How long can domain prices keep going up?

With the recent sales of Porn.com selling for $9 Million & Poker.com selling for $23 Million, I was wondering how high prices can go?

Will a generic dot com domain name be worth $500 million dollars in the future?

If prices keep going up, how will the people that buy these names end up making revenue off those sites?

Do you think that .com names will slow down & ccTLDs will have the biggest growth in the future?

I am interested to hear people's opinions.

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Prices can range from anywhere i guess, no way to really predict that.

I highly doubt a person would even think of buying/selling a domain name for 500 million dollars, you might as well buy yourself a giant house in California, buy a few cars, get the worlds best pc and game all day.

Depends on what they do with it, it is possible.

ccTLD's aren't so popular right now, but you never know, but i doubt somebody will go out and buy a .to (Tonga) instead of a .com or .net.
But some day .com will get all taken, so many people wont have a choice.

yeah, only a matter of time till all coms and nets are gone.. then time to move on.. but you have to admit the value of coms and nets would be a lot higher.. it would be as our current LL.com are worth!

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Yeah, that kind of scares me in a way, if prices go up, it might be too much for the average person, and they wouldn't be able to get what they need.

well the way the net has changed, it's more and more of a ecommerce type of area. The Net is mostly used now for some type of business and that's the future I see for the net.. and we all knows business = moola..

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Ah, money, the center of our lives.