.Shop Domains Start At $30,000 On Day 1

[domainking131]

.Shop domains launch next Thursday September 1 at 15:00 UTC with the Early Access Program (EAP). Registration prices for day 1 of the EAP start at about $30,000 at 101Domain.com and go up to $40,000 at Name.com.

The .shop General Availability starts on September 26.

The .shop sunrise period for trademark owners ends today and .shop is close to 1,000 domain registrations (prices were at about $1,500).

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[Jeff]

Insane. Over the years I've owned a number of [keyword] + shop in both .com and .co.uk and no one would pay that amount...

 

[domainking131]

Makes me wonder how the registries recover their investment from these new gTLDs,