Hi Gang,
As most domainers know, I was one of the few domain buyers looking at the 3D and Future Trend domain buying strategy back in 2004. I also let the cat out of the bag when it was sleeping just fine in there. I revealed my strategy on Monte Cahn’s “DomainMaster Radio” interview in October 2006.
Guess what? For all you old-timers, it’s time to “Erase Your Head!”
Those future trend domains are now maturing faster than expected and have started selling nicely, thank you. My domains were purchased from mainly OOTB, but I also bought domains from private sellers and in auctions and domain “listing” sites, like Buydomains. I got very good prices from all because most of them weren’t keyed in with information I was reading daily in my “future tech” science report searches.
A good buddy and brilliant domainer, Michael Berkens (Em-Bee) posted an article on his blog TheDomains.com about the emergence of value in 3D domains over 3 months ago that has now reached past the 550 (!) comment mark, which I believe is a record for his blog site (and many other domain blog sites). Suddenly 3D domains have gone ballistic. We have noobies picking up domains for OOTB’s and getting four figure offers on them within less than six months. Talk about striking it rich!
Now it’s time for me to reveal the secret of 3D, Hologram/Holographic, and other future trend domains: If you’re not investing in now, you will be paying huge prices for them in the next year or two, or kicking yourself for not nabbing them when they began to blossom. Even now, 3D products and services are so huge in consumer trends, and every major corporation is looking at “New Media” advertising, including 3D displays and gimmickry. The public LOVES it. The manufacturers are scrambling, the New Media crowd is falling over itself to jump on this bandwagon, and most of them already have to some extent.
Deloitte, the top financial advisory firm in the world, has a nice pdf to download regarding the direction towards 3D marketing. Get it. (this link is iffy, if it doesn’t work, let us know)
There’s some fun facts right now to impress you with what’s happening just with 3D prodservs.
1) Samsung has sold over 300,000 units of 3D-based TV’s since June 2010. They’re said to own almost 90% of the market in 3D TVs.
2) Sony has said they expect to sell over (read this right) a whopping 2.5 million 3D TV’s in the next year. Expect new technologies to make those TV’s obsolete before the end of 2011. Hey, for now, you can be the coolest house on the block with a 3D TV.
3) Most consumers surveyed about their opinion on 3D entertainment said that other than having cheap 3D optics (glasses), when they get good glasses and a great TV presentation, the experience is fantastic.
4) Drawbacks to 3D consumers talked about were “headaches from bad 3D glasses” and poor migrations of 2D films into 3D films.
5) The “coolest” TV to own right now, under 60 inches, is the Samsung UN55C7000
6) Here’s what we can we expect from 3D advertising: Every major corporation has a 3D New Media campaign already produced, in the works, or planned to head up a campaign. Even billboards on the side of the road will be freaking out drivers… and premiere’s for every new high level product, place, service, will have a 3D ad campaign to back it up. That’s only the start. Every major company is involved.
7) Cellphone apps are being made, along with cellphone technology, to take, project and view 3D images.
My article only covers 3D products and media. There are many other future tech prodservs to immerse your mind and dollars into right now. This is where the big domain money will be in the next 3 years.
I’m offering anyone looking into purchasing Future Trend domains, including 3D, Holograms, Solar, Robotics, Cellphone Apps, Green Prodserves and electric fashions, a FREE place here to discuss their domain purchases, sales, opinions and expectations for future trend domains.
I am opening my blog site and will feature any and all of your submissions, both in comments and domains you are trying to sell. I’m going to do everyone a favor and let my blog be an OPEN FORUM for future trend domains.
If you aren’t on board with future trend domains now, you will be by 2011, but by then, it might be too late to get the current maturing domains for less than $5000, if that.
Have fun, and I look forward to future technology domains and your opinions! Show us what you got and what you’re doing with it!
@ Louise,
Exploring your options and capitalizing on your Real Estate, is what really matters and just makes good business sense. In spite of any misconception that all “GREAT” dot coms names have been accounted for. If this were correct that would mean that FUTURE generations don’t stand a chance. You’re always going to have pillars of the internet, much like Blue Chip Stocks, but future technology could very well dictate traffic in the coming years. If those pillars of the internet don’t have Future Trend domain names in their arsenals, will they maintain traffic in the years to come? Possible, but what if they don’t? An experienced and aggressive marketing team would surely have to address these concerns before they turn into issues. This is why it’s important for EVERYONE to explore other avenues rather than give your Real Estate away.
