Do you agree Bill Gates's statement that Domains have and will continue to go up in value faster...

Bill Gates had wrong about the internet. He didn't think it will be used for commercial purpose. Soon after he changed his mind. That's why his statement is not specific. Which domains is he talking about?

serhatkotan said:

"I hate cheesecake."
-Albert Einstein.

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Brandon.Domains said:

He also had that paperless office prediction.

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The problem with quotes is that they can easily be wrongly attributed, misconstrued. I don't mean any offence to @serhatkotan or @Brandon.Domains because we are all guilty of not doing our due diligence for conversation but the paperless office quote is widely attributed (including in journal articles) to George Pake in a business week article in 1975 and Albert Einstein actually said "I have cheesecake", in reference to when he solved a really difficult formula.

Quotes are great to discus though! I agree with @Aspiring Billionaire on this one.

If one bought gold at the January 1980 top they would not have ever got all their money back, let alone make a profit. It's even more horrible adjusted for inflation. So the price one pays for any commodity (including domains) matters.

The_General said:

...because we are all guilty of not doing our due diligence for conversation but the paperless office quote is widely attributed (including in journal articles) to George Pake in a business week article in 1975.

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I did a bit of research before posting about the paperless office and knew that the concept was not new (hence the flying cars joke).

It's just that Bill Gates predicted it again before or after every home and office had a PC running his operating system and software (Office). But paper use actually increased.

Thanks,
Brandon

I just checked melodies.com at Dynadot - and $15K BuyNow is displayed...
Quest: what price/value will be in 2020???

Brandon.Domains said:

I did a bit of research before posting about the paperless office and knew that the concept was not new (hence the flying cars joke).

It's just that Bill Gates predicted it again...

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That's cool, I was carrying on your joke and the Einstein one and poking a bit of fun at quotes in general - as I think you were pointing out, lots of people say lots of things! Still, they tend to make interesting discussions.

Haroon Basha said:

Once Bill Gates said "Domains have and will continue to go up in value faster than any other commodity ever known to man”

Is this statement holds good today?
Please share your views.

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domain names will go up in value some quite considerably and others marginally

because as more and more tech entrepreneurs aspire to create their invention they will want the best domain name that describes their product or service and they will want nothing less than the .com and because
many tech ventures almost dont need any of their own money because if their idea and or concept fills a gap in the tech universe the initial funding round will provide sufficient capital to pay millions for the right .com domain name

and even though the really good .coms cost millions usually i wouldn't have thought it csts those who buy domains for big bucks a 1p because usually the advertising gained from such significant purchases brings in sufficicient business and or increases the profile of such a business

Jurgen Wolf said:

I just checked melodies.com at Dynadot - and $15K BuyNow is displayed...
Quest: what price/value will be in 2020???

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its worth millions to the person who can make it the worlds biggest download website for melodies

deez007 said:

Not sure I would trust anything Bill Gates says.... To me he comes across as an evil mastermind of some sorts...lol. He seems like a person I would feel a strong urge to punch in the face.

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Wow. That was unexpected. Only the uneducated people could say that. Do you know how much this mane have done for the sake of human kind? A LOT.

rokaska7 said:

Wow. That was unexpected. Only the uneducated people could say that. Do you know how much this mane have done for the sake of human kind? A LOT.

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What has he done exactly? He has a company with 100K employees and many high up the chain are intelligent and the ones who come up with most of the ideas and changes for the products. Windows, for example, should never have been the mainstream OS back in the day, others were far superior. He just sold his to the public better.

Also, most MS products are a bag of sh*te full of bugs and illogical design and stupid ideas. All he's done for humankind to me is setup and grow a company which rolls out terribly buggy and barely decent operating systems for years. XP? Came with thousands of issues, and a new way to report errors directly to MS. So essentially, "let's roll this thing out as a mammoth under-tested beast full of bugs, and let the end users test it". And they could do this because everyone was stuck with it as alternatives were either barely GUI (Linux) or too expensive/less known (mac/OSX).

I don't doubt Bill is extremely clever in many ways, and I don't dislike him, but I do hate MS products as a whole.


