.Club is a top seller.
NameBio, a domain sales data site, published details this morning about which new top level domain names are selling best on the aftermarket.
Here are the top 5 based on publicly-reported sales, ranked by dollar volume:
You can see the full chart here.
NameBio’s Michael Sumner provides a number of caveats, and I think it’s worth reviewing them.
A key one: NameBio’s database only includes public sales it gathers from Sedo, NameJet, Flippa and other marketplaces.
I’d note that, because Afternic isn’t reporting sales right now, we’re potentially missing a big part of the market.
.Club is certainly doing well, and its exclusive deal with Sedo means its sales get more exposure. .Club’s numbers should go up a lot when the $150,000 wine.club sale closes, too.
You should also consider that many registry-sold domains are at premium prices, and arguably could be included in TLD’s total sales as a sign of a TLD’s overall value. I believe many of the .Club sales reported on Sedo were actually sold by the registry, so NameBio’s number don’t necessarily reflect domainer flips.
Ryan says
.pathetic
Monte Cahn says
Andrew – there are many sales not reported in many extensions yet. Also Sedo does not have an exclusive deal with .Club as we / RightOfTheDot are also contracted with .Club and have sold their biggest names thus far (all end users) with Coffee.club, Vegas.club and Wine.club (closing very soon).
Marc Tangler says
Sold domain names for nTLDs are listed here:
2014: http://www.domainforum.me/t128-ntld-sales-2014
2015: http://www.domainforum.me/t249-ntld-sales-2015
Drake says
Wow wine.club party got months to pay, who bids with money they don’t have, usually after a week snapnames suspends your account, prearranged deal?
Most are dropping I saw a law firm drop law.guru which came with a $250 renewal. Some domainer purchased it, and will likely follow same fate unless they can flip it to lawguru.com
Most sales are small flips by domainers, the aftermarket is non existent in North America right now, more so Europe
Monte Cahn says
Drake – no not really. private end user sale through an agent has made it a more complicated transfer with special confidentiality clauses. .Club has allowed the extended time frames to get all completed. Hopefully will be done very soon and off the table.
M. Menius says
In searching through the links above, I couldn’t locate the .global domains to support the reported $123,600 total sales of 19 names. Would be interested to learn what they were.
Andrew Allemann says
Perhaps some are from the auction they held in London.
Monte Cahn says
Yes we sold around $70K worth of .Global domains during the live .Global auction in London last June.
Michael B. Halvorsen says
M. Menius – .GLOBAL has to date sold 82 domains with a total value of $277,980
The complete list of sold .GLOBAL domains can be found here:
http://go.global/premiumnames/list.php?id=soldpn
Ruben says
I think .link is bound to increase in popularity.
Bogdan says
.agency tld i found it at https://www.eurodns.com/international-domain-names/agency-domain-registration/ but didn’t saw any statistics on it.