Got this from DNForum
supermario3d.com ($1,700 USD)
Isn’t there some trademark issue here?
@Robert
Yes, but that doesn’t stop ripoffs from trying to sell those domains to suckers… Good call, Robert
to clarify,
I’m reporting. I’m not the buyer.
If it’s good enough for Rick Schwartz, it’s good enough for me! Rick claims he is finished selling off his good dot coms. Now, he invites developers to – for a fee – develop some of his names, and they will split the percentage.
@ Yes Louise!
If it’s good enough for Rick Schwarz, it’s perfect for every domain investor! And you SHOULD take his cash to develop out his sites. First, check out his main man Rick Latona’s success doing this several years ago for OTHER domainers when Latona was head “domain auction” organizer for Rick’s TRAFFIC conference. Ask how “AEIOU.COM” worked out, and how many of Rick’s clients switched over to my company’s services (WhyPark.com at the time – now DomainApps.com, when I was VP of Business Development there).
I think you should probably write Rick daily, get involved with his projects, and help him as much as you can. He’s REALLY interested in your dev skills, and you, and he will treat you fairly. He’s known as one of the most lovable, likeable, agreeable, sincere, fair-minded, zen-type domain investors in history.
You should invite him to write a guest post here, or on your blog site. Go get him, Louise!
@ admin, You’re funny – lol!!!
No no no. When I said, “for a fee,” I meant, @Rick invites the developers to PAY THE FEE TO HIM FIRST before they can get started to develop his premium domains, for a split of the revenue.
I’m not having anything to do with Rick or his proposition. First, he would have to divest himself of all his adult sites, before I would ever consider working for him. 2nd, I would have to be paid, instead of him. 3rd, I am so excited of my little portfolio, all I want is to develop out a few of those, such as DualScreenApps dot com, or Responsive TV dot com. But I get, @Rick wants to hang on to his premium properties, and derive revenue from them, instead of sell. That is what @Straighttalk is talking about!
@Louise
Oh, I misunderstood your comment. I just read your first line “If it’s good enough for Rick Schwartz, it’s good enough for me! ” and that set the tone for the rest of the comment. Your answer here clears that up.
One other example of someone doing something different is the owner of Chicago.com trying to open up to businesses for subdomains and email addresses, which would be: business@Chicago.com – neat idea!
3D Printers are getting larger and 3D Printing is getting bigger!
http://3dprintingsystems.com/biggest-3d-print-in-north-america/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2012/07/11/airbus-explores-a-future-where-planes-are-built-with-giant-3d-printers/
Robert McLean
@Robert
Looking good, isn’t it? I’m tempted to say something about the naysayers who’ve laughed at us for the last few years, but let’s save that until our first $1 mil sale!
@admin
Secrecy is an element in the protection of assets and future potential, especially where domains are concerned. I have hard evidence now that “StraightTalk,” a contributor here, is right concerning traffic for “Future Trend” domains and sites. It is not “if” one of “our” domains will fetch a million+, it is simple a matter of “when.”
Race ya…
Robert
I think it’s apparent that we’ve only scratched the surface of the possibilities in the realm of 3D. The best evidence and proof supplied, is always been in the pudding. If you take a look at what Proctor & Gamble is doing with http://www.3Dwhite.com it’s not only a TV commercial but it also opens up to their well-known trademarked household name CREST. Future Trend 3D names that can service items and enhance a particular topic itself could fare very well if marketed to the right entities. So for those of you that are sitting with… 3D name specific categories, 3dwhite.com should get your wheels spinning. Remember you don’t have to push a sale a partnership is just as good. All you need to do is have the right ears listening to you.
@Straighttalk
Excellent assessment of 3D domains and, getting real about it, the fact that those naysayers who thought 3D only dealt with “TVs” were obviously uneducated. That’s what I like about all our FT domain members… they are damn educated about the future, and can use that knowledge to get the drop on other domain investors and even the companies that are building the technology! Buying up “land” where you think a railroad is coming through based on research and analysis is how lots of people became millionaires back in the 19th century. Good job, joe.
Graphene is in the news alot!
Google and Graphene Frontiers Move Into Science Center Port Business Incubator
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/google-and-graphene-frontiers-move-into-science-center-port-business-incubator-2012-06-28
What happened to your buddy at the University of Wisconsin? Why isn’t JH collaborating with Google? It’s because the company name got changed to Xolve – a catchy brandable, no doubt! – prematurely. If xolve stuck with GrapheneSolutions – the one you sold it – they would be found on a search of, “graphene.” GrapheneFrontiers, GrapheneSolutions – they’re both good – “graphene” is hot! Should have kept branding on GrapheneSolutions.
