Look I'm not typically in the business of calling people out but I find it difficult to believe you have 20 years exp as a brand consultant and you would advise companies to steer clear of Meta related domains for branding essentially giving up their legal rights to use Meta themselves. I have 18 years in the domain industry and that is the single worst advise I've seen on this thread. Smart brands should be doing the exact opposite and in fact they are. You should take a step back with the type of advise and opinions you are posting or at the very least stop, reflect, and not post as an authoritative source because you are simply wrong here.
I've been casually talking with leaders in the domain industry and meta/metaverse represents a unique opportunity unlike any other niche. It's not like cloud, or vr, or weed, or even crypto. It's little only been a few weeks of action and you're starting to call the end is near. That's a domain flipper mindset and not a true investor mindset. A couple of weeks a couple months is nothing when the goal is to extract maximum value of an asset. Flip the switch. I have nothing further to add.
You interpreting what I said as "the end is near" is clear evidence that you didn't actually read what I wrote before replying.
I'm just sharing my logic. I did mention that you made a great point about China, which I had forgotten about. So I was underlining that what I said may not be
internationally valid. And I had a lot of other points you seem to missed.
My mentioning my experience in branding was more about shedding light on where I'm coming from in branding, not to claim authority. I've been wrong many times and domain trends are sometimes unpredictable. I just like to calmly discuss and exchange insights. Thanks for not getting personal. I admire you as a domain investor, especially your obvious talent in recognizing niches early. I've been following you for longer than you may realize.
But, you're writing about Meta as if it's the same as Metaverse, but it's not. This goes deeper than mere domains, and that's something you're not going to see discussed a lot in niche threads, because people just want to "ape" into a niche only talking about domains.
Keywords and SEO, what people search for in Google, that affects. The best way to explain this is by example. When XR was still very young, Apple released the iPhone XR. That effected Google search results for "XR" so dominantly that iPhone related pages were in the first 4 or 5 results for several months to a year. As XR picked up and the iPhone XR became old news, the XR industry is back to dominating the search results. XR is an entire industry so it would have eventually triumphed over the iPhone XR as it grows anyway, but Meta is not an industry, it is not Metaverse its a brand word in XR, but soon it will become also a keyword for people looking for Meta related products and services, because that's how big and important Meta is to developers and those in it's ecosystem. Meta is now the name of one of the biggest companies that hasn't even started a marketing campaign yet. SEO matters with branding not just donains, and when I give my professional advice I take that into account.
I was talking about Branding when I said I would recommend companies to steer towards meta alternatives, not domains as that can affect domain choices. And by "meta" I don't mean "Metaverse" of course.
But all of this talk is cheap. I hope you prove me wrong with a spike in $50k+ "meta" sales that we saw recently, after 6 months! Then I will gladly eat my words. I really hope you do! You could make it happen if you focus on China, as you said. Long live "meta" , but even more importantly, long live Metaverse!
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