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  BullJustin (profile), Jul 6th, 2009 @ 4:47pm

  
  

  It's a new trader's market

  Seems like they want to control the ability to buy and sell domain names in an open market. Imagine if you could buy 20 shares in candy.com and then collect rent for someone using that domain name. It's actually a kind of interesting idea in that it would allow domain squatters another avenue to monetize their domain holdings.

   

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  ChurchHatesTucker (profile), Jul 6th, 2009 @ 4:48pm

  
  

  But, but...

  It's selling equity *on the Internet!*

   

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  Anonymous Coward, Jul 6th, 2009 @ 5:31pm

  
  

  I understand how something like a house has equity, but I just don't understand how something as ephemeral as a domain name can have equity.

   

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  standingskeleton, Jan 12th, 2012 @ 10:32am

  
  

  Response to: Anonymous Coward on Jul 6th, 2009 @ 5:31pm

  Word is the big players are strategizing the names spectrum as for their corporate weapons, is largely where monetization and valuations exceed so then go figure. Supply and demand if even it's 'i wouldn't waste resources on a worthless name. Some in fact are estimated in the millions. Some billions!

   

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  Anonymous Coward, Jul 6th, 2009 @ 5:37pm

  
  

  You mean I can buy equity in snickers.com? Hmmmmm...Mortgage backed securities, anyone?

   

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  Anonymous Coward, Jul 6th, 2009 @ 5:42pm

  
  

  Oh - Look
  
  What a pretty bubble

   

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  anon, Jul 6th, 2009 @ 7:39pm

  
  

  Re:

  That happens when the federal reserve sets the rate at which banks recieves money from it artifically low like after the dot com bust. Then they print money out of thin air (they've been doing it since they were founded in 1913 with the net result of having eroded %95 of the dollars value) that creates a false sense of economic prosperity that causes investors to invest in things they wouldn't invest in if they had a clearer picture of the actual economic situation. And like the rule of gravity everything that goes up, must come down eventually everyone discovers that the economic situation wasn't as good as it appeared and the bad investments made need to clear the system.
  
  If you want to know more read about austrian economics it is the only school of economics that predicted this situation as opposed the keynesian school whom the government continues to rely on and follow as we speak. In case you didn't know.

   

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  Anonymous Coward, Jul 7th, 2009 @ 5:22am

  
  

  Re: Re:

  Are you claiming that selling equity in a domain name is a good idea if the fed were to leave it alone ?

   

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  Anonymous Coward, Jul 6th, 2009 @ 6:15pm

  
  

  People play the lottery too...

  I am unsure of what "telling" is about this application. It is also a fact that people without a high school education spend more money each month on lottery tickets than people with a college education. I guess you can always hope, even when the odds are nearly impossible.

   

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  Anonymous Coward, Jul 6th, 2009 @ 6:20pm

  
  

  Bubbily bubble

  Well, it's all imaginary value... high pagerank + high site content = get internet millionars!¡
  
  Some companies have been doing this for some time. For example, Mike's little shindig is worth $25,000.
  
  http://www.cubestat.com/www.techdirt.com
  
  It's hard to see why Bobby Parsons needs to piss off the internets.

   

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  teka, Jul 6th, 2009 @ 10:15pm

  
  

  This patent application follows the ever so popular concept of "X + Internet = New and patentable"
  
  buying groceries? well.. try buying them.. online!
  researching real estate? well.. try doing it Online!
  Creating a new Dotcom Bubble? well.. try it.. online Again?
  
  Patent office really needs to get their head around the idea that slapping "Online!" onto something does not make it new or special.

   

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  Standingskeleton, Jan 14th, 2012 @ 9:42am

  
  

  Response to: teka on Jul 6th, 2009 @ 10:15pm

  All is reflective of the socalled creative financing that got housing real estate so way far off gaintrack. Now more property to molest. Why can't entrepreneur investors who want to enlarge their financial borders stay within the financial lines and limits under u.s. laws. When ready then welcome over to the world of property appreciation and what for example the estimated worth of a domain name like online.comtoday minmum $28.02 million. Dah!

   

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  Mark, Jul 13th, 2009 @ 3:11am

  
  

  Oh

  Interesting indeed.

   

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  Meseret Hailu, Aug 24th, 2009 @ 8:30pm

  
  

  pan firend

  Interesting idea. I want tree online sociology courses and certification.

   

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  Domain services, Jan 5th, 2010 @ 10:56am

  
  

  Glad to see that you cared to share this thing with people, I think the term has become so popular that nobody seems to be here who is not much aware of it.

   

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  Standing skeleton, Jan 20th, 2012 @ 12:06pm

  
  

  estimating worth of powerful domains

  There are no inline defects or flaws to a domain name such as
  weatherreference.com and considering each word single tiered as a dotcom is estimated to be worth far more than $10,000,000 other than two or three
  We though can reference' (like yahoonews.com $300 million more than yahoo.com) we only lack precedent in starting out to raise two or even three tiered name conciousness abroad. Of course we're speaking to only names broadly acknowledged worth something notable. Randy

   

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