Having watched and participated in a few ccTLD countdowns, I am curious about how members rate the value of short domains.
To keep things simple, I am sticking to TWO characters for this discussion, thinking similar standards would apply to three or single character. And I am making up extensions that don't exist in my examples
Among the 2 Character combos it would make sense that the value from high to low would look something like this:
Letter-Only Word Hack.............NI.CE
Two Number Repeater............77.OG
Two Number Premium............23.MJ
Two Number Anything............49.QD
Two Letter Repeater where the Letter is one of the ccTLD letters HH.HY or YY.HY
Two Letter Repeater.............RR.LZ
Two Letters with one Match of the ccTLD Letters XQ.JQ JD.JQ
Two Letter Anything..............UO.VF
Letter/Number Hack.............N1.CE (the "I" in Nice is actually the number ONE)
Mixed NL LN with an implied meaning...............B4 (Before) K9 (Canine-Dog)
Mixed Number Letter or Letter Number.............E3.LP
(it got too tedious to include all Western/Chinese Premium Variations, so if that is what you are into, leave out the 4,0 and all the bad letters, whatever they are today)
So just for fun
1] In what order would you value these?
2] If there were a new extension you could get first crack at, what would your top choice registrations be?
3] There are some existing expensive and/or restricted ccTLDs with premium 2 Character domains available, what Initial Cost and Yearly Cost would you be willing to pay for 2 Character domains?
Personally, I have a few 2C that I paid Auction/Back Order Prices to obtain, about US$130 max, in extensions with reasonable yearly renewals, US$20-55 per year.
I don't think I'd go much higher than that yearly, since I already have a bunch I think are fun and cool if I wanted them for personal use. And unless it was a super premium name I would be hesitant to get anything with higher renewals, let's say US$100/year or more, only since I think it would make it more difficult to sell.
Discuss : grin :
To keep things simple, I am sticking to TWO characters for this discussion, thinking similar standards would apply to three or single character. And I am making up extensions that don't exist in my examples
Among the 2 Character combos it would make sense that the value from high to low would look something like this:
Letter-Only Word Hack.............NI.CE
Two Number Repeater............77.OG
Two Number Premium............23.MJ
Two Number Anything............49.QD
Two Letter Repeater where the Letter is one of the ccTLD letters HH.HY or YY.HY
Two Letter Repeater.............RR.LZ
Two Letters with one Match of the ccTLD Letters XQ.JQ JD.JQ
Two Letter Anything..............UO.VF
Letter/Number Hack.............N1.CE (the "I" in Nice is actually the number ONE)
Mixed NL LN with an implied meaning...............B4 (Before) K9 (Canine-Dog)
Mixed Number Letter or Letter Number.............E3.LP
(it got too tedious to include all Western/Chinese Premium Variations, so if that is what you are into, leave out the 4,0 and all the bad letters, whatever they are today)
So just for fun
1] In what order would you value these?
2] If there were a new extension you could get first crack at, what would your top choice registrations be?
3] There are some existing expensive and/or restricted ccTLDs with premium 2 Character domains available, what Initial Cost and Yearly Cost would you be willing to pay for 2 Character domains?
Personally, I have a few 2C that I paid Auction/Back Order Prices to obtain, about US$130 max, in extensions with reasonable yearly renewals, US$20-55 per year.
I don't think I'd go much higher than that yearly, since I already have a bunch I think are fun and cool if I wanted them for personal use. And unless it was a super premium name I would be hesitant to get anything with higher renewals, let's say US$100/year or more, only since I think it would make it more difficult to sell.
Discuss : grin :