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On topic:
I in no way think domain name market, sales, or what might happen in the future can be predicted to any reasonable degree of accuracy. It's not black and white nor is it something one can easily research and produce useful data to analyse.
Maybe with the increase in .com prices and more domainers buying and sitting on them, people will turn to other TLDs, like xyz or something else. If a whole load of businesses start successfully using less known TLDs and so the general public become educated, then the sky is the limit for whatever TLD one wants to use and that makes them a lot cheaper as there are soooo many of them.
Otherwise, normal state of play where com is by far the king and prices will continue to rise with increased demand (more online businesses) and less availability as more sales eat them up.
Who knows.

james haw said:

What has he done exactly? He has a company with 100K employees and many high up the chain are intelligent and the ones who come up with most of the ideas and changes for the products. Windows, for example, should never have been the mainstream OS back in the day, others were far superior. He just sold his to the public better.

Also, most MS products are a bag of sh*te full of bugs and illogical design and stupid ideas. All he's done for humankind to me is setup and grow a company which rolls out terribly buggy and barely decent operating systems for years. XP? Came with thousands of issues, and a new way to report errors directly to MS. So essentially, "let's roll this thing out as a mammoth under-tested beast full of bugs, and let the end users test it". And they could do this because everyone was stuck with it as alternatives were either barely GUI (Linux) or too expensive/less known (mac/OSX).

I don't doubt Bill is extremely clever in many ways, and I don't dislike him, but I do hate MS products as a whole.


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what bill could do as he is a good friend of warren buffett {the most successful investor?
using bill gates software skills and warren buffetts investing skills is for bill to create a social stockmarket using warren buffetts investing skills - eg a website that gets everyone investing in their own future starting with loose change and using the ad £'s to pay for stocks and shares transaction fees making a virtual stockmaret free to use for anyone globally?

but that's too easy

Bill Gates hired Ray Kurzweil to talk about it

james haw said:

What has he done exactly? He has a company with 100K employees and many high up the chain are intelligent and the ones who come up with most of the ideas and changes for the products.

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he didn 't start with 100k people
he wasn't born owning microsoft

the world didn't start using windows

in the beginning there was only hardware!
and every tiny hardware producer had his own operating system running
-an operating system is a program that makes the screen blink showing a "cursor"-

he has taken a huge personal risk when he bought
a tiny program from a programmer for as far as I recall $50K USD
in order to sell it to IBM
and call it Microsoft Disk Operating System - Ms DOS
used by IBM further on calling it IBM DOS
and enabled IBM to start something called personel computer
called PC lateron

and enable further on companies around the world
as they trusted IBM in terms of consistancy
to buy PCs for there company and run software made for business purpose
based on DOS

so that when other companes cloned the hardware of the IBM PC
suddenly a system called PC could conquer the world

thats not nothing right?

he had a bit of luck to be able to risk the $50K
as his parents were not poor
and a bit of luck to be at the right place at the right time
and to know to right people


would you have spend $50K
for a tiny program
hoping to sell it to a huge company?
( IBM )
being a nobody ??
when nobody was thinking of PCs at all worldwide?
as they simply didn't exist


and would you have been able to close the deal ???
being about 20 years or so of age????

what has he done?
he had guts!
to jump onto an oportunity

and changed the world forever

not nothing in my eyes

obocar said:

Bill Gates had wrong about the internet. He didn't think it will be used for commercial purpose. Soon after he changed his mind. That's why his statement is not specific. Which domains is he talking about?

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Come on, dude...

Brandon.Domains said:

Bill Gates also said "Two years from now, spam will be solved" — that was in 2004.

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Thanks,
Brandon

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LMAO

frank-germany said:

he didn 't start with 100k people
he wasn't born owning microsoft

the world didn't start using windows

in the beginning there was only hardware!
and every tiny hardware producer had his own operating system running
-an operating system is a program that makes the screen blink showing a "cursor"-

he has taken a huge personal risk when he bought
a tiny program from a programmer for as far as I recall $50K USD
in order to sell it to IBM
and call it Microsoft Disk Operating System - Ms DOS
used by IBM further on calling it IBM DOS
and enabled IBM to start something called personel computer
called PC lateron

and enable further on companies around the world
as they trusted IBM in terms of consistancy
to buy PCs for there company and run software made for business purpose
based on DOS

so that when other companes cloned the hardware of the IBM PC
suddenly a system called PC could conquer the world

thats not nothing right?

