On June 12, 2018 Donuts announced the largest reported new gtld sale. The registry sold Online.Casino for $510,000. A year later Marek from Brands.International posted a link on Namepros to a Domain Sherpa show about the SEO experts building the site. Meet the Team of SEO Experts Building Online.Casino Meet the team of SEO experts behind last year’s record-breaking new gTLD acquisition of … [Read more...]
New.Life gets a Christmas present as Open.money sells for $25,000
Namepros member New.Life got his wish from Santa Claus, his third five figure new gtld sale of the year. A couple of months ago New.Life sold two new gtld domains for $63,000. Hello everyone! Just sold my third xx.xxx New gtld domain this year! Domain: Open.Money Price: $25,000 USD Venue: Uniregistry (BIN) Commission: $2,500 Hold time - 7 months. Hand reg. this domain just 7 months … [Read more...]
Should new gtlds be viewed through the lens of a 20 year plan?
I have been under the weather this weekend so I have not been reading texts and emails right away as normal. A few people were mentioning to me the post we did a few days ago about new gtld sales. The comments become the classic com fans vs non com fans. Matt wrote one that challenged Rick Schwartz, Matt seemed to be questioning why if he had a 20 year plan for .com, why don't new gtlds get … [Read more...]
Reported new gtld sales in 2019 down over $2million from 2018
2019 was not a great year for reported new gtld sales, after 2018 saw dollar volumes rise by 700,000, 2019 is looking down over $2 million. Of course there will be those that will say many sales go unreported, that's true for all extensions so nothing special with that remark. There are some that are doing well like Chad Wright's WebQuest, they placed 4 of the top 26 sales. New.Life charted a … [Read more...]
A look back at the sites that went with the “smarter” new gtlds
So I came across an old post on Key-Systems.net that dealt with new gtlds. The title of the article, "These 87 sites dropped their .com for a smarter new TLD (New data)" It was written in 2015. The first thing of note was that there were only 52 names listed, with the number 51 being repeated twice. So I took a look at each name to see who kept their new gtld, who switched and who closed … [Read more...]
SampleDoc.xyz did sell for $4,100
From the how the heck did that name sell category. We present SampleDoc.xyz In the latest weekly Sedo sales report, one sale stood out, not Sexe.com for 210,000 Euros, but rather SampleDoc.xyz for $4,100. One person left a comment, while a couple others emailed if the sale was legit. Heck Mike Berkens even texted me, What the heck? I contacted Sedo and Carolyn confirmed the sale was … [Read more...]
Radix Acquires .UNO tld from Dot Latin LLC
Radix a sponsor here at TheDomains has added a 10th new gtld to their portfolio, they have acquired .UNO from Dot Latin LLC. The press release below details the announcement Dubai, 7th October 2019: Radix, the world’s largest new domains registry with over 5M domains under management, has acquired .UNO, a top-level domain that was previously operated by Dot Latin LLC. The ownership transfer … [Read more...]
