You’ll find good ideas for new TLDs on this list, but many will be priced at a premium.
I’m going to let you in on a secret strategy I’ve been undertaking with new TLDs.
Every time one heads to general availability I go to DNPric.es to look for domains including the top level domain that have sold in recent years.
For example, when .center came out recently I went to the site and searched for “center”. For each high value domain that popped up I went to see if I could acquire the matching new TLD. The top sale ending in “center” is datacenter, so I searched for data.center to see if I could acquire it.
Now DNPric.es has compiled these searches on one page, showing volume of sales by TLD.
Why am I not upset DNPric.es has compiled this data and why am I giving away this “secret”?
It’s because I don’t feel like I’m giving away much. This data is nearly worthless to the typical investor because the registries have been using this data too.
I’ve checked DNPric.es for numerous domains that have sold ranging from six figures to the low four figures. I haven’t been able to get a single one at regular registration cost.
Take a look at the sales list ending in “zone”, for example.
I’d fully expect some of the domains on top of the list to be priced at a premium. Dogzone.com sold for $100,000. Dog is a good second level domain. Dog.zone would logically be priced at a premium regardless of the six figure sale.
Work your way down the zone list and the sixth result is PrimoZone.com, which sold for $15,729 back in 2011. Normally I wouldn’t expect Primo to be priced at a premium for .zone. Yes, primo means top or first or best. But combining that with zone doesn’t mean much. The company that bought the .com is a water purification company called Primozone.
Yet Primo.zone is a premium domain at Donuts. GoDaddy is asking $5,499 per year for the domain.
Does this have to do with the previous sale of PrimoZone.com? It would seem so. After all, you can pick up primo.expert, primo.equipment or primo.company (all of which seem to make at least as much sense as primo.zone) for regular registration prices.
Admittedly, not every valuable domain on these lists is priced as a premium or reserved by the registries. DirectMailMarketing.com is number three on the .marketing list, yet DirectMail.marketing wasn’t priced at a premium. (It ended up selling during the Early Access Phase.)
So it’s possible that spending time going through these lists will bear fruit. Just don’t hold your breath.
I also find this way and try to grab a valuable domain but as what you mentioned in the article, almost 99.9% domains have been taken away. It’s sad !
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Andrew,
Is there any other way that you would like to share with us so that it’s likely to find out the valuable new gTLDs?
I have my own keyword lists, but my buying is nominal. I’m mostly still buying and registering .com domain names.
Great list, thank you.
Donuts has been doing this from week 1, sane with all the other registries, only the big guys who keep their sales a secret would have more in depth data. Even names that sold for $2500 get priced with $75-$250 annual premiums due to that fact, no secret or edge here.
The ones that sold that usually don’t have a premium, tend to have trademark conflicts, that is the solace of your bargain.
Where DNPric.es also comes very useful, is that it gives you the list of all sales, which you can then monitor and catch when some of them drop.
And many of them. Every day. They just do.
Recently got w3g.org and few more using this strategy.
I meant to say that many of names that sold in the past for $$$ do drop every day.
P.S. you may want to fix your comment box. Difficult to type and proofread in it. Thank you.
The game is not over yet. Our company has a nice consulting platform ConsultFarm, with a correspoding dotcom of course. Allowing for virtual consulting, very handy with easy payments.
Then realised, we can also have Consult.Farm – and guess what, luckily it was available and now looks like a cool brand on new corporate business cards!
So your brand is now “consult dot farm”?
“Consult.Farm” looks much better then “ConsultFarm.com”
Maybe. You have a dot right in the middle of your brand. The other issue you have is that you now tell people to go to consult.farm and have to explain that’s a web address they can use.
You were smart to get the domain name, but I’d be careful how you use it until the public is more aware of new TLDs.