Question: I own over 50 domain names. Most are .com extention and cost me over $35. Now you could by them for as low as $6. Is this a sign that they are actually becoming less usefull, less valued, and less attractive? What is really going on?

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Harris Miller - posted on 2000-10-08 09:13:03 Domain names are being used by many Netizens as a surrogate search mechanism, because most Net search engines produce too many results when queried. I am hopeful the search engines will improve to the point where the domain name search methodology will diminish. But as long as Netizens are searching by domain names, many of them have high value, particularly those which represent a well-known business or common phrase. But as those well-known names and common phrases are taken, the value of the remaining domain names diminishes because as search tools, the remaining names have less value. I do not know which domain names you own, but unless they are obvious names which people will find through searches, their market value is questionable. Lawrence Lessig - posted on 2000-10-07 06:51:50 This is a sign that competition is happening -- too slowly and too imperfectly, but that explains the price change. And a good thing too, imho. Emerson Tiller, J.D., Ph.D. - posted on 2000-10-04 19:40:25 Competition is happening, and that is a good thing. If we could get competition for TLDs through an auction process, things would even get better.