I share most you your views on the positive outlook for the domain business a such, and would like to draw your attention to two main drivers of growth that actually drive each other and seem to be underrepresented in many debates on the future of the web – the combination of “social web” with the advent of mass market uptake of “mobile uses of the Internet”

IMHO this translates into three more items ad like to suggest as additions to your list:

7. The individuals that create personal content in or outside large social community service will seek to further customize and individualize their experience – with individualized domain names to become their “social beacon” and designated entry point. Many future domain names will be running small, specialty sites catering towards a very small community and sit in the famous “long tail”

8. We ain’t seen nothing yet: It is irrelevant that the “Generation Desktop Internet” is slow and/or unwilling to fully embrace mobile properties to the max. Today’s installed base of internet content will fundamentally be expand and enriched by droves of new users whose first, foremost and dominant user experience of the internet is via their mobile. These new users will become *the* driving force introducing a totally new paradigm in understanding, targeting and serving their mobile customers.

9. Approx. 1 billion new mobile handsets per year push a plethora of variation into the market, the vast majority of which do offer to use the Web via XHTML which allows displaying most fixed and mobile sites). Site owners who embrace mobile users must use a distinguished domain names to peek out of the sea of the “dotcom legacy with no mobile support/adaptation”. The new mobile crowd will not be shy to embrace something new, in opposite to “the still desktop focussed crowd”: They will simply pick clearly distinguishable other TLD to fill their needs – locally and globally.

All the best!

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