I listed 9 .XYZ domains at 95 bucks each over at CAX yesterday: Surveys.xyz (sold), Parenting.xyz, Skateboards.xyz, Programming.xyz, Stress.xyz, Reputation.xyz, Publishing.xyz, Instruments.xyz and Productivity.xyz.
Archive | June, 2014
New gTLD Case Study, Update #6: My First Reseller Market Experiment
Posted on 19 June 2014 by Andrei
Update: Surveys.xyz has been sold.
Francois is encouraging people to sell their .XYZ domains via CAX today, so I decided to list mine at 95 bucks each as an experiment: Surveys.xyz (sold), Parenting.xyz, Skateboards.xyz, Programming.xyz, Stress.xyz, Reputation.xyz, Publishing.xyz, Instruments.xyz and Productivity.xyz.
New gTLD Case Study, Update #5: 100 Dot Berlin Domains
Posted on 18 June 2014 by Andrei
Got an email about the fact that 101Domain is offering up to 100 free Dot Berlin domain, so I thought it would be an interesting experience to register 100, point them to “this domain is for sale” landing pages and see what happens.
Today, I’ll be sharing those domains as well as a few details about the approach I’ve chosen.
Great Term + Unproven Extension or Considerably Weaker Term + Dot Com?
Posted on 17 June 2014 by Andrei
Leonard Britt has posted several interesting comments on DomainingTips about the fact that even dot coms are hard to sell to end users and this observation leads us to an important question: what does this mean as far as new gTLDs are concerned?
Quick New gTLD Tip: Pre-Register With Several Registrars
Posted on 16 June 2014 by Andrei
In my opinion, the best approach for those who want to secure a new gTLD domain or several new gTLD domains is pre-registering with more than one company.
I don’t own many new gTLDs and my data is therefore inconclusive at this point, so I won’t say which company/companies performed better for me thus far (I will however do this in the future, once I have more data) but up until this point, I’ve had interesting “surprises” as in seeing that the company I would have expected the least from a while back manage to secure the domain on the one hand and seeing a registrar I had higher expectations from screw up royally on the other.
Three New gTLDs Will Be Entering the General Availability Phase Next Week
Posted on 15 June 2014 by Andrei
There won’t be all that much activity in the new gTLD space next week, only three new gTLDs will enter the General Availability phase.
Tomorrow, Dot Archi will go live, a niche gTLD for architects. The gTLD operator is startingdot. It’s their first gTLD launch, they also operate Dot Bio and Dot Ski.
13 GoDaddy Discount Codes
Posted on 14 June 2014 by Andrei
Last week pretty bad in terms of coupons but fortunately, things are considerably better this week. I’ll be sharing 13 GoDaddy discount codes today. One of them should work internationally as opposed to only for people from the US/Canada and as far as the other ones are concerned, I’m not sure.
The Reseller Market Might (Probably Will) Experience Short-Term Difficulties
Posted on 13 June 2014 by Andrei
Before I start, I just want to make it clear that this opinion refers exclusively to the reseller (domainer to domainer) market.
Through this post, I’ll try to explain why I think the reseller market will experience short-term difficulties. In other words, why I think there will be liquidity problems and all in all, why the near future doesn’t look very good in terms of domainer to domainer sales.
Two Reasons Why New gTLDs Had an Awful Week
Posted on 12 June 2014 by Andrei
And make no mistake, it was truly awful. Eight new gTLDs entered the General Availability phase this week and their total day one registrations amount to 15,724. In other words, an average of less than 2,000 registration per new gTLD (1966, to be more precise).
Got these numbers from TheDomains and they are the result of data gathered from nTLDStats.com as well as RegistrarStats.com, with the highest value taken in each case (so for example, if nTLDStats had higher numbers for gTLD1 than RegistrarStats, the nTLDStats numbers were taken and if nTLDStats had lower numbers than RegistrarStats for gTLD2, the RegistrarStats numbers were taken).
Why I Didn’t Register Any Dot Dating Domains
Posted on 11 June 2014 by Andrei
Today, 4 new gTLDs entered the General Availability period: dot dating, dot events, dot partners and dot productions. To be honest, I like dot dating, yet I didn’t register any.
Is it because alternatives such as dot singles and dot date exist? Nope, that had nothing to do with it because despite the fact that those alternatives exist, dot dating is the strongest option. This, corroborated with the fact that there’s no potential “singular or plural?” confusion issue (as with dot accountant vs. dot accountants, for example) represents a good reason not to consider the competition from similar gTLDs a deal breaker.
