@Gambman1 173340 wrote:
Fist of all the ICANN initiative names are coming up on auction and the winner has to put up mega servers.
I asked a exspert about this and he said it will cost nearly $1 million a year to have a name like @casino ine manage costs. Plus every time you renew the domain like .casino we taking 100,000’s $ to renew
We talking BIG BIG money to be able to buy the new ICANN initiative domains.
So they will have nearly none efect on the domain marked.
Regarding the costs though, $1 million is peanuts compared to what can be made. If you just look at the .me domains you listed above, there’s $ 1/2 million just there in those 20 or so names. Another 20 like that and you have your money back. And with millions of potential combinations, extensions like .gambling, .travel and .porn will fly out the door with plenty others to follow. It’s a licence to print money. In fact, all domain extensions are 
For domains to perform in search engines, they need to rank and the way Google, Yahoo and MSN are set up it’s base mainly on localisation. This makes .me an orphan. The day you see a .me domain in the Top 10 SERPS on Google for “casino” is the day I take back everything I said. But it will never happen, so I’m safe 
And without the Top 10, there’s no traffic. And no traffic = no revenue.
Unless you have a “brand” that you spend a lot of time and money marketing, and Apple can afford to throw a few million at that, then I still believe the only chance you have of making money from them is by selling them to other people who think they can sell them to other people…
All that said and done though, domain speculators are speculating (I’m one of them)…so no harm in that. Some will pay, others won’t. The registrars laugh all the way to the bank, we have some fun buying and selling (or trying to) and everyone’s happy.