I did a little poll last week about this and wanted to also get a snapshot here on the blog. Plus people have more than 140 characters to explain their position. In that limited sample size of 41 votes, 76% voted yes.
Do you believe domaining will still be a viable business in 2027 ?
Not will there be domain names and registrars selling them, but will domain investors still be doing business in a vibrant way 10 years from now ?
Do you believe domaining will still be a viable business in 2027 ?
no. humanity will be dead by then
Humanity will be here maybe not you but the world will be just fine.
and you took your time to post this? humanity is really f*cked
Just as in the year 2017, domaining will definitely be viable but only for the top 1%. Sure, there will be the occasional $500 buy and $10K from some newbie that will go on to talk about it on Cyger’s show but those are not repeatable on a consistent enough basis.
Telephones(dot)com, just noticed that. Cool. 🙂
Oh, too funny, I’ve seen you before. You have (at least) one of my former domains I let go. 🙂
DigitalTelephones is the future
Well, I still can’t understand why PPC and parking revenues keep falling. And what’s much worse: what happened to that well spread theory that G was very monopolistic and greedy, and that once competition came in, revenues would rise? That theory just quietly disappeared from the scene. I guess time has proven it to be complete BS.
See what I wrote below about the “war on domains.” That’s why PPC and parking has more or less died.
“And what’s much worse: what happened to that well spread theory that G was very monopolistic and greedy, and that once competition came in, revenues would rise? That theory just quietly disappeared from the scene.”
People, especially in the industry, appear to simply be afraid of their own shadow when it comes to Big G, so it seems they by and large simply don’t want to say anything. Otherwise known as reticence, silence, “omerta,” etc. Apparently the even bigger “G” of government didn’t want to hit them with any anti-trust action because of their dominance of search, so that pretty much blew any chance of change out of the water for the time being.
Perhaps the greatest Kafkaesque aspect of it all is Google, the biggest and greatest enemy of domain names of them all, (though now they have really big fellow competition for that), being part of the so-called “Domain Name Association” purportedly existing for the “common interests of the domain name industry.” That’s a bit like the emperor who has no clothes and the chickens dining with the fox, the wolfman, and the creatures from the classic Alien/Aliens movie franchise. And smiling as if everything is fine.
The new gTLDs and the way in which they have been introduced to the world appear to have enhanced and accentuated the value of .com rather than dilute it as some surmised could happen, even surmised many years before they appeared.
I doubt very much that domain names will become obsolete or lose their significance and importance, notwithstanding the years long “war on domains” which has been waged by the likes of giants like Google and some others. The war has been damaging, but not fatal or victorious, nor is it likely to be imo.
The greatest “sleeping giant” of them all is still .US, at least for the US region and market. It is a far greater “sleeping giant” than and dwarfs the long awaited .web in potential. If the “PTB” (“powers that be”) finally allow it to gain the kind of public awareness that you would normally have expected for it from the start, or are taken out of the way so to speak – and make no mistake, that is what has kept it where it is all these years at the “human” level – it could eventually and preferably before long take its rightful place alongside .com in terms of prominence, significance and popularity in the USA and among those who value this part of the world and global economy.
I don’t see anything replacing domains, and if that’s the case, in 2027 there should still be a market for buying and selling domains, and demand from individuals, groups and businesses that need a good domain to be found on the web. Who knows what other uses there may be for domains at that time. The market will be more mature, there will be less good quality domains available, and prices will be higher. Just like any market over time that has more demand, more maturity, and less supply. Perhaps some new extensions will have caught on by then and have wider use. There are children and teens running around out there now that will become future domain investors by 2027 and after. I’ve been in domains for 17 years now and what has changed since then is more people involved, more marketplaces and registrars, more extensions, more domain investing tools and services, more demand, and higher prices for quality. What hasn’t changed much is the basics of acquiring domains you think have potential, holding them in your account, maybe parking some, developing some or using some for forwarding, and those nuts and bolts of being a domainer should still be there 10 years from now, given it’s been like that the last 17 years plus.
Yes, domain names will be — and already are being — replaced by social media outlets, voice bots like Alexa and Siri, and the general laziness of users that these technologies and outlets encourage. Even Google.com has confounded its search box with the URL entry line in most web browsers. Why type a domain name when you can just enter — or speak — a phrase? In 10 years time, only bots and other AI will be using domain names and IP addresses to find and deliver data back to users. In my humble opinion.
No
Thanks for the deep reply.
Nobody knows but I think domaining is the future.
The small guy will be out and the big boys will have taken over by 2027.
It has already started with GoDaddy and Tucows.
The domain Industry will continue to consolidate, domain portfolios will continue to be bought out, company merger and acquisitions will continue to happen.
It’s already too late to become a new .com domain Investor IMO. Quality .com domains are already getting harder and harder to find at reasonable prices.
Suppy for good .com domains is shrinking and demand is increasing.
Domain backordering and aftermarkets are also overpriced.
It’s a domain reseller market right now and it will stay like that until end-user demand increases.
The domain Industry will be a lot bigger in 2027, but unfortunately​, Individual domain Investors will be few and far between.
Domains will stay strong, perhaps by then the next “facebook” may have brought some attention to the new Gtld’s but I will still be seeing tv ads for hotel.com I suspect
Domaining probably has that potential
The question is what a domain name for..? It is to redirect users to a website with ip address like 161.987.667.445 or any other forms of ip. The question is how people can remember such kind of number in direct types? I have no idea something can replace a domain name to share website urls.. The only question is “.com or other tlds”
Who cares, I will be sailing in the Carribean with strippers on my boat by then:-)
.com – yes
ntlds – no
Electric cars were the future years ago and still moving forward. Why do I see all the charging stations vacant?
DN’s aren’t going anywhere soon…
The question was not will domains be here, I believe firmly domain names will be working and going strong. In your opinion will domain investors be able to make money buying and selling ?
No. I agree with “Anonymous” above that in ten years time only bots and other AI will be using domain names to find information and deliver it back to our devices into which we have spoken our requests. Or, perhaps, we will need not even speak — cognitive prosthetics (yes, I registered CognitiveProsthetics.com) such as implants will enable us to merely think of a request and the integrated AI bot will execute the task of finding the answer to our request and bring us back the answer within milliseconds, just like Alexa or Siri is doing already for us. We humans will not care what domain name might have been used by the AI bot to find the information. Heck, even the AI bot might not refer to the domain name to find the information just as Google does not give much credence to the domain name today when determining a response to return in its SERPs — the content made accessible at the IP address is far more important to Google than the domain name that serves as the mask to that IP address. The domain is just a ‘nice to have’ to make it easier for human beings to find the content — the AI bot will rely on it less so. Thus, the ability for domain investors to buy and sell domain names for a profit may very well decline over the next 10 years.
You do understand and accept the fact Ray, that those running any aftermarket site from sedo to uniregistry to every tom, dick and harry broker working independently or associated with any aftermarket site will, with extreme prejudice feather there own nests and sell only their names and the names of only the largest of domain portfolios, before attempting any effort to sell any one else’s names, short of low hanging LL, LLL, NN, NNN .com names?
You do know and accept this, don’t you Ray?