Godaddy .Miami Domain Name Auctions Hit The 4 Figures

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.Miami went live for General Availability (GA), where they could be registered on a first come, first served basis, on October 2nd.

.Miami did not have a landrush or an Early Access Program (EAP)

.Miami is being managed on behalf of the city of Miami by Minds + Machines which has premium registration and renewal domains as well as reserved domain names.

Godaddy has had a policy for all new gTLD launches, if more than 1 person pre-registers a domain name and they catch the domain, then the domain goes to auction.

Friday night those auctions closed out at Godaddy around 10PM EST (maybe not the best time for an auction to end but that’s another story).

I was involved in 30 auctions at Godaddy on .Miami.

All auction started at $10 (plus the cost of the registration fee).

Of the 30 auctions I was involved in 3 went into the four figures

The highest auction I saw was for Personalinjury.miami which closed at $2,650.

The other domain names that hit the 4 figures were:

medicalmarijuana.miami ($1,250)

welcometo.miami ($1,034)

Other auctions included:

accident.miami $720

startup.miami $697

comedy.miami $610

office.miami $525

cosmeticsurgery.miami $520

golfing.miai $370

livemusic.miami $371

accidents.miami $370

offices.miami $365

Of course I only have information on domain auctions I was involved and there may have been hundreds of others.

Here are the domain names I got in .miami, not just from Godaddy but from other registrars as well:

abogados.miami

accidents.miami

accountant.miami

artfair.miami

artfairs.miami

artist.miami

artshow.miami

auditions.miami

bands.miami

basketballtickets.miami

beachbar.miami

biotech.miami

blacktie.miami

boattour.miami

boattours.miami

bodyguards.miami

bookalimo.miami

boyfriends.miami

brickellkey.miami

buyacondo.miami

buyahouse.miami

buycondos.miami

buying.miami

caraccident.miami

caraccidents.miami

clubbing.miami

cocktails.miami

comedy.miami

comedyclub.miami

commercials.miami

concerttickets.miami

conventions.miami

cosmeticsurgeon.miami

cosmeticsurgeons.miami

cosmeticsurgery.miami

cruiseship.miami

cruiseships.miami

danceclub.miami

danceclubs.miami

dates.miami

dogpark.miami

dogwalker.miami

dogwalkers.miami

dressup.miami

eatout.miami

extras.miami

fair.miami

fairs.miami

fashioncenter.miami

fashiondistrict.miami

festivals.miami

footballtickets.miami

freedrinks.miami

gentlemanclub.miami

gentlemanclubs.miami

gentlemansclub.miami

gentlemenclub.miami

gentlemenclubs.miami

gentlemensclubs.miami

getajob.miami

girlfriends.miami

happyhour.miami

hightech.miami

hookup.miami

hotelroom.miami

hotelrooms.miami

letsdance.miami

limousine.miami

limousines.miami

livedancing.miami

makemoney.miami

martini.miami

megayachts.miami

officerentals.miami

offices.miami

partybus.miami

partyplanning.miami

penthouses.miami

plasticsurgeon.miami

plasticsurgeons.miami

popculture.miami

redcarpet.miami

rentacondo.miami

rentahouse.miami

rentaroom.miami

renting.miami

restaurantreservations.miami

selfies.miami

shoots.miami

shows.miami

soccertickets.miami

sportsbar.miami

spraytan.miami

stripclubs.miami

swag.miami

swagger.miami

techno.miami

theclub.miami

theclubs.miami

thenightclubs.miami

theyachts.miami

thingstodoin.miami

valet.miami

weekend.miami

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  1. Howard Neu says

    I was the one who got WelcomeTo.miami in auction. I also regged GoingTo.miami, Tour.miami, LifeInsurance.miami, MalpracticeAttorneys.miami, HotHotHot.miami, 8888.miami and a dozen more.

  3. M. Menius says

    The .miami space is one I really like – it has excellent local and international appeal. I was able to get Business.miami, LuxuryHomes.miami, Foreclosures.miami, Waterfront.miami, and a few others.

    @Michael – comedy.miami, offices.miami, and buying.miami are very good. Howard did quite well too.

  5. Tucker says

    I personally have lots of nostalgic attachment to Miami and Miami Beach — some of it quite colorful and controversial (…is there really any other kind, when it comes to MIA! 🙂 — so, I couldn’t resist the temptation to “dabble” a bit in the .MIAMI rollout.

    I acquired the following with absolutely no competition (to my considerable surprise, I hasten to add):

    GOVT.miami
    Agents.miami
    HyperLocal.miami
    Homeowners.miami

  9. Morgan Linton says

    Great early results for .MIAMI – nice picks @Howard, I really like Tour.miami! Based on the kind of traction we’ve seen with TLDs like .NYC and .London I can understand what Miami is getting so much positive attention early-on.

  10. mik says

    Wow some awesome domains you all have !

    I’m just a small time Canadian domainer but am sure pumped that I can buy .Miami since its available for anyone to buy not like nyc

    I was fortunate to secure 2 Geo domains:

    MIAMIFLORIDA.Miami

    MIAMIFL.Miami

    I’m certainly regging more asap to hopefully capitalize on this fantastic opportunity.

    Cheers!

  12. Nate says

    I’ve been searching for news on how the .miami roll-out went.

    My budget only allowed for a few keywords?

    propertymanager.miami
    adoption.miami
    truth.miami
    insurancebroker.miami

  13. mik says

    .Miami according to namestats is now in 8th place of top 10 fastest growing gtlds for 7 day average as of today.

    So I decided to add to portfolio a few others while available as I’m certain many more people will get turned on to this gtld in a short time span.

    PORNOS. Miami

    GOLFERS. Miami

    GOLDS.Miami