GoDaddy and eNom are offering Donuts’ domains today, but other big registrars are not.
Seven of Donuts new top level domain names, including .guru and .clothing, are available starting today under the company’s “Early Access Program.”
For the next five days the domains can be purchased at premium prices. Today the prices are over $10,000, and the price will drop each day going forward.
Only some of the major domain name registrars appear to be offering Donuts’ domain names during this five day period.
Not surprisingly, Donuts partner eNom is one. Here’s what you see when you type in one of the eligible domains:
GoDaddy is also supporting EAP. In addition to being able to buy the domains now at today’s price, customers are also offered the chance to place orders for future days of EAP.
1&1, which has spent $50 million advertising pre-registrations, does not appear to be selling Donuts’ domain names yet. The only option I’m given is pre-registration.
If you search for one of eligible domains at Network Solutions, you’ll get a message that “This domain extension is not supported.” If you go to the pre-registration page you can still place a pre-registration, though.
It seems that some registrars don’t want to deal with the complexities of Donuts’ launch program. Perhaps registrars will offer the option in the future if Donuts’ early launches sell a bunch of EAP domains.
In some ways, I think Donuts made a mistake by saying its domains would be available to everyone starting today. Some registrars are saying the domains are not available until February (since that’s when they’ll be regular price) and others have the steep EAP prices. If I’m the typical registrant, hear the news, and am then told they aren’t available yet or cost $12,000, will I return later?
Dont want to sound like a spoilsport , but I think and hope all these new TLD’s fail because they are nothing but a confusing irritation.
Mike, this is exactly what my grandma said about computers…her typewriter was a lot less confusing too.
fyi – Enom is primarily a reseller platform. so, in order to get the $11,000 price you need to have a platinum reseller account, which requires a reseller account with an additional deposit.
Retail customers will pay $13,750 EAP fee day 1 at enom.com.
This day may go down in infamy as Idiot’s Day. Oh, the carnage!
Sorry, I do not want to pay 5 figures for a GTLD in an unproven market.
buyit.clothing for $11k?
And the whoring of our industry begins!
And if 1 and 1 is spending $50mil on pre-registrations you KNOW gtlds are a scam.
A sad day for the domain industry.
Proud to tell people you are a domain investor?
As of this moment seo.guru is still available for $11K. The question is, if you build out seo.guru instead of a dot com, are you REALLY an seo guru?
FYI, most of their “premium” domains are still not finding any takers. Lots to choose from if you like lots of risk. Of course, I am not certain that the “unavailable” domains were not just held back instead of actually being sold anyway. Donuts is probably painfully watching a registration or two dribble in but their big bonanza is just not happening.
I think everyone loses money on this rollout – the few who buy and Donuts for losing momentum through this expensive approach…
Actually, if you’re an SEO guru it doesn’t matter if you use a .guru or .com domain name. Google treats them the same.
This it the “Big Bang” ICANN told us to expect? More like a dull thud if you ask me.
Ascio already offers Donuts new gTLDs that are open to the public, to all its resellers. just FYI.
Seems Gandi.net choose tout propose only last days of EAP http://www.gandibar.net/post/2014/02/03/The-Early-Access-Program%3A-a-Landrush-of-a-different-color