Doma.in Poll: What is the WORST 3-letter .com (LLL.com)?

[Domainate.com]

Those of us that are into LLL.com domains likely keep track of the price trends on 3character.com, and go by what they say for premium, good, and bad letters. They list there the minimum wholesale price, as in the price that the worst LLL.com would expect to sell for. The question is: What IS the worst LLL.com? We all know which is the BEST one (hint: highest sale of all time)...let's find the WORST!

Since it's hard to come up with just one, you can list up to 5 domains, but try to give some kind of explanation for why other than "it has 3 bad letters". Does it have bad Google? Is it impossible to pronounce? Does it have no meaning at all? Let's find out once and for all which domain is the worst LLL.com!

I'll give my opinion later as I don't want to affect the survey at all. I'll keep the results in this post and update the when I can!

Worst LLL.com Names Vote:

1. XZQ.com - 3 votes
2. ZQW.com - 2 votes
3(tied). QXZ.com - 1 vote
3(tied). VQX.com - 1 vote
3(tied). ZQJ.com - 1 vote
3(tied). ZWQ.com - 1 vote

 

[ofclean]

vqx.com

Impossible to pronounce, looks horrible.

 

[VURG]

qjw has less google search results than vqx

vqx looks similar to vax

 

[accent]

Empirically (not sure that is the right word, but it sounds important):

The three worst letters in English are q, x and z (in that order). Since doubling a letter adds a little value, we need to look at those three letters. Most often I see the worst letter (in LLLL.coms) last, secondly first, so in that case we would have:

XZQ.com
Google is 347,000 --- Whatta they know???
See ---> qjw.com is for sale. Price is in the region of US$25,000
Bet you could get xzq.com for only $20,000.

 

[Domainate.com]

qjw.com is for sale. Price is in the region of US$25,000
Bet you could get xzq.com for only $20,000.

Eesh...$25,000 for qjw is well off in the future for sure!

I will say this about x and q: x can stand for not only words starting with x, but starting with ex too. Q's position is probably best at the end, where it can mean "Quarterly". May be a stretch to keep it from being bad at the end, but it's always a thought, just like J at the end meaning Journal.

 

[pros]

zqj

 

[Domainate.com]

TY pros. So far, 4 votes for 4 different names, with only Q in 2nd position being in more than one of the voted names (2 out of 4 of them). Must have more!

 

[hollywood]

... Q's position is probably best at the end, where it can mean "Quarterly". ...

It can also mean quotient as in IQ

 

[Shorty]

ZQW has to be the worst, its totally useless and takes the longest time to pronounce. It actually makes me gag just a little bit.

 

[cache]

most chinese don't have the money to buy LLLs, but z is very common for chinese language. So it will not be a bad investment of a domain with z, just wait until the
economic catch up.

 

[champ_rock]

my vote for xzq.com i would not mind that one at reg fee lol

 

[Dan]

ZWQ :o

 

[bobdigital]

I think QXZ.com should be in the low $3K range.
It is awkward to type, looks and sounds bad, also.

I thought "W" was a good letter, it can stand for "web", "website", "west" and our President.

 

[Keynes]

I hope the owners of these aren't Namepros owners; no offense intended to anyone!

 

[loko123]

ZQW is the worst lll.com for me. i can not even make anything with it and besides those are some of the last letters, who likes to be last? no one i guess!!

 

[Spade]

I hope the owners of these aren't Namepros owners; no offense intended to anyone!

LoL - Im just waiting for someone to say QBZ!

 

[Domainate.com]

LoL - Im just waiting for someone to say QBZ!

Not with B being a "premium letter". I honestly think that 3character.com needs to further differentiate the premium letters. No offense, but I would MUCH rather have letters like A, E, R, S, and T than B!

 

[Lasher]

Q gets a bad rep compared to X and Z. It doesn't stand for a lot, but the things it does can be very revelant to domains: Quality, Quest, Quiz, Quiet, Quite, Quick ...

Compare that to "Z" which might have value in the last character (Zone) or as a web 2.0 indication of plural because apparently "S" wasn't good enough (carz vs cars, etc). X is the lowest quality of the 3 imho, it just doesn't have a whole lot unless you're into the Xbox or radiology, definitely not a fair comparison.

All this assumes English of course, not always a good assumption either these days.

 

[VURG]

From the current list we can get the number of votes per letter:
Q - 9
Z - 7
W - 4
X - 4
J - 2
V - 1

Q and Z appear to be the common unpopular letters. Now can we just get an agreement on whether X or W is the worst? Once this can be decided than there is only 6 alternatives to choose from.

 

[Domainate.com]

One thing I find interesting is that so far, none of the "worst" have had Y, which is one of only 4 "bad" letters as per 3character.com, and letters like W, V, and J, which are NOT considered "bad" letters, HAVE shown up. I think we need someone from that website to come to this thread.