It’s that time of the year to look back to see how those lofty predictions actually turned out. After all, we’re only hours away from 2020 literally being hindsight.

For 2020, I made 9 predictions pertaining to domain sales, domain extensions, registrars and services, conferences, and the overall economics of the domain industry in general.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Many domain investors unknowingly commit to this is very deadly and costly approach to domain investing.

Whether hand registering domains, or buying domains via forums or auction platforms, this “spray and pray” approach to domain investing costs to the tune of thousands.

Podcasting has been around for quite some time, nearly 15 or more years and counting. In 2004, the term “podcasting was coined by newspaper journalist Ben Hammersly as he wrote about the potential for boom in amateur radio.

Due to cheap MP3 players, blogging, and audio software, online radio became a thing. A year or so later, Apple releases iTunes in 2005 and hits 1 billion subscribers in 2013.

One of the most recent milestones of 2020 in podcasting is the Spotify and Joe Rogan $100 million licensing deal for his podcast and podcast content.

There are nearly 4.75 billion people connected via the Internet worldwide. That’s nearly 60 percent of the world’s population.

Once limited to the physical location where we reside, the Internet has vastly opened the door for everyone to connect with one another around the globe with a few simple keystrokes.

The Internet, especially search engines, has forever changed the way we live and do business. In fact, most of us now Google, Bing, or Baidu our way through daily living. But have you heard of The Bulgarian Search Engine?

There are not many people around the globe that can proclaim becoming an astute investor, developer, publisher, innovator, and service provider of domains.

Trust me, this population of people is very small. Special people, they are indeed, to extract the extraordinary from the mundane or ordinary occurrences in life.

In fact, these persons most often draw from past and current experiences to bring about a greater tomorrow.

Here’s a look at the top 5 podcasts for Kickstart Commerce in November, ranked by the total number of monthly downloads:

The first digital land rush — .com, .net, and .org to name a few — happened a couple of decades ago, and minted quite a few millionaires along the way.

Not quite a decade ago, the second digital land rush — new TLDs — had high hopes minting even more millionaires. Actually, the inverse has happened.  More folks lost their money than actually made a dime worth talking about.

But between these two milestone events, an entire domain market segment and economy is thriving, getting bigger as the days, months, and years pass: country code top-level domains (ccTLDs).