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Originally Posted by GeorgeK
Go visit any domain name sales site and you'll quickly realize some domains are worth a lot more than others. Shrewd people can figure out a value, without knowing your actual earnings.
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and a lot of domains are sold for much more than they really are worth.
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I don't need to see the income statement of AOL to know that Games.com is extremely valuable. Or that tv.com is very valuable to CNET.
If VeriSign can set a price schedule for .tv, they can certainly set one for a good .com, if it got to that point (these contracts are for .biz/info/org, but could create the dangerous precedent).
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i don't keep up on all the domain stuff so i don't know the whole thing with the .tv but i'd like to see who and how they come up with these numbers. they just pick it out of the sky? based on traffic? keyword searches or what.
didn't sex.com win a court case that basically said domains are real estate and owed by the person who pays for them, not like rental properties were the registry owns and can charge what they see fit?
seems like the registries just want something for nothing. google.com would be worthless without the people who created it. same goes for any domain name. sure people type in games.com, tv.com, etc but without people who know how to develop it to make a profit, its worthless.