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Verisign posts Premium New gTLDs that are free as .com handreg (8 regged immediately)

July 27, 2016 by Raymond Hackney

So Jeannie McPherson, the resident domain evangelist and marketing expert for Verisign took a look at some new gltd premium names and compared them to their available .com counterpart.

Now Jeannie posted 14, there are thousands, but of the 14 she posted 8 quickly got registered.

Premium Domain Name Registrar 1 Price Registrar 2 Price
 classic.actor $12,000.00 $12,500.00
comic.actor $12,000.00 $12,500.00
choose.democrat $12,000.00 $12,500.00
nyc.democrat $12,000.00 $12,500.00
americano.futbol $12,000.00 $12,500.00
find.republican $12,000.00 $12,500.00
acquisition.attorney $8,400.00 $8,750.00
currency.forsale $8,400.00 $8,750.00
audiorepair.software $8,400.00 $8,750.00
2016toprated.car $3,499.99 $2,099.00
2016toprated.cars $3,499.99 $2,099.00
toprates.cars $3,499.99 $2,099.00
recipes.space $3,000.00 $3,125.00
welfare.lawyer $1,800.00 $1,875.00

Remove the dot and add .com at the end and these names were available in .com.

classicactor.com
comicactor.com
choosedemocrat.com
nycdemocrat.com
americanofutbol.com
findrepublican.com
acquisitionattorney.com
currencyforsale.com Available
audiorepairsoftware.com Available
2016topratedcar.com Available
2016topratedcars.com Available
topratescars.com Available
recipesspace.com  Available
welfarelawyer.com Congrats Paul that was a good registration IMO.

Now some will tell you they should have been available in .com, while others will see the premium pricing as ridiculous.

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Filed Under: Domain trends, new gtlds, Verisign

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

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