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Originally Posted by KRL
Another big factor you have to watch are regulations.
What if the government decides ok if you have a big type-in domain you have the responsibility to build a real site on there and not just a page of PPC links.
Kind of like zoning laws are in real world real estate.
It'd be like saying ok you own a premium property on 5th avenue, you can't put a 1 story house on there, it has to be a high rise building to match everything else in that league.
This could also have a dramatic impact on the type-in domains because nearly all the guys that own these don't develop them and just put PPC links on them.
So now it would mean invest and build or you lose the rights to the domain.
That could be Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! for all those guys and you'd see a mass flood of prime domains offered for sell and it would be a buyers market.
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Real Estate laws are put in place to keep things stable in a community, they serve a huge purpose I think. If you go to some countries outside of North America you see that they may not have these laws in place and things are just chaotic. With domains a PPC search page or whatever does not affect your neighours, the resale value of men.com is not affected if women.com is filled with pop-ups and spyware. So while comparisons between domains and real estate are valid, in this aspect of regulation I don't think it applies.
Also with top level domains being an international thing no one goverment can set these laws. Maybe country code domains sure, but not the top level ones.