My SmartSubstrates dot com is for sale on Afternic at sacrifice high four figures . . . A certain top blogger told me it isn’t brandable, but I think it’s good.
More mobile remote deposit news:
Top Image Systems (TIS) Partners With CheckAlt to Provide Mobile Remote Deposit Solutions in the USA
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/top-image-systems-tis-partners-with-checkalt-to-provide-mobile-remote-deposit-solutions-in-the-usa-2012-06-25
Go, Mobile Remote Deposit (have the dot com!!!)
New hand reg: SaynPay dot com
because . . .
Pay by Voice? So Long, Wallet
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/technology/personaltech/as-pay-by-phone-advances-square-takes-another-leap-state-of-the-art.html
Cool new tech! VoicePay, and all the others were taken. Thank you to the Namepros forum on nfc and mobile wallet for giving me ideas . . .
Hey Gang!
Here is an account, a true account of another horror story related to the domaining business.
PayPal inquiry. emailed July 25, 2012
Customer Service
1-877-569-1116
1-402-935-2050 (if calling from outside Canada)
4:00 AM to 10:00 PM PST Monday through Friday
6:00 AM to 8:00 PM PST Saturday and Sunday
Hello,
My name is Robert McLean and something very strange occured not long ago on my paypal account that I now want and need to investigate.
I have a portfolio of 800 domain names that I have parked at several different companies in the past. About a month ago I discovered that a group of 14 of my domains had been pointed to another server without my knowledge. Upon investigating further I pointed the domains back to the parking company and discovered that there had been a substantial amount of money made with my domains and the payment details were set to be directed to my paypal account and an email address had been set up on my paypal account that I did not recognize and did not authorize. I, deleted the email address, and changed my password. I want you help now in tracking the origin of the placement of this email address and how it was entered on my account on paypal to receive funds. The email address is rml6inc@live.ca.
Will you help me?
July 27, 2012
In the interests of documentation, in March of 2012 I entered an agreement with ParkLogic to place my 800 odd domains for parking and revenue generation.
After a month of dismal returns I moved my domains to Afternic in hopes of selling my domains and in so doing pointed DNS for all of my domains to Afternic. Afternic has a parking company set up and as per usual the returns were dismal.
About three weeks ago, while doing general maintenance on my portfolio of domains I noticed a group of 14 domains registered at Dynadot were pointed to ParkLogic. I thought this a little strange, so to keep everything consistent, I changed the DNS for these 14 domains back to Afternic.
During follow up over the next week, there was a dramatic increase in views and clicks for this group of 14 domains on Afternic and one day an astounding $79.00 in revenues from clicks was reported. $79.00 in one day for a group of 14 domains was shocking in light of the fact that for the previous three years of having my domains parked at various parking companies, there wasn’t $100.00 made in parking revenues.
I immediately contacted Michael Gilmour of Park Logic of the discovery and upon regaining access to my account with Park Logic, discovered that ( like a light switch being turned on) from June 23rd to June 30th at Park Logic, these 14 domains along with 20 other domains of mine registered at other registrars, (the DNS for which I had forgotten to point to Afternic upon discontinuing with Park Logic in April, 2012), had generated $1,492.97 in revenue. And more interestingly for the first 10 days of July had generated almost twice that.
Michael Gilmour commented that apparently, changes that they at Park Logic had made to their “algorithms” along with other changes had, obviously benefited the domains that had still been pointed to Park Logic, in a very positive way.
Upon further checking my account details at Park Logic, to make sure that for the purpose of being paid from Park Logic I discovered that the address associated with my PayPal account had been changed to rml6inc@live.ca from rpmclean@shaw.ca. I thought this odd, but didn’t give much more thought at the time, but immediately accessed my paypal account and changed the address back to rpmclean@shaw.ca and of course change the Park Logic paypal address also to rpmclean@shaw.ca.
Excited, and upon the suggestion of Michael Gilmour at Park Logic, I moved all of my domains back to Park Logic with the hopes that my full 800 domains portfolio could earn the same revenue as the 40 doing so well for the last 3 weeks.
For the next two weeks the 40 domains that started dramatically generating revenues as of June 23, 2012, continued, consistently generating revenues to a level where, in July, as of July 24, as per reports on Park Logic had generated over $5,000.00 in revenues.
