Domain name values are rising for several key reasons:

First, they provide unprecedented advertising abilities and can reach out to new clients and interact with them 24X7 where no other media can't even compete.

Secondly, absolute creditability.  People judge your domain name, your url, your address, this is how they find you and get to know you.  How well your site looks and works is also a factor, I hope that is obvious.  Don't lose the fish at the dock.  But, if your domain name is off center, or has extra words, hyphens, number, all these make it weaker and harder to do business with your organization.  Look at how you view and surf, how fast are you gone and less likely to put a credit card up when these two key points are off?  77 percent are gone in less than half a second.

Domain names are like real estate, they're virtual real estate, but the difference is domain names rarely and infrequently come back on the market.  Once sold, they are gone.  If they do come up for sale, it's usually in the aftermath of a merger and for 100X what it last sold for.  Like real estate, inventory is low and depleting.  The pool of good names is drying up at an accelerating rate.

Get the .com extension or you'll be giving business to it.  Maybe a .org depending on what your business is, and a .us maybe a good thing 10 years from now, but get the best .com names while you can.  For the all the reasons above, and most prominently, domain names are the most powerful advertising mechanism in place for the next 20 years.

Prices are going up.  Open to offers, take a look here.

According to this article by Alan Dunn on Quartz, we are almost out of good domain names.  I'd agree but, you can purchase domain names from companies and individuals just at a premium.   This article uncovers a few domains that you think would have been purchased with by larger entities and the real take away is “The thing about domain names is that they have become a precious commodity in their own right,” says David Taylor, a partner at Hogan Lovells and domain-name panelist for the World Intellectual Property Organization.

Good domain names are assets and I wouldn't put much stock in other extensions, it always drives traffic to the dot com version of the name.  Read the full article here.

The only people I hear spouting about new domain name extensions (gTLD's) are the one's who have a stake in their success as a registry or those looking to recoup their investment.  Truth is with the scarcity of good dot com extensions dwindling at less than insane prices, good .com domain names are going up in value.  The time to buy is now while traffic is slower over the summer months and before the market starts to pick up again in the fall.  If you're unaware of all the other extensions and when they came about, there is an info graphic here at Key-Systems.net from a few years ago.

When buying a gTLD, ask yourself when was the last time you went to one, and where does the the majority of spam come from?   I think you'll find that the answer is a .garbage extension.  Registering one of these will drive help traffic to the .com, .net or .org domain names respectively above it.  There are 882 domain extensions at last count, but your customers just know of the top three.  If you're looking to increase your brand or to expand a product line, while the US economy is beginning to soar again, buy now before prices return to pre 2005 levels.  There is a market correction coming that will swing .com names up beyond any levels we've seen them at.  Get them before they turn into gold.

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