A fair number of domain investors had their attention off in other areas in 2017. The stock market did well and many were totally enamored with cryptocurrencies.
Are you as interested in domaining as years past, or are you diversifying into crypto and spending more of your time on developments there?
How do you feel about domaining in 2018
Very bullish for the following reasons:
– More technologies and more applications for existing technologies keep coming out.
– More internet users.
– More people taking their business online.
– More Individuals finding great opportunities to make it online by selling their products or services on marketplaces such Etsy, Amazon, etc…
– More startups are coming out due to all the above reasons.
Until the day we just speak a company name into a browser, I’ll continue to be bullish on dot (.) com! Crypto sounds exciting, but with very little regulation and hacking running rapid, I’ll stay away from the hype! Happy New Year Raymond and Mike and all The Domains viewers!
Bullish. What’s not talked about much is how .com’s bring legitimacy to businesses products and services.
Businesses without a matching or supportive domain are like a home without a foundation.
Coupled with future trends and tech I believe selective domain investments remain viable.
Of course I am very BullSish
More demands for my domains very day and more high offers but no hurry to sell.
Dot com is KING and whatever that cyrotocurrency shi&^%t that nobody understands and those bragging they make big money, just beware- the FEDs are not “stupid”, they are watching every trades you make and don’t be surprised you get the letter from them for back taxes and money laundering .
Don’t say I did not warn you!!
Most people in domaining are hyperfocused on Crypto/AI/THC….Very few if any are aware of the great opportunity in Rapid Application Development or RAD SaaS & RAD PaaS and more so in EV Domains as Electric Vehicle (EV) domain price skyrockets.
People will sell off their domains at cheaper prices to move their money into Cryptocurrency where real gains will be made.
Follow the money!!!
For once, we agree. I used to be on the other side of the crypto fence but finally decided to join the dark side 3 weeks ago. Put in $39K which is worth approximately $75K right this moment.
I own enough domains in the premium, decent and crappy levels that I don’t need to add to my portfolio any more.
2017 was the year of bitcoin. 2018 will be the year of the altcoin. Not altcoin.com. A million for altcoin.com is a waste of capital relative to putting it in the right altcoin(s).
Bullish, since Domain Names have actual “Real World Utility” which Corporations, SMBs, Startups and Entrepreneurs will continue to use to Market and Sell their “Virtual” and “Tangible” Goods Locally, Nationally and Internationally!
Domains also help any type of Online Property limit their Reliance on, Costly and On-Going, Third Party “Paid Search” and “Paid Advertising” Expenditures from E-Commerce Giants, Search Engines and Social Media Companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter and more.
Yes, i am very bullish on domaining in 2018!
crypto markets will probably go higher ,and more investments and spec on the cheaper ones ,everyones looking at a lottery ticket ,look at ripple steady for almost a year ,then 1000% in 3 weeks . A lot of this money is starting to come back into the domain market ,I already within the last week got multiple bids on all my LLLL.com chips from china,this has spilled into the regular LLLL.com ,the non chips are basically have been dead money 17 years since most of them have been regged and basically the cost to carry basically is now recoverable minus any interest and loss of a comparison investment in the s and p ,this has been a shit investment if your in from the start. Now may be the right time to enter this market ,stick to good domains and cut out the jibberish crap.
only Cryptocurrency domains will be in demand from now on period!
Reasons to be bearish on domains:
Ad agencies cannot bill big $s for acquiring domain names for their clients. Instead, it’s easier and more profitable for the agencies to charge a recurring 10-25% on top of their clients’ monthly spending on Google and Facebook ads. Clients compensate for low spending on domains by throwing obscene amounts of cash at Google and Facebook.
In emerging market economies, where we see the greatest potential for growth in domain aftermarket sales, education and awareness about global or US-centric branding is low and appears bound to largely continue that way. Branding may be important in the US, but that does not mean that the rest of the world has to follow suit. Americans may look at a lot of the most popular foreign brand names and say, “this stuff is garbage,” but those brands’ customers clearly don’t see it that way.
None of the telcos and too few of the other big spenders on TV ads in the US have acquired .BRAND TLDs that they intend to push in their media spends. We may have to wait for delegations from ICANN’s next nTLD round to occur before this situation is reversed and domains suddenly become cool again.
Holders of big .COM portfolios are right to disparage nTLDs because it is in their interest to do so. But the speed with which creative agencies can change public opinion should not be underestimated. It always seems like we are three years away from that public tipping point, where .COMs are suddenly seen as uncool. Perhaps we still are.
Last but not least, significant damage to aftermarket liquidity is coming from the big players themselves. Afternic and Uniregistry, I’m looking at you. Your IP-address-blocking policies are taking food off my table. Fighting potential buyers by blocking access to for-sale landing pages based on traffic origin (especially from VPNs) does not raise site security one iota. If you want to protect against advertising click-through fraud, then apply address filters at that level, not to landing pages for domain name for-sale listings.
Definitely bullish. I bet on new gTLDs. Year 2017 was strongest so far, and I feel 2018 will be even better.
As for niches, most action seems to be on crypto and bitcoin related names, and this will probably not change anytime soon 🙂
I don’t invest in Crypto-Kitties, but i have only Yo.Money
Yes, Finally, speaking only for myself and only until 2020. After that, the opportunity to buy dotCOM domain names from premium domain holders will have changed once again.