850,000 domains will be dropped to standard prices as part of repricing.
New top level domain name company Donuts is cutting prices on 1.1 million premium-priced domains, including moving 850,000 domains from premium tiers to regular prices. I believe this represents about half of Donuts’ premium inventory.
The company operates 242 top level domain names. The price drops will cover 45 of these top level domains.
A review of the impacted domains shows that many of them are from the Rightside portfolio of domain names that Donuts acquired. Rightside priced many more domains per TLD as premium compared to Donuts. Rightside was part of Demand Media when it applied for top level domains and used Demand Media’s data-driven approach to identify premium domains.
Rightside went way overboard. This became very apparent when new TLDs launched without as much fanfare as applicants expected.
The premium prices will drop on November 5. Starting September 5, anyone can register the domains that will drop in price and get the lower renewal price but still pay the higher premium price upon registration. It’s sort of a like a mini-Dutch auction; parties can pay a bit more to get the domains now rather than compete with people starting November 5.
Some registrars are expected to hold pre-order events for the domains that will reduce on November 5.
Donuts has a special page that lists all of the domains that will be reduced and the percentage change in wholesale price.
Demand: ZERO
It‘s either first come first served or keep your bloody “premium“ inventory.
Either you are a registry or you are a domain investor. Don’t try to be both.
“”Demand: zero
= blatant fallacy.
Premium GTLD are selling and gaining traction. Myself and ever more are buying all we can.
If you’re going to bash, open with some better facts..
That initial mindless and fallacy was all it took for me to ignore the rest of your post..
“Myself and ever more are buying all we can.”
= blatant fallacy.
If your statement would have any merit, Donut wouldn’t be forced to LOWER their prices. If demand is down you cut prices. Economics 101.
That initial mindless and fallacy was all it took for me to ignore the rest of your post..
There is demand, just not for premium pricing, in particular on renewal.
If .coms had premium renewals on par with some gtld extensions, demand would be less, at least as far as small to medium businesses would be concerned, and investors would find it far harder to hold a decent portfolio
Pretty accurate.
It is now a race to the bottom as demand dries up. Plan seems to be to try and grab whatever registrants are still left then go for large annual price rises on renewals.
This is very similar to what Verisign did with .tv years ago.
What about those who paid a very high price at the beginning and paying high renewals? Maybe they could drop those high renewals(?) Those high renewals are killing off potential sales.
LOL, no way would they do that.
Once again this is very similar to how .tv worked. People would need to drop then try to pick the names up again, but they are probably best off dropping anyway.
All the time, NTLD bashers attack this thread as soon as you post something, posting their lies. You let them. The TRUTH you hold back. You are sick.
Jay, premium gtlds are not a domainer business, it’s a registry direct to end user business.
You are just a vessel holding, and paying premium renewals, in the end you will make no profit as you have paid it all for the renewals, or will drop because you can’t maintain your renewals.
You have been brainwashed because you came late to the game, and think you can fast track domain success with this model, but you can’t its fools.gold
The entire concept of registries being allowed to build tiers into registration costs is a fallacy that ICANN should never have allowed – if they weren’t in the pocket of registries and registrars.
Every domain in a TLD costs the same to provide as the next one. There is NO logical reason for premium domains other the registry greed.
“Domainers” that got sucked in to paying inflated “premium” prices are now looking pretty sad. Sadder than they looked when they paid for “premium” domains in the first place.
Registries that sell “premium” products should have been shunned by domainers from the first day they announced their intention to screw registrants.
Donuts have now discovered that 1/2 the domains they thought were “premium” weren’t. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
“Every domain in a TLD costs the same to provide as the next one. There is NO logical reason for premium domains other the registry greed.”
Do you price all your domains the same Drew?
These guys can do what they like. They are selling turkey turd and people can just say no. The people who say yes would have wasted the money on gambling or other failed ventures anyway.
Fantastic example of including “experts”
In domain values.
Took a look at offerings.
Premium – becoming another point of confusion for end user.
ICANN- why didn’t you come down on the registrars for trying to sell specific .university domains AT A PREMIUM ? What other “Use”
might anyone have that doesn’t conflict?
Where’s the bad faith ?
site:.degree
I see nothing useful there on google today. Botany.degree $799.99 per year on GoDaddy. “botany degree” search shows mostly .edu, .com, .org.
VP Marketing at an .edu says to the President “let’s manage a whole new website dedicated to Botany and call it botany.degree!” (not likely)
Adsense content marketer says to his buddy “let’s build out a content site on a whole new website dedicated to Botany and call it botany.degree!” (oh wait what’s that renewal fee)
Domainer about to impulse buy botany.degree after his GF says she’s about to enroll “let’s journalize the experience on a new website dedicated to Botany and call it Botany.degree!” (oh wait what’s that renewal fee)
Who is left to fill that demand?
Five years after the opportunistic buyer spends thousands of dollars building up the backlinks and traffic, what annual rate should they expect?
They can’t ‘move’ the five years worth of backlinks and branding efforts should a dispute arise. They lose complete control of the domain name once they fail to renew. Why expose yourself to that kind of risk?
What am I missing here. I’m asking valid questions. Let’s here some real answers.
Thanks.