NEWS Investing in Domains When the Markets Fall Could be a Good Alternative

[moneydomains]

New google news article about domains
Investing in Domains When the Markets Fall Could be a Good Alternative:

http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=ca&nolr=1&q=me+domains

[Rubber Duck]

The domain industry has it own humongous pile of sub-prime toxic junk to deal with as well.

[Success]

Originally Posted by moneydomains

New google news article about domains
Investing in Domains When the Markets Fall Could be a Good Alternative:

http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=ca&nolr=1&q=me+domains

Post says read the article "Investing in Domains When the Markets Fall Could be a Good Alternative"

But link points to a search of "me" and "domains."

[lordbyroniv]

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

The domain industry has it own humongous pile of sub-prime toxic junk to deal with as well.

yup

Sellers have to SERIOUSLY come down on their prices in the next few years

and I expect they will indeed come down

before there is any buying opportunity

[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by lordbyroniv

yup

Sellers have to SERIOUSLY come down on their prices in the next few years

and I expect they will indeed come down

before there is any buying opportunity

I think you are completely wrong there, but many are having the same problem as Wall Street. They are trying to trade assets that are difficult to value. But the good domains are worth every cent. Or should that be Euro or Yuan?

90% of speculative investments just aren't worth anything. Few of these have achieved good prices, but there are the odd exceptions like Flowers.mobi. There is a new schmuck born every minute.

What has to happen is that whole classes of domains need to be completely wiped away. These include worthless extensions, worthless combinations of hyphens and letters. English names in extensions where English has little or no relevance and even a lot of IDN including all those dingbats which won't even resolve in the near future.

Domainers need to get back to fundamentals. They need to understand why domains are needed, when they can be used to promote products and services and where they are relevant and how they can be exploited. They need to get away from the "it looks cool to me" approach to domaining, that is just getting so many into debt with no chance of any kind of return at the end of the suffering. The saddest thing is that it is human nature to believe ever more the deeper the pain gets. We are all guilty of this at times.

[rebirth]

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

They need to get away from the "it looks cool to me" approach to domaining, that is just getting so many into debt with no chance of any kind of return at the end of the suffering. The saddest thing is that it is human nature to believe ever more the deeper the pain gets.

The duck's point is...

Get a life, man.

[duceman]

I'll agree that investing now is smart, but the press release is really just pumping .ME

[domaingenius]

It is good time to invest if you have a stack of spare cash in a bank like Lehman. Then
it would be best to buy some top quality .com and register them for say 5 year. I
would not buy .me or any other tld.

DG

[moneydomains]

Yes i also think it is a perfect time to invest now in domains.
But i am putting my money on .Me and for good reasons

Here is 10 reasons again why .Me is a great investment:

1) After witnessing the success of .Me domain name online auctions, Mark Boost, managing director of leading U.K. domain registration company, LCN.com, said that the public has “seen the .ME domain launch to be one of the most successful in history of
the domain registration industry. Both businesses and individuals rushed to register their chosen .ME extension when open registration went live on July 17, and I would envisage huge prices being paid for the premium .ME domains.”

2) Godaddy(the world largest) had world record sales of .dot me names( sold more than they did with .mobi, .asia, .tv and all other new domains they have started sell before.
http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2008/07/21/daily2.html

3) Over 80% of registrated .Me are fom English countries.
The main interest comes from English speaking countries including the United States (71%), the United Kingdom (6%), Canada (4%), and Australia (2%
http://www.domaininformer.com/news/editors/080902hottestnewdestination.html

4) Dot .Me was the darling of the traffic show, with all 11 .me domains selling for between $6,000 and $70,000.: http://www.thedomains.com/2008/09/25/moniker-traffic-auction-nets-almost-3-million/

5) Dot .Me sold for OVER $2 Million in the fist .ME landrush auction where only few where allowed to bid. http://www.webhostdir.com/news/showNews.aspx?ID=27518