Strangely though, the remaining 760 of my domains were only making pennies, earning at the same levels as all of my domains have at any and all of the domain parking companies I have ever had my domains parked at.
Curious, with the goal of investigating further to bringing all of my domains in my portfolio to the level of revenue generation demonstrated by the 40 domains that for the last month on Park Logic, that had generated over $6500.00, I sent an email to the email address that was on my paypal account after reopening my Park Logic account, rml6inc@live.ca.
“> From: rpmclean@shaw.ca
> To: rml6inc@live.ca
> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:58:37 -0700
> Subject: please respond
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Please let me know if you receive this and send me a return
> confirmation.
> Thank you ,
>
> Robert
> McLean “
Surprisingly, the next day, I received this reply.
“—– Original Message —–
From: Robert McLean
Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 6:53 pm
Subject: RE: please respond
To: rpmclean@shaw.ca
>
> Sure, I think maybe we can do a nice cooperation on domain parking.”
Wanting to flush the sender, I sent another email,
“From: rpmclean@shaw.ca
To: rml6inc@live.ca
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:10:52 -0700
Subject: Re: RE: please respond
Great!
Who are you? and where do you live? and how do you see us co-operating?
Robert McLean”
I then, received this email….,
“Hi brother, you can call me Robert2!
I am from Japan.
As you may notice the recent ParkLogic reports, that only 5 percents that we can do.
My team have a full solution in domain parking, include but not limited to views, clicks, conversions and so on. We keep the TQ score above 9, so the saftey is enough.
To Yahoo based companies, we can do around 10k usd per account, you need do ntthing, just receiving money. you can share 25-35 percents that depends on what and how many account you have.
How do you think about?
Robert2”
It of course then dawned on me that I had been “hacked” by someone so I immediately contact Michael Gilmour and upon his suggested, on a separate computer, changed all the passwords I have related to my domain business and paypal.
This is of course very distressing to me, and I looked to Micheal for guidance.
I was also expecting a promised payment from Park Logic of $700.00 for parking revenues in June. $1,492.97 – $359.00 clawbacks (google), -$378.00 commission taken by Park Logic and small adjustments related to March, April, and May account activities.
I was promised to be paid for June, July 23rd or 24th. Payment didn’t come, and was further delayed, as Michael Gilmour said, because of the latest development of learning of the hacked traffic generation of the “40 domains.”
In a conversation with Mr. Gilmour last night at about 10:30 pm my time where he asserted again that he was going to pay, I lost patience with his delays and told him that he could keep the money, and that now “I don’t want his money” and hung up.
Apparently what has happened is that this hacker, associated with rml6inc@live.ca hacked my paypay, Dynadot, and Park Logic accounts in an effort to make money on traffic he is able to sent to Park Logic associated with my domains, the revenue for which to be scooped up through my paypal account using the address rml6inc@live.ca.
The due diligence that I apply to keeping a close watch on my domains caught this crook.
The domain parking industry is “A WILD WEST” to quote Michael Gilmour in our conversation of last evening.
I am very disappointed and disillusioned, again in the domaining business.
There are pieces, details of these series of events that I have perhaps forgotten but the general outline and account is accurate and true.
Robert McLean,
July 27, 2012
Comments? Advise?
@Robert,
How do you think Skenzo became a top parking company even BEFORE they created their company name back in early 2006?
I have found five figure domains of mine stolen months after the fact, and spending time proving it would cost me five+ figures in legal fees, FOR EACH DOMAIN. I’ve found registrars that I use regularly actually HIDE domains that have expired, and within usual operating business with me (I have to re-analyze and research each domain for renewal since most of my domains are FT domains and need to be re-checked and filtered), changed up their grace period to 18 days instead of 35 days, just because of outside interest on my recently expired domain. This means, if some good domains of yours expired, and you’re used to having 30 days to renew them, be careful, because some registrars are simply “pulling” the best of your expired domains out of the “list” for you to to renew, and based on any “early interest” on your recently expired domains, so shortens the time they let you “renew” it. This allows them, by ICANN regulations, to be complete dicks and sell your domain in an auction they’re having. One time, a registrar, after grabbing an expired domain and hiding it within 18 days, already had it up on their auction site, even though they bypassed about ten other domains that expired many days earlier. It makes sense… if the registrar controls your domain, and you fail to renew it and it expires, they can set that redemption period at any time frame they want. If your expired domains looks like it will bring in four figures or more, which mine did, they will hide that domain from you so you CANNOT renew it, since they’ve already sent it to their own auction. This company, unbelievably, and from a well-known sales rep that I’d met in person and worked with hundreds of times over several years, simply emailed me back and said “Stephen, you’re welcome to BID ON THE DOMAIN IN THE AUCTION. HERE’S THE DATES”. I was shocked.
