Comments on: Will Recession Hit Domains?

By: Johnny B. Good

Johnny B. Good — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:03:45 +0000

Regarding less searches, it appears that uniques are already dropping and thus searches too.

I keep some domains in portfolios that have been locked with the same domains for years and traffic is decreasing from what I can tell – so to me the recession already started.

This is Jan. and things should be rockin’, but it feels soft to me. Wait until this summer – it could get nasty.

What’s going to happpen? I don’t know. It seems all the points made above are valid – so its anyones guess on how companies will react this round.

By: Joel Gilgoff

Joel Gilgoff — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:48:23 +0000

Domaining is still in its infancy – and industry does not have a clue as far as generic domain value. I predict continued rapid increases in name value – not based on current revenue but on the value of the name itself.

By: Nick Wilsdon

Nick Wilsdon — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:54:18 +0000

@Andrew

Yes I read the exact quote after I posted. Frank suggests there maybe “cyclical opportunities if the economy craters”.

http://www.circleid.com/posts/domain_aftermarket_asset_repricing/

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:48:17 +0000

This recession will be unlike anything you have ever seen, not only will it affect domain prices the internet will have to be shutdown but only for about 36 months.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:48:35 +0000

Nick – Frank also said one of those “buying opportunities” may come up again soon

David – I agree, small businesses sometimes ‘get it’ better than big ones. Since I work with F500 companies all the time, I sometimes question their logic.

Adam – perhaps, as long as it’s profitable

All- I started buying U.S. stocks today. If domain prices drop — which I don’t think the premiums will for a while — make sure to have cash on the side to start buying. I fortunately have been holding back some cash to buy stocks when they dropped. Hopefully now is the time.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:36:55 +0000

Doesn’t a decreasing supply of consumers who will buy mean that the advertisers will be pumping more money to grab those remaining dollars ? Supply/demand ?

By: don1

don1 — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:38:43 +0000

Recession, we are in one right now. Media is delaying what is real. It will only help the big companies, they have the cash to push the little guy out when it comes to search engines. Check out the example below they seem to do this in every state. Why care? because companies will start to do this with loans, realestate, and all products.

Example Type in the term california health insurance in google. Does google enforce double serving? You decide. Google to me is just like one big yellow pages, they have the same company put up different ads yet it all directs to the same company or same website in some way. In this example everything seems to lead to ehealthinsurance.com the mother of online health insurance. Is this fair? Of course we are talking about adwords and not naturall serach.

Now how do you think this hurts the local independent insurance agent? Or realestage agent, or whatever profession you are in.

At least yahoo watches this.

California-Health-Insurance-Rates.com
California.eHealthInsurance.com