Virtual Reality Domains (VR)

VRconvention.com my first VR domain.

Interview: IMAX CEO Richard Gelfond Talks Virtual Reality

As noted last week, I was fortunate enough to be invited to IMAX's big press event concerning the launch of their new VR center in Hollywood. You got my thoughts on the individual games on Friday, but I also got the chance to sit down for a brief chat with IMAX CEO Richard Gelfond. Now, this conversation took place before I sampled the games in question, so this miniseries is going to have more continuity issues than the Fast and the Furious franchise. But without further ado, here you go...

Scott Mendelson: Do you see the virtual reality games as being a supplement to traditional IMAX theatricals or is it something that you want to eventually be on equal standing?

Richard Gelfond: I think it's a separate business. Obviously, they're related to one another. I think it will have to be on equal standing. We're only going to go forward with the VR strategy if the model works and the numbers make sense. I think there are obviously some synergies. If you're opening a movie and you could create a game around the movie or you could create a theatrical experience around the movie, it's so much better. It definitely has to stand as a financial entity on its own.

Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottm...d-gelfond-talks-virtual-reality/#260c349531e6

Hum it might be pretty bad for Oculus/Facebook/Samsung but really good for HTC

ZeniMax Seeks Injunction to Halt Oculus’ Use Rift & Gear VR SDK and More

Defendant Oculus is permanently enjoined, on a worldwide basis, from using, marketing, selling, distributing, modifying, servicing, copying, or offering for sale or license any products, in whole or in part, that utilize in any form or for any purpose any of the Copyrighted Materials, including but not limited to (i) system software for Oculus PC (including the Oculus PC SDK); (ii) system software for Oculus Mobile (including the Oculus Mobile SDK); (iii) Oculus integration with the Epic Games Unreal Engine; and (iv) Oculus integration with the Unity Technologies Unity Game Engine.

http://www.roadtovr.com/zenimax-see...culus-facebook-use-rift-gear-vr-sdk-and-more/

reged couple cheap drops today:

VRtech .info
VirtualHome .ca

VR.vacations for sale for $1,250,000 by an owner at Uniregistry.

Landov said:

VR.vacations for sale for $1,250,000 by an owner at Uniregistry.

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Lol, good luck to them.

Landov said:

VR.vacations for sale for $1,250,000 by an owner at Uniregistry.

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wow !!! maybe a typo and he put 2 zero more can sell my HolidaysVR for a far better price if you are interested lol

Got VR-Test.com this week

vrperception said:

wow !!! maybe a typo and he put 2 zero more can sell my HolidaysVR for a far better price if you are interested lol

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Deluded domainer, thinking of no1 as usual.

What is the benefit of an end-user paying $1.25m for that name? What ROI are they going to get paying that kind of money out?

In any line of business, ‘the other party’ also has to see a return ROI, but many people in the domaining industry fail to understand this and quote back ridiculous prices, you see it all the time, $20k+ for average names.

KingslayerVR said:

Deluded domainer, thinking of no1 as usual.

What is the benefit of an end-user paying $1.25m for that name? What ROI are they going to get paying that kind of money out?

In any line of business, ‘the other party’ also has to see a return ROI, but many people in the domaining industry fail to understand this and quote back ridiculous prices, you see it all the time, $20k+ for average names.

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yes it's what i think when i see some BIN on VR domains with high XXX XXX, sometimes i'm really wondering. Ok if it's a developped domain things might be different...Maybe time will prove me i'm wrong and some will reach this xxx xxx xxx but i'm really sceptical

vrperception said:

yes it's what i think when i see some BIN on VR domains with high XXX XXX, sometimes i'm really wondering. Ok if it's a developped domain things might be different...Maybe time will prove me i'm wrong and some will reach this xxx xxx xxx but i'm really sceptical

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VR industry will generate much more money than Las Vegas in the next 10 years. If LasVegas.com was sold for $90 million, the best VR names will fetch xxx xxx xxx easily.

Is VR.Vacations yours?

No.

Landov said:

VR industry will generate much more money than Las Vegas in the next 10 years. If LasVegas.com was sold for $90 million, the best VR names will fetch xxx xxx xxx easily.

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Some premium VR names may bring 6 figures one day, for that to happen though, VR needs to be revolutionary and needs to be something that's going to change the world (like TV), even then whoever pays that will have to see some kind of ROI too, no premium domain can justify a 6 figure price tag at the moment time (never mind 7) as VR is it's still in its infancy and a buyer is not going to see a ROI paying 6 figures out at this stage.

