"Value of domains has gone down"

[hugegrowth]

http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/062106/news3.html

“The value of domain names has gone down rather precipitously,” Levy said. Cybersquatting laws and search engines have curbed the importance of domain names because most people no longer guess a website name by typing it into the browser but instead use a search engine, he said.

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I guess he was talking about political domains being regged by "cybersquatters", but his comment seems pretty open to all domains. Just shows how some people out there are thinking.

 

[WhoDatDog]

The value of great names is going through the roof, and type-in names are increasing in value as well. Names that don't make sense and are hard to type in are probably going down.

Check this year's big DN Journal sales in 24 months. Most all of them will seem like steals for the buyer. If anyone thinks there is a force in the Universe that can stop people from typing addresses in the way they do now then that just shows how out of touch they are.

These six-figure sales of great names will shortly turn into seven-figure sales.

 

[GT Web]

The value of great names is going through the roof, and type-in names are increasing in value as well. Names that don't make sense and are hard to type in are probably going down.

Check this year's big DN Journal sales in 24 months. Most all of them will seem like steals for the buyer. If anyone thinks there is a force in the Universe that can stop people from typing addresses in the way they do now then that just shows how out of touch they are.

These six-figure sales of great names will shortly turn into seven-figure sales.

That is, assuming Google, Microsoft and Yahoo don't start trying to replace domain names (at least somewhat) using browsers with search engines built in. I think a few years down the road, the majority of internet users will be "forced" to use search engines through their browser instead of domains.

It wont kill the domain industry, but it will probably hurt it. People paying 10 times yearly revenue expecting to make it back over the long term better hope something like that doesn't happen.

However, I agree with the Dog that many recent top sales have been great deals for the buyer.