Subdomain Sales
I had a musing months ago that you could make a lot of money if you owned the right top-level domain. Now, it seems that the us.com domain is selling yourdomain.us.com to attract people who want a “.com” in the domain name, but don’t mind the extra “us.” tagged in front. Strangely, the .us domain is really underused, already. .mobi never took off (yet, at least). .tv is really not much in use, either.
How long will it be before .com names are replaced by something more chic? 10 years? 20 years? Even sooner? When that time comes, things are going to be a mess– domain name fights and lawsuits everywhere. The only other example, (that I can think of on a coporate level) where there’s a rush to register names are vanity phone numbers: (800) MY-NAMES or something of the sort.
Why trade stocks and precious metals when you can trade internet domain names, instead?… Also, has anyone ever noticed that GoDaddy = god addy = god addresses?… Interesting…