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One of the better one day new gtld hauls – Mike Berkens Strikes Again

June 13, 2015 by Raymond Hackney

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If and it is a very big if, the new gtlds do pan out and companies of the future seek out the best, spot on names, Mike Berkens picked up some names on Thursday that should be sitting pretty. These are the kind of names that have the best chance to be resold. When you get into three word and four word combos the dot may get confusing. I read someone say “You can’t just put the dot anywhere and think consumers will get it.”

I think he picked up the best .Gallery out there with Art.Gallery, Top 5 media name with Digital.Media, Stock.Photos and Celebrity.Photos are two of the best in that extension.

Exact Searches – Advertiser Competition and CPC

stock photos  110,000 High $15.01

art gallery 40,500 Medium $1.23
    
digital media 22,200 Low $5.18
      
celebrity photos 14,800 Low $0.15
    
the media 4,400 Low $0.10

Now to keep things real, most domain investors do not have the budget to purchase these names for the prices Mike paid, and more importantly the ongoing budget to keep renewing them.

Mike said to me he does not recommend anyone who cannot afford to hold for five years to dip their toe in the new gtld pool. Stick with .com if you do not maintain a high risk tolerance.

Disclosure: I do own 3 .media names, nothing in this post is to be taken as a recommendation to register any extension, do your homework and seek out the best deals if you decide to participate. Understand these names are not liquid.

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About Raymond Hackney

Raymond Hackney has been involved with domain names since 1997. One of the most prolific writers in the domain industry and founder of TLDinvestors.com and 3Character.com

Comments

  1. Benny says

    June 13, 2015 at 2:00 pm

    You can colour me impressed now those are some good names. the rich get richer.

    I appreciate you put a disclosure, cheers mate.

  2. Paul Cox says

    June 13, 2015 at 2:52 pm

    I got MarketingSocial.Media,
    and Income.video.
    Any thoughts?

    • Matt says

      June 13, 2015 at 10:34 pm

      Income video makes no sense and nobody searches “marketing social media”. You’ve wasted your money.

  3. Laag says

    June 13, 2015 at 3:06 pm

    Waste of time. All of the new glds will wither up within the year anyhoo.

  4. Domain says

    June 13, 2015 at 3:28 pm

    the real winners are

    StockPhotos.com
    ArtGallery.com
    DigitalMedia.com
    CelebrityPhotos.com
    TheMedia.com

  5. Bill says

    June 13, 2015 at 3:32 pm

    The first three acquisitions are very good in my opinion. But I think the ngtlds were created not only with the intention that the words are the way the investors are registering in according with google stats “looks great+stat”. For me is that the user to be looking for a certain product or service is of aware that after the dot inform more in detail what he can find in that site, which currently does not happen.
    In result in less waste of time reviewing pages or links and better marketing.

  6. Jen says

    June 13, 2015 at 6:52 pm

    Does the trolling ever get old ? New gtlds are not withering and are not leaving the root, repeating that over and over makes people look uneducated.

  7. Joseph Peterson says

    June 13, 2015 at 7:14 pm

    Identifying the best domains to buy in nTLDs is relatively straightforward. Justifying the expense against the likelihood of a reward – that is the hard part. And it’s very true that different owners are better positioned to absorb the holding costs and to achieve a sale.

  8. Brad Mugford says

    June 13, 2015 at 9:28 pm

    Yes, it is not that hard to identify the handful of great combos in any extension. The main question is, is it worth paying thousands and thousands of dollars for these combos via registration and renewal fees. Time will tell.

    Someone like Berkens can afford to take extra risk. If any do pan out it will be these types, which are a great term separated by a dot.

    Brad

  9. Mike says

    June 13, 2015 at 9:36 pm

    $500 annual renewals, no thanks says the end user

  10. Spencer says

    June 14, 2015 at 8:00 am

    I cannot wait for the steam pile of G’s to pass so .com can continue its market ascendancy. I am totally unimpressed with anything by way of adoption that I see in the new G’s. One of the biggest mistakes these idiots launching have done is INSULT domainers at every turn – even though domainers are a necessary variable in the domaining ecosystem.

  11. Phil says

    June 14, 2015 at 1:37 pm

    Picked up

    Synergy.media

    Video.camera

  12. Leonard Britt says

    June 14, 2015 at 2:36 pm

    I recall in 2006 taking a speedboat tour from Bayside Marketplace in downtown MIami. There were more than a dozen condo towers under construction in the Brickell area – a sign of a bubble about to burst. Five years later real estate prices had dropped more than 50%. Now, several years later real estate prices have rebounded but with domains there seems to be an endless supply of new TLD launches. Good luck paying premium renewals for a decade just to sell your best names at breakeven.

    • Jen says

      June 14, 2015 at 3:22 pm

      If you think Berkens Will be selling at breakeven you truly are a fool.

      • Phil says

        June 14, 2015 at 4:19 pm

        +1

  13. Brand.direct says

    June 14, 2015 at 7:51 pm

    Great names. You can’t go wrong with those. After tube.webcam sold for 170k I felt tube.chat was a no brained with businesses such as periscope taking off.

    Tube.chat
    Coastal.style
    sushi.city

  14. Aaron Strong says

    June 19, 2015 at 2:59 pm

    Thanks Raymond! This post partially inspired me to register, Home.Services. It has a regular renewal rate, but purchased in EAP. There are some really great gems on the collision list being released, creating great opportunity for those willing to risk. I’ve already reached out to potential end users and have no doubt they will want it. Thanks again!

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