Hi,
That(h)s assuming the business model is focussed around *Your* site - on the
other hand ads on your site are fringe business and will work only if yours is
the next biggie on the net. As pointed out, they will make money outta
surrendering your name. But look at the real business of selling the site
www.namezero.com - valuations will zoom coz:
1) Many people will be visiting it as we did
2) The valuations will be based not only on unique visitors to their own site
but also all the sites they get to stick their banner on. The simple principle
being getting 1 visitor to 1000 sites will be easier than bringing 1000
visitors to 1 site. Much easier when the marketing of these sites is left to
several individuals as against one orgz.
WOW !! Who wants to give me a MBA for that!!!
Ashwin
Sudhakar Chandra wrote:
> Raju Mathur proclaimed:
> > Namezero retains all the contacts of the domain, so they own it. If
> > you're registering ashwin.com, you may be asked to pay some exorbitant
> > amount of money for it tomorrow and you will have no option.
> >
> > Also, AFAIR you have to use Namezero's web servers, so any content you
> > serve up will always be bordered with ads.
>
> Namezero's business model is seriously flawed, IMO. Let us say I sign up
> for the domain thaths.org with them. Let us assume that it costs Namezero
> $ 20 / month (minimum) for infrastructure for hosting a virtual domain. My
> site would have to get an awful lot of hits for them to break even at the
> going online advertising rates.
>
> Thaths
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