.NYC has posted some pretty amazing landrush sales numbers out of the gate with TheDomains.com reporting today a monster sale, Marijuana.nyc selling for $60,000. There were a lot of other pretty impressive sales and while the auctions apparently were small, there are a few people out there who already see very real value in .NYC domains.
Of course it’s still very early in the game and with auctions of no more than 5 people it can be easy to drive prices far above market value. However, that’s the catch with new gTLDs, there is no market value, this is a blank slate and the prices of these initial sales are going to be based more on who is bidding than anything else.
So here’s the question…is .NYC giving us a preview of the real value these new gTLDs could have in the aftermarket or are these outliers that will go down and wildly over-priced sales?

Just like in pretty much every past landrush auction the prices are ridiculous. This is true with .mobi, .co, .asia, and on and on.
It could be related to shill bidding, auction games, or just stupid money in general.
Normally the landrush prices are peak value. There is no worse time to buy. The interest tends to only go down from there.
Some past amazing landrush buys –
Flowers.mobi – $200K
Mesothelioma.co – $76,000
LasVegas.asia – $30K
I don’t see many domainers putting up sales in relation to the new extensions. It always seems to be the registry making the sales……..
Brad