6) The internet is all about YOU AND .ME like: youtube, myspace ect… thats also one reasons .Me has great succes and will just grow in popularity.
So many greats me sites to make with dot me: Date.Me, Youand.Me, Insure.Me, loan.Me, kiss.Me, Comedate.Me you can make 10000’s great easy to remember websites with dot .Me

7) September, 2008 From google news:
.Me domains become the hottest new destination.
Presently .Me domains are gaining momentum as the hottest new destination for Web addresses that have hit the market. Due to their universal appeal and quality to be easily remembered they have become essential to brand yourself or a company in the online market
Furthermore, some “premium” names such as. Contact.ME, Drive.ME, Kiss.Me, Youand.Me, Insure.me, lucky.Me have the potential to create a completely new perception of the websites.
The .me domain names have surpassed everyone’s expectations when it comes to popularity. There were tens of thousands of .Me domain names registered within the first registration day.
Click link for total article:
http://www.domaininformer.com/news/editors/080902hottestnewdestination.html
Dot .Me means the same in Spanish, Italy as in English - thats 100’s millions more that can use and buy dot .Me

9) It is one of the only 2 number domain extension out there that you can use in so many ways in a sentence for marketing and branding.

10) If you look at the WHOIS at the top, .Me names - based on the auction sales price - high-profile CEOs and business owners as well as domain investors are securing the names, which makes the .Me domains even more interesting.”

[lordbyroniv]

I never have typed .me when searching ever

And I don't plan to start now

please now

[Acro]

Stop bullsh!tting.me

[domaingenius]

When GD answer the question on this thread;
http://www.dnforum.com/f209/godaddy-...ad-328479.html

then I would consider .me.

DG

[Carter]

Yeah baby suck.me suck.me suck.me...oh...clean.me now biatch

[hittjw]

Thanks [Rubber Duck] for reminding us to get back to the basics. I've seen results developing and redeveloping sections of my portfolio. Putting a little development time into my portfolio added PageRank points and traffic in unexpected ways.

Because with domains it's difficult to measure market value (without selling them), another basic is to build traffic and month-to-month revenue. A few months of revenue can tell a potential buyer what something is worth.

I've even purchase a few domains to stand up weak areas in my portfolio. It's the basics that makes investments return in any market, all this speculation got us in this mess in the first place.

Best,

Justin

[acesfull]

Here are 10 Reasons why (I think) .me is a bad investment..

1) .com is still the most popular extension even after all the hype from all those other extensions - .tv, .cc, .ws, .us, .md, .etc.

2) The best branding opportunities are still with .com. Most everything else is still confusing. ".com" is burnt into the minds of most people, as "Internet address." Other extensions often don't stick when people hear them.

3) Adding .me to make a phrase (like willyoumarry.me) is more confusing than adding hyphens to a dot-com or using a dot-net. Tell someone to visit www.willyoumarry.me, and they'll likely say, "what?" And will likely end up on www.willyoumarryme.com. (I do kind of like Ask.Me, but still - you'll have people ending up on askme.com) If you don't agree with.me, you can tell.me!

4) .net is considered, by many, to be worth 10% or less the value of .coms. Other extensions, like .ws, .cc, .st, may have even less value. .Me seems to fit that group.

5) .me is the country code TLD for the country of Montenegro, and I would be too concerned about the stability of that country and how it could affect the stability of the extension and all domains under it.

6) There is no shortage of dot-coms. Maybe a shortage of people who will pay what they're worth, so the alternate .me is not really needed. And if a buyer can't afford a specific .com that's for sale, they'll likely come up with an alternate .com, and never even consider a .me.

7) Serious (high-cost) websites are not going to be developed on an unfamiliar, untested and unproven extensions, so high prices on .me names will be rare.

8) More extensions just adds confusion to the growing list of TLDs and adds more value to .com.

9) A lot of the great things you may have heard about .me would have simply been hype, by those wanting to promote .me registrations and aftermarket sales. A lot of registrations are simply due to new speculators and those who have hopes that the hype is true.

