Most Emerging Technology Domains Are Likely A Waste Of Money

[Winfluence]

I remember when the "tablet" keyword hype set off a buying spree with many domainers, including myself investing in that tablet and touchscreen related keywords.

The iPad is now 5 years old. MS's Surface has been around for years also. My question is, how many of you who invested in tablet related keywords made decent return on your investments. I've since let the tablet domains that I owned drop, but I wonder if I'm alone. On namebio I've only seen a handful of really good sales, some of which were made LONG before the release of the iPad, because the word "tablet" has other meanings in different languages. I doubt that tablet domains are going to suddenly start picking up anytime.

I think the lack of sales in the Tablet industry may shed light on what to expect in some other emerging technologies, like Wearables, Beacons, VR, AR, IOT, IOE, NFC, BLE, PCB, MOOC, 3DPrinting, Drone, InterCloud, Cloud, Fog, and so on. It could be that only a small handful of domains for these keywords will sell for over $5k and even fewer over $10k...not to say that making a 2k sale is bad (it's fantastic if you only spent 14 dollars hand regging a domain), but it just seems like a mid xx,xxx sale is nearly impossible unless you regged or purchased an absolute "category killer".

I'm still going to invest in emerging tech domains, but thinking back on my failed "tablet" related names shed a little bit of light on how I should be more careful not to get too carried away with any kind of emerging tech (or anything else for that matter).

Just my random thoughts.

 

[FX]

I've made money on every niche I've been in

$20k already in sales in VR and I've not even sold the good stuff just yet.

It's all about the right keyword that fits the niche.

Drone/cloud/fog/iot/VR/holo/ there's $ to be made if your smart.

Anything is possible if you "Do " your homework and have a basic understanding when and what a enduser wants before you buy anything in these niches.

Good luck.

 

[Winfluence]

It's true. Unfortunately though there are a lot of people with good domains in some niches that don't sell, because not every one in an industry wants the same keyword in their domain, and some brandables are more trendy in tech, probably more than any other industry....

 

[Kate]

Just because the keyword or the trend is 'hot', doesn't mean the domain is worth anything
If you own tablet.com, fine. But mybesttablet.com is just another domain.

 

[Winfluence]

Yup. There are only so many category killing keywords for every hot new trend, so there are limited opportunities to grab a domain that will sell for more than $5k...again, not that that isn't a decent amount of money.

 

[eyedomainous]

99% of all reg'd domains, in every category, will never resell to an end-user.

The smart money is actually on early (discount) handregs in emerging markets -- as they allow you to leverage buzz cycles to influence valuations... and negotiate the art of the hold until the market matures.

Getting in early, new market property valuations, and the art of the hold... are not for the faint minded.
Its easier to 'buy "quality" in the aftermarket', sit back, and bemoan emerging market hand reg waste.

Now read the opening sentence again.

 

[McDuke]

If you have the goods you're golden!

eg. I reg'd new tech names that i mentioned in a thread which no one touched and am in negotiations now for a couple of them. x,xxx range. Because nothing is finalized I'm not saying the tech atm.

as the saying goes the early bird gets the worm.