4 letter dotcom registration trend

[3par]

Below is the llll.com remaining trend:

date available dec percent
3/1 101422 22.19%
3/15 98717 2705 21.60%
4/1 95691 3026 20.94%
4/15 92480 3211 20.24%
5/1 89394 3086 19.56%
5/15 87861 1533 19.23%
6/1 83512 4349 18.27%
6/15 81825 1687 17.91%
7/1 80182 1643 17.55%

If current trend keeps, all will be gone by next Oct.

I am not able to post image here. You can go to dyyo.com for a graphic view.

 

[slugraduate]

Just aquired my first all vowel 4 letter .com

AOIY.com. How would this compare, investmentwise, to other 4 letter .coms that may not contain but a vowel or two?

 

[accent]

AOIY.com. How would this compare, investmentwise, to other 4 letter .coms that may not contain but a vowel or two?

Congradulations -- Your new domain is worth between $5 and $1000.
I am completely serious. It is that kind of a business. You could list it on Ebay and, after costs, end up with $5. You could get an email next week offering you a thousand.

Granted, I am still waiting for the first of those emails....

Beyond letter frequency and pronouncability I consider the look of domains. Do I like the impression the domain makes (I avoid domains with the letters "PU" in that order, for example). On that score AIOY.com does very well. It is a lot more pronouncable than many who make that claim, looks nautical to me. Letter-wise it is a little weak, but not bad.

We all knock ourselves out looking through endless lists to pick the best domain, yet we will end up selling most of them for "mid-range LLLL" prices when the time comes. Do LLL.com resale buyers care if a domain contains a "f" or a "g"? I doubt it.

 

[nRnF]

You are exactly right. If SEDO.com had a high price tag when the owners were looking for a name then they simply would have moved on to the next choice. But the law office of Smith, Eldridge, Donaldson and Owens has only the option to go to another extension.

Just for the ones that forgot.
Sedo payed for "SEDO.com" 60000 USD less than 2 years ago

So, would you have regged it 3 years ago ?
Or, what would be your counter offer, if a anonymos offers you 150 for it ?
Bottom line:
Its a game of research, timing, luck and overall negociation ability.

Timing ?
I put my hands on INRI_com for low $ 2 years ago, how much would it go for today ?

IMO
Try to think twice before regging today a LLLL
(it must make sense, and should be definetly .com).
And stay away from CCCC !

 

[accent]

Just for the ones that forgot.
Sedo payed for "SEDO.com" 60000 USD less than 2 years ago

I did not know that, I assumed that they had registered it back in the day. Is Sedo that young or did they have another name?

So, would you have regged it 3 years ago ?
Or, what would be your counter offer, if a anonymos offers you 150 for it ?

Whew - I have been wondering that for a while. SEDO is a nice LLLL name, but if it were undeveloped and mine, I would not think of it as mid $$,$$$ - Their first price must have been $$$,$$$! Brass gonads, indeed. If someone offered me 2K for it I would have sold. A few hundred would have been difficult to turn down.

Bottom line:
Its a game of research, timing, luck and overall negociation ability.

Timing ?
I put my hands on INRI_com for low $ 2 years ago, how much would it go for today ?

Memo to self - Always google a name. INRI is the accepted form of the Titulus, the message placed on the Cross of Jesus. I did not recognise it when I first saw it here, aparently the former owner did not either.

But that is a known acronym. Sedo meant nothing before it was branded, yet the former owner saw the potential well enough to stick to his position and carry off the sale. If 60 K why not 300K??? It really is hard to get a grip on this. Maybe the "luck" dimension is such that there is not really much to get a grip on.

 

[GreenGambler]

Wow I did not know Sedo paid 60k... Holy $hit that's alot of money.

I would probably sell all 20 or so of my LLLL.com's for that much money. But then I would probably regret it down the road, like 2 or 3 years.

This is a tricky business. You want to make sales yet you don't wanna get ripped. And when someone offers you 500 you still second guess it, even though you only paid 8 or so.

So when listing LLLL.coms should I list them for like $1000, $5000, or maybe even $50,000. The more you have it listed for the higher you offers "should be", yet a more pricy listing probably doesn't get many offers. (talking 'bout LLLL.coms)..

 

[accent]

Sedo requires an appraisal before allowing prices over $10,000 {or 10,000 pounds if you are in the UK - something screwwey about that, but I digress}.

Someone posted this earlier - sorry I do not know who, I just copied it into my notes:
May 9, 2006
LLLL.coms Sales in the past few mths listed on afternic.com sedo.com or in forums and etc
itek.com - $16,250.00
akco.com - $7,450.00
waav.com - $7,450.00
fbex.com - $6,000.00
usfe.com - $5,450.00
caoh.com - $5,450.00
hoem.com - $4,200.00
mefc.com - $3,500.00
ells.com - $1,700.00
nuid.com - $1,500.00
lppl.com - $1,600.00
rvsb.com - $1,500.00
kvlt.com - $1,500.00
boxi.com - $1,450.00
ingi.com - $1,015.00
jgie.com - $1,000.00

I do not know how complete the list is, or how many months is a "few". Some of these may include established websites. There is only one sale above 10K. The SEDO.com seller = brass gonads indeed.

Right now I think (or maybe just hope) the LLLL.com market is heating up, so I am not actively trying to sell. In a few years, perhaps, the above list will have another zero on each of the prices.

Or maybe not.

 

[Lasher]

gdit.com sold for $20,000 I believe. I'd seen a post at the time because it was a cool phonetic name (gdit - 'get it'), but turns out it was bought by General Dynamics Information Technology.

I'd love to know if the person selling it somehow knew it was GD bidding on it, coz like others have posted in here, if I get a 500+ offer for one of my apparently meaningless LLLL.coms I'm probably going to take it.