opinion What Will 2022 Hold? Input for future blog post sought.

[Bob Hawkes]

I hope that many NamePros members will help me out. I am putting together, for publication at the start of 2022, a NamePros Blog article summarizing views on what the year ahead might look like in domain name investing.

What trends do you see?

• Is there a new niche that you think will become hot?
• What sectors will be highly sought?
• Are domain name prices on way up or down?
• Do you see the top, middle or bottom of market, price wise, as offering best opportunities?
• Will ETH, meta and NFT stay strong?
• Will the surge in .xyz continue?
• What about .io? .co?
• What about national country codes?
• Will there be more, or fewer, million dollar sales?
• What changes do you predict in the marketplaces we use?
• Will decentralized domain names grow in acceptance?
• What trends do you see happening in branding?
• Overall, do you think 2022 will be better or worse than 2021?
• What is your biggest concern about the future of domain investing?
• What one thing do you hope will happen? Perhaps a new service you think the industry needs.

I am not looking for you to comment on all of those topics! Just select one, or two, and give your opinion, or comment on something not on the list.

While space will not permit me to include everyone's comments, my intention is to quote, with attribution to you, a number in the NamePros article.

Please don't be hesitant to share. Having many viewpoints, from all parts of the world, and from different experience levels, will help produce a balanced article.

Thank you in advance.

Bob

PS Please vote in the associated poll as well!

 

[wintersnow]

A health passport system that takes control over your life and you cant visit certain sites online or even a physical location unless they are verified locations or domains where everything has to align with the main stream narative.Then later the health passport turns into a social credit score type system, like in China? Where you cant board a train if you do not bow down to the leadership in every way and are too frightened to warn the other people of the world of what is actually taking place over there?

That might effect our internet experience a little bit.?

 

[redemo]

Domain Name Events and Meetups in 2022?

 

[Bob Hawkes]

Domain Name Events and Meetups in 2022?

Probably state of Covid will determine whether we see in-person, online or hybrid events in 2022. I may have missed them, but have NamesCon event(s) for coming year been announced? ICA has a 15th anniversary event in Las Vegas - not sure if they plan to hold others.

Of course every day on NamePros is like an online conference!

Re meetups, if you are having a local domain name meetup it can be announced on NamePros here. I see various late 2021 announcements from around the world, but none yet for 2022 as far as I notice.

Bob

 

[redemo]

Metas, NFTs, Daos and even ENS are rising rapidly in 2021,many can clearly feel that .I think in 2022 .app will continue to rise slowly but powerfully. This year the large transaction of .APP has not been disclosed,according to the confidentiality agreement or other reasons. Transaction amount will increase significantly next year. Personal view.

Dot app is an extension I would like to invest in next year.

 

[DomainNature]

I think the 2021 year was the foundation of what is yet to come, take it as planting a seed and see it grow.
That is what 2021 year was for me and many of us, now i will look up to growing and reaping the rewards.

 

[The Durfer]

things to watch for global warming, tech startups, crypto, 4L and 3L dot com domains, about the same as 2021 so thats the way i voted. ty.

 

[Kai W.]

• Will ETH, meta and NFT stay strong?
• Will the surge in .xyz continue?

Absolutely yes.
Predictably, META is the best way for technology to change the way of life. And NFT is more like a way for the Internet to link literary creations, which until then had negligible rights protection on the Internet, more as a result of the push for intellectual property protection. NFT is an explosion in a short period of time, and in the future there may be a replacement for it with broader keywords or technologies, after all, the Internet's intellectual property protection is more focused on the intangible.

Two years ago XYZ was worthless. But now that it's hotter because of crypto, it will continue to add heat. I'm not really sure why this is the case, but I believe CentralNic operational strategy will continue to work.

• Will decentralized domain names grow in acceptance?
• Overall, do you think 2022 will be better or worse than 2021?
• What is your biggest concern about the future of domain investing?

I don't agree. The value of the domain generation is to replace machine IP addresses, and securing it for proper operation requires considerable technical expertise. Distributed domains do not go unmonitored by data. My point is to emphasize the use value of domains, not the division of property rights.

Better. For the industry, not the individual.

The popularity of virtual reality. The full popularity of META applications requires smart hardware, which will replace Internet access. Unless the IP address of every device can be bound to a domain name in the future, this will completely wipe out the domain name industry.

The above views are personal and have not been proven

 

[Bob Hawkes]

Any last minute contributions to this thread?

Particularly interested in what TLDs and sectors you plan to emphasize in 2022 and why.

Thanks to all who have contributed and voted.

Bob

 

[biggie]

Hi

year after year, since i've been domaining... it has grown,
and that to me, is a measure of strength, relating to it's longetivity.
the volume of transactions and the overall expenditures,
the expansion of domain related services, the reports, the blogs, the conventions, the personas` and personalities alike.

and within all of that, are the trends that come and go and the domain names that get bought, sold, dropped, and then get caught or re-regged again.

the "new money" that flows in yearly, from across the globe, all want in on a piece of this action.
from the $10 hopefuls to the whales who scoop-up portfolios'.

and as with nature, only the strong will survive.


imo...
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[redemo]

A lot of people will also start their own business.

