CLUB Domains just announced that it has sold its 100,000th new domain name today, “setting a record as the first new generic top-level domain (gTLD) to sell 100,000 domains and continuing its streak as the best-selling new domain extension.”
Although two other new gTLD’s have more domain registrations, no new gTLD has SOLD more domain names than .Club
RightoftheDot.com a company of which I’m a Director and co-owner is brokering the Super Premium .Club domain names, including golf.club, country.club and night.club just to name a few. If you have any interest in owning one of the best domains in the best selling new gTLD extension please contact Monte@RightoftheDot.com.
Many premium .CLUB domains have also been sold to corporations and investors, including eat.club selling for $20,000; baby.club and Barbie.club each selling for $5,000; Ritz.club selling for $7,500; Mary Kay’s purchasing beauty.club and skincare.club; and many more. “But there are still many, many great .CLUB names still available for under $15 a year,” added Campbell.
“Entrepreneurs, brand owners, popular entertainers, corporations, domain investors and more from around the world have registered their own .CLUB websites, including entertainer 50 Cent’s 50InDa.Club, singer Demi Lovato’s Lovato.club, fitness expert Tiffany Rothe’s ICFC.club and many established Rotary, golf, country, yacht, auto, and sports clubs. ”
“According to data compiled by Namestat.org, there are already over 150 .CLUB websites in the Alexa top 1 million websites by traffic, more than any other new top level domain name.”
“In just over 100 days since its launch, .CLUB websites have continued to grow in popularity, with some very interesting names and website concepts. TheDudes.Club has launched as the “go-to place for all the things men find interesting;”
“LuckyDuck.club will soon launch as a gourmet coffee service; RoswellRotary.club, the Rowell Georgia Rotary chapter now forwards its old .com address to the new .club address; and many clubs, bloggers and businesses are registering from around the world every day.
.CLUB domain names are available for purchase from major Domain Name sellers everywhere, such as GoDaddy, Name.com, Hexonet, 101 Domain, 1and1, United Domains, and more. To get your own .CLUB domain name, visit your favorite registrar today or click here to find a complete list of .CLUB registrars from www.nic.club.”
golf.club, country.club and night.club
don’t you think the plural CLUBS makes more sense Michael with your example.
who would be your target market for these domains – go knows monte is the best at selling anything
bri
well there is no plural new gtld .clubs so that is not an option.
If you own a nightclub i think night.club is better.
if your building out a directory type site night.clubs would be better
I love a challenge and I hope that soon there will be a gTLD that can beat .club without a question.
Let`s remind what Mr Colin from .Club said on doamainsherpa.com
“Our target right now is five million names in five years, a million names in one year, and 300 to 400 thousand names on or about the week of GA.”
Simply a joke.
Paul, on May 15th I responded to this issue on Domain Incite. Please review my response below. I still believe that a popular name like .CLUB has the potential to drive millions of names with 5 years but its going to take a lot of work combined with great exposure from high traffic sites/videos like lovato.club (450,000 downloads). The market will need time to sort out the good names from the bad. The meaningful ones from the .abc’s.
Reprinting response from DomainIncite
That is correct. At that time I had not factored in domain collision, weak corporate demand in sunrise and an overall fatigue of so many names. After being interviewed by Kevin some time following this interview, we brought down our first week targets to beating .GURU in the first week. Which is a target we will miss by a number of days. Again I am an entrepreneur flawed with the disease of optimism. But the fact is we will be the number #1 new generic within days.
In either case, domain collision will eventually be resolved and the strong gTLDs will rise to the top.
I know this community is skeptical of all the new gTLDs. Consider joining our twitter where almost every day we get someone tweeting how they love the domain that they just paid under 15 dollars for.
Or consider coming to Traffic in Vegas where we can have a direct conversation about the opportunities and pitfalls of the new gTLDs.
Colin
Colin,
If you were a basing your projections on a simplistic dotCOM view of the domain business, then they are wrong. There is a localised aspect to many clubs that will force them to keep their ccTLD domains. One of the problems with the new gTLDs is poor marketing. The public are largely unaware of these new gTLDs and .CLUB, though it has some good prospects, is still largely unknown. The other thing that you seem to miss is that .CLUB is not really a generic. It is a niche TLD where the meaning of the TLD string acts as a limiter.
John,
You make some great points. I agree .CLUB is not generic and does mean something totally different than .COM. Despite that you can put almost anything in front of it and it works which is why it is a great name for membership or subscription based services. We have also recently seen a large number of blogs and facebook clubs adopting a .CLUB name. In addition, I belong to about 60 clubs myself –many are discount clubs, buyers clubs, social clubs etc. There are literally millions of clubs all over the world.
The world already has a great generic and that is .COM. .NAME has been “fully operational in January 2002” — I think you could argue that .NAME is great generic extension – certainly better than “.abc” yet after 12 years .CLUB will likely overtake .NAME by the end of the first year or only 6-7 months after G.A.
I have never been a big believer in competing with the gorilla in the room (.com). Instead we are just trying offer something a little different. The world has not had the opportunity to brand a site domain that has a social meaning before .CLUB.
Thanks for the discussion,
Colin
The niche idea isn’t a bad one, Colin,
The most successful ccTLDs are really niche TLDs in that they define an geographic area. With .CLUB, it defines a social activity which opens the possibility of people beginning to self-identify with their .CLUB in a similar manner to the way people identify with their local ccTLD. The usage signal for the first year or so of operation will be external redirects and exact match external redirects. This is where the registrant is redirecting their .CLUB to their primary brand website. After awareness of the gTLD grows, there should be indications of a reversal of the trend with people using their .CLUB as the primary brand website. The .ORG did not really take off as a TLD for clubs and similar organisations as it was too imprecise. That’s why the ccTLDs took over that space outside the US. Many clubs are local and have a local membership so it is kind of an obvious choice to use a ccTLD. The gTLD might have possible application in online gaming as there is no real TLD for online gaming clans (domains used by gamers tend to be a mix of TLDs).
The .NAME gTLD was good initially but it managed to launch in adverse economic conditions and while the domain business was reorganising itself. The relaunch of .ME ccTLD showed what .NAME could have been.
The interesting thing about some of the new gTLDs is that they can co-exist with .COM without having to force the registrant to make a decision in favour of one TLD over the other. The .CLUB gTLD is one of these and .PHOTOGRAPHY is another.
I was working on some historical net growth statistics for the gTLDs for the last ten years and there seems to be a rise in registrations during the first few months of the year, a slump during the Summer months and a slight increase for some during the rest of the year. It could be than many new gTLDs are launching and going into GA at the wrong time of the year and they are missing some of that domain buying spike. The premium registrations and the brand protection registrations have also flattened growth but some of it could have been down to registrants not being in buying mode. If that trend applies to new gTLDs, then there could be an uptick in registrations (theoretically) in the first few months of next year.
Paul
The projections were very aggressive and we told them so.
On the other hand for myself personally and for what we have ever told anyone who approached ROTD for a chat is that its a long term investment and we are what 6 months into it.
.london and .NYC I think will have more registrations than .club
I don’t see anything generic coming out that is not a Geo for the next few month that is a threat to .club
.Web certainly. .music, .app some others but you won’t see any of those this year