The domain was sold, and I received an email later from the registrar sales exec, acting as if she was doing me a big favor, saying “we contacted the buyer, and he is willing to sell the domain for $xxxx. What loyalty. What service. What ethical treatment of their customers.
This means, according to some registrars’ “Support reps” that it’s time for you to set those domains to “auto-renewal”.
“Auto-renewal” — a great service when you have an obvious premium killer domain. But what about those domains you need to re-check before you renew them? The only answer is — review all your domains in your list that are coming up for renewal and set them at auto-renew, because if you don’t, the registrars have the “right” to remove those domains from your VIEW in your account, make you think they are lost forever, even put them up in their own auctions, where if the domain sells, the registrar keeps ALL the money.
Has this happened to me? awwwwww yah word crawlers… and I’m someone who’s well known with thousands of domains, and I’ve worked for some of the very registrars that have pulled this game on me. I do have to give them credit for understanding the “Fear Factor” in dealing with me, because every one of those registrars either got me the domains back, or reimbursed me for my loss. The point is: Auto-renew if you know your domains are killer, keep your domains renewed BEFORE expiration (I know this is extremely hard for FT domainers, but try very hard to get that done!), and ultimately, TRUST YOUR REGISTRAR!!
My most trusted registrars? Fabulous.com, Rebel.com. Moniker.com and Danica Patrick’s reseller GoDaddy account. Hey! Don’t believe that what I recommend here actually will play out for you. These domain corporations act just like all major corporations do: If your contact within the company is getting friendly, and you’re getting protected or special deals, then say “goodbye” to your rep. No corporation wants their people getting a “personal” relationship with their customers, because then those pesky customers will start asking for “favors”, because in this world, things happen and we all need some support from our “SUPPORT TEAMS” at the companies we work with.
Welcome to the new world of corporate “ethspeak”. (The language corporate wonks send you to explain why they are ripping you off, not giving your any leeway, forgetting about your loyalty over the years to help them grow, and basically, why a different support person has not been assigned to you.)
“EthSpeak” are empty words that money hungry dickwads use to try to make you “go away”, but not far enough to where you stop renewing the 2000 domains you have registered with them.
It’s a sad situation, but we don’t need regulation, do we? We didn’t need it during GW BUSH’s 8 years of the last decade, and his policies helped squeeze out the pus from the pimples of capitalism. That pus is now covering America and it’s going to be a while until we can clean it off our face, if we’re still alive. (NOTE: I’m speaking from the viewpoint of people I know who have lost their jobs, their homes, and have nothing left, not my own financial experience. I saw GWBUSH coming when his brother threw the election in 2000 when he was Gov Jeb Bush, and again in 2004, when “swiftboat” commercials reduced a war hero to nothing based on lies and innuendo.)
Wow! That’s all I can say! @ Robert McLean, you’re probably doing the right thing, but I wouldn’t be able to let thousands in lost fees go. @ admin, your experience defies belief! My expired domains also experience a double standard of which are allowed a generous grace period, and which show missing. Some with EARLER expired dates are still in “pending delete,” while desirable ones disappear from the account! There is no getting away from pain that cuts have to be made, though.
@louise,
I trust that after 90 days, accounting for Google clawbacks, Park Logic and Michael Gilmour will pay me what is due me.
If not, well I can chaulk it up to the cost of an education.
More importantly, are questions that must be answered from the experience.
1.) How much money is being made by the registrars in parking revenues on the backs of the domain owners?
2.) What are the real numbers, and why is there not policing?
3.) What are the large domain players making? The holders of portfolios of 50,000 domains – 100,000 domains.
4.) How much are the parking companies not reporting?
5.) Google? Who is policing Google?
6.) How is Google allowed to conduct business without adequate customer service? I invite anyone reading this to engage in the exercise of trying to reach a Google customer representative by phone, or any other method.
The domain business smells. Smells bad.
