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FakeNews.com Vs Fake.News Both Asking Six Figures Who You Got?

January 12, 2017 by Michael Berkens

Well the hottest topic of the week and one of hot issues coming out of the election season is “Fake News”.

The topic does not seem to be going away anytime soon

We made contact in the last couple of days with the representatives of the domain name FakeNews.com as well as the new gTLD domain name Fake.News.

The response I received from the representative of FakeNews.com after filling out the above form was:

“The owners have considered several 5 figure offers in the past 30 days, and they have declined.

We are expecting a low 6-figure sum at this time.”

The new gTLD domain name Fake.News is owned by the registry Rightside and I got a quote of $175,000 with a renewal of $30 a year.

Of course the .com renews at normal .com prices.

According to Alexa FakeNews.com has an rank in the US of 304,789 and 1,674,970 globally.

The new gTLD domain name Fake.News, although does not resolve, has an Global Alexa rank of 11,659,662.

The potential of both domains is huge if either was developed into a site and has the possibility of getting mainstream news coverage, fake or otherwise.

So if you had your pick which would you go for or a six figure purchase price?

Or would you buy both?

Or would you pass on both?

(Pricing info is what we received when we inquired and as always subject to change)

Filed Under: Domain Names, Domains, New gTLD's, Privacy, Rightside

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. Rich says

    January 12, 2017 at 9:33 pm

    The domains are worthless, unless you want to post fake news

    • Jeff says

      February 15, 2017 at 8:16 pm

      Or report on, no?

  2. mark says

    January 12, 2017 at 9:38 pm

    actually they do have value. imo best use would be to catalog and expose the known fake news constantly hitting social media and the alt right channels and websites

  3. Snoopy says

    January 12, 2017 at 9:42 pm

    Both names are unlikely to find buyers, not much money in negative terms like this. Give it a year and it has a good chance of being another dated term. The new tld is especially overpriced but that is nothing new.

  4. Surya Giri says

    January 12, 2017 at 9:45 pm

    I would buy both or buy nothing I guest. As you know, if it is a popular term, every one will have a chance to build a business with that name. FakeNews.com and Fake.News has been registered before they got a trademarks, so who knows if it will be two big companies with the same Brand.

    Last week I got Nord.Gold, it represents North Pole I think. Cheap alternative for North. And I am planning to make it a site for a campain of North Pole Environment. But I found NordGold.com is a gold company. I just imagine that some one will guest Nord.Gold as a Company Responsibility Program of a gold mining. How if both in a same business? Rival with a same Brand?

  5. Aaron Strong says

    January 12, 2017 at 10:24 pm

    CNN and MSNBC would have the best content to fit those domains. Exact Match Domain’s have value to the right company. They should contact their Russian sources for further consultation.

    • Josh says

      January 13, 2017 at 12:18 am

      That’s great, flew over everyone’s head 😉

    • Patrick Cowan says

      January 13, 2017 at 4:22 pm

      Lol.exactly

    • member says

      January 13, 2017 at 5:58 pm

      Let me correct that for you. FOX and Breitbart would have the best content to fit those domains.
      dumbnews.com would be more appropriate for CNN and MSNBC .

  6. Xavier.xyz says

    January 12, 2017 at 10:45 pm

    FakeNews.com all day long! fake.news $50k max!!

    They have value!

  7. Biff Cantrell says

    January 12, 2017 at 10:57 pm

    How about Gleissner.News with updates on his legal teams fake trademark filings

  8. MoveCon says

    January 13, 2017 at 12:35 am

    Fake news will be around as long as MSM.
    Still, pass on both – there’s hardly a way to monetize them.

  9. John says

    January 13, 2017 at 2:51 am

  10. Jamison says

    January 13, 2017 at 3:11 am

    I’m a noob to the site, hopefully you like my new site listed below : )

    this fake news stuff is pretty funny, even if its only funny for a short time.

    in domaining most things change, besides .com being king.

    if this is already posted please delete. ( I had pop up blocker on )

  11. asset.domains says

    January 13, 2017 at 3:54 am

    The com version seems more legit 🙂

    We have AntiTrolling.com , the equivalent name for an ´active ´ web service to prevent fake news happening :).

  12. Jovenet Consulting says

    January 13, 2017 at 5:55 am

    Lol, this reminds me that person who came to me trying to have me make an offer for “jove.net”.

  13. Patrick Cowan says

    January 13, 2017 at 1:23 pm

    Even better than fake news is real independent news
    That’s where the people are going.
    IndependentMediaChannel.com
    Any independent media channels are being labeled fake news.

  14. Matt says

    January 13, 2017 at 3:25 pm

    hoaxed.com is at auction on Flippa no reserve

  15. Garth says

    January 13, 2017 at 7:25 pm

    FakeNews.com because it would have the type-in traffic.
    I see commercial value, akin to TheOnion.com

  16. Albert Sabirov says

    January 14, 2017 at 4:46 am

    I wonder how much it will cost these domains:
    centronews (dot) com
    centro (dot) news

  17. Jon Schultz says

    January 15, 2017 at 12:19 am

    I think most entrepreneurs and people with a political agenda would way prefer FakeNews.com over Fake.news. By comparison, Fake.news almost seems like a fake domain. In the future, of course, that may change.

    I hope someone puts the domain to good use. If the fake news doesn’t stop, there may be no future (I’ve been reading Paul Craig Roberts)…

  18. STRIKER says

    January 15, 2017 at 1:57 am

    The question that should have been asked is: Which is more valuable, FactCheckedNews.com or FactChecked.News?

    “Fake News” is just a meme, whereas the entire world is clamoring for fact checked news after this last year leading up to the election.

  19. steve brady says

    January 15, 2017 at 10:33 am

    Thank you TheDomains for the idea, I got Fake.Report registered this morning. Happy to match fakenewses pricing.

    • steve brady says

      January 15, 2017 at 4:00 pm

      Misery loves company, registered FakeNews.Company

      Good .company since Google purchased the domain X.Company

    • steve brady says

      January 16, 2017 at 8:57 am

      Allow me to add one more option here, a news organization I created today called Slime.News
      Didn’t think twice about not registering slimenews.com either, that is not where it’s at. Slime.News is the brand.

    • STRIKER says

      January 16, 2017 at 10:26 am

      Those domains were unregistered prior to you registering them for a reason.

  20. Hans Svensson says

    October 14, 2018 at 9:08 am

    A follow-up on this post – I don’t remember if I read it before I bid at the Namescon auction or just before I had to pay the bill. I fell for the domain because I believe you can stick the url to anything. Make a black friday rival campaign or something. People contact me with ideas about writing fake news or writing about fake news. There are far to many doing that. I think I’ll just make an open publishing platform with social functions and see what happens.

    For people just wanting to buy the domain I just flash a high figure in case someone is the real Richard Branson.

    The owners of fake.news have attempted to sell me http://www.fake.news. I think it says all about this subject – even with a big domain spender they don’t expect it’s recognized as a domain without the www prefix.


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