.Global auction sells 35 domain names for a total of $63,780.
.Global held a live domain name auction in London yesterday afternoon, and the results were quite impressive.
The $63,780 in sales across 35 of 82 domain names far surpassed those I asked in a “straw poll” prior to the auction. It certainly exceeded my expectations.
I think a key moment was the 12th lot for flights.global. The preceding nine lots failed to sell, and a $5,000 bid on flights.global was apparently well below the reserve. But the registry accepted the price. Once it did that, people felt more comfortable paying $1,000+ for .global domain names.
Some domainers were in attendance and bid, yet many in the crowd were ICANN types. Although the typical ICANN goer isn’t a big domain investor, many of them want to see new TLDs succeed.
Prices on some domains were quite shocking to me, such as sports.global for $8,000 and banking.global for $12,000.
Monte Cahn of Right of the Dot, which helped put on the conference with just a couple weeks notice, told me they plan to run a multi-newTLD auction during October’s ICANN meeting in L.A.
Here is the complete list of sold domains furnished by Right of the Dot:
CLIMATECHANGE.GLOBAL $300
MODERNART.GLOBAL $250
FLIGHTS.GLOBAL $5,000
CRICKET.GLOBAL $800
TRANSPORT.GLOBAL $1,200
IDW.GLOBAL $5,200
TRAVELING.GLOBAL $800
POLITICS.GLOBAL $680
SOLARENERGY.GLOBAL $350
OMG.GLOBAL $300
FINEART.GLOBAL $550
MOBILE.GLOBAL $2,200
ADULT.GLOBAL $3,500
MONEYTRANSFER.GLOBAL $800
IPO.GLOBAL $1,500
BANKING.GLOBAL $12,000
FINDAJOB.GLOBAL $300
PROPERTY.GLOBAL $1,900
VIRUS.GLOBAL $250
SPORTS.GLOBAL $8,000
ADS.GLOBAL $1,500
BUY.GLOBAL $4,600
TRANSLATE.GLOBAL $500
AUDITOR.GLOBAL $300
WEBSERVER.GLOBAL $250
HEALTHCARE.GLOBAL $2,000
CONCERT.GLOBAL $700
CLASSROOM.GLOBAL $500
CALL.GLOBAL $2,000
VIDEO.GLOBAL $2,400
MEDICINE.GLOBAL $500
ITS.GLOBAL $600
CINEMA.GLOBAL $950
WIKI.GLOBAL $500
CLUBS.GLOBAL $600
They couldn’t have picked a better venue for showcasing and selling .GLOBAL. International conference attendees in London must have been very conscious of the global nature of the industry — this year in particular.
I can’t help pointing out, though, that .GLOBAL isn’t global. It’s confined by English and crosses no linguistic borders.
.CLUB, in contrast, is multilingual. And .COM? “Omnilingual”. .COM is, in fact, global — not just because it’s more widespread but in ways that .GLOBAL simply cannot be.
.APP is truly global though!
this is another new gtlds that seems backwards for most keywords.
The winner: Dr. Chris Hartnett and his global *.com portfolio.
These events are priceless from marketing prospective. One auction day like this puts tld from the very bottom into the top 5 traded new TLDs.
I have a couple of dot global domain names for sale, and need to know where to go to offer them for sale or add therm to an auction.
1- Bed.global
2- ForRent.global
you can reach me at [email protected]
Thanks,
Shawn