Registry will start selling premium domain names through the registrar channel.
New top level domain name companies took a handful of approaches to premium domain names.
Some, like Donuts, made almost all of their premium domain names available through the registrar channel at a premium.
Others held back their premiums and listed them with marketplaces.
In the case of Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry, the company registered premium names in its TLDs in the name of North Sound Names. Each domain had a parked page with contact information for people interested in buying them.
Uniregistry is preparing to shift its approach by making over one million reserved domain names, including North Sound Names and other previously-reserved names (such as name collision), available through the registrar channel on September 27.
The released names will be under the audio, .blackfriday, .christmas, .click, .diet, .flowers, .gift, .guitars, .help, .hiphop, .hosting, .juegos, .link, .lol, .photo, .pics, .property, .sexy and .tattoo top level domains.
Schilling told Domain Name Wire that, although the domains will still be priced at a premium, they will be affordable. The majority of names will be priced between $50-$600 annually.
I think selling premium domains through the registrar channel is the right approach. It’s where the customers are and it’s a much easier process than selling domains through negotiation.
Here are examples of some of the domains in the lowest tier, which should be under $100 retail.
accessible.help
actress.pics
cause.help
classmate.link
comedy.pics
creative.photo
entertainment.photo
fileserver.link
inappropriate.pics
localhost.link
money.hosting
original.photo
photobox.photo
points.link
retouching.pics
reunion.lol
reunion.pics
sample.photo
secret.hosting
strategic.help
texas.hosting
trial.hosting
wineries.link
workforce.link
Interesting idea of Frank Schilling, when we register a domain name is known Uniregistry.com new premium extensions if they are, but you never know if dotcom it is ..
Example .: tb want to buy first result $ 11,000.00
Renewal $ 11,000.00 for 1 year
But if you go to http://www.domainnamesales.com to know the $ figure tb.com it does not appear, there are two ways of doing between http://www.uniregistry.com and http://www.domainamesakles.com if any and are correct at time I know the child uniregistry.com/market give the expected results is better to sell in Flippa.com BIN with the new change and not waste time and money on uniresgistry.com/market.
When you read Dnjournal and see Uniregistry to sell a premium domain is $ 300,000 who sell the brokerage Domainnamesales.com after long negotiations, Uniregistry./market not sell premium domain names two letters to $ 100 it is what there is and freely ouede see .
The month of April 2016. Goddady record, more than 700,000 domains dot-Com and be the first registrars this month.
The same year Uniregistry, be the first een com transfers with 22, 000 approximately.
Yet end 2016, and http://www.uniregistry.com be named as the best registrars 2016, Congratulations
All these domains should be available at the basic cost on a first-come-first-served basis. The Registry does not ‘own’ these names. The Registry has no business trying to decide what are ‘premium names’ and what are not. CW
“The Registry does not ‘own’ these names.”
I believe they own and control whatever is left of the dot.
Who do think owns these domains?
Registry determines pricing, market determines if the price is acceptable.
Having a degree in economics, I totally agree.
I thought the whole purpose of the GTLD release was to offer affordable domain choices, as .com has become highly sought after, and expensive.
Now GTLD’s cost more than .com, and have the annual renewal tax attached which can be into the hundreds, if not thousands of dollars for something that requires 25 cents worth of maintenance a year.
They know the dilution ship is going down, the gtlds are self destructing because the operators got greedy and FKED them all up.
There is no flow to them, no rhyme to reason, you have to decipher what the renewal is with each term, the framework in their contracts with each different provider sucks in regards to price increases, and such.
ICANN could care less, as long as they get paid, the system can be gamed, and has been.
The new GTLDs are not about affordability, but about availability
all pointless names in the first place. money.hosting? point.link?? I don’t get it
You are so right. Total crap
Renewals too high for investment purposes unless they are high search volume, category killer type names.
A lot of really junky ones there I wouldn’t even take for free or reg fee.
Their greed will be their downfall and there will be no one else to blame
The majority of those domains are garbage, they are no competition for .com and they are way higher priced, annually. They should be happy that anybody would pay $10 a year at best.
