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Originally Posted by rickroll
thing about a .com is the value is its "location" before the .com ie cars or socks and their various iterations and common mispellings had obvious value but something like 2sdf821ksdou4 .com wouldn't have any value, even if a company had gone out and built a brand with that name they'd still want a simpler url or something like 2sd .com
while there are unlimited .com potential urls, there's only a handful for a company without a strong brand presence that make sense - and that was a fleeting moment. clothing.com made sense when there were not established online clothing sellers and search was so bad that people would literally just type in a .com for the product they wanted to see if that worked, but nowadays search is advanced, everyone sells online and it's about brands not .coms, so now clothing.com 404 redirects to https://www.michellesruidoso.com/ so company which must have paid up the wazoo for what is today a landing page that probably only constitutes a very small amount of their inbound traffic
if you want to domain camp now it's done on upcoming brands and politicians. things like car .com isn't worth what it used to be and already taken
i could be mistaken, but like .coms there should be an unlimited amount of metaverse real estate that could be minted, and they will all be of 2d7slsod71204nfds93 variety so i don't see why anyone would pay a premium for something infinitely copyable
I mean, kinda'ish but basically no.
You can't 'camp' on brands, you'll get sued, politicians know better than to try and 'domain' their way out of a hit site. Go ahead and spend $15,000 for (You)Sucks.com, because (You)ReallySucks.com is available for registry fee and can be slightly modified to the exact same effect
Type in traffic was killed by search engines (and lame-ass domainers not realizing they had lightning in a bottle and instead of developing it our really connecting their generic .com domains to the right end users, decided to settle for tooth whitening ads and teaching the public that typing in keyword.com was not a good way to get the info you needed- MASSIVE dumbasses) but a really good, industry defining .com domain is still a super powerful marketing tool. I dont think they'll remain as relevant as they once were given how browsing habits are evolving, but if web interaction keeps getting more dynamic and integrated, then its possible they may become much less relevant/irrelevant.
On the matter of metaverse 'real estate', the basic idea is that virtual worlds are presently developing that will one day overlap with commerce and that 'location' in those worlds may be relevant. Could be autistic horseshit, or could be something big if it actually plays out.