As for VR.Vacations, it's not premium, I wouldn't even say VR+Vacations dot com is premium ('travel' and 'tours' are the premiums in that industry), so baffled why the owner thinks a domain (that isn't even a .com) warrants a 7 figure price tag.

Landov said:

VR industry will generate much more money than Las Vegas in the next 10 years. If LasVegas.com was sold for $90 million, the best VR names will fetch xxx xxx xxx easily.

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well, maybe you are right, time will tell us anyway

Landov said:

VR.vacations for sale for $1,250,000 by an owner at Uniregistry.

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Fair price as I won't take anything less then $5,000,000 for VacationsVR[.]com [insert eyeroll]

BostonDomainer said:

Fair price as I won't take anything less then $5,000,000 for VacationsVR[.]com [insert eyeroll]

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not now.. but VR isn't about now.. when VR becomes THE Alternate way to experience reality as we know it today... thats when VR domains will be selling for top money. this is just a beginning of a long and slow process.

alcy said:

not now.. but VR isn't about now.. when VR becomes THE Alternate way to experience reality as we know it today... thats when VR domains will be selling for top money. this is just a beginning of a long and slow process.

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Only 1.5% lol

Elad n said:

Only 1.5% lol

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hey if someone wants to think its at 55% then they have every right to believe what they want

someone can even say its 99% now... and watch me care lol

alcy said:

not now.. but VR isn't about now.. when VR becomes THE Alternate way to experience reality as we know it today... thats when VR domains will be selling for top money. this is just a beginning of a long and slow process.

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Me personally i think VR domains are already selling for top money. We've regularly heard about domain sales $2k/$3k/$5k+ it's not going to get better than that for 90% of VR+keyword domains, same as it doesn't for TV domains.

What's failed to take off yet is potential monster sales of names like LiveVR/VRPoker/VRGames etc, those are potential 6 figure sales.

Some people are pessimistic, some people are optimistic, some people are realists. I know one thing for sure, when VR takes off mainstream, there will be a lot of people regretting not getting in at the right time.

KingslayerVR said:

Me personally i think VR domains are already selling for top money. We've regularly heard about domain sales $2k/$3k/$5k+ it's not going to get better than that for majority of keywords, same as it doesn't for TV domains.

What's failed to take off yet is potential monster sales of names like LiveVR/VRPoker/VRGames etc, those are potential high 5 to 6 figure sales.

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well if its top money now then I guess you should sell it all now and call it a day

jk

its all proportional as you know.. top keywords like you mentioned and maybre 100 more.. will be worth say 100 more in years to come.. of what threy are worth now..

and then non premium stuff can fetch also 100 times more.. but relative to their lower worth now.. something along those lines... I think a 100 multiple factor is a good estimate... now versus in years to come..

and I don't think any of this has much to do with some bs .tv (or other) extensions

I think it makes no sense to talk about top value for domains today when tech is 1-2% mainstream penetration and development stage... and most people still don't even know what VR is

jmo

LucidDomains said:

Some people are pessimistic, some people are optimistic, some people are realists. I know one thing for sure, when VR takes off mainstream, there will be a lot of people regretting not getting in at the right time.

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yeah... that's for sure.. better not sell all your VR domaisn today kingslayer... even though u think they are at top value today

alcy said:

well if its top money now then I guess you should sell it all now and call it a day

jk

its all proportional as you know.. top keywords like you mentioned and maybre 100 more.. will be worth say 100 more in years to come.. of what threy are worth now..

and then non premium stuff can fetch also 100 times more.. but relative to their lower worth now.. something along those lines... I think a 100 multiple factor is a good estimate... now versus in years to come..

and I don't think any of this has much to do with some bs .tv (or other) extensions

I think it makes no sense to talk about top value for domains today when tech is 1-2% mainstream penetration and development stage... and most people still don't even know what VR is

jmo

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What I ment was in terms of price. Price is not going to raise all that much for certain keywords, what may change is constancy. Rather than hearing 1 or 2 xxxx sales every week or 2, when VR gets going it may be the case where we hear 1 or 2 of these a day.

I think there’s a few people here with a bunch of domains like Countryside+VR and think it’s going to bring like $10k in a few years and will happily turn down $2000 for it, I’ve read a few stories like that from people on here turning down low xxxx offers for these types of domains and you just think why?