Robert McLean
You sound like me! Domaining is corrupt at the highest levels: ICANN, Verisign, the major registrars. I even created a site to vent at RecoverDomainName.com. ICANN and the crime syndicate are one and the same, from what I see! There is a network of “insiders” holding back valuable domains from the public, while they point a big finger at “cybersquatters,” us. Regulation? 0. Look up the whosis for, MobileWallet.com – there is a discussion about that on Namepros.com . . . Some owner in Panama, who also owns some 200+ domains other commenters are saying are worthless. I think those registrants are hired guns from around the world – lawyers and secretaries – hired to register the domains in their identities in behalf of the Registrars and registries. And they move the whosis “creation” dates around, too!
They know I’m on to them, too. I had a big discussion with Elliot on his blog about moving the creation date of the whosis, because at that time, Weinergate showed a creation date of 05/27/2010 – exactly a year from the infamous text! Elliot said, maybe someone registered Weinergate on 05/27/2010. I said, EXACTLY a year from the tweet? And a MISSPELL of wiener?
Somebody was listening. Now the “creation” date says Creation Date: 31-jul-2011 – it’s a joke, how corrupt domaining is.
I just try to stay on the light side. Hope I don’t wind up six feet under!
Noticed this offer on MediaOptions:
CloudAdvertising.com & CloudAdvertising.net $15,000 Price is for the pair. The next big thing is cloud advertising. Priced for a quick sale
Registered 3dprintre.com recently. Simple and not far off 3dprinter. Works for me.
Robert McLean
@Robert
Anyone wanting to dig deep on this company’s web marketing supervisor for 3D printing, BAM. http://investors.stratasys.com/
Thanx, @ admin for the link! You’re genius!!!
Here is more info: http://smp.newshq.businesswire.com/pages/3d-printed-exoskeleton-lets-little-girl-lift-arms-play
@Admin,
Thank you Stephen.
SSYS, DDD, OBJT. Three 3D Printing stocks to watch.
Dassault Systemes, (DASTY), (DSY:EN Paris), also a stock recognized in the 3D Imaging realm as poised for long-term positive growth.
Robert McLean
@Robert
Careful on that tech talk! I fell over your acronyms and skinned my knee!
Dassault Systemes
http://www.3ds.com/partners/plm-solutions-partnership/partner-list/partner-description/partner/FASOTEC_CO_LTD/1/?cHash=55633500748522a2f5ff64c77502f51d
Virtual Crash Test Dummies?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/08/13/3d-video-technology-moving-far-beyond-hollywood/
Cheers Stephen
Matt Strong of “Tangibot” has “open-sourced” a “Makerbot” replica (knock-off) 3D Printer and is undercutting Makerbot by 1/3 in price.
Here is a “KwikStarter” debate, (lenglthy at that.)
Interesting debate, “Welcome To Open source,” says Matt Strong
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2117793364/the-tangibot-3d-printer-the-affordable-makerbot-re/comments
Robert McLean
http://blog.stratasys.com/blog/additive-manufacturing/obama-administration-likes-3d-printing/comment-submitted
Just registered ”
|: 3DPrintingInstitute.com 
|: 3DPrintingInstitute.net 
|: 3DPrintingInstitute.org 
|: ”
Hope Obama prevails!
Look at these sales, just reported on Sedo, via theDomains:
solarmade.org 896 USD
graphene.info 800 USD
We’re in trouble, when names that good go for so little!
Realy Louise?
You think those are good names?
What the hell is “solar made”? It means nothing.
as for Graphene.info, .info’s are weak tld’s at best.
Graphene isn’t being used in products yet, it might never be, another material might come along and completely usurp it.
Buying that domain right now is an $800 gamble.
I’d say whoever registered those did quite well out of them.
@Leigh,
Graphene is at atom-level material for transmitting electricity with NO HEAT. There is so much research and inclusion of this material, that most companies researching it aren’t currently reporting their findings because EVERYONE is working with it. Why give away the sugar for free when everyone is trying to find the sugar cane? I can tell you from years of researching graphene, that this material will be THE main circuit board material by 2015. There’s nothing on the horizon to replace or beat it, or we all would have read about it now. Remember, these R&D domains have been first reported at least over five years ago… so if there’s something coming, we’d be hearing about it right eee bowt neeeeowwwww. lol
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/graphene-molybdenum-disulfide-flat-materials-0823.html
Here is an article comparing graphene and molybdenum-disulfide.
@Liegh
I agree with your assessment, .info is of course weak and $896.00 for solarmade.org is a bonanza.
In conversations with some well established domainers over the last few months, overall, there is optimism. Optimism in the face of a very very bearish domain market for the last couple of years.
Robert McLean
@ Leigh, Ah. Solarmade – you have something there. Probably it is a fair price.
