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Show.Me The.Money. It’s on, the new gTLD’s are here, Berkens registered his first three .horse domains, Minds & Machines are running a “Dot Com is Dead” ad campaign on a Dot Com, are they just beating a dead.horse with that one? ArtSiteName.com says .COM is meaningless compared to new stuff like .ART, and that having a .COM will not be important at all in the future, I assume this means they will be dropping this meaningless old Dot Com domain they are using and going with something fresh. Anyway it looks like the new gTLD’s are officially here so I’m thinking Show.Me The.Money.
I am sure many domain investors will be getting new gTLD’s, even those of us that say we won’t, probably we will, OK maybe not Elliot, it could happen though, he might see Great.Idea is on auction or expiring and have to get it for one of those great ideas he has (Breaking News: After I wrote this it was announced that Elliot will be “Gambling on gTLDs“, is this one of those great ideas, time will tell). Or maybe you just don’t like the new gTLD’s and don’t think they are a good investment, either way let’s talk about it, I want to know what your thinking and/or getting, and where and how you’re getting what you’re getting if you’re getting, and if you feel like sharing.
So this is the debut of my new Show.Me The.Money posts, show me what you got and tell me what you’re thinking? With all these new gTLD’s coming I would like to see what investors are investing in and why. Post any pre-reg’s, purchases, registrations, sales, development projects, news, info, sightings, or even just thoughts. And if you offer a service that caters to the new gTLD’s post about it, inquiring minds want to know.
I know I sound sarcastic but I am open minded and serious, it’s obvious these are the future and there is a phenomenal amount of money being invested in this gTLD domain space at the moment, so Show.Me The.Money…
I’ll start. I have not invested anything in new gTLD’s, no pre orders or pre reg’s. And some of the prices I have seen at MindsAndMachines.com have kind of blown my mind, KeyLimePie.Cooking for €5,999.95, personally I think they are out of their minds and machines with prices like this, who do they think they are, Dot TV lol.
I didn’t search for KeyLimePie.Cooking incidentally, when I saw Berkens got some .horse at this place I thought I would go and see how much domains like Vegan.Cooking or Healthy.Cooking were and they were taken of course, so the site suggested KeyLimePie.Cooking at this crazy price.
Some of these prices I am seeing makes me think that one of the main pitches with new gTLD’s, which is it finally opens up the domain space for entities that cannot afford a taken .com and they can now get a good alternative, doesn’t really hold water if names like KeyLimePie.Cooking cost $8k, by the way KeyLimePieCooking.com is available lol. And more than likely domain investors will be getting all the best domains and asking big bucks for them, so I don’t really see all this as some new great inexpensive alternative to pricey .com’s. Am I wrong?
All it takes is one sucker to reg KeyLimePie.Cooking at $8k
Some people love the smell of shit.horse
unfortunately shit.horse is not available … but you can always get Gucci.Cooking for 5,999.95 EUR, lawsuit for TM infringement not included … lol 😉 jk
Sorry, just not interested in participating. The gtlds all seem so painfully long and stupid to me.
If you know a concept is flawed and will fail, why would you buy into it, even if on a very limited basis?
Glad to hear Berkins got his 3 .horse domains. For the life of me though, I can not come up with three words that I would want to put before that dot which would make sense that I think I could sell to some other sucker, er… buyer.
I completely agree with Mark. I would take that same $8,000 USD, buy the $8 .com version and laugh all the way to the bank as I deposit the remaining $7,992 (HUGE FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITY #1). I’ll have another laugh when my .com captures the leaked hits/email of inferior tld competitors (HUGE FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITY #2). This may allow me to put up some relevant monetized ads (HUGE FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITY #3) and get investors (HUGE FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITY #4). Allows me to lower my ad budget too (HUGE FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITY #5).
As a .com, my SEO, credibility and radio ads will have a significantly better chance of success (HUGE FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITY #6) and I won’t need to put a WWW as a prefix to indicate a web address.
Since my tld will match that of the Fortune 500 members, I can someday go public and fit right in (HUGE FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITY #7). As such, I will not need to share in the burden of needless educational ads intended to train people to type in gtld’s (HUGE FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITY #8).
I’ll get still another chance to laugh in a few years when I ultimately rent a subdomain of my precious .com for a huge profit (HUGE FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITY #9)and then eventually, I will sell it to the highest bidder (HUGE FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITY #10) whereas the .cooking sponsor may have long ago disappeared from the radar just like .coop, .aero, .mobi, .jobs, .tel, .museum and the numerous others that already fill the Wikipedia graveyard of the internet.
While I wish Michael Berkins the best of luck with his, I will not be buying any .horse, .tattoo, .xyz, .uno, .club, .singles or any other .crap in the future. Thanks for asking.
Mark,
If you remember, I told you the pricing of many of the new gtlds is simply insane, or at least too aggressive … you see now …
I wouldn’t buy KeyLimePie.Cooking even for reg fee … 8k? haha, it’s a joke … with other people money …lol
What I’m investing in the new gtlds? ZERO, NOTHING … and not planning to.
If needed, I think I’ll be able to buy at “distressed”/fire prices in the next few years, if/when some of them will find some “identity”.
“Am I wrong?”
Nope, I think you are not. 😉
I think a lot of people will get burned with these new gtlds, just wait and see.
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I don’t get .horse. If gTLDs like .travel and .pro have struggled in the marketplace, what chance does .horse have?
Dead.horse, I think.
Even the ones that make sense, like .nyc, will struggle for a while before being widely adopted.
Well, the lucky investor who acquires Forex.nyc can query me about ForexNyc.com.
Seriously, the new gTLDs will disrupt the industry in ways that we cannot yet know, but I think it will take a while. Given that I’m not a spring chicken, it would not make sense for me to jump in this market, but a 30 or 40 year old might consider setting aside some money for investment in the new internet world order.
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I’m open minded and try not to be dogmatic.
I pre-registered couple new gTLDs at UD dot com like cloudcomputing.app, gtld.blog, etc.
Effective marketing is very important for any new gTLD to survive. As I think except domainers and those in domain industry very few are aware that right of the dot is going to expand beyond the conventional TLDs.
and for keylimepie.cooking thats $6k Euro PER YEAR…..
I dot the new gTLD’s will be worth investing in.