Died On Arse + Experiment

jasman · Jun 30, 2014

According to NameJet, at the recent live auction in London, 35 of the best .global domains sold for a combined total of $63,700 USD. The names had been anticipated to fetch between $1,000 USD to $50,000 each.

So the average price turned out to be about $1820, or about £1000 per name.

Of course Namejet's fee, the auctioneer's fee, and hire of the hotel conference room, accommodation + expenses for all the people involved with the running the auction would all need to be taken off the $63,700 total to arrive at the real benefit to the registry.

Edwin · Jun 30, 2014

That's like selling off the very best land in central London to hungry property developers. Prices there set the trend for everywhere else - in this case, a room full of savvy domain investors has established a ceiling of $2K for the very best .global. I don't expect they'll get very far as an extension, but that just confirms it...

Retired_Member38 · Jul 1, 2014

Edwin said:
That's like selling off the very best land in central London to hungry property developers. Prices there set the trend for everywhere else - in this case, a room full of savvy domain investors has established a ceiling of $2K for the very best .global. I don't expect they'll get very far as an extension, but that just confirms it...

Sounds more like they sold off a council estate in Hull, and pretended it was prime London real estate to sell it to a bunch of suckers....

Those extensions are going nowhere at all.

Trigger Happy · Aug 1, 2014

The success of http://www.lostmy.name/ could challenge some opinions here if this kind of branding starts to find more and more success

jasman · Aug 3, 2014

But has lostmy.name had an impact on .name registrations?

bensd · Aug 3, 2014

I see lostmy.fish is still ftr. Missed a trick there - that has book #2 written all over it

websaway · Aug 3, 2014

bensd said:
I see lostmy.fish is still ftr. Missed a trick there - that has book #2 written all over it

is there a .marbles

websaway · Aug 5, 2014

Is this dishonest ?

When searching a well known registrar for a search term it returned the result that 90 of the extensions were taken.

They of course were not taken, the true figure was more like 8.

sdsinc · Aug 6, 2014

jasman said:
But has lostmy.name had an impact on .name registrations?

Given that .name has been losing volume over the last few years I would say no

Edwin · Aug 6, 2014

websaway said:
Is this dishonest ?

When searching a well known registrar for a search term it returned the result that 90 of the extensions were taken.

They of course were not taken, the true figure was more like 8.

Probably more incompetent than dishonest. They likely haven't fully debugged their shopping tool for all the new GTLD. It's hard to see what they would have to gain from hiding names that are available to register, given that registering domains is their business...