Any value in nnnnn.com? Why ultsearch bought lots of them?

[lurikos]

What do you think? type-in traffic?

All with nameservers ultsearch.com:

02062.com
06103.com
00501.com
00601.com
00602.com
00604.com
00605.com
00610.com
00611.com
00612.com
00614.com
00616.com
00617.com
00622.com
00623.com
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00627.com
00631.com
00636.com
00637.com
00641.com
00646.com
00647.com
00650.com
00652.com
00653.com
00656.com
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00664.com
00667.com
00669.com
00670.com
00674.com
00676.com
00677.com
00680.com
00681.com
00682.com
00683.com
00685.com
00687.com
00690.com
00692.com
00693.com
00694.com
00698.com
00703.com
00704.com
00705.com
00714.com
00715.com
00716.com
00717.com
00719.com
00723.com
00725.com
00726.com
00728.com
00729.com
00730.com
00732.com
00734.com
00736.com
00739.com
00740.com
00742.com
00745.com
00751.com
00757.com
00767.com
00769.com
00771.com
00772.com
00773.com
00780.com
00783.com
00784.com
00785.com
00792.com
00794.com
00795.com
00801.com
00802.com
00803.com
00804.com
00805.com
00820.com
00821.com
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00830.com
00840.com
00841.com
00901.com
00902.com
00906.com
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00910.com
00912.com
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00920.com
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00927.com
00929.com
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00933.com
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00936.com
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00939.com
00949.com
00950.com
00951.com
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00956.com
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00962.com
00969.com
00970.com
00975.com
00977.com
00978.com
00981.com
00982.com
00983.com
00984.com
00985.com
01002.com
01003.com
01005.com
01103.com
01104.com
01105.com
01106.com
01107.com
01108.com
01109.com
01114.com
01115.com
01116.com
01118.com
01128.com
01129.com
01138.com
01195.com
01201.com
01229.com
01236.com
01237.com
01240.com
01245.com
01247.com
01252.com
01254.com
01255.com
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01259.com
01263.com
01266.com
01267.com
01301.com
01330.com
01338.com
01339.com
01340.com
01343.com
01344.com
01346.com
01349.com
01351.com
01354.com
01360.com
01367.com
01368.com
01370.com
01373.com
01375.com
01376.com
01378.com
01379.com
01431.com
01434.com
01436.com
01438.com
01440.com
01441.com
01452.com
01467.com
01468.com
01470.com
01471.com
01477.com
01504.com
01507.com
01508.com
01509.com
01515.com
01517.com
01518.com
01526.com
01531.com
01537.com
01538.com
01540.com
01542.com
01546.com
01550.com
01560.com
01561.com
01568.com
01569.com
01570.com
01571.com
01585.com
01601.com
01602.com
01605.com
01607.com
01610.com
01611.com
01612.com
01613.com
01614.com
01615.com
01654.com
01655.com
01701.com
01703.com
01705.com
01721.com
01730.com
01731.com
01746.com
01747.com
01748.com
01754.com
01772.com
01775.com
01801.com
01805.com
01806.com
01807.com
01808.com
01812.com
01813.com
01826.com
01831.com
01832.com
01833.com
01840.com
01842.com
01850.com
01851.com
01852.com
01853.com
01854.com
01862.com
01863.com
01864.com
01867.com
01876.com
01879.com
01887.com
01899.com
01901.com
01903.com
01913.com
01921.com
01922.com
01929.com
01931.com
01936.com
01940.com
01944.com
01949.com
01952.com
01961.com
01971.com
01982.com
01984.com
02018.com
02025.com
02027.com
02032.com
02035.com
02040.com
02041.com
02044.com
02045.com
02047.com
02051.com
02052.com
02054.com
02055.com
02059.com
02060.com
02061.com
02065.com
02066.com
02070.com
02071.com
02081.com
02103.com
02104.com
02105.com
02106.com
02107.com
02109.com
02110.com
02111.com
02112.com
02113.com
02119.com
02122.com
02123.com
02128.com
02129.com
02130.com
02131.com
02137.com
02140.com
02141.com
02142.com
02143.com
02145.com
02152.com
02153.com
02170.com
02171.com
02180.com
02185.com
02187.com
02189.com
02191.com
02196.com
02199.com
02201.com
02203.com
02204.com
02205.com
02206.com
02207.com
02208.com
02209.com
02212.com
02216.com
02217.com
02228.com
02238.com
02239.com
02241.com
02269.com
02283.com
02284.com
02293.com
02295.com
02297.com
02301.com
02302.com
02303.com
02304.com
02305.com
02322.com
02324.com
02325.com
02327.com
02330.com
02334.com
02337.com
02338.com
02339.com

 

[ThreeD]

I really don't see them holding any value...nobody searches for that kind of numbers, nobody makes typo's like that when looking up a website...let alone it's too many numbers ina row

you'd need a very good marketing campaign to promote that kind of website! Useless in my opinion..

