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Is "Internet Domain Estate" worth it?

NameMedia just filed for an IPO (filing). They are looking to raise upto $172.5 million based on the initial filing. Potential investors will soon have to find answers to the big question of how valuable "Internet Domain Estate" really is. The real estate (real world) market is in a crisis right now after a prolonged period of ever increasing valuations. Is this a harbinger of things to come for Internet domain estate as well? Let's first take a look at where the value of real estate (real world) comes from and we will then analyse whether this applies to so called internet domain estate as well.