2019 was not a great year for reported new gtld sales, after 2018 saw dollar volumes rise by 700,000, 2019 is looking down over $2 million. Of course there will be those that will say many sales go unreported, that’s true for all extensions so nothing special with that remark.
There are some that are doing well like Chad Wright’s WebQuest, they placed 4 of the top 26 sales. New.Life charted a couple nice sales as well.
2017 required a 6 figure sale to make the top 10, 2018 you needed $54,000. 2019 required only a sale of $25,000 to make the top 10.
As we enter a new decade new gtld investors are going to have to make some tough decisions. New gtlds are no longer exactly “new” and sunk costs for 2014 and 2015 registrations are starting to add up.
2017
1,007 Total Sales
$5.2m Dollar Volume
$5,118 Average Price
$500.3k High Price
2018
1,490 Total Sales
$5.7m Dollar Volume
$3,847 Average Price
$510k High Price
2019
865 Total Sales
$3.4m Dollar Volume
$3,940 Average Price
$335k High Price
Wheres’s the growth in a a so-called emerging sector?? WOW!
These are piss poor numbers even surprised me and that’s if you even believe all the sales are legit and not for PR purposes.
If that was a report card on the new GTLD’s, you would be forced to give it a “D” overall and individually you would be forced to give several hundred “F”‘s since so. many are not viable.
As I have stated, MOST new GTLD’s are dying on the vine. That’s just a FACT supported by NUMBERS.
HUNDREDS!
The hottest sectors are ccTLD’s with dual meanings/purposes and upgrading to .com
The new GTLD’s have failed miserably by any objective standard.
They have proved to be bad investments. Simple.
Time will show
The Big Bang just begins
Logically there is a up and down
You are just trapped in a cave
Well it has been all down for new tlds since 2002.
Rather be “trapped in a cave” (my 4 caves are rather nice btw) than trapped in DELUSIONAL and WISHFUL thinking! That’s being trapped!!
Time has shown the opposite. Time is making investors lose their $$$.
People telling us what will happen with no record of success nor predicting anything is folly.
Until you have personal results to point to you are talking out of your ass.
walking on two legs doesn’t make you smart
it,s Evolution !
DomainSnowflake – when you bought flowers.mobi for $200,000 and later sold it for $6,500 making a 96.5% loss – is that the record you want us to consider when you give advice? That isn’t a record of success I would want to talk about either.
You would rather we ignore your buys and sells in this century and focus on your purchases in the 90s – but your failure with non-.coms should be weighted when people consider the “advice” you’re giving about non-.coms.
I really think you should stick to .coms and stick to giving advice about .coms – that’s your strength.
Leave investing in non-.coms and giving advice about non-.coms to people who understand that market – you clearly don’t understand that market at all.
Best of luck with everything.
“The hottest sectors are ccTLD’s with dual meanings/purposes and upgrading to .com”
Right on the button, Rich. And yes, the low GTLD numbers were worse than I imagined. I had figured .app would have some high sales, but guess not.
Rick, you keep saying “ngtlds are dying” for few years already. When will ngtlds finally die? Will they in the near future?
Otherwise, one can say all people are dying, very-very slowly, day by day, until they are finally dead. But such process of very slow dying is also called living 🙂
Rick, if you would study new gTLDs more, you would know that:
a) those statistic do not take into consideration that many of those 30 million new gTLD domain names which are now registered worldwide, are registered with premium renewals. Those can be for example $100 / year, $1000 / year, $5000 / year, etc. Those money are something that people pay each year for those domain names, but this is not reported in venues like namebio.com. But we need to take this into consideration when evaluating how much money are actually flowing to new gTLDs each year. This is very significant portion which is not reported.
b) there are dozens of strong new gTLD investors worldwide with porfolios of thosands of new gTLD domain names. It is nice that some of them like Chad and New.Life are reporting some of their sales, but 99% simply do not do that. Reason is that there is a large competition in new gTLDs, most extensions are very niche, so you can grab only few really good combinations of keyword and extension . Why should I tell people what do I sell … they will register that niche / extension very quickly if I do.
c) Every investor, even succesful .com investor, should diversify and learn about new gTLDs. New gTLDs are not against .com, they are complementary. There is no harm in my opinion even for someone of your calibre to take some great new gTLD names, if you can get them for reasonable purchase price and they will have resonable renewal fee, fully justified by quality of the name. I am doing well with new gTLDs (more then 1000 new gTLD domain names in my porfolio, and 0 .com), they are very nice investment for me. Even if you do not personally like them, it is always good to know when you are offering your word1word2.com name for some price, if word1.word2 name exists, and what is it’s price – as some end users now opt for cheaper option, be it .com or respective new gTLD. I have reported recently several sales on Namepros where new gTLD domain name was bought for good price, while it’s .com counterpart is still offered for sale. This is simply the reality, end users now have much more choice then few years ago, when only .com, .net, .org, and ccTLDs were available.
Nice greetings from Prague, and GL 🙂
The most vocal opponents of new gTLDs keep pitching the discredited claim of dotcom supremacy. Why? Motivated reasoning and greed.
New gTLDs have not failed and 32,139,942 new gTLD domain name registrants can’t all be wrong. https://ntldstats.com/tld
2019 was a good year for .app TLD.
