Alibaba’s Stock Offering – Which Domains Went Up in Value?
If you’re considering the IPO released on Friday by Alibaba, you’re probably making a wise financial decision… whether it’s wise in the short-game, or long-term though is completely up to you. If you’re weighing your odds, profitability would be based on how well they continue to perform in the coming years vs. the years building to this point. They are understandably profitable, as most IPO’s are released as a means of financing growth and expansion.
The hype that built up around this 15 year old e-Commerce giant, now icon, offering made a resounding splash across financial waters as it rolled out to the public. If you’ve seen the Hollywood film “Day After Tomorrow” you have an idea of the impact and force of forty-foot waves and the area of land it consumed…. “One storm that changed the face of the planet forever” was the slogan of this movie, the IPO release topped that easily! And YES, it IS planet/industry changing when an up-and-coming Chinese e-commerce company offers its shares to the public and out-values e-commerce moguls like Amazon and eBay, breaking multiple US records on debut day!
Now, here’s a perfect example of how owning a domain name like baba.com or baba.us would be a great name to own for a broker. First of all, your domain name’s value just skyrocketed! Why, because the .com and .us gTLD extensions that are associated with the NASDAQ trade symbol BABA, are instantly infamous, in-demand, and instantly going to be pursued?
Investors will scoop up these names that support their business, paying more than value to own the name at times.The geographical gTLD, .US, would be beneficial to a company that just broke records in the US on opening day, delaying the start of initial trading by more than 2 hours due to the widely sought stock.
Imagine for a moment that your domain name was just one share of this company’s stock. Now imaging that the value of those 2 domain names was pretty much nothing until this point, and had an anticipated value of about $80-$83, which happens to be the anticipated initial opening rate indicated by brokers for BABA shares.
Simply because of the feeding-frenzy of hype leading to the IPO release, and taking the conglomerate known as Apple head-on, releasing its iPhone 6/6+ on the same day. The massive interest in the stocks had the supply and demand aspects of Wall Street raking in over 10x the proposed initial opening rate. Just like the shares of stock, your domain name has become an overnight-sensation, and unobtainable commodity!
Best of all, YOU OWN IT!
You can treat it just like a piece of real estate, which essentially it is! You can list it for sale, you can drive interest and find yourself in the midst of an all-out bidding war by holding an auction, you can even remove your listing and retain your property until the price is right… Just don’t forget to renew your license!
The value can also depreciate, just like any other stock, piece of equipment, furniture, or vehicle though, so holding on too long or having an unrealistic valuation won’t pay-off. You might even be left wishing you sold. No different than how any other stock market investor feels when their stock exchange rate plummets.
Be quick, be smart, become an overnight sensation or crash and burn. There is always the option of a happy medium…. If you don’t lose your head!