Sotheby's, Christie's + Domain Names Auctions = BIG $$

[Harry]

They auction antiques, arts, diamonds & jewelry, wine & other alcohols, fashion, books & manuscripts, musical instruments, stamps, coins & medals, watches & clocks , cars etc,etc and some of the most expensive real estate in the world so WHY NOT DOMAIN NAMES?

If someone could make an intelligent, articulate approach to them I'm sure they will be more than willing to consider. Can you imagine what they involvement would do to the DN industry as a whole and prices in particular.

 

[sasquatch]

They auction antiques, arts, diamonds & jewelry, wine & other alcohols, fashion, books & manuscripts, musical instruments, stamps, coins & medals, watches & clocks , cars etc,etc and some of the most expensive real estate in the world so WHY NOT DOMAIN NAMES?

Because these houses are enrooted in old traditions and the items you've mentioned they are selling are three-dimensional tangible items (you can see them, you can touch them, you can smell them) that have been around for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Like most others with successful pedigrees they are simply afraid of new things, and look down upon something they don't understand. Besides, market for big-priced domains is extremly small, and some of their powerful old fashioned clients might find it downright distasteful to see them engaging in something so immaterial, so shifty, so geeky and so technological. The times they are changing for sure, but some of the "old breed" demand that transitions be as slow and as seamingless as possible.