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Originally Posted by hugegrowth  the reason .us is slow to catch on in the US is because when the internet rolled out there years ago, everybody was buying .com's for websites. So .com caught on first and all the good stuff has been bought up.
.us is an example of a country code slow to be adopted. Look at .de, .co.uk, .cn, .es, .ca and so on. Country code domains do very well in many countries, and I think that will continue to be the case.
Now, move over to India where internet penetration is low now but climbing fast. The .com names people would want over there are long gone now, held by domainers or developed into sites. The .in and .co.in are what will be used the most over there, so there will be a market for it. Not .com prices, but definitely opportunities to make good profits. It will be the same situation .ca is in Canada, or better.
I agree if buyouts start to happen for LLLL.org and LLLLL.com then it's a bit past my understanding. I can see reasoning in a LLL.co.in and NNN.co.in buyout because of how few of these domains there are, and India's population/economic growth. |
I think the world's getting smarter and we live in glorious times regarding this, not a last because of the internet.
Likewise the domainer's investment strategies are advancing and everybody has to follow or be left behind.
Then we are beginning to see big capital investing in domain names... Domainers trading beneath themselves are distributing money spent in anticipation of big gains in the future (to be made by domaining). A significant amount of this money we can assume comes from domainers already having made some big bucks and investing in future big bucks.
On the other side there are smaller cycles of changing business models like portfolio and brand development, affiliate sites, PPC revenue, parking... IMO nothing can reflect more about the mind and the pockets of internet users and especially consumers.
Domains are adresses giving unique identities. .com may be representing the internet, also being a symbol of global unity with english defacto being the world language - not at last thanks to the internet.
A buyout in some .com not only means you can to switch to other TLDs to find equal opportunities. It means a part of the limited namespace of bandable names being gone and probably be much harder to defend or build up in other TLDs.
It will be interesting to see global diversity increasing when other than english namespaces are mixing up beneath each other. That will be the future. It sounds colorful to me.
OK I didn't say IDN but that's another chapter.