Is premium art a sound comparison to premium domain names?

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By , June 18, 2010

That is the question posed by DomainSuperstar upon reflecting on the WSJ’s observation that the wealthy appear to be fleeing to tangibles such as art.

To his first question, will the wealthy start investing in premium domain names the same way they seem to be doing in art, I cannot guess. While I’ve made predictions in the past, and sometimes even happened to be correct, the main refinement to my overall investment methodology over the years since the advent of the Global Financial Crisis is that I cannot predict the future. Long story and certain to be the subject of other posts.

So who knows….maybe money does start flowing into premium domain names. I just don’t know.

What I can say however, is that there are indeed many parallels between art and domains. You can lose your shirt in both.

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DNSAdvantage blocking parked domains

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By , June 18, 2010

Hat tip to TheDomains for reporting that Neustar’s DNS resolver service DNSAdvantage is blocking parked domains with the message

Warning!
For your protection, you have been temporarily blocked from accessing www.tackboard.com. The website has been blocked for the following reasons:

  • Parked Domain: Site may contain excessive advertising including pop-up or pop-under advertising”””

We leave the merits of whether this is “good” or “bad” aside. Predictably domainers will hate this, privacy people will likely not like it either, anybody who has a vested interest in monetizing parked (or expired) domains won’t like it – but the average run-of-the mill web surfer who uses DNSAdvantage probably won’t miss all those parked pages in the least.
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Pacific Webworks: Exonerated of Google scam allegations, are they dirt cheap now?

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By , June 9, 2010

The odd story of Pacific Webworks (ticker PWEB) took another turn a couple weeks ago when a judge threw out Google’s claim that the company was behind those incessant “earn money from Google working from home” scams you see all over the internet. Now that they have this monkey off their back, they’re trading at a 1.02x trailing earnings.

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