Really like the linked article with the views from 28 experts in your article
@equity78
I think the drop lists a year from now will have a lot of meta names!
Meta is a great term even unrelated to metaverse, but there will not be a demand for so many names with meta, in my opinion.
A venture tech group run out of my small city of Victoria by Andrew Wilkinson has been MetaLabs for a decade or so, and have been operating on meta.inc.
https://www.meta.inc/
I suspect quite a few other established companies on meta, with so many TMs that you note, not all of which are recent.
Interesting times. Thanks for the fantastic journalism on the topic you are doing,
@equity78.
Bob
Thanks for reading and the kind words Bob. I agree the droplists will be littered with meta names next year. So many don't make sense.
There is a whole complexity to the thinking that will move forward.
We have Meta and it's usage outside of the Metaverse. We have Metaverse, but you know the Internet was once new, especially the dawn of the commercial Internet, and all these companies wanting to stake their claim. While Internet.com was a company, many other companies did not call themselves something with Internet,
They were TheGlobe.com and Broadcast.com and Alta Vista.com and Yahoo and Google, etc...
Some companies might not want to use Meta in their name as they don't want to be confused and or add any luster to Zuckerberg's company.
How much will the public related to Meta = Facebook, I know plenty of people non techies who don't know Alphabet = Google. All they know is Google.
So we got the initial Gold Rush and some people kicked butt, I am glad for them, it's nice to see people get these one week, two week, one month homeruns.
They are the ultimate wet dream for people in domaining, but they are also outliers. People need to remember that. I think if you own Meta in a well known CCTLD maybe Facebook comes a calling, others might have paid a big reg fee for a name that sits and never gets bought. Some of these cctlds cost $300 a year, how long can you renew?
There are many Metaverse companies that will not have anything meta related in their name. Look Epic Games is a Metaverse company, Apple will have a metaverse play, I would imagine so would Google. Microsoft, Amazon etc...
This has been a hype unlike most, I did not hear of or see any 1 week old LibraKW.nets sell for $30,000. This meta train has been unreal but will it last and will it pick up all passengers to take them to their destination, (THE BANK) ?
I don't think so, there are a lot of bad names being registered, money better spent on one good name. If you are regging one to ten ok tha'ts $100 in .com. But if you registered 100's imo the better play was to buy one of the names at Huge Domains or BuyDomains for $1,200 to $1,500 when this thing first started. Look what you could have got Metabay.com for? I would rather own that then a bunch of Metaversesluts.com and Meta-verse-s.com or Metapyments.co.
Another thing that complicates things, people and companies in some of these newer areas are not adverse to going with a new gtld, they don't care about the domain industry mantra of .Com is king and new gtlds suck. That makes it harder when you own a tier 3 name in .com and hope for a sale and see they handregistered a new gtld.
@DNGear has made some incredible sales in .xyz that the .com owner might have thought, What the heck, don't they know .com is king?
But have fun with it if you can, but go into it knowing that the best names are taken, and now with the Facebook news out things could slowdown a bit.