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critiquing the current valuation of domains

The Devil's Detail
Critiquing the "must be a short generic commercial Dot Com" Valuation Model

If we tackle the devilish detail of character length through simple probability alone, high school mathematics shows scarcity exponentially evaporates with each additional character added. Attention to the 'mathematical facts' indicates that two classes of medium quality domains commonly offered for resale - those of 'random three letter combinations' (zzw.com) or 'pronounceable four letter words' (nica.com) - are currently undervalued by a long way. This is evident when you compare probabilities; of the few tens of thousands of possible combinations in these two domain classes, against the tens of millions of longer character length .com, .net, or .org domains already registered. (That means there are bargains out there so you might like to go out now and grab them!). Because of this easily quantifiable scarcity, a URL's shortness is considered the most useful indicators of value under the Tangy.com model.

Our only critique of the usefulness of the shortness valuation criteria is to comment that the market at the moment is not overly concerned with character length (though we agree it will become so in the future as the market matures). current domain valuation methods
  Furthermore, by concentrating solely on a limited set of four valuation elements, other opportunities for good names are missed. All the generic memorable terms for the larger industries are developed sites in the available short Dot Coms, and thus 'not for sale', or if they are still undeveloped then they are for sale at a painful price. While this means the resale market of such Dot Coms is the most spectacular, it also puts pressure on Dot Net domains thus increasing their value. The 'devil's detail' is that the scarcity pattern with Dot Net has a much more complex relation to market price than with Dot Com. For example, the Tangy.com 'devil's detail' valuation formula recognises that invest.net is less valuable than music.net because a site name analysis shows that in youth categories Dot Net is more acceptable. (Perhaps an important hint for the future?)
  To claim that a Generic English word Dot Com is always the best, also misses the point that the majority of sites are region specific and in the future this site proportion will be much more pronounced, in which case a name such as cars.co.uk needs a different valuation formula from cars.com. (What is really devil's detail is that the US company cars.com has not secured cars.co.uk, because it is a generic word long ago taken by another company, and thus if it ever wishes to expand into Britain it is looking at a financial headache). Many non-US search engines filter out all but their countries URL, giving your Dot Com company a real handicap for the world at large if it does not also have a local domain extension.  
  While despite such details, we still believe Dot Com to be by the far the best choice for most companies, owing to its international flexibility AND high local acceptance, even within Dot Com there is the issue of target language and spelling. As an example, a lot of the international English speaking world use the "-ise" suffix rather than "-ize", so you need to be careful say, that your mobilize.com will not put off an international audience.  
  We are one of the few reseller sites that takes into full account a name's geographic utility. In fact dot names for the 'world at large', not just for the US market, are a Tangy.com specialty. That's why so many of the names we list are a generic non-English language word (e.g. aide.org) or an international spelling (e.g. offences.com).  
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