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I think the market for keyword based .com, .net, .org, and .us is still healthy and growing.

One data point: I was lucky and was able to purchase a .us domain with 135k exact match searches a month for $200, when the .com, .net, and .org were all asking 30k+ and not budging.

What domains are you sitting on and what do you expect to get for them?

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100M+ global monthly search volume according to google. I've owned the com, us and org variants for a little while now. I think names like this will always command a high dollar, but aggregators and traffic arbiters like google, fb, twitter, hunch, digg are only going to increase the value of solid landing pages rather than the one-word domains that "corner a market." Of course it's highly dependent on the search algorithm formula -- domainheads are always coming up with google conspiracy theories :)

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