Is it better to renew it or drop it? Has anyone had any success with .It.com or a positive idea about it in the future?
Hi Leo2k,
First, let me disclose that I am the Director of Sales for it.com. I check in here from time to time but I’m not a big poster. Thanks for your question, I feel it will be helpful to chime in. I’ve read through the posts here and will do my best to address the questions.
Regarding whether to renew, it’s highly personal. Domains as investments are always speculative. I’ll only say that we are committed to our success as a registry and the long term success of our registrants… and we don’t discriminate against domain investors.
I’ve worked for three different registry providers over the years providing service for over 100 various extensions and new tlds. I have always been an advocate for domainers. They are the first to support a new registry and should be appreciated.
Many of the higher sale amounts shown in this thread are our premium sales. We have about 3000 premiums in our registry ranging in price from a few hundred dollars to about $10k. Our model is commonly called “high/low”, where the renewal is at the regular annual price instead of the premium fee. We contracted with Sedo to promote them and have had good success.
We ran our Sunrise from January through February this year and signed up hundreds of brand names under it.com.
We are talking to all registrars and are making good progress but there are still several not offering them yet. Stay tuned. The it.com domains are available now at about 25 registrars and resellers, including some wholesale registrars (in case one would want to sell them as a reseller). These include 101domain, InterNetX, CentralNic Reseller, Porkbun, Connect Reseller, and more.
You can see a more complete list here:
https://get.it.com/for-registrars
Thanks again for your question. We certainly hope you will renew and are doing all we can to support the Domainer community. Feel free to write me directly at joe (at) it.com if you need more information.
All the best!
Joe