We haven’t heard much about .Luxury since the new gTLD launch with the eye popping price of up to $799 per domain, per year registration for a non-premium domain.
Since the launch which saw over over 600 hundred Sunrise applications of brands grabbing their new .Luxury gTLD’s.
However since the launch .Luxury has added another 400 registrations and sits at 1,027 registrations which of course means the registry long ago made back its registration fee.
One of the the types of registrations we are still seeing are brands that missed the Sunrise as well as some creative registrations.
Prices of a .Luxury registration has dropped significantly o $559 at Godaddy and even lower at other registrars.
Of course just because the registration price is high doesn’t mean that some people won’t register horrible domains just the same.
You have to love the domain name luxuryluxury.luxury.
Just because domains are priced at $799 it also doesn’t mean you don’t have trademark infringing domains registered
The domain name saksfifthavenue.luxury wasn’t registered by the store.
Armani.luxury wasn’t registered by the clothing designer.
Tesla.luxury is not owned by the car manufacturer.
While its important for brand holders to protect their marks sometimes they take it way to far as in the case of wwwtedbaker.Luxury. Really they are expecting that much traffic to TedBaker.Luxury they are worried about the www typo? Maybe they should turn on TedBaker.Luxury before they spend another $800 on the wwwtedbaker domain.
Not sure what cannabis.luxury is, but I’m willing to try it next time I’m in Colorado. Likewise not sure what SexToys.Luxury would entail but again in the spirit of research I’m willing to check a few out.
I still don’t get registrations where the string in repeated in the domain, but there are quite a few of these like:
luxuryestates.luxury
luxuryhomerealty.luxury
luxuryhomes.luxury
luxuryhotels.luxury
luxuryrealestate.luxury
luxurywine.luxury
Finally I have to mention that Timex has their .Luxury domain more than two months before Rolex got their .Luxury domain.
Just saying.
Here are some of the newer .Luxury registrations:
air.luxury
armani.luxury
babystore.luxury
backyard.luxury
bahamasrealestate.luxury
besthotels.luxury
bestlondon.luxury
bestmiami.luxury
bestnewyork.luxury
bestofbritish.luxury
bestparis.luxury
bestrealestate.luxury
bestvacations.luxury
buysell.luxury
campings.luxury
cannabis.luxury
capeland.luxury
cashmere.luxury
churchs.luxury
crash.luxury
delhi.luxury
delicatessen.luxury
dermatology.luxury
dev.luxury
emirates.luxury
endless.luxury
escorts.luxury
etro.luxury
everyday.luxury
everything.luxury
excellenceworld.luxury
exclusivetents.luxury
exness.luxury
facet.luxury
fashionjewelry.luxury
fay.luxury
filthyrich.luxury
first.luxury
fossil.luxury
frenchrivieraproperty.luxury
genuine.luxury
geographic.luxury
goodlife.luxury
have.luxury
heidi.luxury
homepage.luxury
hot.luxury
idiots.luxury
iranian.luxury
irvine.luxury
james.luxury
kualalumpur.luxury
label.luxury
lakeside.luxury
last.luxury
lasvegasrealestate.luxury
leon.luxury
lincoln.luxury
livein.luxury
luxo.luxury
luxuryestates.luxury
luxuryhomerealty.luxury
luxuryhomes.luxury
luxuryhotels.luxury
luxuryrealestate.luxury
luxurywine.luxury
majorworld.luxury
manage.luxury
manchesterescorts.luxury
manhattanbeach.luxury
matchmaking.luxury
mba.luxury
michele.luxury
mini.luxury
motel.luxury
muranoglass.luxury
musk.luxury
myhabit.luxury
new-york.luxury
next-generation-leader.luxury
nice.luxury
not.luxury
nyapartments.luxury
parse.luxury
real-estate.luxury
realestates.luxury
results.luxury
river-cruises.luxury
rocca.luxury
rockstud.luxury
rolex.luxury
rolexwatches.luxury
ruelala.luxury
russia.luxury
saksfifthavenue.luxury
san-francisco.luxury
sanfranciscoliving.luxury
sarasotaplasticsurgery.luxury
scottsdalehomes.luxury
seattlerealestate.luxury
selection.luxury
sextoys.luxury
simple.luxury
skin.luxury
smartphone.luxury
smeg.luxury
status.luxury
stemcells.luxury
submersible.luxury
taiwan.luxury
tehran.luxury
telegraph.luxury
theincrediblediva.luxury
thejewelrybox.luxury
thelabel.luxury
theritz.luxury
thetelegraph.luxury
tiffany.luxury
torontoeventplanner.luxury
torontorealestate.luxury
tory.luxury
toryburch.luxury
travelsecrets.luxury
tree.luxury
trendman.luxury
tsar.luxury
tuxedo.luxury
tweet.luxury
twitter.luxury
vitamins.luxury
vivier.luxury
westwing.luxury
winelist.luxury
wix.luxury
world.luxury
worldhotels.luxury
worldsportsawards.luxury
writer.luxury
wwwtedbaker.luxury
wynn.luxury
xboxfitness.luxury
xboxgames.luxury
xboxone.luxury
yorkshire.luxury
ysl.luxury
zenith.luxury
zodiac.luxury
The most wicked thing ever deviced by mankind is New GTLDs.
devised
yeah auh, its time to get some fresh air dude.
Not the most “wicked”, but surely the most wasteful… although ‘idiots.luxury’ may do well. (No, not really.)
Perhaps not “wicked” in the nefarious sense that the word is usually associated; maybe more like Michael Jackson used “Bad” in his blockbuster Epic album release of August 31, 1987.
To many, New gTLDs attract, lure, entice, tempt, captivate, draw, charm, seduce, inveigle, beguile, fascinate; yet brings no “need, want, or desire” along; it’s irresistible, and irrational, hence it’s wickedness.
