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About Mark Jeftovic

I live in Toronto, Canada with my wife and daughter, I'm the founder and president of easyDNS.com - the DNS hosting provider & domain name registrar, a card-carrying Libertarian and former Director to the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA).

In my copious spare time I blog here about doing business on the internet and play guitar in The Parkdale Hookers, an indie power-pop group who releases all of our music under a creative commons license.

I can be emailed at markjr@myprivacy.ca (requires verification)

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Wednesday, February 28. 2007

Domain Aftermarket Overdue for an "Asset Repricing"

For the last couple years the domain aftermarket has been hot again, we're seeing valuations not seen since bubble1.0, which saw valuations like 7 million dollars for business.com and 4 million for drugs.com. The TechWreck was induced by the Nasdaq crash of 2000 and the fun was over for awhile.

What differentiates this bubble in the domain aftermarket from Bubble 1.0 is domain parking and monetization. While it existed in 2000, it was a weirdism on the fringe. Yun Ye was quietly building his Ultsearch empire and cleaning up.

When he sold out to Marchex, for 60+ million cash, the masses "woke up" to parking and PPC. Now we have Internet REITs, domainer conferences and, the second last sign of an overheated market dropping in to place: VC funds are tripping over themselves to invest into PPC and the monetization game. (The last sign of an overheated aftermarket are the sales letters I get from places like domainprofiteer.com offering me courses in how to get rich buying and flipping expired domain names)

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Posted by Mark Jeftovic in Living off the net at 17:57 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (2)