I’ve renewed most of my new TLDs so far, but that might change.
New top level domain names have been out for over a year now, and that means those of us who registered them are facing renewal decisions.
We already know early renewal results, at least from the biggest registry: for Donuts, early renewal rates ranged from 55%-72% per top level domain.
I haven’t gone big on new top level domain names. I have about 60 in my portfolio and I’ve mostly registered domains in generic extensions. Some have already come up for renewal and some will again soon.
It’s only been a year, and I rarely let a domain go the first year. I’ve received a few purchase inquiries on domains, but not many (and apparently no one serious). So, do I keep them with a longer time horizon or let them go? Here’s what I’ve done so far:
.Club – renewed the two domains I have, Autograph.club and StockPhoto.club.
.Link – renewed all four.
.Expert – renewed two of three. I should mention that, at the same time I registered the three .expert domains last year, I also hand registered 10 .com domains ending with “expert”. I’ve renewed all ten of these (for the same price of my two .expert renewals).
.XYZ – I’ve renewed 11 of 12.
The bottom line on the domains I’ve renewed so far is that price matters to me. I don’t have to think long for a $10 domain; I do have to for $50 domains.
The same goes for the other domains I own: .website, .casa, .work and .click. If renewal rates are significantly higher than first year rates (which were all $15 or less), I’m likely to let a lot go.
Robbie says
How many have you had offers on, and how many have you sold.
If someone is going the new GTLD route, instead of paying you a premium, most registry search results will give them oodles of options, so really unless you are the end user, your holding costs will most likely eat any profits, zero sum game.
Andrew Allemann says
I’ve received offers on a couple and haven’t sold any. I agree, there are lots of alternatives to these new TLDs, which keeps values down.
Kevin M. says
“”The bottom line on the domains I’ve renewed so far is that price matters to me. I don’t have to think long for a $10 domain; I do have to for $50 domains.””
Bingo Andrew! And there I totally agree. It’s getting very easy for me also, and I’m sure many others, to decide which new gTLDs, are worth taking a chance ‘investing’ in today.
Anticareer.com says
Why did you buy 12 .xyz domains and much less of others? These had to be free from Netsol right?
Andrew Allemann says
They were cheap, not registry reserved and generic.
Wealth Foundation says
I’ll renew four of the GTLD’s I have (out of twelve)…and that’s it. Even with generic keywords, most are junk, I should have known better.
Red Head says
Hi,
I am brand new to buying domain names for profit – or hopefully profit.
I did quite a bit of sleuthing to find out who owns medical and health related key words for .com.
I picked-up the .healthcare counterpart to a number of highly profitable diseases. Or, so I hope.
Angela S. says
I’ve registered quite a bit of new gtlds and the time has come for me to make renewal decisions as well.
My formula will start with the Registry- who is actively marketing their extension?- who hasn’t reached back and asked for more money on a domain that “should have been a premium?”
Than I’ll wade through the list and determine which ones I registered that were just bad. (Yes, I got a bit carried away)
Than from what’s remaining I will choose based on the renewal cost. As you mentioned Andrew, It is much easier to renew at $10 than $50. I agree. Especially on a shoe string budget.