[darkdrift]

Originally Posted by thetruman

wow 800 is quite a number. I bought 40...still a decent weight in my total portfolio....

I look at this as a small investment, 800 is about $5K investment.
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I look as this investment as an alternative to putting $5K into a mutual fund or buying some shares of a stock for a year. Except, I see this as a much more profitable and secure way of doing it.

So 800 domains may seem like a lot, but if you think about it, its only a measly $5,000 ...and when the prices double, it will only be a gain of $5,000 so I am wondering why the big boys don't just come in and buy the remaining 5,000 domains for $35K

[thetruman]

the fact is that I have other hundreds of domains in other niches. This is still asort of gamble so I prefer to be careful throwing too many eggs in one basket (I wish I would have done it with LLLL.com when I had the chance to...I take a rather conservative approach to diversify risk...)

[rkbdomain]

Originally Posted by darkdrift

Just curious, are you guys all broke from buying these? Don't have $35K to invest in this, or just scared of the potential liquidity of the domains, but why not just spend $35K to buy up the last of them and double your money, I just want to hear some opinions on how much you guys invested in them, and your logic behind it. I myself have about 800 of them and am thinking about buying a lot more

Gotta say I'm thinking about it too. I already bought a large chunk of the market and probably own about 2k of these now. Maybe it's that class on antitrust regulation from college but I have a knee-jerk reaction against owning too much of the market. Now how much is too much is another question. Domaining is sort of a side-hobby/investment thing for me, and I don't really want to spend all of my time managing 4-5k domains, even if it would probably be more profitable to own more. Can't say I'm not tempted though!

[ipodxpert]

just regged -

74387.com

(74387 stands for PHEVS - Plugin-Hybrid Electric Vehicles).

[rkbdomain]

I think we may have dropped below 5k. Using the latest list of available ones (5,826), I just scanned a minute ago and came up with only 4,968 left. Now, some may have dropped in the last few hours and I wouldn't have caught those in my scan.

[producer007]

I do not mean to be a party pupa, but can you experiecned people please explain exactly what is/are NNNNN.com's? I feel like you are talking in codes, I am a newbie so forgive me if this is a silly question. If it is not, can soemone give me a 101 NNNNN.com's? and others just like it. Thanks

[GF]

Originally Posted by producer007

I do not mean to be a party pupa, but can you experiecned people please explain exactly what is/are NNNNN.com's? I feel like you are talking in codes, I am a newbie so forgive me if this is a silly question. If it is not, can soemone give me a 101 NNNNN.com's? and others just like it. Thanks

"Silly" questions are OK. I'm new too. People here are very friendly.
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N = number
L = letter

LLLL.com = dot com with 4 letters (i.e., damo.com, pane.com, lime.com)
NNNNN.com = dot com with 5 numbers (i.e., 92626.com, 69691.com, 12345.com)

[rkbdomain]

Originally Posted by producer007

I do not mean to be a party pupa, but can you experiecned people please explain exactly what is/are NNNNN.com's? I feel like you are talking in codes, I am a newbie so forgive me if this is a silly question. If it is not, can soemone give me a 101 NNNNN.com's? and others just like it. Thanks

Not at all, welcome to the party! NNNNN.com is a five digit number followed by .com. You are witnessing the vanishing of these domains. There are 100,000 total possibilities 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10. One company owns about 60% of them (all the US zip codes, like 90210.com etc.) and a week ago there were about 20,000 left. Since then there has been a buying frenzy and there are less than 5,000 left now. People are buying them for a number of reasons, (1) they get decent type-in traffic, meaning people type in numbers for all sorts of reasons and will end up on your website, which you can make money from in cash parking, (2) the Chinese love numbers and many developed number websites are big in China, 173.com sold for over $300,000 last week, (3) numbers represent words on cell phones and this is a developing market and (4) once all the NNNNN.com's are bought out it is expected they will rise in value. All the LLLL.com's (four letter domains) were bought out a few months ago, and there are a lot more of these (over 450,000 total) than NNNNN.com's. After the LLLL.com buyout, prices for those have gone up to more than $50-$60 even for non-premium (i.e. really bad) letters, like XJZQ.com. So there is a lot of money to be had by registering NNNNN.com's right now for only $7-$8 per site, they could be selling for double that or 10x that in a year or two easily.

On my blog I have a discussion of the future for NNNNN.com domains that you might want to read.

There is also a good discussion here

I also encourage you to read back at earlier posts in this thread, as there is a lot of good information and links regarding NNNNN.com's, as well as a stunning history of them all being bought out very fast.

And if you want to buy them, you better move fast, next week there probably won't be any you can register, you will have to pay inflated prices to those of us that have bought them already!
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I should add that there is a list of available (as of a few hours ago, another 1,000 have been taken since then) NNNNN.com's here

If you want to buy these in bulk you can cut and paste into godaddy's bulk search (or any other registrar that has bulk registration) and you should get a discount for buying a lot. I bulk registered by NNNNN.com's through godaddy and am using their cash parking service to make money on them now.

