So where is the next bubble going to be! – Is your domain portfolio prepared?
I recently had a meeting with a very smart pair of Hedge fund managers and the topic eventually came up about where the next bubble is going to be when all the current mess has finally gone away. So who were the contenders?
Well commodities have had a tremendous run these last few years, but the bull market is looking a little tired as supply is now overtaking the slowing demand and price decreases are beginning to look very likely.
Real Estate is dead and won’t be resurrected for some time soon.
The Internet is very unlikely, as the dot com bust is still too fresh in many investors minds.
We settled on Alternative Energy. This industry is currently booming and the good times don’t look like they’re going to end any time soon. Environmental groups are clamouring for more investment in this area and Politicians are jumping on the bandwagon of clean energy and tens if not hundreds of billions will be ploughed into this industry over the next 5 years.
There’s Solar energy, Wind power, Geothermal Energy, Tidal power, and many other areas that will all benefit from this global move towards clean energy.
The high oil prices have also helped the industry as expensive alternatives actually became viable choices to the once cheap and plentiful oil. The famous oilman and Hedge fund manager T.Boon Pickens has invested over $10 billion in wind farms, which should tell you something.
Oil prices don’t seem to be coming down any time soon so there will continue to fuel the current interest in the alternatives sector.
Alternatives were popular many years back, but the poor technology, lack of investment and prohibitive expense caused it to flop before it really had a chance to gain ground.
It’s different this time round. There is a global movement and trend towards green energy, technology has advanced and the costs of materials used in silicon solar cells and other alternatives has decreased significantly.
Alternative energy is still in it’s early growth stages and the opportunities for smart investors are incredible (think Internet 1995)
For my part I have recently bought www.Solar-Energy.com and put up an information site on solar and alternative energy. It’s quite a small site (30 pages), but I will be building it out in future.
I also have Solar-Powered which I will also be building a site on.
So my question to you is what have you done to become part of this major global trend?
James
I agree that alternative energy will be a great place for investments in the coming years. I have placed my bets on some of the building blocks of these new technologies that are related to the emerging nanotechnology field. I will be looking for interested parties in the following areas:
CeramicParticles.com
NanoStructuredDevices.com
NanoStructuredInterfaces.com
NanoStructuredMaterial.com
Personally I see great buying opportunities right now in premium domains and definitely stocks too. I’ve placed more money into stocks than I’ve ever done. All sectors in the markets have been hit hard as we know and that’s left a good few way undervalued SP’s out there imo. 1000s of stocks are way below nav. Pick the right ones (with good fundamentals) and there’s plenty of cash to be in the longer run - and via day trading too.
Really interesting stuff re alt energy James - did those stock guys “drop” any publicly listed stocks that will benefit from this emerging “bubble”
if so let me know lol
Hey Andy,
There sure is some great value out there. That crafty old bargain hunter Warren Buffet has been opening up his wallet and making some great deals - but i’m not sure now is the time to start buying stocks. There’s still a lot of potential bad news out there, so i think things could get worse before they improve. But we’ll have to wait and see.
sadly no names were mentioned as it was more a top down discussion on the sector - i have heard about an interesting play on the AIM market though from one of my mates whose an analyst - it’s a bit of a punt but i can send you the details if you’re interested.
I started scanning for emerging technologies several years ago - and have paid attention to alternative energy sources, as well as the top emerging fields of robotics (ai), biotechnology and nanotechnology. Have over 100 nanotechnology dot coms - and chose nanotechnologyenergy.org as a domain/website for a non-profit’s look at nanotech’s role in energy. Am very, very interested in the highest growth emerging technologies. Also own domains/websites like electriccarcomparisons.com and hybridcarcomparisons.com - to capitalize on the new cars coming out. Cheers!
re : i have heard about an interesting play on the AIM market though from one of my mates whose an analyst - it’s a bit of a punt but i can send you the details if you’re interested.
