Since i started domaining i noticed one thing that really caught my attention,i realised the whole domain trading is like Formula 1 Championship.
We have Domainers,Developers,Parking Affliates & Trading Platforms.
I describe Trading platforms (afternic,sedo etc) as constructors and domainers are drivers.
In many cases drivers can never be crowned as champion without the best machines,in this case the trading platforms. These trading platforms are innovating themselves just to attract domainers and their wicked names.
We had old schools like afternic,register.com,network solution and few small players then after the dot com boom sedo stood out to be the undisputed defending constructor's champion even though we've seen many small constructors made their debut every now and them with high sales.
Then by late 2003 we had new challengers like pool,enom and snapnames. These are spectre constructors. The have no drivers and they don't need drivers,they have lightweight databases, low operations and customer service costs and no parking services. Among them snapnames prevailed as the true contender and now taking sedo at his foundation that is domain trading.
The reason i am so perplexed looking at these spectre constructors is because of their ever increasing power & popularity do not benifit us. They don't share their power,they don't list our names,they don't market our names but they dig our names and make profit out of it. In this corporate world their business model is absolutely legitimate.
On this week's domain sales report b y dnjournal clearly shows that snapnames clean swept the championship. Some domainers call snapname's sales are not demand oriented sales but desire oriented sales which could spell a disaster if it is meant to be true. Speculative trading would hurt the entire industry to its cradle and the hand that rocks the cradle.
Look at Sportster.com which was first registered on 1997 after 9 years the owner let it drop then the drop vultures tore the carcass to $10k. I am not sure why a name valued at 10k not being sold on its 9yrs of first birth.
In a nutshell:
1.Traders are no more interested on "for sale domains".
2.They rather bid their luck on drop auctions.
3.If speculative actions on this overly anticipated buying is "misunderestimated" then the legitimate demand would be overwhelmed by these folly desires.
* "Misunderestimate" was famously coined by George W. Bush
4.Moniker.com's active marketing domain trading would be next generation's constructors technology.
5.Domain buying and selling styles are changing. From database driven sites like sedo and afternic to drop catching sites like snapnames and pool. In the future we might see active marketing site like moniker.com will top the list.
We have Domainers,Developers,Parking Affliates & Trading Platforms.
I describe Trading platforms (afternic,sedo etc) as constructors and domainers are drivers.
In many cases drivers can never be crowned as champion without the best machines,in this case the trading platforms. These trading platforms are innovating themselves just to attract domainers and their wicked names.
We had old schools like afternic,register.com,network solution and few small players then after the dot com boom sedo stood out to be the undisputed defending constructor's champion even though we've seen many small constructors made their debut every now and them with high sales.
Then by late 2003 we had new challengers like pool,enom and snapnames. These are spectre constructors. The have no drivers and they don't need drivers,they have lightweight databases, low operations and customer service costs and no parking services. Among them snapnames prevailed as the true contender and now taking sedo at his foundation that is domain trading.
The reason i am so perplexed looking at these spectre constructors is because of their ever increasing power & popularity do not benifit us. They don't share their power,they don't list our names,they don't market our names but they dig our names and make profit out of it. In this corporate world their business model is absolutely legitimate.
On this week's domain sales report b y dnjournal clearly shows that snapnames clean swept the championship. Some domainers call snapname's sales are not demand oriented sales but desire oriented sales which could spell a disaster if it is meant to be true. Speculative trading would hurt the entire industry to its cradle and the hand that rocks the cradle.
Look at Sportster.com which was first registered on 1997 after 9 years the owner let it drop then the drop vultures tore the carcass to $10k. I am not sure why a name valued at 10k not being sold on its 9yrs of first birth.
In a nutshell:
1.Traders are no more interested on "for sale domains".
2.They rather bid their luck on drop auctions.
3.If speculative actions on this overly anticipated buying is "misunderestimated" then the legitimate demand would be overwhelmed by these folly desires.
* "Misunderestimate" was famously coined by George W. Bush
4.Moniker.com's active marketing domain trading would be next generation's constructors technology.
5.Domain buying and selling styles are changing. From database driven sites like sedo and afternic to drop catching sites like snapnames and pool. In the future we might see active marketing site like moniker.com will top the list.
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