Don’t get me wrong! High xxx nothing to sneeze at!
@ admin, Thanx – kind of agree with you on Graphene.info – pretty heavyweight single-word domain, even if it is dot info.
@ Leigh, being operated by the same registry, I believe dot info ranks just as well as dot org, though dot org is preferable for recognition.
@ 3D Savvy said:
You have a great grasp on the domain industry – enjoy your comments! I agree, we future trend investors who came in last couple of years are starting in a different market than the “golden” years before 2008. It’s a challenge to figure out, but there are reasons for optimism.
Good news about AR, @ Leigh!
- Apple Fans Would Swoon for Nokia’s Lumia 920 — If it Were an iPhone
You know what? The Forbes tech writers give me a “kick” – lol!
http://www.whatare3dprinters.com
Now ranking Number 1 on Google for keyword search “3D printer facts”
Rumor is Steve Jobs will appear at Apple iPhone 5 launch tomorrow via hologram: http://bit.ly/U6Uztj cool
@ Lucy, Is that so?
In other “holo” news:
Microsoft patent shows Holodeck-style, full-room “immersive display”
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/09/microsoft-patent-shows-holodeck-style-full-room-immersive-display/
This went kind of low:
3dmammogram.com 2,200 USD
3dmammography.com 2,200 USD
They were probably two for one price of $4,400, owned by the same registrant.
Not really as the .com in this industry is useless. It’s like having Cancer.com it has never been a website ever.
@dmpartners
LOL now .coms are useless. .com is king – .com is useless,
well, that does it, to hell with all of my .com 3d printing, 3d scanning domains, LOL useless,
LOL
In the medical field .org is king. As you know 3DMammogram.org is the king in this case. 3DMammogram.com is worthless.
dot com isn’t bad – the medical field is in business to make $$! Ideally, even organizations who build on dot org . . . it would be nice to own the dot com, to control type-ins. That’s the truth!
I stand educated. Thank you. So much to learn, so little time.
Bobby
Hi Everyone,
Hope you’re all doing well and keeping the faith.
Makerbot 3D Printer Store opens in new york:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19665625
3D Printshow comes to London:
http://www.whatare3dprinters.com/articles/159074/The-3D-Printshow-2012-comes-to-London
Just a bit of an update too:
About 2 months ago I received 2 offers on 3dcakeprinter/s.com
$1000 dollars a piece, which I turned down flat.
It’s coming.
@Leigh
Me too, except some of my offers on the 3d domains, and holo domains, were high four figures. LOL…. as if…
Wait another year, keep reading the journals, you’ll be surprised at how fast these domains are coming to be mainstream. cheers!
Congrats on your good news, @Leigh!
As a matter of fact, my 3DDesignSoftware gets regular email inquiries . . . got to have the 3D design in order to print!
New gTLDs , I am guessing , have changed the landscape for domainers and domaining regardless of the fact of quarter 1, 2013 roll out.
The new virtual land rush looming is sucking a great deal of resources out of the industry, but it’s all hush-hush. Three months to go, and not a word from Stephen Douglas on this forum. Every “domainer” alive, whether they admit it or not is making provision for the finances needed to play. We are in for an unprecedented period of speculation and activity in the face of the 2013 roll out of the new gTLDs and you can bet your bottom dollar that the elite, affluent, “old guard” of the industry have secured their pre-registrations, and are jealously positioning for the “Land Rush.”
The new land rush will, in a very short time, perhaps one year, probably shorter, double the number of domains in existence.
If there are any domainers making money now it is a very small, handful of Schilling look-a-likes. If not all, but Frank clones, are losing money with their domains, then I am completely out to lunch and in needed of another 5 years of waiting for the ripening of the portfolio. Where is the honesty in this business? Everyone in this business, the domaining business is losing money. If everyone that reads and writes in this forum isn’t losing money in the domaining business, I suggest that they are liars.
I challenge anyone here to state honestly that they are making money in the domaining business. “Eternal Optimism” aside, when does the speculator-gold fever infected mantra end and realism start.
PEOPLE– this industry is sick. STOP the bullshit.
Robert McLean
Great introspective, thoughtful comment, @ Savvy! But I don’t believe it. I’ll believe it when I see it.
If anything, domainers are excited of the bleedoff of new extensions back to the dot com, such as:
Buildings.eco
Buildingseco.com
I asked MHB, is Right of the Dot going to recommend advance registrations of the dot com of important new gTLDs, and didn’t get a reply, or he said, “no.” There is no plan to advise them.
