.Club registry releases unique sales data.
In an unprecedented level of transparency, .Club has revealed which domain names it sold through registrars at premium prices last month.
The registry began offering about 8,000 premium-priced domain names through the regular registrar purchase path last month. It sold 12 premium domain names through this channel last month, plus four through its existing sale partner Sedo.
Here’s the list, including the registrar and Sedo sales:
Domain Retail Price Sale Source
thevip.club $516.50 1API
farm.club $3,016.50 1API
fan.club $10,016.50 1API
pie.club $516.50 1API
avocado.club $1,760.06 Name.com
smoke.club $2,635.06 Name.com
gis.club $999.99 GoDaddy.com
mimi.club $258.05 Sedo
neo.club $1,500.00 Sedo
estate.club $1,500.00 Sedo
vehicle.club $4,999.99 GoDaddy.com
forex.club $5,000.00 Sedo
doroga.club $107.35 RU-CENTER
energy.club $6,999.99 GoDaddy.com
konakovo.club $79.99 GoDaddy.com
thestar.club $1,000 Melbourne IT
.Club has grossed $1.05 million from registry reserved premium domain name sales to date.
Ryan says
Cool data, doesn’t even touch on their marketing budget, and the allotted $5M rumoured contention number they paid.
50 cents is even bust, registrations have slowed as newer sexier extensions continue to roll out.
What happens when the domainers who are heavy on this extension start dropping.
Joseph Peterson says
Speaking of any domain category …
When domainers drop, they’ll drop. Maybe other domainers, seeing their peers give up will give up too. That affects the registry’s earnings, and it affects the wholesale market.
But retail value and consumer awareness aren’t much affected. If domainers drop domains, regular folks don’t know or care … unless, of course, they catch those domains on the drop. End users with projects to develop and market as well as their audiences – ordinary people, in other words – pay attention to developed websites, not registration numbers.
.2 says
if they dont cut this premium model very soon will you see sex.club selling for $5 at flippa … because a renewal is more likely than a registration, charging premium ( even if the renewal is low ) as the initial price doesnt really attract many people. whilst aspiring to bypass name investors, they have managed to repel even the most extravagant spender. if anything, they should be giving the domain for free, discount renewal on the first year and hold tight for giant
competition, and THEN, after full [market] penetration: bypass name investors, if you will; but not at the same time as you try to explain to the average consumer that they can stick a dot in the middle. the fact that they still havent fixed their latin idn set doesnt help ( nor holding back ANY inventory )
Andrew Allemann says
These domains do not have a premium renewal.
Sridhar Raj says
I would have thought “fan.club” the most logical (relevant) and popular string of all those listed might have fetched close to 6 figures. Disappointed with the pace of nTLD adoption by end users.
Strangely I note that .CLUB drops seem to have an extended cycle – expired names show pending delete for weeks?