 

[owenwww]

Ultsearch regularly grabs dropping domains that are completely and utterly worthless. Not everything they do is smart.

 

[netPH]

Hmm, they might "know" something that we don't "know"

 

[ThreeD]

Hmm, they might "know" something that we don't "know"

I doubt it

 

[aldwin]

numeric domains are valuable for the China/Japan/Korea market.
Many surfers find easier to read and remember numbers than western chars.. however the value of so long domain names is questionable..

 

[Fundraiser]

zip codes

 

[Mark]

zip codes

Stealing my old ideas :bingo:

 

[Amnezia]

you should see how many seeming useless expired domains a company called capitol domains picks up, about 10,000 everyday. Its an automated process every domain registered has is a page of ppc links put on it. Its like an automated sedo on crack!

 

[Mark]

What you guys dont see - is the fact a lot of these companies picking up Mass Drops - are allowed to pick them up for a few days , Test them for traffic , and if there isn't any traffic they Delete them back out into the Drops again. It's really making the Drops a big joke now because it's almost a promise that no names with even minimal traffic will ever drop again Bummer Huh ?

 

[.Mike]

What you guys dont see - is the fact a lot of these companies picking up Mass Drops - are allowed to pick them up for a few days , Test them for traffic , and if there isn't any traffic they Delete them back out into the Drops again. It's really making the Drops a big joke now because it's almost a promise that no names with even minimal traffic will ever drop again Bummer Huh ?

wow :o - really! I didn't know that, thanks for the info mark

 

[equity78]

Marchex Aims For Local Advertisers With ZIP Code Sites
by Shankar Gupta, Wednesday, Aug 10, 2005 6:00 AM EST
ONLINE MARKETING AND SEARCH OPTIMIZATION firm Marchex flipped the switch this week on 52 beta sites with highly populated ZIP codes as their domain names, including 10041.com for Manhattan and 90210.com for Los Angeles, in a bid to create ad inventory for local ads.

The idea is that consumers, hoping to find a useful site, will simply type their ZIP codes into the URL field and hope for the best. Admittedly, said Peter Christothoulou, Marchex's chief strategy officer, not many people navigate the Web this way. He added that Marchex, which owns more than 73,000 ZIP code domain names and populates each page with ads and local content, hopes the trickle of traffic to each site will add up to a torrent. "This is the power of a lot of small numbers--we don't really have that many people typing 90210 into their URL bar, but you do have some," he said. "These small numbers add up over time."



FULL STORY

http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.san&s=32993&Nid=14862&p=297336

then check out www.worddial.com IF the five letters spells aname on a keypad Valuable.

 

[ThreeD]

What you guys dont see - is the fact a lot of these companies picking up Mass Drops - are allowed to pick them up for a few days , Test them for traffic , and if there isn't any traffic they Delete them back out into the Drops again. It's really making the Drops a big joke now because it's almost a promise that no names with even minimal traffic will ever drop again Bummer Huh ?

so I guess from now on we'll have to develop all domains and bring the traffic to the domains ourselves However, it is unfair that companies get to pick up the domains for a couple of days and check them for traffic before they eventually are dropped again. Do they get to test these domains for free or do they have to buy them? If they buy'em it's ok I guess, if they get to test them for free I would say that is a lot of bullcrap and has to be dealt with!

PS: Nice article btw equity

 

[nRnF]

you should see how many seeming useless expired domains a company called capitol domains picks up, about 10,000 everyday. Its an automated process every domain registered has is a page of ppc links put on it. Its like an automated sedo on crack!

It's called PPC fishing.
If after 3 days the PPC traffic isn't enough to cover at least 1 year reg fees after end of the year (estimated), the domain is returned to the registery and the registrar get a refund.

Ya, and the numbers point to ZIP code idea.

 

[aldwin]

it is a shame how drops works these days.. Any chance that ICANN put a stop on this?

 

[monRa]

Hmm, they might "know" something that we don't "know"

yeah maybe, maybe asian people can remember things and numbers easier! Just look their language!(Doing)

 

[rxmr]

you should see how many seeming useless expired domains a company called capitol domains picks up, about 10,000 everyday. Its an automated process every domain registered has is a page of ppc links put on it. Its like an automated sedo on crack!

I'm glad you mentioned Capitol Domains. I started this thread on them earlier this month. They definitely buy a lot of domains that, on the surface, appear to be junk. Any info on them is appreciated.

Thanks,

rxmr

 

[deet]

I agree 5 Numbers are good for zip codes.

 

[SimpleDomaining]

who knows, why they bought it. may be they predicte, that after market wil be full of names, people will turn into numbers? you can already see it by the way some people thinking to start to buy zip codes as a domain names, so who knows....