What’s in a domain name?

The more I read about it, the more it freaks me out! Domain names are like real estate in the internet world. Hundreds of companies getting into the domain names auction/resale business. DomainTools , GreatDomains, ebay to name a few. Interesting thing worth noting is that now you can take a LOAN based on the popularity of your domain name(which is mostly measured as a Google hit count! ). If you haven’t freaked out as of yet, scroll down one of the above sites and check the price tag. OR google on ‘domain sold million’.

Why am I not frantically buying domain names and blogging about it instead?
1. Ran out of topics to write. (Pun intended!)
2. We own about 100+ domain names already and are starting to loose track of it.
(We are not cyber squatting here, these domain names were bought with the intention of starting a business, some for personal use involving us and family, some as the name just appealed to us. One business idea translates into 10 or more domain names. The .com, .org, .net and few other mumbo-jumbo combinations. Even if we were to domain squat, whats wrong? Whose ever gets there first wins. Isn’t that the rule. Don’t you buy real estate as an investment only to be sold later with NO intention of using it?)

Mommies: If you have a business idea in mind, this might be the time to claim your space. Even if the business does not become a reality, the domain may be worth. And when you make it big, remember !!ME!! and do drop a line
It only takes a few dollars to register and few more to host a site from US, not really sure of the logistics involved to host from India.
I think almost all the dictionary words and readable combination of < 5 letters are taken. But the Indian market(Hindi and other regional language domain names) seem untapped. Alright not untapped, but still has a lot of potential.

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