Sure fire away James I’m always interested in that kind of thing - I agree with your comments re stocks to an extent - and I know you have your ear really close to the market facts James. But theres no way I’d invest in any old sector right now especially banking (look at b & b in the uk re nationalisation) I get the feeling there may be one or two more. Your comments re the emerging alt energy market is spot on as far as I can see - but there are other sectors unfairly hammered by the c c imo. Interesting to see the dow dropped even post bailout clearance - and down to the latest employment stats. I agree that the worldwide stock market will continue to bounce along with plenty of falls n mini recoveries but I still see plenty of good longer term holds - and yes Buffet is as sharp as they come huh.
thanks for a great post !
I bought natgasfutures.com, greenindustry.co.uk, homecng.com and teamncg.com. Natural gas is the next phase for reducing foreign oil imports. Hopefully this will pay off… The right offer though, I will sell the names.
Yes, I have been investing in energy domains too and plan on building them
ENERGYBROKERS.ORG
ENERGYRECYCLE.ORG
ENERGYSUPPLIERS.ORG
DEVELOPNEWENERGY.COM
DISCOVERNEWENERGY.COM
and more
thanks
I, too, think there is a terrific upside potential with alternative energy/power names. I have a few … I like:
americanwindfarms.com
plugsnotpumps.com
plug-inpower.com
dcgrid.com
I provide a couple:
greenenergyvote.com
greenenergyscape.com
greenenergylawyer.com
Diverse don’t you think?
I was collecting them and sold many of them. I have EnergyHotlines.com left for sale at the moment.
Umm, we are not out of this bobble right now, not by a long shot. Why dont we weather this one first before, we talking about next one. Oil just dropped to $94 a barrel. How about we buckle down for this one.
“My only fear in life is that my god given talents will be used to lead people down the wrong path”
You are all correct, new energy concepts are a must, and nano technology will only keep improving. There will be numerous bubbles arising in the near future as the entire financial landscape is changing before our very eyes.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned what I’m about to blow the whistle on. One only has to read the Book to know what is coming.
RFID technology, or the wirless revolution is the next wave that will be implemented globally. Those of you who believe in God know of the mark of the beast. They are so blatant about it they are using xmark.com and selling the idea with the name HALO. If anyone is having a baby be very wary.
The FDA has already approved the RFID for human implantation way back in Oct. of 04 and with companies such as Texas Instruments, IBM and others on board, this would be a nice pie to have a piece of if it does not throw off your moral compass.
I’m sure some of you were at CES this year, so you have already seen some products of nanotechnology from Intel and their new nano processor. And you definitely can not forget about WiMax!
It will be interesting… hats off to all of you for being the frontrunners and wanting to improve both your knowledge and place in life.
Art, Sure it’s a good idea to weather the storm we’re currently in - but eventually it will be over. And the next few months/year are a good time to position yourself for when the clouds part.
And i suppose that is the art of domaining - looking ahead - Don’t you wish you’d been buying web addresses in 1995 when most others thought they were worthless.
As a enlightened visionary bloated on my delusions of grandeur, I started four years ago buying alternative energy and future technology domains. I kept it to myself, until Monte Cahn lured this strategy out of me on a Domainmaster interview back in late 2006.
I have over 300 keyword solar domains (solarconference.com, solarmotor.com, solarfirms.com, solarcloth.com; and another 150 alternative energy domains like oceanturbine.com, windequipment.com, geothermaldevice.com, Windcompanies.com, windcontractor.com, blah blah blah).
So when do these companies start contacting me to pick up these tasty valuable generic descriptive domains? (GDDs)
Heck, I’d sell my top 50 wind domains for $50,000 right now, which is only $1000 each. WindPowerProgram.com, WindSpecialist.com, FloridaWindEnergy.com (Rick, you reading this?)… lol
It’s still all the same, folks. Domains are worth only what the companies understand their value to be to them. End user promotion is king. Market to the end users, or we all just quietly fade away, selling domains to each other as cheap as Pokemon cards and trading them like bottle caps.
(I’m trying GW Bush sales tactics here. Is it working?)