You may still not be late, in 2018 someone would be making similar statement about your new registrations ... There is time for everything.
can we turn back the clocks? I missed out on some of those 1 word .com domains : ) daytrading.net went to auction recently in the domain name aftermarket and ended selling for $16,700 - the .com must be worth in the high 6 figures!
who knows all these big famous names would be small entities by then, and you may be running something.asia as the world leader .. myspace, orkut, google weren't all known existing entities then, no reason why other companies would not displace these big names by that time .. who knows... Cheers
people that have registered those names had to keep them for years without any possibility of monetization. Registration was about $100 per year. Our times are much better.