The 'Super Longterm' payoff...

[DnFloorCEO]

How much do you think 2008election.com was worth in 2007/2008? A lot of money right? Probably tens of thousands. So why not register the future ones now. Of course the recent ones are all taken, but 2040+ are all available. So I nabbed 2040election.com, 2044election.com, and 2048election.com. Yes, it is a LONG time to wait for a payoff, but I'm still young and it seems like they're nice long term investments. Of course the downside is $8 renewal a year for 30 years, but paying $250 is nothing if you can sell the domain for 25k+ eventually.

I also tried the same thing with the olympics, but unfortunately yearolympics.com is taken until 2068. But I did get 2032olympics.net

So am I just crazy, or is this a decent long term plan?

Oh, and you're free to take 2052 and above.

 

[-REECE-]

At the 7% per year inflation rate we're paying VeriSign and with ICANN and VeriSign pretty much in bed together... Let's just say it may very well have cost you $1000+ to own each of those domains by then. That's a L-O-N-G time from now. Who's to say that in 2030 elections won't start happening in different years?

 

[DnFloorCEO]

Well, US presidential elections have pretty much always been every 4 years, without ever changing for hundreds of years right?

Also, I can register the domains for 10 years at a time. And inflation will effect how much I can sell the domains for right. The domains price should inflate with the reg. price.

 

[-REECE-]

I wouldn't count on anything being the same 30 years from now to be honest. I don't buy into some of that Singularity stuff but it only makes sense that exponential increases in computational power will lead to massive changes over the next 30+ years. You would also need to factor in the opportunity cost of holding these domains versus making other investments, so you can't really get around the 7% inflation by registering domains for 10 years because then you're tying up money which could have been otherwise invested and most likely making 7%+ in those years.

Well, US presidential elections have pretty much always been every 4 years, without ever changing for hundreds of years right?

Also, I can register the domains for 10 years at a time. And inflation will effect how much I can sell the domains for right. The domains price should inflate with the reg. price.

 

[interestedenough]

LOL, I am hedging your long term position by registering end-of-the-world type domains...

2012, pandemics, global warming, etc.

 

[-REECE-]

:lol:

Those Mayans were a bright population some 2500-odd years ago, why the heck people thought that they predicted the end of the world is beyond me... I mean doesn't creating calendars 4500+ years into the future sound like a good place to stop?

LOL, I am hedging your long term position by registering end-of-the-world type domains...

2012, pandemics, global warming, etc.

 

[notlikeyou]

Olympics related domains are a major no no, the are very active in protecting anything related to their TM

 

[DnFloorCEO]

Olympics related domains are a major no no, the are very active in protecting anything related to their TM

Oh, I didn't even think of that. I'll go and dump that domain.

And I figure the world might end by then, but I'll have bigger problems than my domains not paying off if it does.

 

[DubDubDubDot]

How much do you think 2008election.com was worth in 2007/2008? A lot of money right? Probably tens of thousands.

2008election was registered in 2000, and by the looks of Archive.org was never really developed. This doesn't seem like a $xx,xxx situation to me.

 

[ecalc]

Future year election dot com names are registered for good reason, but watch the risks ...
1) TLD risk. Dot com may not rule in 32 years.
2) DNS risk. TLD addresses may not exist in 32 years.
3) Lost opportunity cost of capital tied up for 32 years - Reece's point

Consider other keywords with equal or better (search volume x cpc). Look at the present time window to identify those keywords. For example, adwords exact results:

1996 election - 1600 search, $0.58 cpc
1996 cars - 1600 search, $2.13 cpc
2000 election - 5400 search, $0.44 cpc
2000 cars - 3600 search, $2.41 cpc
2004 election - 5400 search, $0.38 cpc
2004 cars - 1600 search, $2.67
2008 election - 33100 search, $0.99 cpc
2008 cars - 14800 search, $1.97 cpc
2012 election - 170 search, $0.05 cpc
2012 cars - 480 search, $0.05 cpc

These combos may have similar peak earnings during a 10-year time window, but "cars" names offer better risk/reward because earlier years can be hand regged: 2031cars.com, 2032cars.com, 2033cars.com, etc. One more risk, the keywords. Elections and cars are durable institutions, but recognize that some fearless leaders oppose both.

 

[DnFloorCEO]

Okay, thanks for all your advice guys!

And I was able to reg 2004election.info. It could give history information on the 2004 election.

 

[-REECE-]

Muche better decision imo. Best of luck with it! :tu:

Okay, thanks for all your advice guys!

And I was able to reg 2004election.info. It could give history information on the 2004 election.

 

[accent]

Looks like the OP has his answer so I would like to take this into a side issue Reece brought up:

I don't buy into some of that Singularity stuff but it only makes sense that exponential increases in computational power will lead to massive changes over the next 30+ years.

The only mention I have ever seen of a Singularity regarding computing (guess I am out of it) was in a very old issue of Whole Earth Review/Coevolution Quarterly. Must have been 20 years ago.

The idea was if computers continue to grow in power at an exponential rate a time will arrive when that power becomes infinite - a God point, perhaps. As I remember, nobody in that issue of WHR could imagine what that meant. Well, computer growth has continued.

The Mayan thing I have an easier time with. They set their calendar up like an odometer on a car, each wheel following an astronomical cycle - the moon, for example, orbits in about 28 days, so in that time the moon cycle goes back to "0".

In 2012 (winter solstice, so I hear) all the wheels come to "0". An end, but a new beginning. The scale of the Mayan calendar is so great that whatever change this forebodes could be invisible for many lifetimes.

That is what I expect, but the Aztecs, supposedly mis-reading the Maya, honored the best among themselves by, ahhh, sending them to heaven. There they would intercede with the gods to prevent the end of the cycle. The Aztecs had a very negative view of 2012.

Someone said on the Art Bell show that in 2012 the precession of the earth's axis (a 26,000 year cycle known to the ancients) aligns precisely with the Galaxy's center. I have never found any confirmation of this.

 

[werty]

I registered Obama 2012 Elections domain names on 2008. Let's see what happens.

 

[kev]

Sometimes these can be good investments.

For example, England has put in a bid to host the 2015 Rugby World Cup so I bagged England2015.co.uk. If England get the WC, that will be an $x,xxx name for sure.

 

[Pred]

you can't go wrong with pure numerics in this area

for example i have 2017(.)net

its not that far off and gives someone buying a year or two before plenty of time to develop to the max

 

[Jake]

If I was you, I would go ahead and develop the 2040 domain. There wouldnt be much to put on it, but if you can get the #1 spot on google for "2040 election" related terms, it might be worth something to someone.

 

[GreenGambler]

It really is tough to speculate on something that isnt going to happen for another 30+ years. I think that you might be better off investing in other names. However since you already have them, I would say developing them, even very minimally, would help alot.