Leaderboard dominated by domains that cost a couple bucks or less.
New top level domain name operators that want to be recognized as one of the biggest, here’s a simple tip: offer your domains for free or close to it.
Take a look at the top 10 domain names on nTLDStats, representing about 2.5 million domain names:
.Club is the only domain name on the list that appears to be selling domain names for prices around .com. The others are selling many domain names for a dollar or two, primarily through registrars in Asia.
A lot of people have pointed to .XYZ and its approximately 400,000 free registrations at Network Solutions. Its #2 and #3 registrars are offering the domain names for about $2.00-$2.50.
.Science and .Party have been offered for free or under $1.00. .Berlin gave away around 100,000 names. .Realtor domains are mostly free for one year. .Link and .Top can be yours for a dollar or two per year.
Once you get out of the top ten, you start to come across domain names that have been sold for prices at .Com or higher levels. Donuts domains, such as .guru and .email, are in the top 20 and sell for a premium. .NYC currently ranks as #11, but might actually slot as #2 when you consider its registration price.
Giving domains away for free or selling them for a couple bucks might be a good strategy for some registries. In .Realtor’s case, for example, the domains are free for just the first year and come with restrictions.
One challenge for companies offering cheap domains is keeping them out of the hands of spammers and scammers. Once the reputation of an entire namespace is compromised, it’s hard to recover.
David Gruttadaurio says
I haven’t much about .video… have you heard anything about it’s roll out, Andrew?
Tilak Bisht says
Correct and it is for 1st year only so it will be interesting to see how many people go for renewal.
Evan says
If you’re listing TLDs that generate high volumes via dirt cheap prices, you should add .COM to the top of that list.
Snoopy says
“If you’re listing TLDs that generate high volumes via dirt cheap prices, you should add .COM to the top of that list.”
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If you mean via coupon codes at Godaddy I think it is pretty limited. 70-80% of it is names registered for longer than a year for starters.
DK says
Good points Andrew, most .nyc names are sold for about 40$ on go daddy and about 100 names a day gets bought every day, and lowest you can get it is around 20+$. It does look like a #2 as you have mentioned.
Ruben says
Interesting table.
But when the prices of these new TLDs rise again, .com will recover…
Pie Eater says
The stink will really show up once the registry start raising the rates and jacking everyone’s wallet. That’s when registration numbers will start to drop off like crazy.
How many people don’t know that these registries can set the prices at anything they wish? The registries are basically a spider telling the fly to come on in to it’s den. Many registrants are going to get eaten alive.
Dirk Weathers says
.TOP is also ran by scammers and spammers. This string specializes in counterfeit goods, but will also censor anything about China as the censors in China now control it.
franka says
TOP is to the chinese what COM is for the rest of us .
The only new gtlld whch is allowed to run on chinese servers .
Sam says
You’ve mentioned .science is cheap, but the few registrars I am aware of are selling it for $25+/yr. Where can we register these TLDs more cheaply?