I’m not going to invest in Ai domain names, but I am looking at other way I can make money with Ai.
I’m not sure how you can call Ai an “investor frenzy” Ai is inevitable and it’s going to be as revolutionary as electricity/antibiotics and World Wide Web.
Immersive tech is also inevitable in my opinion, but whether the time is now for this tech or not I’m not sure.
But one thing I do know is Immersive tech is not going to be as revolutionary as the 3 I said above, immersive tech’s potential is being like television, Ai is on a whole different level in terms of the impact it’s going to have on the world and how it’s going to change everything (hopefully for the better).
1st, good luck with investing in AI outside of domains. I mean that. One can make money not just from it but the misconceptions of it. Many are doing just that.
My good man, I know you have been doing this long enough to know the difference between great tech or even moderate tech and the need for domains to describe it. Meaning who actually need to use the term in their marketing enough to make it their internet domain way of finding them. It is only a address.
Always some. But look at the quantity of names reg'd. You can't tell me that 99% of all those reg's are not going down the toilet.
Not that names/term will not be used in many ways. But it's where it counts in domains.
I don't collect terms. I invest in domains likely to be needed.
There are at least 3 meta/metaverse names in registration for every company in the US. Not even .00001% in use.
And that is not likely to quadruple in 3 years or even 5.
And we can look similarly to each term that keeps getting blown out of proportion.
I think that starts with anyone calculating the scope of the need. Then the segments of it that are more likely.
Obviously, they skip those steps. Go for the available name instead.
Nothing wrong with putting a few markers down on a potential term. But 50+ ?
I think I would call it 'over-reactions'
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I would invite anyone to look-up the top 20 VR software companies and look at the domains they use.
That should wake someone up. While you may disagree with their choices, know they are big enough to do whatever they want or need. And the marketing folks get to make those calls most often. At least a thumb on the scale.
Here is a list of 2023 top VR co's
https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/top-virtual-reality-companies/
Just look up their domains. Some but not many. A well established segment. A few did pre-exist our niche.
Then do the same for their products and then your favorite term and it's field of top co's.
Need can be revealing.
I get it... it's what will be. Not what is. But you only have the data on how it has worked thus far and does anyone think it's going to change fundamentally just for a term. The need for a term in a domain name.
If I had the need for a VR software 'product' I would likely use the term in the domain. But the company that I formed to represent my products, not necessarily. Think about that some.
The last time I was really caught up in it myself was 3D in '07-2010 and it was geo domains before that.
But that is when a lot of stuff was still coming online for the first time. Demand was near it's highest levels.
We have experience and spans of data now. And things are much slower and lighter.
