... I am pretty sure bud.com is still going strong :)
Years ago (when I was 10) I had two childhood acquaintances. Both their parents got laid off from a manufacturing plant in town and my folks helped both families through the rough patch. One of the families opened a "fish and chip" shop and the other family opened a door company.. Years passed and the door company people moved to an amazing house on a lake. I lost track of the "fish and chip" folks for a few years because we moved to the opposite end of town. Years later I (now grown up) went into real estate. My second listing was the "fish and chip" shop that my other friends parents set up. They were still running it.. the whole family working together .. living in a mobile home together (double-wide) .. I felt bad for these folks cuz they worked so hard every day beating their heads against the wall tryng to build a great low margin fish and chip business from this lousy location. I sold the fish and chip shop to a lady who ultimately went broke. She couldn't work as hard as this family to make the enterprise work.
My other friends were in the higher margin door business and had opened up in an industrial area next door to a lumber yard. They did fine.
The moral here (and I'll cut right to it ) is: buy a .com name with organic keyword weight gravity / type-in traffic and let the trend/traffic lay flowers at your feet. Buy a .tv (or anything else [except for certain cctlds of the country you live in]) for your business and work much, much harder for less return than you could make in .com.
OUCH...again. More realty dish on the non-dot-com extensions.
No doubt you make a good argument for investing in the king of domain extensions but there must be some positive argument for all the rest of the domain extensions???
I guess part of the problem is that all the good real estate is taken and most of the owners aren't selling...Frank :-)
So, if we can't buy our way into a nicer neighborhood we have to buy into (hopefully) up and coming neighborhoods or build our own small business niche(s) and work hard to end up somewhere between the door and fish and chips folks.
With that said, I do take away your point.
Better to deal with quality rather than quantity, right?
***FS*** In the 1950's long after Manhattan's lower East side was built up Elliot Spitzers dad bought an old building, tore it down and built a tower.. Today he owns hundreds of millions (nearly a billion) in prime Manhattan real estate. Elliot's dad could have bought 100,000 acres in Montana in the 50's and today he'd still own 'that'. But it wouldn't be worth a billion. The End. :)
Posted by: Rob Sequin | March 15, 2007 at 10:52 PM