the way the internet will evolve in the next years is basically unpredictable , due to the many factors that affect its progress (society, technology , etc)
- will it depend on the DNS after 5 , 10 , 20 or more years ?
- will the technological advances (processing speed , memory , bandwidth , programmes , costs , etc) create some other browing and navigating system(s) (eg. a 3D Virtual Reality environment based on images and icons , instead of words) that could make the DNS obsolete ?
- would the new system(s) still depend on the DNS in the foreground or the in the background ? remember , for example , that phones are still based on numbers
- when will these changes happen (and be used by a large percentage of people) ? 5 , 10 ,20 year from now ? ... more ?
three things remain rather certain ...
- the internet is growing at a huge rate right now (people online , usage , commercial usage , etc) ... ok , maybe it seems a little slow in the summertime but that is irrelevent lol
- radical changes cannot
easily happen "overnight" at least in the short-term period ...
- if the internet continues to be based on the DNS for more than say 10-12 years , the current prices of many .coms are way undervalued
the 24 years multiple does not necessarily mean that the company that purchased business.com is expecting the DNS to last that long in its current form , because they calculated many other factors when the made the acquisition , eg. possible short-mid-term raises in revenue (especially the way the internet is growing) , possible synergies with its own products , possible sale of the business.com subsidiary to another company in the future , prestige (and promotional) factors , etc ... but it is a rather good sign because even though it is a whole business acquisition and not just a domain purchase ... it is obvious that the domain name(s) , and internet-future expectances , played a huge part in the transaction ...
cache - it is a very large amount for basically an internet business acquisition ... not a typical brick-and-mortar company ... and the domains played a huge part im the transactions ...
dezinerite - in the "the 24 years multiple" paragraph of this post I try to explain why many other factors should be taken into consideration when interpreting the acquisition and not taken as a strict 24 year figure ... it could be lower or even higher ...
Moses - I know it was a whole business ... that's why I said "domains+websites" and "domain with developed parked page" lol ... but ... the domain factor in some of these acquisitions , though , is very large , eg. the business.com + work.com sale , the dictionary.com + thesaurus.com + reference.com sale , etc ... MySpace.com was mostly based on the community , members' database and current hype , but still a rather large internet business acquisition ... have you heard about some people evaluating MySpace at
$20 BILLION in the coming years ?
rcep - a 1 Oz gold coin worths app $500 - $1500 depending on quality , age , etc (even though I know you were just joking about it lol) ... it was basically a tell tale sign so as not to confuse newer domainers ... lol
Who knows?
