I agree the names remaining are not great, but they are still two letter. When English two letters were still available I bet people said "what's the point of qz.com or yq.com?"
Even fairly meaningless combinations would be great email addresses in the future. They are short and memorable. I would not advocate buying the combinations beginning with ы, ъ, or ь but the other ones will have value in the future. How much value is anybody's guess.
Who would have thought that LLLL.com and LLLL.net (not completely sold out yet I believe) would sell out? There are over 450,000 combinations of each. There are only 1089 combinations of Russian LL.com - much more rare and a safer bet IMO.
the problem is that the extensions are in ascii characters which is good for english speakers and not for russian who would choose idn extensions as soon as they will be available, I was tempted and thanks for your info but I decided to stay out of it.
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Other viewpoints are great for a lively discussion.
To quote a famous domainer - "It's a .com world".
And Russian speakers have been using ASCII.ASCII for years now. I think the move from .ru to .рф will happen, but I'm unconvinced it will dominate .ru or .com anytime soon.
The focus right now seems to be on "short" domains. Domainers have bought out all of the more than 450,000 LLLL.coms. With only 1089 Russian LL.com it seems like a no-brainer to me that these will someday be very lucrative. Granted the premium combinations are long gone.
Personally, I would rather own these Russian domains than a "short" .net or "short" dashed domain (L-L-L, LL-L, L-LL, or whatever).
Edit - picked up ны.com. was planning on ощ.com also but someone beat me to it.
I am going to regret this no doubt but I believe the entire Georgian Alphabet is still available as single letter dot coms. It seemed to be last time I looked.
Guys you are simply wasting your money... Please read what vlad74 wrote above... Do you really think Russians are that stupid they wouldn't have long regged those LL's if there were any value in them?
LL's with the Russian letter "ё" are totally useless since "ё" is always replaced by "е" in written Russian.
LOL... Now grab a Russian dictionary and see how many and what Russian words start with "щ"...
There is not a single word in Russian that starts with ъ, ь, or ы... so, yes, the remaining Russian LL.com's are useless... otherwise we Russians would have long taken them all.
