Hey what happened to the post - I was going to comment on it. I remember you asked a question about whether .au or .com were best to focus on...
In my view .com's are a terrible investment at the moment. 5 years ago, maybe but I believe they have pretty much done their dash & ccTLDs are where the growth is. Sales figues seem to back this up too:
Exhibit A - manually extracted from DNJournal reported sales:
Below I'm using the median of the top 100 reported sales for each category. Rather than extract all the com's from the all sales charts, I'm being simplistic & using the All Sales chart as a measure of com values (after all these charts are dominated by .com sales)
Year.......Com Sales .... ccTLD Sales
2006.......$125K........ $13K
2007.......$200K ....... $21K
2008.......$188K ....... $26K
2009.......$141K ....... $37K
So, if you'd have invested in a bunch of typical .com names in 2006 and sold them in 2009, you'd have made a lousy 12% over those 3 years. Invested the same money in a broad selection of ccTLDs and you've nearly tripled your money
Exhibit B - Ron Jackson's analysis of 2009 sales
http://www.dnjournal.com/newsletters/2010/january.htm
Total Reported Domain Sales Dropped 12.5% in 2009 But ccTLD Sales Soared 28% Over the Previous Year
Exhibit C -Sedo's annual report
http://sedo.com/fileadmin/documents/pressdownload/2009_Market_Study.pdf
2007 the average .com sale on Sedo was $5,016
2008 the average .com sale on Sedo was $2,512
2009 the average .com sale on Sedo was $1,829