WHAT THE HELL IS IPv6 AND WHEN WILL IT DESTROY YOU?
May 4th, 2008 Posted in General Domain News | 4 Comments »
Well folks, I’m going to sidestep the domain basics for a moment to ask a question about something you may have heard of but know nothing about. It seems like the oddball powers that be are hard at work to replace the IP addresses that make up your valuable domain names. Or are they? Who the hell knows?!! Seems like nobody. I did some research on this little funky name “IPv6″ and I got all sorts of “explanations” or “definitions”.
As I was casually perusing my future trend emails, I came across this little tidbit of doom… maybe a BIG JUGGERNAUT of doom, as in Black Sabbath style. http://inventorspot.com/articles/the_end_of_the_internet_switching_ipv6_12803
I know most domainers want to make a nice profit with their premium domains. I’m no different. I’d like to see some big money from domains I own, but something touched me a few weeks ago that made me want to explore new “trails” that I blazed by selling a domain for thousands of dollars less than what it actually was worth, and possibly tens of thousands of dollars less than what it would be worth in the near future.
This isn’t an expose on the leaders of domain industry news, nor on myself or any of my fellow domain bloggers. This is just a little “note” for domainers who want to learn the business quickly and find their profit goals without encountering despair. Maybe this little blog message can sail across the bows of all domainers (including the domain juggernaut companies) to remind them of our collective goal: Promote domains.
Don’t we all wish we owned popular one word dotcom domains? Of course. Those domains are no-brainers for selling, parking, or building out to very valuable websites. 
Here’s an odd gift I’m giving to my readers: An old song that helps domainers keep their focus…
It’s true! We’ve all been destroyed. Domainers have been victims of a cruel hoax for the last ten years, and we’ve paid hundreds of thousands, even millions and billions of dollars to buy domains we thought would be valuable investments. BUT IT’S BEEN A FRAUD ON US! The domain industry is collapsing in on itself. Domain values have dropped to less than 90% of their estimated value.
I have about 100 domains with Go Daddy. The amount varies because I buy and sell domains with people who have Go Daddy accounts. I’m not a big fan of Go Daddy for new domain registrations because their prices are much higher than other domainer-friendly registrars (what domainer wants to pay $10 a domain?) and transferring domains out of GD is a bitch.