Shortly after Aaron Strong commented that he bought the single letter x.Ventures domain name, I purchased three single letter new gTLD domain names: n.Ventures, n.Holdings, and g.Holdings. I later learned that a whole bunch of single letter new gTLD domain names were registered, perhaps even all of those that were available to purchase.

In light of this, I thought it would be appropriate to write a brief post mortem to reiterate why I made my purchases and my thoughts on buying new TLD domain names. There are several things I want people to understand about why I bought these three domain names and my plans for them.

For me, these purchases were purely speculative. Unlike my .com domain names, I do not believe an aftermarket has been established, and I have no idea when (or if) there will be a strong aftermarket for these domain names. I think there is upside potential, but I can afford to take risks.  As Sukhjin pointed out, single letter domain names aren’t guaranteed to sell profitably. I hope another company wants to buy them in the future, but who knows. There are going to be so many options, the profit potential is more limited than my exact match .coms.

I would not recommend that

Charles posted a comment earlier today in my article asking people what new gTLD domain names they registered, and it seems to jive with what many other domain investors have been saying when it comes to buying new domain names: “Save the money. GTLD stands for ‘Good To Lose Dinero.'” I find comments like these very ironic.

In my quest to buy good domain names, I often come across other domain investors. In addition, domain investors email me daily to see if I have an interest in buying their domain names. I would say that 99.5% of the time, the prices these people quote are batshit crazy. There’s nothing wrong with quoting a crazy asking price of course because the goal with domain investing is to make as much money as possible with your domain investments.

Why is it that these new gTLD domain names bring out such

As I reported earlier this week, I do not currently own any of the new domain names. I am involved in an auction for one new domain name (.Ventures), but I don’t know if I am going to bid competitively to win it. I am just not sure about whether it’s worth the price, but we’ll see what happens.

At the time of my writing this article, somewhere around 30% of the people who voted have already registered a domain name in one of the new extensions. Some of the people who replied via comment shared the domain name(s) that they purchased. If you are interested, I would like to invite you to share some of the new gTLD domain names that you purchased.

On a separate but related note, I can see the value in

I tried to pre-register two new gTLD domain names – one in .Ventures and one in .Holdings. Prior to securing the domain names, another company bought the .Holdings domain name at a premium price. The .Ventures domain name is currently in a private auction because there were other people or companies who pre-registered the same domain name.

I may or may not bid more, so there’s a good chance I won’t end up with any new TLD domain names yet.

As of yesterday morning, there are now

I’ve been following along as reports about .Guru domain name registrations came out, and I was curious to see if any of the newly registered .Guru domain names have websites indexed in Google yet. To my surprise, it appears that the first .Guru domain name is now live.

If you visit Google.com, you can do a search to see what .Guru domain names are currently listed in the index. The search is “site:.guru” and can be found by clicking here. When you do that search, you can see that subreg.guru is the only website listed for that particular search, meaning this is the first and only .Guru website in the index.

According to Google Translate, the website is