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.com 417.com sells for $169K....Don't fear the number 4

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I totally understand that Asian buyers don't like the number 4 because it sounds like death. But at the same time, when a 3N.com is still for over 6 figures, there's no reason to totally ignore it. Lots of NP domainers are always looking no domains with no 0 or 4, well I say that's a little overblown. Sure it's not as desirable and hence the lower price. But it's still valuable regardless. I remember seeing 4444.biz sell for $2000 a while ago too.

As for the vowels, I don't follow that at all, so not sure how much of a difference it really makes. I prefer numbers because they are more rare and straight forward compared to letters.

3N's - only 1000 possible combinations
3L's - 17,576 possible combinations.

I'm also not sure if 4N is better than 3L or vis-versa. Less 4N, but 3L is shorter. In the end I see buyouts on most 3N,3L throughout most domain extensions anyway.

Thoughts?
 
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Good sale, wonder how much it would have been worth in .net
 
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Hard to say, .NET drops in value quite a bit on .NET compared to .COM . Most sales history is from over year ago, but I would say mid XXXX at least for 417.NET. Still, if you bought NNN.NET 10 years ago and got XXXX for it now, worth the investment I think. But I would hold it for now, things are going to pick up in the numbered domain market this year. I really hope this 417.com sale dispels people's fears on the number 4.

http://namebio.com/?s=gMxMDO4AzM
 
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Even for other extensions like .xyz, .tv, .info, there's 4's and 0's selling for premiums. All this stuff was bought A year ago or earlier. Always go for 8's and other numbers, but if there's a new popular gtld or cctld and all that's left in the 3N's are 4's and 0's, your better off getting that then missing the boat completely:

http://namebio.com/?s=QO0MDO4AzM
 
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Yeah, its that price because its NNN.com, there are plenty of decent sales with the number "4" in it

419.com
150,000 USD

458.com
140,000 USD

144.com
110,000 USD

114.com
2,100,000 USD
 
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