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Anyone who's been domaining for any amount of time will realise that domaining trends come and go. Anyone who's new thinks that their pet trend of the moment is a gold mine. It's just the nature of the business.
An event happens or some news comes out that people get excited about, people spend lots of money without a second thought, they hype it up into oblivion, everyone that's invested thinks it's the best thing since sliced bread (and vocally, too) and then a new thing comes along and the cycle continues.
Everyone pats each other on the back every single time, showing off their soon to be realised future riches because they got in early, but that momentum eventually fades and everyone forgets or would rather pretend it never happened. Old members don't mention it again and new members didn't get to experience the hype... that is, until now!
I wish for this thread of remembrance to serve as a nostalgic look to the past and a light hearted warning to those who are new around these parts so that they can see the trends that have been and gone.
I'm not exactly sure of the format, but I do know that in order to collate such a list it needs a lot of people with a lot of experience of prior hype trains.
Suggested format:
An event happens or some news comes out that people get excited about, people spend lots of money without a second thought, they hype it up into oblivion, everyone that's invested thinks it's the best thing since sliced bread (and vocally, too) and then a new thing comes along and the cycle continues.
Everyone pats each other on the back every single time, showing off their soon to be realised future riches because they got in early, but that momentum eventually fades and everyone forgets or would rather pretend it never happened. Old members don't mention it again and new members didn't get to experience the hype... that is, until now!
I wish for this thread of remembrance to serve as a nostalgic look to the past and a light hearted warning to those who are new around these parts so that they can see the trends that have been and gone.
I'm not exactly sure of the format, but I do know that in order to collate such a list it needs a lot of people with a lot of experience of prior hype trains.
Suggested format:
- What was the trend?
- What was the trigger for the trend?
- What were the keywords or extension at the heart of the trend?
- Rough dates (from and/or to) or year?
- Any additional context to give us a better idea about the conditions at the time that meant this was a trend.
- What is the current state of the trend now (dead /alive )?
- What was the fate of this trend in your view and why?
- Interesting/amusing Namepros posts exhibiting hype around the trend
- Did you invest in this trend and did it go well/badly, why?
- Best and/or worst registrations that you saw during this this trend.
- Notable publicly reported sales at the time that got people excited.