Fresh air is always a good thing. It’s easy for those who are sitting back comfortable with a fancy .com in their pocket, but then when someone with a .fancer name comes along then suddenly fancy .com is not a happy chappy anymore.
I welcome the new domain names with arms wide open.
Too bad for Russia that the official country name is “Russian Federation” while everyone knows it as Russia; this let someone register their unofficial country name.
With new GTLD derivative Extensions , there is brewing a conspiracy theory. Will Search Engine manipulation bias traffic to their favor? What do you all Think they will do when manipulating their algorithms settings?
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger) (Domain Master)
I wouldn’t get one of those names for search traffic, Google doesn’t like exact match names anyway. These new names are simply for brandable businesses I think.
sure, lets just all live in 1998 and type generic words with a .com after it for our search. landing on parked pages is fun! direct navigation is on the upswing!
sincerely,
misguided nostalgia
You probably wiped your ass with toilet paper in 1998, and still do the same today in 2014; not as nostalgia, but simple practicality.
Change for change sake is not natural. There’s usually driving forces ‘behind’ it.
change for the sake of change happens all the time… direct navigation was always a dumb idea. i never did it back then and was surprised to here morons were just typing in a name with .com at the end. it was people who didnt know how to use the internet doing this. nobody i knew did this. new people are getting on the internet all the time and eventually direct navigation will fade more than it already has.
the internet is better now. 1998 was pretty blank. they’re just domain names, not an evil invention. you can buy them or dont buy them. so now theres a dot in the middle. whoop dee do dah… enjoy trying to push back a minor bit of creativity and stifle people advertising their pitches.
ill see you at the next mountain dew protest. i drank a bottle of that stuff once and didnt experience skydiving. i want my money back.
cigarettes, gambling are worse than domains, among many other things. anyone who even says its wicked invention is out of their minds and spends too much time obsessing over it.
“anyone who even says its wicked invention is out of their minds and spends too much time obsessing over it”.
While hyper-focus, as you point out above, is a sign of ADD (attention deficit disorder), ontheinterweb, you must watch out for the flip-side of that, Lack of Focus, which is even a most telltale indication of the disease; the latter goes beyond difficulty paying attention. It includes being easily distracted, finding it difficult to listen to others in a discourse, overlooking comment details, and so forth…
The scrutiny of the new gTLD program is as important as its inevitability. One does not vitiate the other; on the contrary, if it’s inevitable, it must be looked at. As certain as death is, we try to live with it; we examine how to avoid it, and when to accept it. That’s life.
We do the best we can.
ontheinterweb wrote:
> “new people are getting on the internet all the
> time and eventually direct navigation will fade
> more than it already has.”
Yes, but which sites are those “new people” likely to visit most? Facebook.com? YouTube.com? Amazon.com? Twitter.com? Ebay.com? Google.com? NetFlix.com? Etc…
The vast majority of the most popular sites on the Internet end in .com. Especially the sites that people tend to spend the most time on. (Facebook, YouTube…) So those new people aren’t really going to be doing things much different than those who came before them.
irrelevant, so continue to use .com… so what.
but arguing that the existence of other gTLD is evil is plain retarded. its like saying we were fine with just mountain dew, pepsi, coke and sprite, etc… now when i go to the grocery store there are too many choices and some cost a ridiculous amount, lets keep it simple!
its silly. who cares if they exist… use them or dont. i bought some weird jelly-like chia seed drink at the grocery store the other day. it was $2.99 for 8oz.. it was new and weird and probably not worth the price. but i bought it anyway cause it looked different… on noes!! the evilness!
You must have me mixed up with someone else because I’m not arguing that the gTLDs are evil. Try to keep the people you ‘debate’ with straight.
As far as your comparisons to soft drinks, Coca-Cola remains in the top spot after all these years. .COM will do the same. It’s as simple as that.
And as far as your ‘chia story’… Do you even know what they are? It sounds like you don’t. Kind of like how most people don’t know what the gTLDs are. But you won’t find the gTLDs on your grocery shelf. So uninformed people like yourself, who know nothing about Chia seeds, will remain uninformed about the gTLDs. On a side-note, chia seeds are not “new and weird”. Google ’em.
Maybe you should just stop while you’re behind.
you’re proving my point. no i didnt know what chia seeds were before i bought them but when they were presented to my in a convenient way – the local grocery store i go to often – i tried them. they got my ignorant uniformed money and i liked it.
kind of like gTLD existed for years n years before this great expansion but for a lot of people THEY DIDNT EXIST because they wernt whoring them out at network solutions and places people usually look for their normal routine things.
but congrats on being a chia seed expert and proving my point. gTLD are not new but hay hay look at network solutions front page along with godiddly now a all the other registrars – there are a bajillion “new looks” n’ pitches to sell a domain.
a lot of you guys are just plain silly thinking these wont eventually get used on a regular basis now that the registrars actually stand to make some money from it.
it aint just .mobi/.biz/.info split between hundreds of registrars. for them, the game changed and they have more incentive then they ever did to sell and pitch them to people. a percentage of people they sell them to will like them and use them. some people wont like them and wont use them and .info and .travel will become “new again” to people that didnt know they existed.
people dont just randomly google things about every topic they dont know exists… how could they you silly goose? they get curious about them when its presented to them in a convenient way.
and repeated for the millionth time, coca cola’s success does not equal other new beverage producers failure. .COM’s continued success doesnt mean other options arnt viable and wont be used.
Budweiser’s success doesnt mean small local craft beer isnt on the rise and doing just fine.
Pizza Hut / Domino’s success doesnt mean hundreds of small, independent pizza places wont survive or thrive.
and on and on and on…