traffic yo your website ,than go for Los-Angeles
@ all
point is
WHY buy a losangeles domain ( losangeles.rent ) for 55.000
when you can get los-angeles ( los-angeles.rent ) for 8,88 ?
will the traffic be more @ losangeles or los-angeles ?
what makes more sense ?
or is it just an image thing ?
i mean in America you date
Month Day Year 04/12/2016
in Europe we date
Day Month Year , 12/04/2016
which makes much more sense ?
sometimes it is difficult to understand the way of your ( .complicated ) thinking
Where domain names are concerned, the convention for concatenating words without hyphens is well established in the USA. Although you may not like it, it’s a measurable market preference.
After 30+ years, yes, it is an “image thing”. Deviating from the hyphen-free norm is something done in the USA mainly by businesses seeking a cheap alternative; consequently hyphens are associated strongly with cheap, second-rate websites.
Yes, the original choice to spurn hyphens rather than embrace them is a bit arbitrary – like driving on 1 side of the road rather than the other. But it’s an entrenched standard by now. We don’t change such things by visiting another country and insisting on driving full speed on the opposite side compared to the majority.
Europe went a slightly different path than the USA, largely because German compound words benefit from hyphens as separation. There are a few languages where hyphens may be quite important actually. In Arabic, I’d argue, they’re absolutely crucial.
🙂
i love America very much
did you see the USA in Germany ? ( deUtSchlAnd ? )
it works also with aUStriA or aUStrAlia or rUsSiA
USA is everywhere
my point : sometimes is good to break with the norm
losangeles is expensive
los-angeles is cheap