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"Analysts: Domain Names Market of 2006
The value of the domain name industry is highly debated, will it increase or decrease in 2006?
With quality domain names getting more and more rare, and frequent patterns such as three character domain names running low, it’s to be expected that the domain name industry has no where to go except up.
However, is the industry bubbling? It seems the industry has no where to go but up, but is that true? Are there too many people involved: is that even possible in an industry with a finite number of possibilities? It’s hard to say, one thing we can say however, is domains such as Sofa.com are going to continue to be valuble forever, and new industries such as blogging (MyBlog.com) will be potential grabs for future domainers, as the current English-word domains all become registered.
New TLDs such as .eu will be added for the time being, but once every country has their own TLD, the domain industry is capped: how long will this take? Definitely more than just in to the next year, and even so, it will take a few years for all the potential quality domain names to be registered within those TLDs.
Are your precious domain investments worth holding on to or should they be sold? Our analysts are suggesting that premium TLDs, .com mainly, should be held on for as long as possible: their value is not going anywhere, however, ccTLDs such as .ca’s or even .us are probably only worth holding on to if you can market that domain to someone who would want to market within their country. Good luck domainers! " from betadot.com
The value of the domain name industry is highly debated, will it increase or decrease in 2006?
With quality domain names getting more and more rare, and frequent patterns such as three character domain names running low, it’s to be expected that the domain name industry has no where to go except up.
However, is the industry bubbling? It seems the industry has no where to go but up, but is that true? Are there too many people involved: is that even possible in an industry with a finite number of possibilities? It’s hard to say, one thing we can say however, is domains such as Sofa.com are going to continue to be valuble forever, and new industries such as blogging (MyBlog.com) will be potential grabs for future domainers, as the current English-word domains all become registered.
New TLDs such as .eu will be added for the time being, but once every country has their own TLD, the domain industry is capped: how long will this take? Definitely more than just in to the next year, and even so, it will take a few years for all the potential quality domain names to be registered within those TLDs.
Are your precious domain investments worth holding on to or should they be sold? Our analysts are suggesting that premium TLDs, .com mainly, should be held on for as long as possible: their value is not going anywhere, however, ccTLDs such as .ca’s or even .us are probably only worth holding on to if you can market that domain to someone who would want to market within their country. Good luck domainers! " from betadot.com
