There was a surge of panic about "e" names in the late 90's and 2000, but after the dot com bubble, businesses ran from any identity or domain that said "e." But an interesting artifact in people's minds, is that "e" still represents a premium position for online business. In that regard, there is no doubt that "e" is the premium prefix for businesses which want to be preceived as being strong in online business. "e" owns mindshare for everything powerful about the internet, particularly ecommerce. "e" is so exceptional, that it is has almost become it's own noun and it's own verb. The value of owning the "e" name for your market segment can't be underestimated. Look and consider carefully the inherent value of this digital real estate, and remember "Location. Location. Location." It applies just as well on the internet, but the ramifications are far more reaching. If I get good real estate in my city, it only represents the best location for the local economy. If I get good digital real estate on the internet, it represents the best location for a global market. That is incredible, and that is a great equalizer to be able to play on the same playing field, internationally, with companies of all sizes, worldwide.
- eCollaborating.com CRMDaily.com reports: "Demand for software that can automate collaboration across the demand chain continues to mount," said Jon Derome, senior analyst with the Yankee Group's business-to-business practice. "The market for channel and partner relationship management software is expected to increase from approximately US$170 million in [2001] to more than $1 billion in 2005." Well, that remains to be seen, and there is a huge shakeout going on right now in the industry.
However, the new business to business paradigm includes massive collaborating, joint ventures and creating strategic partnerships. eCollaborating captures the essense of the new paradigm. You can't pick up a business newspaper or read your inbox news without seeing some article about how important collaborating is to the new eparadigm. This is an extremely high growth area, and applies across the board from large companies to small companies. People who "get it" with the new economy, will understand the signficance of this name. Price: $ Not yet priced
- eIncubating.com Great name for a service focusing on incubating ecommerce startups, or for a site that is a gateway to venture capital, business resources, consultants, etc. What percentage of the killer activity on Wall Street and NASDAQ is from business startups? All of them. And more of the startups are working through collaborative tools on the internet. If you can capture these businesses at the incubator stage, how much money do you think you could make? This is a highly competitive market segment, with terrific upside. Own the name. Provide a great service. Reap the profits. Price: $ 325,000.00
- eMulticasting.com A good multicaster company will be in the drivers seat for delivering integrated voice, data, video and other multimedia properties in a multicast stream through broadband networks. This name reflects this exploding market where the stakes are tremendously high for true JIT, on demand, content through a multicast data stream wherever the consumer or business executive is, worldwide. Price: $ 125,000.00
- eRiverBoats.com According to the good people at Hoovers Online, in 1998 there were $7.3B in revenues from riverboats, alone. With a projected increase of 20% for 1999, we're looking at average revenues of $100B over the next 10 years. Meanwhile, exponentially more people are using the internet for all their destination and entertainment information. Therefore, what is eRiverboats.com worth?!! Lots. If that specific sector is worth $100,000,000,000 just over the next 10 years, the portal site built around that name could be vaccuuming up 1 to 10% of ad revenues for the riverboats trying to attract the gamblers. 1% is $1B. Building on that as a likely revenue stream of advertising over 10 years, assume the name itself is only worth .5% of the 1% in ad revenues. That means the name is legitimately worth $5M (or 0.00005 of the projected revenues from the existing riverboats for only 10 years). This is like wanting to dominate WallStreet, and having the offices across the street open up for pennies a square foot. eRiverboats.com should be THE destination site for finding out about riverboats, weekly specials, big wins, entertainment, excursions, etc. And now, more than ever, there needs to be a collective industry effort to create and maintain excitement about offline casinos, in light of the exploding online gambling momentum that siphons off gambling money before people ever arrive at a riverboat. Marketing is essential to survive the onslaught. There is also a surge, particularly among seniors, for taking pleasure cruises on riverboats, beyond the casino part of the business. This too could provide advertising revenues. Price: $ 150,000.00
- eSimulcasting.com One of the recurring fervors in Wallstreet and with broadcasters and telecoms surrounds broadband, bandwidth and pipelines all in the name of simulcasting audio, video and all manner of data streams anywhere to anyone. This is the future of our interconnected world, both direct to consumer and b2b, both fiber-based and wireless. Buy the name, and you buy instant mindshare in one of the biggest markets on the horizon. Price: $ 1,250,000.00
- eSyndicating.com The internet is largely about content. There's nothing more powerful regarding content, than syndicating. The combination with the unbeatable "e" prefix is insurmountable by any competition. Own the name; control the stream. (Assuming you provide a good service, of course.) Price: $ 750,000.00
- eWarehouser.com The shfiting paradigm with direct business to consumer, and even consumer models of product deployment, make efficient, just-in-time, on-demand warehousing a key element of eDistribution throughput. This name could be a signficant player in the B2B, B2C. B2G and C2C infrastructure marketplaces. Price: $ 125,000.00