he had a bit of luck to be able to risk the $50K
as his parents were not poor
and a bit of luck to be at the right place at the right time
and to know to right people


would you have spend $50K
for a tiny program
hoping to sell it to a huge company?
( IBM )
being a nobody ??
when nobody was thinking of PCs at all worldwide?
as they simply didn't exist


and would you have been able to close the deal ???
being about 20 years or so of age????

what has he done?
he had guts!
to jump onto an oportunity

and changed the world forever

not nothing in my eyes

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i remember back in the day hospitals etc spending millions {before billions were billions}
on extremely expensive computer systems and different hospitals spending just as much on different expensive computer systems only to find that the computer systems could not communicate with each other and the public complaining what an absolute waste of money etc

but we take it for granted that most tech items communicate with each other

but back in the day when bill gates started microsoft the games back then werent xbox or playstation they were a board game called monopoly card games twister a mat with spots on and a football

yet back then black and white tv's were still being used and there was bill gates working on microsoft

its comparison today would be you or i designing a flying car that everyone in the world would want and to be able to manufacturer enough flying cars for everyone?

pie in the sky?

so was microsoft back then but it is only down to the vision of a guy called bill gates that we have a lot of the tech we have today

and much of the money he has made he is using to help those who cant help themselves via his and melindas foundation

another significant thing he did was to offer funding to a group of scientists? charities? i forget which but the funding if i remember rightly was given on the basis that they cooperate and share their findings on vaccines and medicine etc which personally doesnt benefit himself one bit?

and i'm sure he is either the founding member or at least a member of the club? that have decided to give considerable $billions each from some of the richest people on the planet to good causes? or the bill and melinda foundation?

the benefits of which may benefit generations to come

which he and they didnt have to do?

bill gates started off with nothing more than an idea and after he had the idea he had to buy er a domain name - even bill gates couldnt create microsoft without a domain name

nomen said:

Come on, dude...

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solving spam? thats easy socialmedia could solve that within 3 years

but first some bod would need to have the idea? oh i just have

then find the right .com domain?

then thats probably as big a challenge to do to remove all spam globally as bill gates challenge back then

but its still easy to do

rokaska7 said:

Wow. That was unexpected. Only the uneducated people could say that. Do you know how much this mane have done for the sake of human kind? A LOT.

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Only a person that has been brainwashed under the illusion of "education" would believe honestly that Bill Gates has done a lot for human kind. Often people with "sheep mentality" assume that they are highly educated.

How about you actually do some REAL educational exercises and research about Bill Gates and his DEPOPULATION ideals.

Let me guess you going to come back and say BUT BUT BUT he has Bill Gates Foundation along with his wife Melisa and they donate millions and millions to charity, just like how Zuckerburg and his wife plan on doing the same. Hahahah, sure thing!

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.

deez007 said:

Only a person that has been brainwashed under the illusion of "education" would believe honestly that Bill Gates has done a lot for human kind. Often people with "sheep mentality" assume that they are highly educated.

How about you actually do some REAL educational exercises and research about Bill Gates and his DEPOPULATION ideals.

Let me guess you going to come back and say BUT BUT BUT he has Bill Gates Foundation along with his wife Melisa and they donate millions and millions to charity, just like how Zuckerburg and his wife plan on doing the same. Hahahah, sure thing!

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.

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My english language skills are kinda limited so I am not going to war with you. Everyone has their own opinion and I will stick to my own.

rokaska7 said:

My english language skills are kinda limited so I am not going to war with you. Everyone has their own opinion and I will stick to my own.

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There is nothing wrong with someone not being fluent in English, this actually means the person speaks more than one language. This is commendable.

What is not commendable is that you imply that if your English was better then you would have engaged in "war" with me. This sort of mindset is whats wrong with this world at the moment. People are far too confrontational, ready to stand up and fight and want to go to war over stupid insignificant issues.

I am not trying to do anything here except maybe lead you to read between the lines and not believe everything that you are told about people in the mass media.

