Camus
Nov 17th 2006, 9:47 pm
(Hey - sorry if the title of this post is a little brash - just trying to get a little traffic I suppose...)
I've been going though a lot of the DNs for sale on these and other forums, ebay, and some of the DN seller sites, and, frankly, a lot of them are just *really* bad.
Admittedly, I am somewhat of a newbie to domaining (although I have been heavily involved in various aspects of the dotcom era, the internet, and technology for about 10 years) so, perhaps I am missing something here...
But, I just can't believe people registered some of these DNs in the first place and, even more surprising, is that people are re-purchasing them.
It reminds me of the last 5 years or so in real estate. Irrational impulse buying based on a collective idea that DNs will only get rarer and more expensive. Will they? (And I'm not talking about 4letter generics or developed sites - I'm talking about recent undeveloped speculative DNs only.)
If so, can someone please refer me to some good sources regarding the future of domain names?
I spent a few hours one night listening to a bunch of Domain Master podcasts where Monte Cahn of Moniker interviews a few of the "big boys" in domaining. Funny thing about all these interviews - at the end Monte would ask the person being interviewed what strategies domainers can utilize today to become successful at the game. Usually the answer was some sort of vague BS. Fact of the matter is, all of these big boys have been in the game since the beginning or not too long after. They grabbed all the prime generics in the late 90s. I don't begrudge them their success. But, it was, more or less, a being in the right place at the right time sort of thing.
I look at at all the awful DNs people are buying and selling and wonder what the future holds for domaining. Is amassing DNs in portfolios and trying to hawk them for as much as possible really going to work for the long term?
Comments? I am open to discussion about this.
I've been going though a lot of the DNs for sale on these and other forums, ebay, and some of the DN seller sites, and, frankly, a lot of them are just *really* bad.
Admittedly, I am somewhat of a newbie to domaining (although I have been heavily involved in various aspects of the dotcom era, the internet, and technology for about 10 years) so, perhaps I am missing something here...
But, I just can't believe people registered some of these DNs in the first place and, even more surprising, is that people are re-purchasing them.
It reminds me of the last 5 years or so in real estate. Irrational impulse buying based on a collective idea that DNs will only get rarer and more expensive. Will they? (And I'm not talking about 4letter generics or developed sites - I'm talking about recent undeveloped speculative DNs only.)
If so, can someone please refer me to some good sources regarding the future of domain names?
I spent a few hours one night listening to a bunch of Domain Master podcasts where Monte Cahn of Moniker interviews a few of the "big boys" in domaining. Funny thing about all these interviews - at the end Monte would ask the person being interviewed what strategies domainers can utilize today to become successful at the game. Usually the answer was some sort of vague BS. Fact of the matter is, all of these big boys have been in the game since the beginning or not too long after. They grabbed all the prime generics in the late 90s. I don't begrudge them their success. But, it was, more or less, a being in the right place at the right time sort of thing.
I look at at all the awful DNs people are buying and selling and wonder what the future holds for domaining. Is amassing DNs in portfolios and trying to hawk them for as much as possible really going to work for the long term?
Comments? I am open to discussion about this.