Historically, this time of year has always brought me the most and best offers. I wonder if the end of tax season brings it on? People getting their refunds or know who much they will have to pay. May just be coincidence but this has been going for the past 4 years in a row and now make that 5.
In the past two weeks, I have received unsolicited offers for four names...two.com's. one .info, and one .biz of all things.
I have not seen a spike in .us recently but a common LLL.us is hovering around the $125 mark.
Heavily publicized auctions with no .us domains featured do not do the domain any harm, but certainly not any good. If people see big sales in this extension I think it will then garner attention that other extensions are getting. Any major sale is welcomed news. We have seen a couple but not enough.
There is alot of attention being focused on .mobi, and now .tv, .cn, and soon to be .asia.
No, I decided to start buying again. I'll pay $106 now instead of nickel and dime-ing it down to $90. I have renewed interest in LLL.us and I am willing to hold long term to make decent money on these names.
yeah - $16 is kinda irrelevant. I am happy with the price, but think it was probably about right for this name. Ofcourse $150 would have been better (and that is what I think I would have gotten about 6 months ago)
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i dont think that particular name would have gone for $150 even at the peak 3-4 months ago
definitely think the market is picking up again, starting to see more bidders for the names when they come to the forum, add this to the fact that there arent many appearing on the forum and elsewhere and prices will increase steadily
I don't think the wholesale level of the worst LLL.us are below $90 right now. I know two LLL.us went for below that price on ebay not too long ago---I was too late to bid on them. Notwithstanding a few domains that slip through the cracks, I think 3char.com is pretty close to accurate saying that lll.us wholesale are at $95.
hi i just got a request from a company wanting a LLL.us i have.................
could a fellow namepros member
let me know what the highest sales have been in the last year
on LLL.us domains it would help in my reply.........
want to mention to the director that these LLL.us names are property within themselves
and hold inherent value just on their own and could sold later if they ever care too..............................
please help and how should i reply im usually the buyer of domains of lll.us and not the seller
PS .. imagine if the top holders of LLLus decided they didnt want to pay thousands of thousands of dollars a year for their renewals and they let them drop ,,, we would really see the prices fall through the bucket.............
FBA us $1,000 Mar 07 Sedo Auction 1 3 N N http://FBA.us Sedo
CCT us $1,500 Feb 07 Afternic 1 3 N N http://CCT.us Afternic
REI us $2,000 Feb 07 Sedo 1 3 N N http://REI.us DNJournal
PRM us $1,000 Jan 07 Private 1 3 N N http://PRM.us DNJournal
Bob us $5,000 Dec 06 Sedo Auction 1 3 N N http://Bob.us Sedo
(non-disclosure agreements) yes ndas, any one who is a serious collector
likes to have a NDA because once the word is out prices will go up
so collectors try and do this a quietly as possible.........
than once they eatin all they could and want to sell,, than they come out talken the talk the oil slick sales pitches and yadah yadah yadah................................ for the names its so easy to spot especially since we are such a small niche a esoteric circle of collectors................
THANKS FOR THE INFO I WILL USE THE INFO IN THE LETTER, LETS SEE WHAT HAPPENS, SO MUCH EASIER TO BUY THAN SELL....
imagine a collector with some huge funds for LLL.us the prices could actually double overnight...
Harpo is talking about is liquidity. The ability for a big buy or sell to effect the market price is a liquidity issue.
Yes, LLL.us is much less liquid than LLL.com. Yes, it's possible for a big buyer to come in and temporarily inflate the BUYING price of LLL.us. BUT, as in any market with low liquidity, that temporary inflation in market price is not real. Just think about what happens when that big buyer tries to sell at the inflated prices... no deal.
Unless there are a lot of buyers and sellers, small fluctuations in a low liquid marker are mainly an error of focusing too close. These discussions about $5-$15 fluctuations in a low liquid market indicate nothing.
To reiterate, in a small market, the main factor in determining if the market is becoming more or less valid (which will lead to eventual real value) is the liquidity of the market. Are more people entering the market (as new buyers, or previously holders becoming sellers) and is there a steady increase in interest in the market?
Once there is a steady flow of buyers and sellers, market price becomes steady and then we can measure gains. It happened last year... the jump from $30 for LLL.us to $90 happened because more players entered the market.
We should be watching the number of people selling, buying, and actual transactions taking place rather than discussion $5-$10 fluctuations in price. The "slip through the cracks" $70 sale wouldn't happen in a liquid market. There would be just too many people monitoring it.
like 2 people i think.... big buyer are ones who buy over 100 domains i say
whois info can easlily be checked on lll.,us and crossed over to see who acquired what....
i got an offer back for the LLL.us domain but it wasnt good.
I have made alot of Inquiries into names on sedo making offers in the $100-200 range for good quality LLL.us. It may have been me. If you have any quality LLL.US you want to sell at reseller prices, PM me.
Only ONE "big fish" can own the dot com generic term name (although the 80% bet is that it is owned by a domain aggregator/parker). All the other "big fishes" should be gobbling up the same term in all other extensions relevant to their market. In the case of the US businesses, that means .net/.info/.biz and DEFINITELY - .US. I think that the big guys are missing out on sales. They use big ad agencies who seem to earn their keep by "branding" everything while they overlook one of the simplest forms of advertising - having the generic domain name that describes their business or product.
For .US names in general, holding some from 2002 landrush and have many more acquired over the last few years. Interested end users seem to find you via whois, SEDO, Afternic - in that order. Primarily small business owners, who "get it".
As far as LLL.us, sold them all to domainers, and did see one recently in your sig Fonzie which I wish I held onto - now that I know what it stands for. Made sure to pick it up in .mobi when the opportunity presented itself during that ladrush.
