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Really good .com names will only slightly feel their existence for next decade (this will though change with more advanced progress in voice searches via mobile, like Siri, which is still few years to come imo).
Holders of mediocre nTLD are not going to experience a similar drop in value, since their holdings are already worthless (and very illiquid)But for the rest, holders of mediocre .com portfolios (99.999% of people here), you should slowly start getting some good new gTLDs while there is still some chance.
Average .com portfolios will suffer significantly from all these new names, and I feel they will loose value quicker in next few years then many of their owners can realize now in 2017.
Completely agree with you as a generality. But if one looks deep inside a pile of pigeon fecal matter you will surely get your hands dirty but also find some nuggets of lesser "fecal mattery" domains.
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OMG... soooo funny but absolutely true
Even the so called domaining experts kick themselves once in a while because they did not get their hands dirty and lost out on a good one.
If I could give your post more than 1 like I surely would
Not sure why you do this to yourself. We can talk about the low and few reported sales - $250, $101, $100 and your unwillingness to post your .vip sales because they're probably in the same range or lower. In your attempts to try to pump these or shine a nice light on them, I think you're actually doing the opposite.
Just checked, it's also almost 97% China - https://namestat.org/vip
Think about that for a little bit.
insane.ioSecurity.io is just sold for $15,000 USD at Flippa
Voice search in future will change everything.voice searches will not change anything, changing input method will not change domain preference, does not matter if you use your fingers or your mouth, wishful thinking at work here.
Siri will not save .horse.
word.word can be an alternative for wordword.com thus you would at best only double the supply of choices not more.
.com values will not be affected except for the very worst domains maybe.
nGTLDs are mostly kept alive by speculators ATM, nGTLD are overbought, even strings that are not registered in .com or don't make any sense in .com have been bought. When the Chinese pull out (50% of the market) the market will crash like a house of cards and when speculators leave there will be little left except for a few premiums that are registry reserved.
...... and nothing about registries which will fail?Hint: follow the market.
If you want to make sales then you'd better buy .com domains.
Pigeon sh*t is hard to sell.
Holders of mediocre nTLD are not going to experience a similar drop in value, since their holdings are already worthless (and very illiquid)
But good luck with the renewal fees, at least they can be written of as operating loss for tax purposes
The dotcom boom is not going to repeat itself in another extension, only the newbies and the dreamers believe that. And there are too many extensions available, the end user demand is too limited and cannot absorb the oversupply.
Making a nTLD sale is achievable, but the real challenge is to repeat the feat again and again, and develop a proven business model. Even the registries are struggling. Again, that should surprise nobody but the newbies.
If you want to be an investor: .com + mature ccTLDs, purchased selectively (preferably aftermarket/expired auctions/buying straight from current holders).
If you want to be a domain collector: pretty much everything else
Voice search in future will change everything.
It will reduce spontaneous type-ins (which happen when people are typing directly keywords and attaching automatically .com to them in the address bar) dramatically imo - so .com domains which now drive lot of traffic (and well qualified traffic for that matter), will slowly loose this quality - and the traffic is very significant part of what makes these .com so valuable at the moment. This is all, it is not very complicated to understand
If the ICANN program proceeds, CRIDO firmly believes, the loss of trust in Internet transactions will be substantial. In addition, the for profit and non-profit brand community will suffer from billions of dollars in unnecessary expenditures – money that could be better invested in product improvements, capital expenditures and job creation.
CRIDO’s members comprise 47 trade associations, most but not all American, and 40 companies, many of them major household names such as Coca-Cola, Burger King and Kellogg.
The World Federation of Advertisers has become the fifth major coalition of advertising big-spenders to ask ICANN to rethink its new gTLD program.
Absolutely not true - traffic is the key element of value of best .com domains.most domains don't sell because of traffic anymore, that was many years ago so it is the usual BS argument.
also what would prevent people from adding com to a word when using voice input?
Thank you for your "news" from 2011..http://domainincite.com/6800-massive-group-forms-to-kill-off-new-gtlds
many brands don't want the new extensions. another myth busted. they are protecting themselves that's all.
List includes companies like Dell, Ford, GE, Coca Cola, Nestle, Adobe and Samsung.
The corporate world never wanted them that is why they are unlikely to use them.
http://domainincite.com/6018-fifth-ad-group-opposes-new-gtlds
Thank you for your "news" from 2011..
And now have a look what is going on in 2017 in the world of corporate .brands - excellent source fo information, if you really want to be informed - http://www.makeway.world/showcase/
Absolutely not true - traffic is the key element of value of best .com domains.
Of course, if one sells some mediocre, made up brandable for high XXX, there will be no traffic - people are buying "brand" in this case. But great keyword domains for million of USD - of course the traffic is important!
As for adding .com to voice input - you are probably the only one doing so When I search for "Prague restaurants" or "London properties" using voice functionality at my smartphone, I do not add there .com...
Absolutely not true - traffic is the key element of value of best .com domains.
It will change very little because voice search is already routine for many smart device owners.Voice search in future will change everything.
Registries will fail of course, but it is mostly the nTLD domainers who will fail, very few people will remain profitable (usually they are called registries anyway)....... and nothing about registries which will fail?
In my opinion it's good advice, because you can't sell stuff that is not in demand. It's strictly speculation or gambling, if you are waiting for awareness and demand to come in the future.The advise "follow the market" is worst advise ever - it is direct way to poorness- you can not make ANY significant profit if you follow what all other people are doing. Not only in domaining, but in all aspects and areas of life, be it real estate, stocks, art..
It will change very little because voice search is already routine for many smart device owners.
Some people also speculated that the apps would make domain names less relevant, it's of course incorrect. In 1996 people were saying that search engines would make domain names obsolete etc
You see, domain names have been dying for so long
And if you're saying that domain names will become irrelevant including .com, then you shouldn't be investing in domain names at all.
Registries will fail of course, but it is mostly the nTLD domainers who will fail, very few people will remain profitable (usually they are called registries anyway).
In my opinion it's good advice, because you can't sell stuff that is not in demand. It's strictly speculation or gambling, if you are waiting for awareness and demand to come in the future.
If you want to sell domains, then you need to look at what end users are buying today.
In fact, very few people understand the value of domain names, even domainers (or especially domainers). The evidence is all around here that domainers for the most part are not getting it and living in denial.
So thousands of domainers may be buying .com, but only a few are successful because they are buying smarter and the majority of the competitors do not understand the market well enough to make good decisions.
Oh definitely, I agree - I am not saying for ALL domains, I am saying it is key element of value for high class domains (for many of them)..of course, no objections towards the fact that it also has to suit particular business, etc, etcNice discussion going on here mates, keep it coming.
@lolwarrior when we say that (the pink/bold line above), it is mostly for SEO domains, that are to be used for SEO purpose. Or for domains to be directly used by domain buyers, for website flipping and whatnot.
But when it comes to value'ing a domain, traffic doesn't always comes as a priority. It comes down to how relevant the domain is, and how easy it can be embedded to with the business.
Just my thoughts,