Loading ...Interesting Wired article — a VC trying to dig up all the old dotcom ideas to see which ones may fly now. Essentially the environment has changed with more broadband, consumers willing to buy on net, effective internet search, and lo! eyeball revenues in terms of Adsense.
Interesting thought, and an exercise absolutely worth doing. I just would be cautious of that last one… Remember “context of advertising” — just putting an ad on a page is not remunerative enough.
Alok, if i recall corectly, arun from TSJ Media spoke about this during his presentation at TIECon. He apparently had been working on it since some time and had even prepared a database of such ideas. You may want to contact him.
Hi alok,
This indicates a clear and interesting reflection of current startup economics.
- Good Ideas are scarce these days whereas supply of VC’s is in excess
Rajan
http://rajan.wordpress.com
Hi Alok,
A statement in the article: Internet advertising has become a $10 billion-a-year marketing medium.
Do you know where did this figure come from and what does it actually mean?
cheers,
shish
It is not only the old ideas which are being recycled, the old/expired domain names are in great demand.
(We acquired the domain name ApnaGuide.com, couple of years back using backorder service)
The domain names are like Real Estate in Cyberspace.
There are companies which specializes in funding the purchase of top tier names.
http://www.domaincapital.com
http://www.internetrealestate.com/
In addition, the weekly/yearly domain sales number maintained by DNJournal is mind boggling.
http://www.dnjournal.com/ytd-sales-charts.htm
The domain name Industry got great coverage in this Business 2.0 article.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/12/01/8364591/index.htm
We have been acquiring Direct Navigation (Generic Typin names) .co.in and IDN’s. Example : www.???.com
Our primary intent is build sites using open source/freeware and serve “contextual ads”.
Shish, this seems to be a pretty widely accepted number for size of online advertising market — of this, around $4b is search engine advertising alone. These numbers are growing fast, so might be larger now.
Abhishek, checked with Arun — he doesnt seem to have that kind of a list — if you know someone else, let me know!
Alok
Arun,
This is the list of dot-com bursts or failures happened in the web 1.0 era. Someone meticulously tracked and archived it
http://www.businessplanarchive.org/login/