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I was just surfing the net and looked up for domains starting with bitcoin and i found this huge difference between the .com,.info, .biz and .ga and .gq
They were being sold for a massive 5000 Dollars !!!  :o Take a look below :

never gone through any of those ga or gq tld or never seen them. It is always high priced like if you search for bitcoin.xyz or facebook.xyz both will cost you 5000$ but for othername.xyz it cost less than 1$. From this it is sure that bitcoin niche is similar to facebook niche. Good for bitcoin

Each country has different rules for its domain name, some are really expensive to have, usually the worse the country is the more expensive country code domain gets.

although the price was $10 for domain bitcoin.ga I still was not interested. yeah I am more interested in using the domain com.

Wait, but were they actually sold for that price? I seriously doubt that. You can announce any price you want but the question is who will buy for that price. I'm surprized they didn't set the price to $50k or $500k  :)

Basically these people are just sitting with their hopes on that someday somebody will actually buy their domains.Fact is,these domain are not really needed for a stable business to run nice niche traffic .There are lot of examples as such.All the domians with bitcasino or bitcoincasino are booked and being resold,fact is,a lot of other gambling websites with no bit or gamble in their names are doing quite well.SEO is all that matters.

Wow, It would be a waste if someone actually pays for .gq or .gq extension for $5000, even if it's for bitcoin domain itself. Their not attractive and professional since most known brands use either of (.com / .net / .org / .info) only and all these new extension (there are few others that are pricey as well) are pretty much nonsense.

Correct, those are not actual sale prices, but the asking prices of domain "investors" who are trying to resell.

Does the average internet user really give a shit about the last 2-3 letters of the website they're visiting? As long as it turns up on google and chrome don't send me away from it then I'm game to give it a visit. The whole domain fetish world lives in another dimension.

Can't even pay in Bitcoins ?
 ::)

These prices seem hugely inflated to me. And what countries are these domain extensions from or they have run out of ideas and just adding random ones now?

Oh yes, the prices are hugely inflated. It's just because they're trying to make easy money with an obscure domain with a popular internet item.

I think they're adding new domain extensions now, I can't think of any country that would have those domains.

So someone has bought these obscure TLD's and now they are reselling them for $5000 a pop. There must be some really gullible people that would fall for this or else they won't be doing such a stunt  ;D

If bitcoin can take off, will have btc or bitcoin become a TLD.
Like free.bitcoin, or earn.bitcoin, or pizza.bitcoin, exchange.bitcoin...

i agree. i also find these buying and selling of domains a little strange.
it doesn't matter if it is called bitcoin.com or myNewBitcoinDomain.com if the website is interesting to me i will bookmark it and use it that way.
besides when you search about something the search engine is not providing you results by looking at the domain name, it can be about bitcoin with domain name called blahBlah.biz

It's always better to buy a .com domain instead of buying a free TLD like these pricey domains. most of the search engines, specially Google, still don't think they are good and hence you can't expect mush of search traffic.

Always go for high level domains like .com .net .org kind of domains.

$5000 is crazy. most web developer if not all will still prefer the .com extension. hell i even write bitcointalk.com when i tried to visit this forum which people would probably feel for it as well.
what does even .ga mean by the way?

I'll buy bitcoin.com for $8.38 :)

Most people do not even know, you get other extensions like, .ga and .gq and they will fall back on the extensions they do know, which is .com or .net and the people who sell these domains know that. Why would you buy a no-name brand, if you can buy a brand name, default domain? I always look at the extension, before I visit a site and if the extension is something other that .com or one of the more popular extensions, I do not trust them. If a person cannot afford to pay for a decent domain name, he probably has some other issues too.    

that price will be laughable in a few years, when the real demand will begins, i'm looking forward to 10k+

Trading car = car.com? gold = gold.com/metal.com? oil = oil.com?

Maybe we will not need any domain that contain bitcoin afterall...

Yeah I really don't care if the domain is .ga. I would much rather a .com domain but that is probably going to be even more expensive.

People can basically ask ANY price for their domain, but that doesn't say the domain is worth that amount. There are people with average (less than $100) valued Bitcoin related domains, but they are asking insanely high amounts as $10,000 and some even $100,000. Pure madness. :D

crap!  :o do you have any idea why that price so expensive?its just domain,and even its domain forever,i dont think its good domain for bitcoin. and behind that dot,is not familiar,i think if you use this domain,you will get hard to SEO your site.

First, I guess you using Inspect Element. I think it is a bug.
to my knowledge, ga and cf domain is free.
none of those who want to buy at that price

I paid $8.59 for BitcoinUncovered.com - I expect there are other usable Bitcoin names still unregistered if you spend time looking.

Here's one that I've just noticed. BitcoinTrivia.com - could make an interesting site about tit-bits of info about Bitcoin and it's history.

Definitely, Bitcoin is a very popular name and it would be worth tremendous amounts of money, all linked or related popular codes like co.uk, .co etc... have already been taken and even the less popular are worth huge amounts of money.