It’s happening in dot tv:
ConcertTV.com
vs
Concert.tv
Conceert.tv allowed its Premium renewal dot tv domain to expire, and continues to operate on the cheaper renewal
ConcertTV.com.
Which seems to be operating fine.
Makers Unite:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19347120
Interesting to see that a 3D Magazine has launched in Britain http://bit.ly/UWC3ag
3ddetective.com 3DDISPENSARY.COM photografting3d.com
4:10 am. I’ve been up two hours tweaking, writing, coding, maintaining, suffering. Suffering the sickness that is the domaining promise.
Resigned to the fact of being preyed upon, misinformed, and lied to time and time again.
How many losers like me are out there? Problem is, like so many that have been taken in “stocks’ investment scams in the past, domainers that have lost tens of thousands of dollars are loath to report. Pride you see. Shame prevents reporting and investigation.
Free market system. Dog eat dog.
Laugh it up all you geniuses. Have a good laugh. Get in line to pick the bones of another loser to the lies of this domaining “business.”
poor loser
@3Dsavvy – Rob McClean
Bro, I’m sorry, but you are more negative than me, and that’s not good. You need to create your own blogsite and pound out all your complaints, from your experience and knowledge of this field.
Please don’t post the “post-apocalypse” scenarios you have in your mind, on this blog. That’s MY job. If you have a problem with how the domain industry is going, then post an article on YOUR OWN BLOG WEBSITE!!! Do you have one? If not, get one.
Some of your ranting is spot on, but there are lots of comments you post that I don’t agree with. Test out your ideas on you BLOG, and see how readers respond.
However, this site isn’t meant to be “Man, the whole domain industry is against me.”
It looks and sounds crazy, unless you can break a news story with actual and factual news info. If not, then conjecture on YOUR blog site. Yes?
Cheers mate!
Stephen
3DToyPrinters anyone?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19818815
Worrying:
http://www.businessinsider.com/new-super-obscure-patent-blocks-3d-printing-of-weapons-food-prosthetics-even-human-skin-2012-10
Actually, I take it back.
Encouraging!
@ Leigh
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevefaktor/2012/10/15/how-hp-could-reinvent-3d-printing-and-itself/
@ 3DSavvy
Great article! There’ll definitely be an apple of the 3D Printing world, maybe it’ll even be….apple!
http://on3dprinting.com/2012/06/25/will-apple-make-big-acquisition-enter-3d-printing-market/
I’ve got the 3D Print show in London this coming Fiday:
http://3dprintshow.com
Very exciting, I’ll be sure to report back.
@Leigh
Great links to 3d printing, Leigh. There’s all sorts of commotion going on in the FT “generic term” world, with every major company trying to TM the basic words that describe what our domains have done for years. Remember, AOL tried to “TM” the word “AD” and “Advertising.com” a few years ago, without success. However, we may have to push forward with TM efforts on some of our domains in order to set a standard of protection. That’s the discussion we should be having now. I will write a blog article on this when I gather more info.
Cool beans, @Leigh – 3DPrintShow looks neato! Hope you have cards printed up you can hand out with your domain names . . .
– Researchers Design Smart Material Composed of DNA Nanotubes
Cool medical news!
Nice sale on Sedo this week:
3dprints.com 7,500 EUR
I just sold cloudpros.com for USD $7000
I was contacted through Afternic
CONGRATS! Another year and you could have added a zero on that sale price. Good job tho, Giles.
@ Giles.
Great Sale mate!
Thanks Leigh, very happy with it
Thanks, but we said that 18 months ago when I sold CloudCo.com for the same price, you need to take the money when the decent offer comes along or you will regret it, then you can buy a few more decent names with the profits
Anyone getting offers on any FT names
@Giles,
Well, taking cash when you need it to grow your other FT domain investments is never a bad thing,
I do the same sometimes, but prefer to wait it out with confidence. Either way, you scored! I know you have many other domains that will eclipse that sale in the near future! Cheers bro!
Forbes piece – interesting
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferhicks/2012/10/31/when-a-festival-has-nothing-to-do-with-music/
RPM
Hey Everybody
FUTRS.com has a whole new look
Come see what we’re about to do for Future Trend Domain Names
Looks good!
@Emerging……..
It’s fantastic, and we see the movement growing daily on our end. By the beginning of 2013, we should have a mandate on how all FT domainers will know where to market their FT domains, and where the END USERS in our market will be going to search for the strongest domains possible. Great job by John Vicino