.app top-level domain registrations close out 2019 strong, up 72% in 12 months. https://ntldstats.com/tld/app
Twenty percent (20%) of Top Ten highest value new gTLD sales in 2019 have been .app domain names.
https://namepros.com/blog/new-extension-domains-reach-30-million-registrations.1168756/
.app ranks 9th on the Top-10 list of new gTLDs, by number of pages/files indexed by Google.
I believe 2020 will be a great year for .app.
??
Is it possible that more sales were completed through platforms that do not report sales?
No
The world’s top two Registries for new gTLDs – Radix & Donuts, offer most of their premium names via EPP through registrars; such premium domains have an annual premium fee, instead of a higher upfront fee.
While this makes the name more affordable for end-users, domain-sales databases are not configured to report this ‘tiered’ pricing model, and such sales go unreported.
Radix has sold over 5500 such names retailing for over $10 million in its 9 extensions that are currently live.
This is absolutely correct – something what most people are still overlooking when discussing new gTLD domain names. Thanks for pointing it out.
That could explain why their registrations are falling. They should have played it safe by offering domains at competitive prices not playing dealer by doing that scam tier system. I know a bunch of people who bought those premium fee domains only to drop them 1-2 year down the road. Radix and Donuts poor pricing practices is what caused the death of a good idea. I guess they knew this would not last so they choose to cash in.
This was never “a good idea”, new tlds have failed because nobody wants them, not because of how they were priced. They would have failed no matter what registries did.
Next time, think twice before making such exaggerative claims. I have seen known brands using new gTLDs.
Ethan, I’m glad other people are calling Snoopy out for his bogus claims. The nonstop trolling of fake gtld bad news has to be because of his failed attempts to make $.
It’s really sad that to feel better, Snoopy has to spread misinformation.
The new tlds situation has turned into a bust.
.co and .io are far stronger but have a similar downward trend in aftermarket sales, dropping 25-30% a year since the peak in 2017.
How are they “far stronger” if they have a “similar downward trend”?
Nuts!
Because .co and .io have 10x-100x the number of sales of any new tld.
So you see strength if there are a lot of sales even though you are saying all the sales have “a similar downward trend”???
That seems like people selling to get out and making a loss?
What you’re saying is full of contradictions, sorry for pointing them out but it’s the BS radar – they cannot possibly be considered “far stronger” if what you’re are saying is true.
I don’t think many .co and .io sales are at a loss. Sales volumes are declining though and yes they are far stronger than new tlds despite those declines.
It is like comparing cd sales to tape. I’d rather be selling cd’s out of the two even if both were declining, because there is almost no market for tape.
Alternative domains are not viable.
The number of new gTLD domains are not infinite. Also, they aren’t resold between domainers forever because every resell increases the cost. That in my opinion could be one of the reasons of the trend of the sales.
That might be one of the reasons as well in my opinion. While older and newer domainers are frequently arguing whether new gTLDs yes or no, best combos (good matches between keyword and new gTLD extension) are beying quickly bought by large companies or rich individuals since 2014.
Example: I love .life extension and trying to build nice porfolio around it. So I would like to purchase name like better.life – but where it redirects? Oh, it is large company bayer.com. Never mind, so I would like to purchase something like fire.life… oh, and where it redirects ? It is Amazon.com. And hundreds of similar examples for best new gTLD combos. Once the names are purchased like this, they will not be resold over and over again .. it is simply done 🙂
Excellent points.
people havent learned from .mobi domain fiasco!!!
.com is the caviar of the internet
Wouldn’t have said caviar, it is simply the standard that everybody uses. Average price is $9.
I think a few folks here, including DomainSnowflake and Poopy, lost a lot of money with .mobi and other TLDs many years ago that they have been stung badly.
When DomainSnowflake purchased flowers.mobi for $200,000 and later sold it for $6,500 taking a $193,500 loss (-96.5% negative return) he decided he’d blame anything not .com – and he’s been publicly against anything non-.com ever since. Privately he’s been buying non-.coms but that’s a different story.
Now a normal person may have looked back on that epic mistake (buying flowers.mobi for $200k and selling for $6.5k) and reflected. Thinking what lead him to do something so stupid? What should he have done better? Why was he so delusional? Why was he suckered? Instead he thinks it’s better to blame the non-.coms and shout loud about those buying new Gs being the suckers… when he was the ultimate sucker and no one in their right mind would have made that mistake.
This isn’t about new Gs declining. It’s about better understanding them. If you understand them, then there are opportunities to make $, or at least decide which gTLDs to stay away from and which to invest in.
As Monte and Frank have described, the new namespaces that will succeed are the ones that are attractive to end users by being safe with limited regulation, reasonably priced and those that build community around the name brand.
End users first must adopt before any chance of investors squeezing $ out of them, and that takes time. A market is being built…
DomainSnowflakes hypocrisy again: A 20 year plan for his .com investment but he’s been poopooing non-.coms since the major release 5 years ago!! Just be consistent Schwartz, that’s all we’re asking. Also be up front and honest about why you paid $200k for flowers.mobi (later selling for $6.5k, 96.5% loss) and how that affected your view of new Gs…
Sorry to disappoint but I have never owned a .mobi.
open.money just sold for 25.000.-
Well that shut them up Mike!
They’ll probably deny it’s real or make up some other reason why it means nothing, maybe call it another outlier.
Well there is proof ?