How far into the future would you invest?

[bigturnip]

I'm curious as to what people think about buying domains that won't realise their value for an other few years. i.e. things like superbowlLIV.com or wimbledon2016.com

I'm not talking so much about the likelyhood of an event actually happening more that will domains still take the same www.domain.com format in the future? Will there be a replacement for the internet in 10 years time? I know nobody can predict the future, but how far into the future are you willing to invest?

 

[Binfus]

I've a question: How do you REALLY know how far into the future you're actually investing when you buy names, especially when you put your money in newly released extensions ? Let me expand on this question. When I invested pretty heavily in .info, .biz and .us in 2001/02, I'd thought it'd be a couple or three years before I realize the potential of my investments. Guess what? Its over 5 years now for .info and almost 5 for .biz and .us. I'm not saying that these new estensions have not gained momentum (especially .info and .us) in these last 5 years, they have, but if we just read our own prognostical comments on this forum about their future from last few weeks, overwhelmingly we'd see opinions like: just give it a couple of more years and it'd be big, give it some more time and it'd really take off, etc. Similarly, for the investments we've made more recently like .in or .eu and now .mobi, we can't really say we've done so for the next 1, 2 or even 5 years. In real life what actually happens is that you make your investments and if 2, 3, 5 years down the road things are coming along okay ( like for .info, .us) you keep renewing your names year after year, making some sales along the way, but if things don't seem to be panning out (.pro) you start dropping names like crazy.