10) There are still opportunities to get quality .coms in the $1K to $10+ range. Why not stick with a proven market? As with collecting coins, a single rare $10,000 coin is likely to grow more in value than 20 coins at $500 each.

[dominator]

the traditional explanation:

com - commercial
net - network
org - organization
me - also abbreviated as μ (from microusability) - wannabe resellers sponsoring registrars, no end users, no visitors

[moneydomains]

Originally Posted by acesfull

Here are 10 Reasons why (I think) .me is a bad investment..

1) .com is still the most popular extension even after all the hype from all those other extensions - .tv, .cc, .ws, .us, .md, .etc.

2) The best branding opportunities are still with .com. Most everything else is still confusing. ".com" is burnt into the minds of most people, as "Internet address." Other extensions often don't stick when people hear them.

3) Adding .me to make a phrase (like willyoumarry.me) is more confusing than adding hyphens to a dot-com or using a dot-net. Tell someone to visit www.willyoumarry.me, and they'll likely say, "what?" And will likely end up on www.willyoumarryme.com. (I do kind of like Ask.Me, but still - you'll have people ending up on askme.com) If you don't agree with.me, you can tell.me!

4) .net is considered, by many, to be worth 10% or less the value of .coms. Other extensions, like .ws, .cc, .st, may have even less value. .Me seems to fit that group.

5) .me is the country code TLD for the country of Montenegro, and I would be too concerned about the stability of that country and how it could affect the stability of the extension and all domains under it.

6) There is no shortage of dot-coms. Maybe a shortage of people who will pay what they're worth, so the alternate .me is not really needed. And if a buyer can't afford a specific .com that's for sale, they'll likely come up with an alternate .com, and never even consider a .me.

7) Serious (high-cost) websites are not going to be developed on an unfamiliar, untested and unproven extensions, so high prices on .me names will be rare.

8) More extensions just adds confusion to the growing list of TLDs and adds more value to .com.

9) A lot of the great things you may have heard about .me would have simply been hype, by those wanting to promote .me registrations and aftermarket sales. A lot of registrations are simply due to new speculators and those who have hopes that the hype is true.

10) There are still opportunities to get quality .coms in the $1K to $10+ range. Why not stick with a proven market? As with collecting coins, a single rare $10,000 coin is likely to grow more in value than 20 coins at $500 each.

Look i understand many of you have invested ALLOT in
.com and worried about the fast succes of .Me.

Now i am even being told i can not post more in the news section about .dot Me.

So domain news section is only for .com news?
I don't see one single news post of .com that have been removed or moved.

Come lets keep this a fair forum for all extentions.
We are all paying to use this great forum and all deserve equal rights
in posting in the domain news section.
Otherwise news section should be called dot.com news section


also
If you look there is already over 1,3 Million .Me pages in google and that after only 2½ months!!! - this is really amazing.

The facts are all pointing at a big succes for .Me
and yes .Com will always be a King - but the facts are showing a Prince baby called .Me has been born

Time will tell friends

[Biggs101]

.me domains are evolving at a rapid pace - coming from a pure .com investor. To test the market, I picked up just one .me domain (cost me the same as a fresh Pizza): Publishing.me - I gave myself 48 hrs to find a buyer (end user or reseller). I sold 1 day later for $2,500!

.me has also done very well at the TRAFFIC auction in NEW YORK. And they are often ahead of the domaining crowd concerning future trends.

No one can judge this extension before giving it a chance to flourish and mature. Let's wait 6mths to a year (minimum) and come back to this subject. Judging at this early stage is about as useful as trying to predict how long it will take before our economy is back on track. Only TIME will tell...

[URLtrader]

DoNotTryToScrew.me

[BELLC1]

I thought about re-investing my retirement fund into domains only my portfolio is down 36% in two weeks. If it is like the .com crash in 2000-2001, I'll be working another ten years to get back to 2008 levels.