Domain Names as future investments.

Here's a great article that was just published by IndiaDaily.com. Here is a direct link to the article. It's articles like this one that has domain name buyers entering the market on a daily basis..which is good for sellers! ;)



Best investments for the next ten years – Domain Names, Farm Land and Cash in the Bank

The biggest question for the smart investors is what will be the best investment in the next ten years? In last ten years it was oil, metals, S&P 500 and residential real estate. There is no reason to believe that the history will repeat for these four again. As a matter of fact, these four can slump like never before.

Stocks will go down because of economy and its debt burden. Metals will lose its luster because of supply/demand relationships and burst of the bubble. Alternatives are replacing oil and better technologies will find more oil in the ocean. The biggest reason for oil’s slump in price is the coming Great Depression of Asia. India and China will require very little oil as they experience double-digit contraction. Residential real estate is in trouble because of the mortgage/debt burden. In addition, the Federal budget deficit, social security burden and medicare promises is slowly and steadily getting shifted to property taxes. Property taxes will quadruple in the next ten to twenty years seaking the fate for residential real estate.

Then where can one invest? Smart money is looking at three things. Domain names, Farm Land and Cash in the Bank. A fortune will be made buying and selling domain names. Buying domain names for cheap and then flipping the same to an interested buyer is picking up heat. Investors are making hundreds of thousands of dollars making money buying and selling domain names.

The Farm Land will appreciate heavily. The farm land is virtually real estate tax exempt in many states. The real estate tax on Farmland is very low. In addition price of Wheat, Corn, Soybean, Oat, Rice will quadruple in the next ten years due to climate changes, drought and excess demand from alternative fuel requirements. The Farm output will be something people will like. The farmland all over the country will appreciate slowly and steadily while residential real estate (developments, condos, town homes and non-farm single family homes) will fall in price.

If one does not want to get involved in Domain names or Farmland, the other choice is keeping cash in the bank. Smart people will try their best to get debt free and then keep their cash in the bank in CDs. Think about this – if the economy goes south three percent per year, and you make one percent in the bank – you have preserved your capital. After ten years, your buying power has increased by 50% (compounded).