As happy domainer located in Miami or Las Vegas, what do you think of a real estate market where 50% of the units are vacant and owned by home flippers?

Will domainers find enough small businesses for all these domains. Will the Smith grocery store in NYC pay significant more for nycGroceryStore.com than the nearly zero cost of registering nycSmithGroceryStore.com?

I think registrations are going to fall substantially and drops will be enormous…..especially most of the alternative extensions.”

There is likely to be a lag of 1-2 years. This time last year things were okish with the economy and the larger drops will likely come in the next 6-12 months. Having said that it is probably wishful thinking to predict registration totals will fall substantially. During the .com bust they fell about 10% and that was a much worse time for the Internet than now. Personally I wouldn’t be suprised if there was no fall at all for the bigger extensions.

New registrations are instantaneous.
A renewal only comes around once a year.
Maybe, a couple years depending how long they were initially renewed.

I’m sure many (casual*) domain owners, med and large companies and domainers are questioning if some domains should be renewed. I know I dropped a number of marginal domains.

* kids, families, small or part-time businesses.

I wonder if we have hit the peak of .com registrations? We won’t know for a couple years.

Just like many us did not know that we were at the peak of the Dow at 14,000.
(today is is around 8,600)

Domain Name Registration Growth: Up or Down? – http://tinyurl.com/qolbbf

I think registrations are going to fall substantially and drops will be enormous…..especially most of the alternative extensions.

One day I think domainers and others will look back and say, “Wow…..were we dumb to buy so many alternatives to .com”.