They should be happy if people pay a penny
An important part of the process of introducing so many new tld’s is learning which ones will eventually find a place in the market. They are not all created equal. Several will gain traction as desirable alternatives. I don’t have a problem with Uni trying the new approach. The only downside for domain buyers is the overwhelming list of tld choices – many of which are bad matches for the left of the dot.
My #1 suggestion for all the registrars & domain brokerages is to start presenting their tld choices in a logical hierarchy (including their premiums) where the left and right sides of the dot are a natural match. Those would go to the top of the search list.
Currently when you search a keyword, the algorithm that controls the list of tld choices presented has little logic. So, the first 20 choices presented to the buyer are often a noticeable mismatch between the keyword they searched on and the tld choice that is presented. I hope Uniregistry can lead the way by introducing search logic that pairs keywords with appropriate tld’s, and then presents those choices first to the site visitor.
The ‘Suggested Domains’ section of Name.com’s search results does a good job of suggesting TLDs based on relevance to the search string (and even the TLD if one is supplied)
It’s difficult to keep track of the numerous vertical TLDs that have been launched, so a search system like Name.com’s is helpful in surfacing good TLD options.
The fact alone that Schilling registered so many his own domains through his companies is embarrassing and say a lot.
Most of the names in the examples list of Frank’s extensions are poor quality and dubious values I would not register for a few dollars, or even want free. Many of them do not match the extension well and none would get natural traffic or type-ins and are over priced. This is a problem with most all of the new extensions and why I believe most will eventually fail.
Still very not interested.
Same here
Hello Andrew,
Frank Schilling (Googles Acquired Poster Boy) is now dumping Google inspired TLDS whose main purpose is to sucker the advertising community into using them to expand Googles Monopoly grip on Online Marketing. This strategy of Frank and google is designed to line both of their pockets in establishing Googles Massive traffic Rustling System.
Anyone trusting F.S. Google and their Market Gouging tactics will become their next financial victims.
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger) (Former Rockefeller IBEC Marketing Analyst/Strategist) (Licensed CBOE Commodity Hedge Strategist) (Domain Master ) https://www.UseBiz.com
Hello Andrew,
Due to Googles New GTLDS marketing ploy to expand their Ad Base Subscribers, 100s of unsuspecting New online Businesses using the Google advertising Network will fail within the Google Garden Maze, that are talked into adopting New TLD Marketing Strategies.
These uneducated new businesses who swallow the new TLD marketing strategy will fail at an ever increasing rate.
It is only a matter of time until Googles Strategy is understood by the advertising Industries Google Ad reps. who are unknowingly leading their clients into the Traffic Google corridor, that will ultimately destroy their End Users Traffic Starved fledgling business’s.
The perpetrators (Frank Schilling + Google will suffer greatly.
Anyone who pushes Google advertising is ruining their long term reputation as savvy Online Marketing strategists. Is it worth it ?
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger) (Former Rockefeller IBEC Marketing Analyst/Strategist) (Licensed CBOE Commodity Hedge Strategist) (Domain Master ) https://www.UseBiz.com
The Google Ad Platform is its own Algorithm Controlled Traffic Monopoly. If you are lucky enough to own and control your own .COM Profit Center (OPERATING OUTSIDE THE GOOGLE TRAFFIC MONOPOLY) you in effect own and control your own Traffic Monopoly.
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger) (Former Rockefeller IBEC Marketing Analyst/Strategist) (Licensed CBOE Commodity Hedge Strategist) (Domain Master ) https://www.UseBiz.com
.worthless
.laggard
.deadbeat
.inauspicious
.
We agree with you Nick. They are especially worthless to End Users that use these extensions in Googles Ad Platform.
Make no mistake about it, All New TLDs not just these are Google Sucker Bait designed to be used in the Google Ad Network.
Google is supporting All New TLD usage to expand their Google Ad Platform Users.
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger) (Former Rockefeller IBEC Marketing Analyst/Strategist) (Licensed CBOE Commodity Hedge Strategist) (Domain Master ) https://www.UseBiz.com
We have two .link domains and have been told by our registrar – godaddy that the renewal price has now gone up 5000% – 2015-£6.10 2016-£319.93
This is not by them but reclassification by Uniregistry. How can this happen without justification or notification. If it was a new purchase we could understand.
This is surly blackmail
Send the two domains to me editor (at) domainamewire.com