Your "friend" Bill Gates is part of the elite who thinks that the Planet should have no more than 500 000 000 people in order for it to be sustainable. That's 500 million people, that's the ideal - This is something he as openly said. Right now we have in excess of 7.4 billion people. The elite which Bill gates is a part off, want to depopulate the planet. Do you think you will be part of the 500 million people they want to remain... Nope! So essentially the bottom line is that you are defending a person who would prefer it if you and I were dead.

deez007 said:

There is nothing wrong with someone not being fluent in English, this actually means the person speaks more than one language. This is commendable.

What is not commendable is that you imply that if your English was better then you would have engaged in "war" with me. This sort of mindset is whats wrong with this world at the moment. People are far too confrontational, ready to stand up and fight and want to go to war over stupid insignificant issues.

I am not trying to do anything here except maybe lead you to read between the lines and not believe everything that you are told about people in the mass media.

Your "friend" Bill Gates is part of the elite who thinks that the Planet should have no more than 500 000 000 people in order for it to be sustainable. That's 500 million people, that's the ideal - This is something he as openly said. Right now we have in excess of 7.4 billion people. The elite which Bill gates is a part off, want to depopulate the planet. Do you think you will be part of the 500 million people they want to remain... Nope! So essentially the bottom line is that you are defending a person who would prefer it if you and I were dead.

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Maybe 'war' was a bad word to use in this thread but I said it because my vocabulary is limited. If I did know more phrases or expressions - I could argue with you and defend my opinion in this case. You are the one who says that he is a part of elite - I bet that he himself doesn't think so. To my, he is just a simple guy, who has loads of money but he is not keeping it for himself - he is donating it to various charities (ebola, education, etc...) and so on. ,,As of May 16, 2013, Bill Gates had donated US$28 billion" - that's a hella quantity of money. That's the reason why I feel respect to him. About those 500 million people on earth - this numbers, of course, is too low but what we have now on this planet - is just too much.
Peace. Out.

Don't know about bill gates but i think we will see values to be increasing for the next 10 yeas

I agree to a part of it..

Depends on the type of Domains you Hold..for the Future

deez007 said:

There is nothing wrong with someone not being fluent in English, this actually means the person speaks more than one language. This is commendable.

What is not commendable is that you imply that if your English was better then you would have engaged in "war" with me. This sort of mindset is whats wrong with this world at the moment. People are far too confrontational, ready to stand up and fight and want to go to war over stupid insignificant issues.

I am not trying to do anything here except maybe lead you to read between the lines and not believe everything that you are told about people in the mass media.

Your "friend" Bill Gates is part of the elite who thinks that the Planet should have no more than 500 000 000 people in order for it to be sustainable. That's 500 million people, that's the ideal - This is something he as openly said. Right now we have in excess of 7.4 billion people. The elite which Bill gates is a part off, want to depopulate the planet. Do you think you will be part of the 500 million people they want to remain... Nope! So essentially the bottom line is that you are defending a person who would prefer it if you and I were dead.

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Reading between the lines could also lead to interpretation in my opinion

I don't know the quote so I might be way off, but saying "The world would function better wit 500 million people" is not equal to "I would like it if 6.5 billion people were dead". I believe there are a few studies on world population and which have interesting insights, so it might be influenced by these researches. None of those researches have the intention to immediately scale back the population, but say it might go that way through evolution (people having fewer kids due to 2 parents with jobs, blablabla so at some point more people will die than be born if it goes on like this).

Just saying, I could be wrong but I don't think you or me would know the actual reasoning anyone has with such a statement, unless we could debate with him/her on it.

tvanrijt said:

Reading between the lines could also lead to interpretation in my opinion

I don't know the quote so I might be way off, but saying "The world would function better wit 500 million people" is not equal to "I would like it if 6.5 billion people were dead". I believe there are a few studies on world population and which have interesting insights, so it might be influenced by these researches. None of those researches have the intention to immediately scale back the population, but say it might go that way through evolution (people having fewer kids due to 2 parents with jobs, blablabla so at some point more people will die than be born if it goes on like this).

Just saying, I could be wrong but I don't think you or me would know the actual reasoning anyone has with such a statement, unless we could debate with him/her on it.

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You are totally spot on with what you are saying. The thing is though that my opinion of Bill doesn't come from just his single comment or quote about depopulation. It comes from years of research on the new world order, the global elite, freemasonry, the Illuminati, rosercrutions and lots more.