[GF]

- The final remaining "01NNN's" -

01348.com
01356.com
01406.com
01408.com
01421.com
01426.com
01528.com
01547.com
01549.com
01552.com
01557.com
01574.com
01632.com
01644.com
01645.com
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01647.com
01648.com
01649.com
01651.com
01663.com
01667.com
01675.com
01694.com
01714.com
01715.com
01725.com
01734.com
01735.com
01739.com
01781.com
01783.com
01791.com
01837.com
01846.com
01857.com
01859.com
01871.com
01874.com
01875.com
01891.com
01893.com
01894.com
01897.com
01917.com
01939.com
01943.com
01956.com
01967.com

[rkbdomain]

A ton were just registered in the last hour, looks like there are 4,151 left now! Again, I am just scanning the most recent list and may be missing a few drops. I've posted an updated list here.

[Phronesis]

Actually I just cancelled the only one I bought - 01584.com - thought it was a zip code I knew but was off by 1 number.

[ecalc]

Originally Posted by rkbdomain

One company owns about 60% of them (all the US zip codes, like 90210.com etc.) and a week ago there were about 20,000 left. Since then there has been a buying frenzy and there are less than 5,000 left now. People are buying them for a number of reasons, (1) they get decent type-in traffic ...

One company (MCHX) doesn't own all US zip code nnnnn.coms. I own some high median home price areas. Type-ins average less than 30 uniques per month per name since 2004.
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Enjoying the countdown, good luck to all!

[rkbdomain]

Originally Posted by ecalc

One company (MCHX) doesn't own all US zip code nnnnn.coms. I own some high median home price areas. Type-ins average less than 30 uniques per month per name since 2004. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=427946 Enjoying the countdown, good luck to all!

Thanks for the info, has Marchex tried to buy the zip code domains from you? Any idea what yours are worth? What would you consider selling them for?

[ecalc]

Originally Posted by rkbdomain

Thanks for the info, has Marchex tried to buy the zip code domains from you?

No
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Originally Posted by rkbdomain

Any idea what yours are worth?

$XXXX

Originally Posted by rkbdomain

What would you consider selling them for?

$XXXX

[Idees]

Just bought 62407.com for $15

[producer007]

Thanks (GF4444 & rkbdomain) people, begining to make a bit of sense to a newbie. However, for US postal code it seems easy but what happend when post codes is foreign and is something like this sw3 6ht, how do one turns this in to NNNNN.com?
Thanks

Ideesweb, to make this clear to my daft mind, what is 62407.com stands for?

[Idees]

Words found inside 62407

nag ma I a

Originally Posted by producer007

Ideesweb, to make this clear to my daft mind, what is 62407.com stands for?

[rkbdomain]

Originally Posted by producer007

Thanks (GF4444 & rkbdomain) people, begining to make a bit of sense to a newbie. However, for US postal code it seems easy but what happend when post codes is foreign and is something like this sw3 6ht, how do one turns this in to NNNNN.com? Thanks Ideesweb, to make this clear to my daft mind, what is 62407.com stands for?

Yeah, it won't work for the UK, but Spain, Germany, Brazil, Czech Republic, Sweden, Italy, and many other countries have 5-digit postal codes. See some of the lists I have posted at www.nnnnndomains.com for a sample. I think all the ones I posted have been taken, but there may be a few left and there are probably some left in the available numbers, I recommend going through the available numbers and typing them in to google maps if you are interested in seeing whether they are foreign postal codes or not.

[evirtual1]

Originally Posted by rkbdomain

Interesting, there seem to be a decent number of remaining NNNNN.com's that are already taken in the .net. Here are a few: 48696.com ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=427946 48692.com 49364.com 61034.com 62472.com 74615.com 82491.com Some even seem to be developed Chinese websites, so much for the tetraphobia stuff!

Yes no doubt ......... the .nets will be the next to go !!!!

i noticed the same thing !

[rkbdomain]

Originally Posted by evirtual1

Yes no doubt ......... the .nets will be the next to go !!!! ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=427946 i noticed the same thing !

One thing that is weird, and I think others have commented on it, is that Marchex owns the .net for all of the zip codes it owns as well as the .com. Why did they need the .net also? I guess to protect their sites and prevent someone else from developing a competing and better zip code site since they probably couldn't TM a number, that's all I can think of. Certainly an advantage of numerics, I don't think anyone's going to be able to get it from you in a trademark dispute.

[evirtual1]

i regged 739.com.au ........ went to uspto.com , only to find that there were trademarks relating to that number ???????? but different subject matter

[sashas]

I would rather buy NNNNN.cn than NNNNN.nets

[evirtual1]

Originally Posted by sashas

I would rather buy NNNNN.cn than NNNNN.nets

both are good ....... i see where your comming from though

[rkbdomain]

Originally Posted by sashas

I would rather buy NNNNN.cn than NNNNN.nets

There are actually a bunch of Chinese websites that are NNNNN.net, probably not as many as .cn but the Chinese use .net as well it seems.

Jamptap has a great updated graphic of the buyout. Check it out here.

[GF]

I thought I'd show some of the numerics that I reg'd... Thanks for the help!

72874687.com - Patriots
325426.COM - Dalian (City in China)
6265464.com - Nanjing (another city in China)
478463.com - Irvine (city in California)
639275.COM - Newark (city in New Jersey)
266229.com - Bombay (city in India)
226286.com - Cancun (city in Mexico)
76767489.com - Sorority
8765267.com - Trojans
342637.COM - eGames
723737.COM - Padres (baseball team or fathers in Spanish)
354524.com - Elijah
767442.COM - Sophia
654842.COM - Olivia
739866.COM - Peyton
36286737.COM - Doctores (Doctors in Spanish)