Voip

[charbar]

Hello All,

Recently I put up two "voip" names for appraisal, and I must say that I was surprised at the lack of interest in voip in general - regardless of my names.

Given that ebay has just paid £2.2 billion for Skype (a company that made only £3.9 million last year) I would have thought that it would tell us something.
Skype are signing up 150,000 people every day and the pace is accelerating.

When you can call Australia for the same price as a call to someone in the next room, using voip, people will obviously sign up.
Some experts are predicting the end for BT etc.

The financial page of one British national newspaper goes as far as to say "It is beginning to look like a re-run of the dotcom boom"

I'd be interested in your views.
Thankyou to any replies.
charbar

 

[movingconcierge]

should I be nervous...?

Microsoft throws money at voip

and I've got microsoft-voip.com...think they'll chop off my rickies?

...and since everyone else is doing it, I've also got some nice voip names:

voiparticle.com
voipbasic.com
voipoem.com (original equipment manufacturer is a common term)
sohovoip.com (small office home office ditto above)
voipwhitepages.com
voipbusinesspages.com...and others

 

[Redleg]

Picked up some dropping nice VOIP names very cheaply a few months back, not so now, many people investing.

Just a few:

VOIPTelephonics.com
VOIPInstallation.com
VOIPTelekom.com
VideoOverIP.tv
VoiceOverIP.tv

Very nice ones Wot!
Picked up VoiceOverIP.ws a couple of months ago, and I've already received a few low $xxx offers on it..

 

[Virgil]

I only have one VOIP .com related domain (VoipHot); I believe it will keep growing in the next 5 years, so it's a nice investment.

 

[wot]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4289488.stm

The time is now!

 

[FedPrimeRate.com]

VOIP = free long distance calling = worldwide demand.

I like VOIP a lot. I wasn't able to get any VOIP names, but I have snagged a BluePhone domain name as an investment.

AmCy

 

[Jeffrey]

VOIP will be bigtime. Just hold on to your VOIP domains.

 

[Michelle]

VOIP will be bigtime. Just hold on to your VOIP domains.

Jeez I didn't have any and I didn't want to spend any more money this week

Oh well :hehe:

 

[voipster]

Free phone calls by 2010 from ebays ceo....i think we will see this happening much sooner as free in-network calling is now widespread. the key is out of network and mobile calling and should be a reality with ad subsidy. video phones will be an easy target for quick ad clips followed by free phone call.

http://www.betanews.com/article/eBay_CEO_Free_Phone_Calls_by_2010/1129825871

 

[harkster]

I gota get a life!

Couldnt resist @ $3.95 FreeVoip_info - someone snagged the us before I got checked out.

Why hasn't VidIp (as in video ip) Come into use?

I feel really lost that I will never have access to all this cool stuff.

 

[TUFKATH]

Skype is going nowhere in my opinion.

 

[wot]

Couldnt resist @ $3.95 FreeVoip_info - someone snagged the us before I got checked out.

Why hasn't VidIp (as in video ip) Come into use?

Shhhh! They will all want them

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q="video+over+ip"&btnG=Google+Search

 

[Robson]

I haven't even used voip yet, does anyone here use it regularly?

 

[voipster]

skype is going nowhere?....tell that to the millions of users. its growing faster than any telecom service including all of the traditional voip carriers. why? free...they broke the mold on a stale business model. there is no turning back now the market has been seeded with "free" voice services. goog will use talk for ad saturation. just think of the reach for any advertiser. no more telemarketing, its opt in ads for free calls.

 

[wot]

Skype is going nowhere in my opinion.

I think that one or maybe more of my own VOIP names will bring in my biggest sale to date and I already have a few in the $xx,xxx JMO

 

[Matt]

lol...interesting reading peoples opinions.

Look at it this way....*maybe*

1) There will ALWAYS be a charge for calls. Irrelevant of technology. the question is, how much are the "fixed" costs going to be.

2) Voip will, on the whole, not be free.

3) As someone pointed out, most telecom infrastructure runs voip....we already see it in TOIP....

4) Wheres the true value in the domains. My money is on those that can offer services to give customers true values on VOIP resellers.

5) Never forget...VOIP is a term. Not a commercial product withi the domain world. How many people made money out of CRM domains, or ERP domains, or even Oracle domains (those that relate to industry worth billions?)

Rgds
Matt

 

[dmblea]

Just because voip is a term does not restrict it from being used as part of a name for a commercial product. For example, fax is a term, however, efax is a commercial product.

lol...interesting reading peoples opinions.

Look at it this way....*maybe*

1) There will ALWAYS be a charge for calls. Irrelevant of technology. the question is, how much are the "fixed" costs going to be.

2) Voip will, on the whole, not be free.

3) As someone pointed out, most telecom infrastructure runs voip....we already see it in TOIP....

4) Wheres the true value in the domains. My money is on those that can offer services to give customers true values on VOIP resellers.

5) Never forget...VOIP is a term. Not a commercial product withi the domain world. How many people made money out of CRM domains, or ERP domains, or even Oracle domains (those that relate to industry worth billions?)

Rgds
Matt

 

[voipster]

I agree with the "voip" term issue. I think more of the market will understand and equate more with generic terms when using voip products. For instance I think free phone call is a much more powerful combination than free voip call. More people will use the term phone or talk vs voip in terminology. I went for the generic when speculating and avoided the voip term in most names. The most important area for voip and hence the huge growth is the offering of free phone calls. You can certainly pay for a phone call if you want to but you dont have to. More and more consumers are migrating to free talk. Just like the move to cell phones for young people who no longer subscribe to land line at home. Its a move away from a stale technology. We dont need our land line from our traditinal carrier but we are so used to the damn thing we have to be weened off it. The same goes for paying for the service, once the word was out you can do it for free the mass migration began. This is not music with copyrighted material on a file share with all the legal issues that stifled the free trade. Your ISP (carrier) was not restricting downloads nor can they shut off the pipeline for the skypes of the world. Can the traditional carriers restrict free incomming calls? its not going to happen. They are going to beat each other up worse than the airlines. They will all be moving to free voice services with the upsale of other products. margins will shrink and the strong will survive. the real winners will be the advertisers who will have full access to a captured audience tied to mobile phones. even if its a scroll ad/pop up on a video phone the market is captured and you talk free ad subsidy is the real driver for the future of voice communication.