Tobias Ratschiller's Blog

Five things that will happen in 2010.

1. The Apple tablet will be the most interesting tech product of 2010 and be the same to netbooks as the iPhone was to mobiles. Apple shares will go to $300.
2. The economy will linger. Even tough in fact 2010's numbers will be worse than 2009's, people will speak of a slow recovery.
3. New TLDs will continue to be a hot topic (even though the first round will only be introduced in 2012) and the expressions of interest will show that there is serious demand from businesses. Nonetheless, .com will hold steady and we will see similar .com sales as in 2009 and 2008.
4. The already very small domaining industry will continue to fade out as domainers move to development, startups, SEO, affiliate marketing, etc.
5. The days of search engines presenting a page with 10 links are over and gone for good. Search engines will aggregate more data in more verticals, which will rock some industries (hotel and flight bookings, comparison shopping, and a wide variety of content sites come to mind). I'm sure there will be plenty of opportunities in this, but sure as hell I'm buying a lot more Google and Microsoft stock this year to hedge.