So 20 years ago, to me, I thought 4 letter domain names would end up like 3 letter domains blasting through the sky. But it seems, that as valuable as LLLL.com’s are, and can be, end users are mostly people looking to create an acronym.
But if you’re able to get a 4 letter domain name that does have “end user attachment”, you can make some decent sales. Best LLLL sale I ever did was about $18K, and that was when I was working my way through school building local niche web sites for the flooring industry.
Back then I saw five letter domains being just as worthy of an investment, and getting into LLLLL’s is a lot cheaper. I could find a nice sounding name that was dropping (those days are gone), check to see that there were no current trademarks, that it was easy to pronounce, easy to remember, and if it passed all those tests, I would buy it!!!
Slowly over the years I built up a collection of over 250 LLLLL.com names, and I’ve been able to get enough passive sales every year to pay the reg fees, AND make a decent amount of profit.
Putting domains names up without a price, leads to a bigger sales price. But putting them up at an affordable price, between wholesale and low end user, means a couple times a month I wake up to a “sale finalized” e-mail; and that always gets the day started right.
Every good 5 letter domain name has someone, somewhere typing those letters into an address bar to see what comes up. Every person who goes to your site, is a potential buyer. And most of my sales I have are domainers who recognize an easy flip, maybe they already spotted an end user.
Either way, I’m glad I moved into the 5 letter domains, it has proven to be one of the best long term investments I ever made. They’ve never let me down!!!
Here’s just a couple I have from way back, aburn, denad, godre, misey, pecal, puden, rosad. Now, it is time to learn how to use the modern techniques to find end users and just get rid of my collection.
I get tons of those unsolicited feeler “Wanna Buy” e-mails, gotta Frankenstein some of their methods into building out my own system now.
First I’m getting rid of my 4 letters, then my 5&6 letter collection, and then my flooring industry keyword domain name collection. It’s gonna take me about a year to purge my domains, but I am getting out of the business, gonna move to the countryside and sing with the birds!!!
And if you can point me to a good thread about current methods for contacting end users, I would greatly appreciate it.
Peace out to all you solitary dreamers,
Don Endriss
