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While it may be true that developers don't quite fully understand domains, it is for lack of historical evidence that a domain name itself lent any amount of credence to the success of an organization or an online business.
Thefacebook.com
Myspace.com
Youtube.com
All of these would make terrible domain names and one which would not fetch $30 on a forum listing. Domainers are full of themselves, recycling domains within the same ecosystem. It is all about the need to push ones portfolio. I know it. Developers and Domainers are in the same boat. One doe not know valuation for lack of insight, and the other for lack of foresight.
There is more to the sales news with domains than what meets the eye. Much of it best left unsaid.
SwineFlu.com
SwineFlu.com just sold for an undisclosed sum. There is more domain sales going on than most developers ever realize.
Developers and domainers don't mix much. Developers don't understand domains. They like domains like Flickr.com instead of domains like Flicker.com (the right way) which us domainers like.
Some of us have been doing this for 15 years and can spot valuable domains......but you show one to a developer and they can't see the value. It's like a builder not understanding that the real estate IS almost more important than the building.
Ray Kroc, founder of McDonalads, once said he does not sell hamburgers, he sells real estate.....hence they own some of the very best property in the world, which sells hamburgers.
Develpors......are you listening? Look at the domain sales list in this terrible economy. That ought to tell you something were value is.