goodtimes.pm poster - beginning of the end?

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This sounds very true - I think that we're going to see a two tier market in which every real brand has to own their .com - as long as Facebook, Amazon, Google use .com as their flagship tld they will remain must-have properties.

Everything else is just on a nice-to-have campaign specific basis. The domaining market therefore will exist to sell wannabe big brands the .com they want (or typo variations). Existing brands will just sue you for it of they have to.

It will be acceptable to run a non .com, so many quick-hit sites (ecommerce startups etc.) with no major brand aspirations will be happy with poker.chips type domains as there will be less expectation on them owning a dot com (unless/until they get big).

Therefore .co.uk will cease to have much resale value within 5 years I bet - well, it will have value if someone really wants it but no default value.

If I owned a lot of .co.uk's I'd be having a fire sale.

If and when Facebook etc. abandon .com the game will change again but I can't see that happening in the foreseeable future.

What a load of twaddle
How could you know what you would do with a portfolio of co.uk's if you had them, you don't have them, have not grown with the industry, so couldn't possibly know what you would do. One thing is for certain though, if they were anything like beforeyouinsure.com which you have, it would be no good having any kind of sale because they would have no value in the first place.

 

[ojlewis]

What a load of twaddle
How could you know what you would do with a portfolio of co.uk's if you had them, you don't have them, have not grown with the industry, so couldn't possibly know what you would do. One thing is for certain though, if they were anything like beforeyouinsure.com which you have, it would be no good having any kind of sale because they would have no value in the first place.

You're right, I don't have a big portfolio of co.uk's and I'm very glad of it because if Nominet proceeds with the .uk release next year the value of a .co.uk will I believe diminish, possibly greatly. If there wasn't general concern about that why do you think this forum currently has a whole banner at the top encouraging people to have their say (e.g. protest).

Would I actually have a fire sale if I owned loads of .co.uks? Ok, I accept I may not - but I probably should do, and if I didn't it would most likely be inertia and denial preventing me.

The fact that I haven't "grown with the industry" as you put it may actually be why I am able to comment on these obvious likelihoods without emotion.

Regarding a domain I own, beforeyouinsure, I never made any grand claims about it, I merely asked in another forum for an appraisal on it and it got mixed reviews as I would expect it to. I'm not sure what you are trying to prove by referring to it - seems a bit like a personal attack.