In truth, generic .COM prices have gone nowhere but straight up much faster than any stock, bond, oil or precious metal. After 13 years, however, the good ones have ended up in institutional hands and are no longer being sold on the auction market. Investors and auctioneers are trying to make markets out of the garbage tld’s mentioned before, but the indisputable fact is that .COM is king. Period. Anything other than a .COM will prove to be a waste of money.

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For that reason I do not know what to expect, or under what scenario someone would be interested. A sale is a sale, and only the auction can really answer the current worth.

Yes… any other scenarios you can come up with for “deposits.com” would be very interesting to hear about.

My point after what I hope those 50 somethings among us got a good laugh is that like the bubblin crude our long awaited returns on investment is imminent.

I agree with Rob that those educated people that have been misplaced will soon start foraging for opportunities to replace their jobs and lost incomes.

What has not been mentioned yet and what may surprise domain investors who are the benefactor of sales yet to be revealed is how and why those sales will occur.

Let me give just one example of how somebody would purchase your domain name for reasons that you probably never considered but hey a sales a sale!

Take the small cap companies. The thing that drives investment (err legal gambling)in these gems of companies is specualtion and hope.

So your name could be just what the doctor ordered for the small cap business to use to entice investors to throw cash their way and get on board before the new site they plan to build around their new domain name (formerly you domain name) explodes and leaks oodles and oodles of greenbacks for the company and of course those lucky few (hopefully many as far as the company is concerned) savvy (sure they are) investors.

Interested to know what other possible sales scenarios that domain owners see that other domain name owners may not have considered.

We’ll see what affect current market conditions have on the activity of my potential sale and overall (and more telling) the success of this event.