One of the reasons why gold has always been popular is the fact that it’s a very portable store of value. If things go wrong in your country, you take your gold and move somewhere else. The same thing can’t be said about real estate, for example.

Well, domains are better from that point of view because they’re even more portable than gold.

All you have to do is remember your login details, you don’t even have to physically carry anything with you.

Let’s assume you live in country A and something bad happens, forcing you to move to country B.

If you own gold, transporting it to country B could be difficult. It might get stolen, for example.

Whereas with domains, you don’t have to worry about that aspect.

You arrive in country B, log in and bam, your domains are still there.

This scenario is valid in all cases except one: if something bad happens in the United States, it will be tricky because Verisign is a US-based company, your registrar is probably a US-based company as well and so on. But personally, I doubt something extremely bad will happen in the US during our lifetime.

I’m not saying the US is in great shape but compared to the alternatives, it’s a lot better and out of all developed economies, I’m confident it will be the last to fall.

Therefore, I’d say we can conclude that at least as far as the portability factor is concerned, domains are better than gold.