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The Domain Aftermarket Redux: Are Domainers "Investors" Yet?

• Comment posted May 01, 2010 3:59 pm PDT — by Nozomi Yumehara
  From the viewpoint of a site developer, it's a calculation of "I spend $X for a domain name; would I be better off spending $X on something else?" $40,000 dollars can buy you a lot of content (100,000+ pages based…

• Comment posted Apr 30, 2010 8:25 pm PDT — by Nozomi Yumehara
  I like the part about the "great buy".  It reminds me the time that I went to a local auction and bid up the price of an oriental rug to $850, which was the most expensive sale up to that…

Realizing There's More to Life Than .COM, Europe and Asia Already Do

• Comment posted Aug 12, 2009 7:20 pm PDT — by Nozomi Yumehara
  Some domainers are brilliant, but many are dumb.  You can definitely get good .COM domains for free and for reasonable prices, I mean, just because some idiot wants $5000 for einternetconsulting.com doesn't mean he's going to get it. The main…

Advertising Pays for a Lot of Things... What Happens When the Ad Budget Dries Up in a Recession?

• Comment posted Jul 09, 2008 8:51 pm PDT — by Nozomi Yumehara
  One thing people forget about the Great Depression was that it was connected with technological change.  Vaudeville actors were put out of work by the film industry, live music replaced with phonograph records, and the draft horse industry replaced by…