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CentralNic and .CLUB reveal premium sales
CentralNic and .CLUB Domains have both revealed sales of premium domain names over the last several days.
CentralNic said yesterday that it has sold “a number” of premiums for $3.4 million.
The names are believed to be from its own portfolio, rather than registry-reserved names in any of the TLDs it manages. The company did not disclose which names, in which TLDs, it had sold.
The sale smooths out potential lumpiness in CentralNic’s revenue, and the company noted that the sales means that recurring revenue from its registrar and registry business will become an increasing proportion of its revenue as its premium portfolio diminishes.
Last week, .CLUB announced that it sold $380,793 of premium .club domains in the third quarter. That was spread over 452 domains.
The big-ticket domains were porn.club and basketball.club, sold by the registry for $85,000 together.
The Q3 headline number was a sharp decline from the Q2 spike of $2.7 million, which was boosted by auctions in China.
The company published a lot more data on its sales on its blog, here.
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