@MicroGuy:
When I was in my twenties, I debated many topics just for the sake of debating. Choose a side and stick to it. All fun and games and ego stroking. When you have little to contribute and plenty of time on your hands, it's great for coffee house banter. Maybe someone will even think of you as a domainer savant as you attempt to show your mental superiority over the rest of us uninformed domain investors.
If you're amusing yourself in the process, have at it! God knows, in these economic times, we all need something to make us feel better about ourselves. Indeed, it's a free society. However, in the world of capitalism, clever marketing people are constantly putting big dollars behind marginal (and even inferior) products and making millions.
So, as I see it, the question isn't about the potential of dotPRO. The question is whether one side or the other has ample resources to influence the opinion of the rank and file. Politicians with integrity and excellent ideas lose much of the time. Why? Because they don't possess the financial wherewithall to compete with well bankrolled candidates that spew the same old worthless crap.
Subprime mortgages were a BAD IDEA from the outset, but Main Street had no financial resources to compete with Wall Street - so Wall Street won, and the rest of us paid. Big money buys big votes and influence while we lick our collective wounds and wonder why.
It's the way of the world.
At the enterprise level in business, it's seldom about the genuine merits of an idea, concept, or product. It's about who has the deep pockets to convince the public of something the public can't be bothered to figure out for itself. Why do you think this year's respective Presidential campaigns will spend a combined total well in excess of ONE BILLION DOLLARS? It's called influence buying. Follow the money. That's how bidness gets done in these here United States - the land formerly of Baseball, Mom and Apple Pie. Sorry Mom, if it doesn't pay, get ready to lose the house and pitch your tent in the California Central Valley with the rest of the population getting squeezed out of their homes and the middle class.
So, MicroGuy, give it your best shot, pat yourself on the back, and maybe one day you will be known as the "Prince of Domaining." As for me, after writing this post, I am blocking all of your future comments from my NamePros' dotPRO thread. PM me if you like, but I won't be ingesting any more of your dotPRO domain "Kool Aid" in this public thread.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, for a reasonable explanation on what drives capital markets, simply Google search the following keyword search terms:
"Domainer Hubris" "Madison Avenue" and DnFactor.
Reply if you like, but I will no longer see it. You see, the trouble with confusing personal bias for well reasoned logic over and over and over and over again, is that it tends to destroy one's credibility.
MicroGuy, by all means, you keep on doing what you do best, but as for me - I've had enough and will no longer waste my efforts assisting you in amusing yourself at the expense of this thread and those other NamePros members who have new and noteworthy opinions to contribute (irrespective of whether I agree with those opinions or not).
For other members that agree with my take on this topic, I would appreciate your support in the form of a "like" on this post. If I discover that my comments do not resonate with other members of this dotPRO thread, I'll unblock your posts and suffer the consequences of having misjudged public opinion and the facts.
No ill will intended MicroGuy - I wish you much success in your domain pursuits. However, for me, I've grown weary of the same stale arguments that (IMHO) do not reflect the way business is actually conducted and financial objectives are achieved.
