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Domainers often hold onto their portfolios for years. Rather than sell a name now and accept less, they know they can keep it until they find the right buyer maybe a decade or more later. Just like stocks fluctuate in value depending on market trends, so do domains. Here are five domains that, for the benefit of their owners, will hopefully be sold soon.
1. 35mm.com
Film cameras were all the rage back in 1999, but the technology has since been dumped in favor of digital, even among the most obstinate of photographers. Sure, people still shoot film, but it’s more for novelty than anything else. The owner of this name should sell it before stores stop carrying 35mm film.
2. PlymouthCars.com
Plymouth is a make of cars discontinued by Chrysler in 2001. You can still find them on the road, but there is no future left for the brand. However, if I owned a name like PlymouthNews.net, I would keep it because it could be used for anything related to the city of Plymouth.
3. UsRecession.com
This domain was bought in March for £200 ($330 USD). Economists predict the economy will start getting better in the next year or two. Sell it while the situation still looks bleak. If the economy starts to recover, people will become less interested in the recession and the domain will lose value.
4.HealingIraq.com
Sell this while Iraq is still in need of healing. Ten or twenty years from now the country could be in much better shape, yielding this name useless. It was bought in 2006 for £422 ($695 USD).
5. Any .yu domain
The extension for Yugoslavia, .yu, will cease to exist on September 30. The TLD has been unneeded since the country merged with Montenegro in 2003.
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