How are premium domains doing for registries and registrars? Here’s some insight.
Radix just released some data on its premium domain sales in new top level domains for the first half of the year, and it paints a decent picture of how premium domains are doing for both registries and registrars.
From January to June 2017, people registered or renewed 727 premium domains across Radix’s portfolio of nine domains. 469 of these were new registrations and 258 were renewals.
For new registrations, Radix estimates about $640,000 in payments at the registrar level for these 469 names. All of these names have premium renewals as well. Here’s a breakdown of the revenue split for each of its top level domains:
Here’s a breakdown:
.Tech 127
.Online 124
.Space 101
.Fun 47
.Website 27
.Site 21
.Store 14
.Press 6
.Host 2
Here’s the average yearly price paid for premium domains within each TLD for new registrations the first half of this year:
And here are the top sales. Prices are estimated if Radix doesn’t know how much the registrar marked up the wholesale price.
Room.tech $11,467 at GMO
Ideas.tech $6,500 at Namecheap
Creative.space $6,499 at GoDaddy
Travel.fun $6,499 at GoDaddy
Vitamin.site $6,499 at PDR
Quantum.tech $6,499 at GoDAddy
Holidays.online $6,250 at Name.com
Airline.online $6,000 at Enom
Mar.tech $6,000 at Enom
James.store $5,274 at Alibaba
On the renewal front, 67% of first-year premium domains that were due for renewal in the first half were renewed, representing 258 premium names and an estimated $575,000 of revenue.
Source
Radix just released some data on its premium domain sales in new top level domains for the first half of the year, and it paints a decent picture of how premium domains are doing for both registries and registrars.
From January to June 2017, people registered or renewed 727 premium domains across Radix’s portfolio of nine domains. 469 of these were new registrations and 258 were renewals.
For new registrations, Radix estimates about $640,000 in payments at the registrar level for these 469 names. All of these names have premium renewals as well. Here’s a breakdown of the revenue split for each of its top level domains:
Here’s a breakdown:
.Tech 127
.Online 124
.Space 101
.Fun 47
.Website 27
.Site 21
.Store 14
.Press 6
.Host 2
Here’s the average yearly price paid for premium domains within each TLD for new registrations the first half of this year:
And here are the top sales. Prices are estimated if Radix doesn’t know how much the registrar marked up the wholesale price.
Room.tech $11,467 at GMO
Ideas.tech $6,500 at Namecheap
Creative.space $6,499 at GoDaddy
Travel.fun $6,499 at GoDaddy
Vitamin.site $6,499 at PDR
Quantum.tech $6,499 at GoDAddy
Holidays.online $6,250 at Name.com
Airline.online $6,000 at Enom
Mar.tech $6,000 at Enom
James.store $5,274 at Alibaba
On the renewal front, 67% of first-year premium domains that were due for renewal in the first half were renewed, representing 258 premium names and an estimated $575,000 of revenue.
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