According to the .Art registry during the first 24 hours of general availability which started yesterday, over 3,000 .Art domain names were purchased/registered.
Of those about 95% were “standard” domains e.g., personal names of people and organizations, while the rest belonged to the .ART inventory of word and word combinations.
While the personal names are mostly sold at standard prices, starting from $15, .ART inventory names are priced individually by a proprietary mathematical “big data” algorithm.
This totaled over $150,000 amount of sales in first 24 hours.
The most active registrars were: Gandi SAS, Go Daddy, Instra, Tucows and United-domains.
The first name sold in the General Availability was HAPPYART.ART, other sales included: INVALUABLE.ART, MOLESKINEFOUNDATION.ART and MFA.ART.
The most expensive name was MYLOVE.ART which sold for over $9,000.
.ART closed its Preferred Access Period which was opened only to those in the “Art Community” with over 300 live sites.
The starting price was $300 and there were about 2,500 registrations for a total retail volume of sales over $600,000.
Nearly half of these were from the .ART inventory.
.ART also gifted approximately 500 domain names to art school students and not-for-profit cultural institutions.
Beyond the Press Release, according to nTLDstats.com, Instra was by far the largest registrar with 40% of the registrations.
Instra is powering the registry’s site store.art which accounts for the high percentage of the registrations.
According to Registrarstats.com there were over 2,500 .Art domain names registered prior to general availability.
The next biggest registrar is Godaddy with about 12% of the registrations.
I noticed some people registered .art domains as a hack as long as three words like DoYourP.art
A good start is a high art.
Let’s find out what’s the highest art.
End user utilization of this gtld will register as little more than a sh.art
Here’s an example of the registry’s “premium pricing” of .art:
fudge.art ($1,704)
oldpaper.art ($120)
idontknow.art ($156)
turnip.art ($900)
doggy.art ($3,360)
righton.art ($804)
Talk about unbelievable pricing. Type in any obscure word or phrase and look at their ridiculous pricing. Good luck .art registry – looks like you’ll need it.
I can’t remember the word, but it had “-3” attached to the end with a premium between $2k and $3k
Was trying to get a non-desirable one-word, as somewhat of a brandable – is held by the registry.
They won’t even discuss it with me other than to say it’s reserved
I suspect any word that was nominated when applying for a token was reserved for later examination
The few people I know who applied encountered their nominated words were reserved when they tried to follow through on registration, I thought luck of the draw but by your account, perhaps not
Today they are called ‘registrations’ however future premium registrations will be wrongly’ called “Sales”
smoke & mirrors
If you are in any way famous, your personal name copped a premium. Glad I am a well known nobody and not a famous nobody.
On the plus side, I managed to find 2 dictionary words at “standard” pricing which surprised me considering what attracted premium pricing.
Stonehenge.art $4365
Bigfoot.art $3165
BatmanandRobin.art $420
WonderWoman.art $2940
Whatever.art $6975
ElGuapo.art $285
Sandusky.art $525
Unreasonable.art $780
byebye.art $1005
hastalavista.art $690
Unaffordable.art $13
HaveANiceDay.art $540
Toddmcfarlane.art $330
BorisVallejo.art $330
michaeljordan.art Available Registry Premium Domain $468.00
namesilo.art Available Registry Premium Domain $288.00
Menstrual.art for $900
Or
menstrualart.com for $10
The registries are the new cybersquatters.
If a domainer bought an obvious TM or famous name and tried to sell it at a profit there is an outrage.
When a registry sets aside any famous website, brand, name, etc. and then charges an arbitrary premium that did not cost them anything extra, I fail to see how that is legit.
It seems more like a protection racket.
Brad
Nothing diminishes/affects more the chances of a new gTLD from becoming semi-successful than when a registry/ registrar/registrant hoards the allegedly premium domains, the already dismal chance of end-users developers using it adopting it pretty much dies…
Even the legacy extensions went thru that… .TV .Info etc etc
Except now the problem is compounded by lack of a reseller market and the overwhelming dilution due to the number of new extensions (over 1000)
Not sure why people still waiting for a miracle that will never happen…
flippa.art 900.00
mercedesbenz.art $2412.00
citibank.art $7620.00
burgerking.art $2220.00
Do we really need .ART? There are so many gTLDs already that could serve the same purpose.
.ART is very short and relevant.
We certainly do not need it, but it is certainly useful.
On value for money however, it is less valuable for some when compared to other extensions unless the early adopters prove to be a driving force.
Prior.Art had to be registered 4 months prior to General Availability (2/08/2017) or it wouldn’t be prior.
from DNgeek.com:
Latest on newly funded startups and their domain names
“83 startup companies last week. More than 68% of these companies launched with a .com domain name followed by the ccTLDs with a 16% piece of the pie. This is the Second-Week in a row that there’s NOT a Single startup that chose one of the many new domain name extensions.”
Any clearer?
The difference is clear. More have seen or purchased a new gTLD than heard of these 83 companies.
The top 83 new domain extensions will always be here, whereas most of these 83 startups may not.
How many of those 83 startup names can one recall without checking the list again?
Under their present name, 99% are at high risk of obscurity and need to UP their game with a state of the art domain.