Please can you elaborate on which types of online business you predict people are most likely to start in 2022 with their domain names? I'm interested to know your thoughts on this important topic. Cheers.

 

[redemo]

I feel the longer and broader that covid 19 goes .. the market will drop with it.. covid - 19 as well as world outlook and events ..

What market? Do you mean the aggregate dollar market? Or all the people sitting at home with nothing to do and the opportunity to get into domain name investing rather than savaging helpless Pringles tubes and pretending to be a gangster in Fortnite?

 

[Business Brands]

I predict the virus will take some down in 2022.

Hopefully the bad ones.

 

[redemo]

@Bob Hawkes. I had an idea. Probably already been done. Create a domain name questionnaire with some ten or twenty questions. Answer all of the questions yourself. Then open the floor for everyone else to post their answers to the questionnaire below. I am personally far more interested in the numerical dynamics of people's experience than how they feel. From a sum of numbers, relying on domainer's honesty, you can gauge averages which define the industry with general facts far more than emotions. Your blog posts are often adorned with many figures and links, making it easy to delve further into the cloudy depths of domain name investing. Just one idea among many. Cheers.

 

[Bob Hawkes]

Thanks to everyone who voted so far and left comments. I am still accepting comments until about Jan 2, so please share your thoughts.

I would be interested in seeing what people plan for any change in direction in 2022. eg is there an extension you plan to build your portfolio in, or one that you plan to liquidate your holdings?

What sectors do you think will be hot? Will things like delivery, healthcare, crypto, collaboration, stay hot?

The .vc extension has had a strong 2021. Do you see that growing even more?

Do you think we are near peak .io, or will prices keep going up?

Space has been in the news a lot this year. Do you see space-related names as maybe picking up steam?

Please share your thoughts.

Thank you.

Bob

 

[redemo]

Is this going to be opinion based on fact or opinion based on emotion? I yawn whenever someone says "I think #crypto will be strong". Why do you think this? Do you mean ALL products and services relating to crypto? Or do you mean specific crypto services related to specific aspects of the #metaverse? Which specific market trends dictate your opinion? Which specific crypto currencies are you referring to? Is your opinion based on personal experience or from something you've read? If it's the latter where and when did you read it? People's general opinions aren't helpful in the slightest. Sorry if that sounds negative @Bob Hawkes you are publishing some very very very useful content and I've favourited most of it. Cheers.

https://www.ica-associates.ca/wave-analysis-trends/

 

[redemo]

Have you heard of Dan.com?

Yes I have. Have you heard of Google.com?

 

[Reyginus]

Yes I have. Have you heard of Google.com?

I doubt you have. If you did you wouldn't ask the above questions.

 

[redemo]

I doubt you have. If you did you wouldn't ask the above questions.

I didn't say I've used DAN.com. You asked me if I'd heard of DAN.com. The answer is yes, of course I've heard of DAN.com. It's mentioned on the forum often and appears in banner advertisements on a regular basis. DAN.com is currently ranked as the best domain name aftermarket of 2021 in the thread started by @equity78 that I'm watching and receiving updates for: https://www.namepros.com/threads/best-aftermarket-for-2021.1256384/. Maybe you'd like to share the feature on DAN.com which solves the above problem of marketplaces accepting cryptocurrency as payment for services?

 

[redemo]

What about voting for your favourite @Bob Hawkes blog post of 2021?

 

[redemo]

What about voting for the best posts from all members in 2021, ranking the top ten and giving the top three a prize like a free subscription to Namepros (if they haven't already got one) or a special badge on their profile or some Namepros collector's items. Just throwing ideas into the mix. Cheers. To edit a post - make life easy as possible find the ten posts on Namepros in 2021 with the most positive reactions. Expand the idea by listing top posts from main categories. That's going to help shine the torch on the best Namepros content which is very useful.

 

[redemo]

A health passport system that takes control over your life and you cant visit certain sites online or even a physical location unless they are verified locations or domains where everything has to align with the main stream narative.Then later the health passport turns into a social credit score type system, like in China? Where you cant board a train if you do not bow down to the leadership in every way and are too frightened to warn the other people of the world of what is actually taking place over there?

That might effect our internet experience a little bit.?

A tad excessive mate but I agree with your general narrative. We need to find a way to stay safe as communities whilst opposing unnecessary restrictions and government with media help controlled systems which end up curbing our civil liberties. How then @wintersnow do you think all of this will affect the domain name industry in 2022? Let's hold hands around our ouija board and call out to our long departed luminaries John Dee, Tycho Brahe and Nicolaus Copernicus as they set about scrying through a spinning crystal ball with festoons fluttering around in the shadows.

 

[DomainNature]

Hello Mr.Bob
I hope in 2022 i will be more lucky to drop/catch domains from sheeple.

 

[mazharul41]

Many good domainers are rising in this platform in 2022. ....

 

[trelgor]

2022 is 1/12 down. No flattening of this curve.

 

[Shojib]

Yes, definitely