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Originally Posted by brandnewx  ........... No need to elaborate more. |
Well... possibly.
Whilst your reasoning seems sound for pure speculator domainers, whose domains
are sitting there not covering reg. fee or anywhere near it,
... your argument is not the full story, and elaboration is appropriate.
From comments out of the Affiliate conference this last week, it is clear that if you
have natural traffic in commercially viable areas, there is no reason to be
anything other than optimistic going forward.
From my own recent experience, like many others, I've been moving names
from parking to affiliate, and even without buying any Google traffic,
I've got names making from 10 to 20 times their previous parking rev.
No suggestion of a downturn there.
A variation on the ancient GIGO principle is, if you start with crap names, you'll have
crap names going forward. And yes, Verisign may well have shot themselves in the foot
by hiking prices twice recently, as domainers will probably be dropping many more
marginal names than would otherwise occur, especially in the current economic situation.
So yes, basically agree with you, but not all is bleak.