The new gTLD .Realty which went into general availability on April 24th has 53,705 registered domain names.
On the face, it seems like .Realty is off to a great start however of those 53,705 registered domains, 99.43% of them are registered at Uniregistry.
The registrar with the 2nd most .Realty registrations is 101domain.com which has only 69 domain registrations.
Of the 53,705 .realty domain names registered 53,605 or 99.80% of them are listed as parked at Uniregistry.
I assumed Uniregistry was having a big sale on .Realty domain names, but when I checked this morning I got a price of $13.88 for a .realty registration which seems to be the regular price for Uniregistry.
.Realty does have one time premium priced domain names so the domain name Boca.realty has a one time price of $8,800 with regular renewal. These domain names were suggested to me as alternatives which are all registered and for sale for $330:
bocafl.realty
bocabay.realty
bocalago.realty
bocahome.realty
bocasbest.realty
I pulled the zone file for .realty and randomly picked 50 domain name off the top of the file and found all of them were registered at Uniregistry, under privacy, and seemed to be offered for sale at Uniregistry.
As you can see from the list not to many of these domains are even associate with real estate which is what I think of with .Realty, nor are they even “good domains”; in most case the domains don’t make much sense (except for 23.realty which speaks for itself):
1touch.realty
1tree.realty
1ut.realty
1utah.realty
1world.realty
1zeroc.realty
2012apocalyptic.realty
20thcentury.realty
20twenty.realty
212degrees.realty
21century.realty
21west.realty
22ndcentury.realty
22west.realty
23.realty
23rd.realty
247car.realty
24hours.realty
24hr.realty
24hrs.realty
24kinternational.realty
24kintl.realty
29palms.realty
2all.realty
2bedroom1bath.realty
2bedroom1bathhomes.realty
2best.realty
2bhk.realty
2by4.realty
2casa.realty
2costarica.realty
2flip.realty
2for1.realty
2good.realty
2lease.realty
2loans.realty
2manage.realty
2mobile.realty
2my.realty
2nagel.realty
2ndavenue.realty
2ndcity.realty
2ndvane.realty
2paradise.realty
2pats.realty
2point.realty
2trade.realty
2us.realty
2web.realty
2wheel.realty
2×4.realty
305miami.realty
30aflorida.realty
So not sure what is going on here but it doesn’t make much sense and don’t think it helps the perception of the new gTLD program.
All of these domain names are included in the total of new gTLD domain registrations.
Registered or Hoarded?
Isn’t there an ICANN rule prohibiting this?;
I also remember the registry operator promising NOT To do this…
and domainers/the public at large… fine thanks!
In the name of a Dollar.
Can you cite this for us, please?
which quote?
“I also remember the registry operator promising NOT To do this…”
“Uniregistry only plans to hold back a “handful” of premium names, Schilling said. The rest will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.
To avoid creating wastelands of parked domains, the company plans to deploy technical countermeasures to prevent too many domains falling into too few hands.”
Ha.
https://www.thedomains.com/2017/04/28/hum-50k-domains-registered-on-the-new-gtld-realty-at-uniregistry-in-2-days-almost-all-under-privacy/#comments
And still spreading the B.S.
Apologies, here is the right link (and that wasn’t the only time)
http://domainincite.com/9325-schilling-applies-for-scores-of-new-gtlds
Not sure what planet you are on, but Uniregistry has nothing to do with .REALTY. Wake up, guy.
“On the face, it seems like .Realty is off to a great start however of those 53,705 registered domains, 99.43% of them are registered at UNIREGISTRY.”
Another obscure venture hiding on a Tax Haven Offshore?
Frank? Frank’s’ Crony?
So, because domains are registered at a certain registrar means they have ownership interest in it?
Does that mean GoDaddy owns .COM? Are you a 14 year old school girl? Stop spreading rumors. What you’re asserting is borderline libelous.
If after 4 days they have 100 real registrations and 53,605 fake ones then I’d say the registry is screwed, clearly domainers are seeing through the numbers and they won’t be able to pay the 20 cent ICANN fees long term.
If you strip away the fake registrations along with domains held by the registries, premiums or closely held companies, wonder what the real number is? 28 million is really 14 million?
This is why you are called the “King” and not the “Emperor,” because everyone knows when the emperor has no clothes… 😉
I think it’s more, but if you’re right, 14 million is AMAZING. It took .com 20 years to reach a million registrations. The ship turns slowly, but it’s turning.
No, it has already hit an iceberg and is on its way down to its cold, dark death.
NewGtldsAreA.WasteOfCyberspace
Is that even a remotely valid comparison? (Hint: I already know the answer.)
The problem is that the registration volume in some new gTLDs no longer reflects actual demand. This is due primarily to heavy discounting and zones being stuffed. (The 1 cent .XYZ promotion is a good example of this.)
There’s also the problem of heavily discounted registrations in gTLDs that are either on PPC, have affiliate landers or dubious content, the number of actively developed domain names is much smaller than the 24M domains would suggest. Even the 14 million estimate is far too high.
In my view the real number is 4-5 million.
Still WAAAY too high. There surely can’t be that many suckers out there.
Most of it is domainers.
If you take Asia out…
ufff!
““Dot Com Will Become Like AM Radio”
My Arse.
Looks like they used an algorithm that identified theses names that are registered in the .com, for example 2x4realty.com
Doesn’t look like this is the case with all of the names in the sample, but a lot of them.
I actually follow GTLD’s, and I didn’t even know .Realty was live yet, they did a horrible job of letting people know about it.
It doesn’t really matter, those prices are outrageous most realtors are cheap as it is when it comes to domains, and they have so many more choices than ever, especially with the big guys going sub $10 now, but Uniregistey just keeps going against the grain. Oh well
“…Uniregistey just keeps going against the grain.”
Next time, do a little research? .REALTY isn’t a Uniregistry TLD.
You don’t have to do research guys I told you in the post who what registry owned .Realty so all you had to do it read the whole post
A Jay Westerdal registry (Fegistry, LLC) owned by Top Level Spectrum, Inc. according to ICANNwiki. The .FEEDBACK gTLD has also received some coverage.. I’ve seen this kind of simple robot registrations style before (keywords/phrases being valuable in .COM being mass registered in newly launched TLDs) and it doesn’t help the credibility of a new TLD.
The metro cities are listed $27,500/year at Uniregistry.
Pretty soon they will make you sign over the deed to your house before you can buy a domain.
There are going to be many many mechanical executions on new GTLDs .. bulk registrations coupled with outreach marketing by registrants. Then there is going to be round 2, then no more rounds and just an open window for applications. By 2030 there are going to be many thousands of extensions — many people who ridiculed new extensions will become applicants or they will be left behind. Then the corporates will come in.. Developing countries will have their own subcultures of domainers and commercial registrants. Real sites will begin to use new extensions as anchor domains and use the .com as a pointer to that name — or won;t use .com at all. Prices will drop, names will get cheaper, with some (even a select bunch of coms) getting more expensive. It won’t be uncommon to see registrants with 50k names or 150k names because ICANN fees will drop, or become flat-rate. Everything will change.. this is only the beginning. The glacier moves slowly but it does move and if you don’t plan and evolve and change in the face of the obvious, pretty soon that glacier is on top of you.
Plenty of money to be made in .com between here and there so carry on.. Just don’t invest like they are going to have the same value in 30 years and in 50 years it’s over. Everyone’s time horizon is different.
@Frank – Thanks for your comment. Please keep them coming!