Tech trends are talked about all the time in domaining, many invest in future tech and current hot keywords.
Many of the technology names getting a lot of buzz and discussion were registered a long time ago.
Here is a look at some of the best domains in tech and when they were registered.
Ai.com – registered back in 1993 and owned by Thunayan K Al-Ghanim and his Future Media Architects. Has been developed, just renewed and currently does not resolve.
ArtificialIntelligence.com registered in 1996, registrant out of California, the site looks to have been developed but again another site not resolving currently.
VR.com registered in 1998, after being dropped twice according to Domain Tools. Someone probably needs to check on those two previous registrants because they dropped a name worth millions that it’s unfathomable to understand. Of course the net was young back then but still. The domain is owned by Anything.com. Visiting the domain name just shows, “Welcome to VR.com.”
VirtualReality.com registered in 1997, no other earlier registrations are shown by Domain Tools, there were no recorded drops. 1997 seems late for a first time registration. The domain is also owned by Anything.com. The domain name is parked.
ChatBot.com registered in 1997 and was dropped 4 times previously. The domain looks to have changed hands recently and is slated for development with a landing page.
InternetofThings.com registered in 2003, the term was hardly as popular back then. Tim Warner ran an IT blog on the domain for awhile. Now the domain is under privacy and being brokered by Media Options.
AugmentedReality.com registered in 2003 and was once owned by Marchex. The domain is currently under privacy and parked.
Hologram.com registered in 1998 and is owned by Bobbleheads.com owner, Warren Royal. The domain is parked.
Cloud.com registered in 2000 well before the term “cloud computing” was popularized. Currently owned by Citrix Systems.
That’s why we own InternetofBrains.com and before anyone shrugs it off check out IoT Journal and the Tesla article along with the Perth report. Who knows if it will become of value-we’ll see.
Cool story, I always appreciate you delve into the history of stuff. vr.com if I dropped that I would have jumped off a bridge.
IoT is general term for features on various products — can’t see “internetofthings.com” being a commercially viable business platform as a domain, thus not worth much.
Media Options I think it was had it for sale for $500,000.
Wow! It’s worth $5K…MAYBE $10K to an end-user. Asking half-a-million bucks is just stupid.
If you don’t see the value of InternetofThings.com, IOT.com, VR.com or all of the above names I’d suggest doing a little research on the subjects these domains relate to. The names on this list are extremely in demand making them uber valuable.
500K – 899K is a lot of money, but not to a company like Google, Facebook, Microsoft etc or another company or end user that may want to own InternetofThings.com or IOT.com. If they want it, they’ll buy it for that much and it would barely dent their revenue or net worth.
None of those companies would care about internetofthings.com, main buyer pool is going to be domainers. iot.com, vr.com are in another league due to acronym usage.
As mentioned in the article Media Options is still the broker. I believe the landing page says they are looking for $899,000.
Ask, and ye shall receive.
Well, at least close to it.
There is always a window between new technologies and their disclosure.
True ‘dat. And the key is to sell early to the richest, biggest sucker because most of the domains on the above list just aren’t commercially viable as business platforms.
It’s paradox to call those, which will buy your domain at the end, ‘suckers’.
Interesting stuff. Re Hologram.com, there was a already a museum of holography in NYC as far back as the 70’s, went out of business a while ago.
Only “cloud” seems like a lucky reg, even then it’s still a top name, I keep telling everyone that future tech names are a long term hold. Aka Space and Mars domains ………..ummmm
In the context of domaining, many of the terms were coined and used with something else in mind, good names and terms will have value, eventually.
Foe example, Artificial Intelligence were referred as “expert systems” in the 80’s, now it is about “deep learning”. Apps were referred to Java Applets in the 90’s but now it is about mobile applications.
I had a few “Flash” names because Adobe Flash was popular. I’ve recently sold a “Flash” domain name to a company doing “Flash sales”
Does anyone know how much the owners want for these domains ?
Very few businesses want technology terms. Bad bet for domainers because even in the unlikely event the term takes off it probably still won’t have a strong market and name will have an expiry date.
Purchased many Geo domains in the late nineties. Sepatately had 2 huge lawsuits one at the United Nations and one in the United States. Geo domains are different than all other names. Businesses fail Geo domain names continue.
Tell us about “drone” domain ?
Cloud computer is a term coined by Univac in the 1950’s. The MIT review blog is incorrect. We played a clip of one of the Univac marketing videos during theTRAFFIC shows. They were showing of four new mainframes, and one of them was the new “cloud computer”. It meant the processing was done on the mainframe, not a smart terminal. If you’d like, I’ll dig it out of archives. 😉
Great list of future tech names. Was very pleased to have picked up VirtuallyRealistic.com a while back.
vr.co.uk was registered in the Nominet two letter sell off @ 2011. Any serious buyers please get in touch. vr.uk would also come in the package. It has not been developed.
Thanks.
I believe Dell paid quite a lot to acquire cloudcomputing.com in either 2007 or 2006
It also tried to trademark “Cloud Computer”, but this trademark was opposed by multiple parties, including IBM, Microsoft, Google etc
Cisco acquired IOT.com — can’t remember the price
On the subject of Future Tech:
I acquired AugmentableReality, ExtendableReality, RealityExtended.com and MixableReality.com
Garbage
Depending on who you’d ask as with all things. A guy in the same thread above was just saying how he didn’t even think some of the names on the posts list were worth 5K. It’s a good thing opinions like yours and his don’t speak for everyone but you’re definitely entitled to it.
Don’t get defensive, learning about domains doesn’t come cheap $9 x N.
Those are really bad domains.
I’m not getting defensive. I’m stating a fact. It depends on who you’d ask. You are stating an opinion. Microsoft has stated many times they are rebranding their hololens product from just calling it augmented reality to extended reality and many in the industry are calling it mixed reality (MixableReality.com). I don’t think spending $9 on a domain called ExtendableReality.com or RealityExtended.com is a super bad investment, but like you I have my own opinion. I work in technology. I’m constantly following the latest trends and updates. Just because you haven’t heard the terms or don’t personally like the names doesn’t make them bad names to everyone. Like I factually stated, that’s your opinion and you are entitled to it.
Jason – the point they are making is that MixableReality.com does not equal MixedReality.com. The aim of investing is to buy the RIGHT domain name, not an also ran. End users don’t want to pay big sums for the also ran. It would be better to approach the owner of MixedReality.com and strike a deal than to hand reg MixableReality.com. It would cost you more but your much more likely to make a sale to an end user at a compelling price.
MixedReality.com and ExtendedReality.com have obviously been taken for a while. MixableReality.com and ExtendableReality.com still make sense. My point is I didn’t buy names that don’t make sense. VirtualReality.com and VR.com have been taken for quite a long time. So people have been registering all kind of VirtualReality and VR names, Example SocialVirtualReality.com, VR88.com, 88VR.com and so on and so forth, the list could go on forever. Of course it would be better to own VirtualReality.com and VR.com, but it doesn’t make the other names garbage. In fact names like that are selling all of the time. That was my point.
I’ve been buying, selling and investing (since about 2011) and as I stated, $9 for a hand registration of the names I bought was not a bad investment in my opinion.
With the v2v and v2x markets, I’m still holding the v2x dot com, and have had a few decent offers for it so far.
I had it has a gamer site and was selling motorcycle parts with it several tears ago. Waiting on the right buyer, but who knows, it may never sell.
I’ve been toying with the idea that the next step in VR / AR will have a haptic component to it.
To that end…I hand reg’d erohaptics.com back around 2009. I think it could make a great company name.