Comments on: Domain Industry Experts Share 2013 Predictions (Part 1)

By: Elliot Silver

Elliot Silver — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:38:36 +0000

Part two is posted here: http://www.elliotsblog.com/domain-industry-experts-share-2013-predictions-part-2-9181

By: Howard Crosby

Howard Crosby — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:24:53 +0000

That’s a great review on the future thoughts of the pro’s.
Always good to ponder and use as guidance before setting out projects in business.
Cheers!

By: BullS

BullS — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 03:10:58 +0000

The hottest domains will be about same sex marriage and of course me..the MarijuanaGuy.com

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 22:28:46 +0000

And I will give $50 to NOT see it

By: Tommy Butler

Tommy Butler — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:17:08 +0000

Hi Elliot

When I was at namedrive event in London in 2007 this post Tommy Butler was keen to push development, by branding and getting repeat traffic. The better the site looks and the more content and information, he opined, the more repeat traffic won and advertisers will feel they want to work and be associated with you. If your sites link to each other and have good content the more likely you will be to keep the customer within your site. The key question is, “would I go to that page and use it?”

I said then that in five years time parking you domain your business will be dead in the water. Also said have to look at people habits and study habits to understand how to get sales. sad then dump your crap domains and focus on good quality domains.

By: Yury

Yury — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:12:50 +0000

I don’t see how Google can legally purchase any “content” site and not be anti-competitive.

Take beatthatquote.com for example. When a competitor notices that beatthatquote.com ranks higher on Google than their own site, they can sue Google for being anti-competitive because google has the advantage in ranking their own site since they know every single ranking factor and no one else does.

By: Braden Pollock

Braden Pollock — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:10:03 +0000

@Yury
1. You can buy traffic from many different sources including, other search engines and parking platforms. Plus there are lots of networks for placing ads in apps, blogs and related sites.
2. I’d stick with EMD’s as there’s nothing Google can do about direct nav. It will always be there.
3. The Feds will stop Google from buying Yahoo, Groupon or some other major purchase that would restrict competition. Beyond that, Google can buy small companies (ahem, under a billion $$)and fly under the radar as they develop new channels.

By: Rick Schwartz

Rick Schwartz — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:09:17 +0000

TRAFFIC will donate $2000 to the winners favorite charity for the opportunity to host JelloFest.

By: Tia Wood

Tia Wood — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:47:35 +0000

“Domain 4 rent will popup like a mushroom” Hmm. I think you are right.

By: Talk like this

Talk like this — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:27:20 +0000

I predict
–Domain 4 rent will popup like a mushroom
–Test before you buy domains …
–Seo … Selling domain name and service (eg. pr 3/serp )with money back Guarantee..
–more private domain brokers will be on demand..
–new law on domain trading might be highlighted
– Big pie of newtlds will be wasted for marketing/ superball/G ad/ tv and so on..
–
What ever might happen.. What ever it might turn out ..
Remember We all have a passion for what we do …
And there is no other place that we will rather be then talking about domain again in coming year ..

Thank you all for this beautiful year specially Elliot
Wish you all the best and
Happy New year

By: George Kirikos

George Kirikos — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:04:21 +0000

I predict Jeff Gabriel leaves Domain Advisors.

By: Elliot Silver

Elliot Silver — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:55:04 +0000

I think TRAFFIC Vegas would be a good place for that. Brett seems a bit too excited about it.

By: Yury

Yury — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:23:52 +0000

I am going to ask a follow up question for Braden, although anyone can answer.

1. What other avenues of getting traffic to a lead gen site are there other than social and apps? Even then

2. Is it still a good idea to use EMD for lead gen sites, or better to build around brandable domains?

3. At what point do you think governments start to step in to stop Google from creating this monopoly

By: Tia Wood

Tia Wood — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:22:54 +0000

“It won’t be boring” & “This is the year that I finally wrestle John Berryhill in jello.”

LOL!