That is normal price for big website names or extensions. If you place it high in Google you can do efforts with that extensions.

Lol you can't, it's in possession of somebody. even if the domain was available you'll to pay in thousands $ to get .com domain.

The .com etc... are not available that's why the default price is shown, the less popular extensions are for sale but I doubt they would get the requested amount as it seems so high for country-specific extensions.

There is nothing technical about .com that makes it better than any other TLD and furthermore, there are a ton of trashy scammy sites on .com

The complete lack of logic in the general population is just mind boggling.

The way domain squatting works, you register a bunch cheap and then ask a very high price.

It only takes one sale at a really high price for you to easily pay the reg / rereg fees for all the domains that didn't sell *and* make a profit.

Illogical thinking like that found in the post I quoted before this post are why they can get really high prices for some of the domains.

Don't buy from squatters.

Looking at the insane prices these domain squatters charge, I find it hard to believe they will be able to sell one of their domains. They will end up paying more in renewal fees at the end of the year considering some of them have hundreds of domains. It will cost them more than they earn.

There are some registry premium domains whis are sold by their respective registry for a higher price.
Registry premium domains are
a select list of domain names
that are sold at a premium
price set by the Central
Registry. The Central Registries
for these domains charge a
premium registration price due
to the estimated higher value
of the domain name.
If you search various tlds,almost all are taken for bitcoin or the remaining ones are priced high

Yeah I don't go for those either, no badly how much I want the domain.

They also usually have a higher renewal fee so it is constant tax you are paying to the registry - giving them your hard-earned money when they did nothing.

striptease.video is an example - $2,500 USD / yr (even more at that ripoff place godaddy).

I guess the .video TLD hasn't heard that porn websites really aren't that profitable. Ridiculous.

It highly depends. There are indeed domain traders that register a bunch of crappy domains and are asking beyond insane price for them. These guys won't sell anything. But there are also domain traders with a great portfolio where they make a few domain sales some times worth tens of thousands of Dollars.

Nowadays registrars are squatters too. They simply register/buy the best domains before they are even open to the public for purchasing. They ask thousands of Dollars for good domains with shitty extensions that barely any one can use. It has proven to be a very lucrative market for them.

They do sell, it is just rare. But often enough they turn a profit. They are the low lifes of the squatting industry.

Domainers who charge a fair price and lower when it doesn't sell, those domainers I don't mind and don't consider them to be squatters. I consider them to be protecting domains I may want but haven't yet thought of from the squatters.

Well, all sorts of people are being attracted by this "nowadays not very profitable" industry for the average person. Renewal costs will make them let the majority of their domains expire after the first year since no one is interested in them. They will be available for the public again.

that's joke,why must use that unpopular domain,seems wasting your money to buy that domain :D even that domain rare and i never see domain like that,but the price is too high

.com has a monoploy though it really shouldn't matter as its just an address. But yeah i have had to pick a .com for my own website business because 99% of people seem to like the .com branding.

so fantastic. I do not understand domain as popular as .gq .ga could have an unreasonable price. but that obviously I appreciate that own TLD domains (dot) com and (dot) org. :)

All the domains with name as bitcion are of big value, so only big companies can buy it. .com is much preferable but it is already taken.
For others there is a way to buy it cheap. contact to domain resellers they can provide it to you at cheap price. I was in contact with one reseller who was selling the domains at $2,46 but now he left that business.

That's not so surprising IMO, bitcoin is a growing new niche or word and has value in and of itself specially with future potential, There are tons of good domains that are being bought for big amounts of money over all fields generally, NFL teams domains where bought with surprisingly big prices.

That's common IMHO, I seen bitcoin domains being sold for more than that and that circle domain got sold for an "undisclosed" amount of money, That at least tells us bitcoin is becoming a primary niche right now.

lol bitcoin.com isn for sale

and its also the second most prized crypto domain

after mine so no doub its worth Billions

also the bitcoin.com web layout

suggests its banker owned as thee same

web builder does all their sites

That is a regular price for a less popular extension with a great name "Like bitcoin in this case", if it was a better extension then it would be much more than that IMO.

If a .ga is worth something even close to that then this tells the person how good bitcoin word is and how much it is worth..

Well, its a normal thing that each of the domains like .org, .com .edu
has different monetary value. but for bitcoins domain it value is way too high.
I also wonder how .ga domain rerfer to bitcoins ? ???

I also heard about the .ga domains but in my opinion they are not special and they are not looking nice after some names.
As a example currency.ga is just not nice too say also, currency.com is much more interesting than.

This price is a little unrealistic for a domain like .ag or something like that even if it's a highly price word like bitcoin, Generally domains are sold for prices like these usually online, you just have to be lucky to own such a valuable name from the beginning..

Wow, that seems high,

I think that price would still be low, after some years when bitcoin goes mainstream and goes to top I think it will be way more than that.