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There are still lot's of doom and gloom people predicting a crash of .com registrations as well as a fall in short domain prices, below is a quote from one of the online boards.
" I still consider the low quality lll.com's to be near the peak (even though they have been falling recently), very happy to cash out at current prices considering the rest of the market has taken a caning. I paid $750 for those 5 names in 2002." (The poster was referring to a recent sale of 5 of his LLL.com's for a little over $30,000.)
I'm sorry, but I don't understand his doom and gloom and I'm from the USA where we are in a small recession. If I had invested only $750 in 5 domains just 6 years ago, and sold them a few days ago, I'd be singing the praises of investing in LLL.coms. However, perhaps he knows something, which I don't. Yes, I know that the economy of the USA is in decline, prices are rising and my money doesn't buy as much now days. However, being old...uh...I mean older that most domainer's. I've seen the economy go down and up many times.
.com however is not a product of the USA only, it is a world-wide marketplace. Through a lot of research, I have pricing charts for every short .com, letters and numbers dating back to 1998. This includes LL.com, LLL.com, LLLL.com, L-L.com, NN.com, NNN.com, NNNN.com and more and according to my research, the .com tends to increase over time regardless of what is happening in the US.
1998 0 <----Internet Boom
1999 0 <----Internet Boom, US Company Registers aLL LLLL.com domains
2000 50 <---World Trade Center,US Company Releases all LLLL.com domains
2001 250 < ---Falling Economy, Dollar Begins Spiraling Downward,War in Afghanistan, .com Crash/Internet Boom goes Bust
2002 500 <-----Crisis in Iraq, Corporate Scandals
2003 750 <-----War in Iraq, Loss of Space Shuttle Columbia
2004 1500 <----Presidential Election
2005 2750 <----Hurricane Katrina
2006 5000 <----War in Iraq, North Korea Nuclear Testing
2007 6500 <----Collapsing Housing Market
2008 7500 <----High Gas Prices
On top of all the above wars, recession and gloom, ICANN has released over 200 new names .us, .eu, .mobi, .pro, .travel, .biz, .name, .ws, .me. .cn, .de, ....
Yet, the .com continues to rise in value and cost.
Will the .com continue to rise, will values get even higher, or will prices plumment? Unfortunately I just do not know.
However, in 2008 .com show's the highest growth of any other TLD for active web pages.
| Rank | TLD | TLD Name | Number of hosted pages | Change +/- | | 1 | com | Commercial | 73 200 000 000 | 100 000 000 | | 2 | org | Non-profit Organisations | 8 740 000 000 | 20 000 000 | | 3 | jp | Japan | 8 510 000 000 | -1 150 000 000 | | 4 | net | Network | 6 330 000 000 | unchanged | | 5 | de | Germany | 5 330 000 000 | -20 000 000 | | 6 | cn | China | 3 800 000 000 | 30 000 000 | | 7 | uk | United Kingdom | 3 350 000 000 | -10 000 000 | | 8 | ru | Russian Federation | 3 240 000 000 | -220 000 000 | | 9 | edu | Educational | 2 340 000 000 | unchanged | | 10 | it | Italy | 1 560 000 000 | 10 000 000 | | 11 | nl | Netherlands | 1 460 000 000 | 10 000 000 | | 12 | pl | Poland | 1 190 000 000 | unchanged | | 13 | fr | France | 1 120 000 000 | unchanged | | 14 | gov | Government | 1 050 000 000 | unchanged | | 15 | tw | Taiwan | 1 030 000 000 | -10 000 000 | | 16 | us | United States | 965 000 000 | -145 000 000 | | 17 | ca | Canada | 949 000 000 | 1 000 000 | | 18 | au | Australia | 917 000 000 | 1 000 000 | | 19 | info | Informational | 661 000 000 | 2 000 000 | | 20 | ch | Switzerland | 620 000 000 | -1 000 000 | | 21 | se | Sweden | 605 000 000 | 1 000 000 | | 22 | dk | Denmark | 511 000 000 | 2 000 000 | | 23 | br | Brazil | 495 000 000 | 2 000 000 | | 24 | at | Austria | 472 000 000 | unchanged | | 25 | es | Spain | 468 000 000 | 3 000 000 | | 26 | be | Belgium | 447 000 000 | 2 000 000 | | 27 | no | Norway | 437 000 000 | 4 000 000 | | 28 | hk | Hong Kong | 341 000 000 | -1 000 000 | | 29 | fi | Finland | 318 000 000 | unchanged | | 30 | hu | Hungary | 302 000 000 | 3 000 000 | | 31 | cc | Cocos (Keeling) Islands | 243 000 000 | -2 000 000 | | 32 | nz | New Zealand | 227 000 000 | 1 000 000 | | 33 | biz | Business | 211 000 000 | -1 000 000 | | 34 | tv | Tuvalu | 197 000 000 | 1 000 000 | | 35 | ar | Argentina | 192 000 000 | 4 000 000 | | 36 | eu | European Union | 187 000 000 | unchanged | | 37 | il | Israel | 180 000 000 | -24 000 000 | | 38 | za | South Africa | 143 000 000 | 2 000 000 | | 39 | gr | Greece | 138 000 000 | 2 000 000 | | 40 | th | Thailand | 130 000 000 | unchanged | | Source: Xavier Media |
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