Is 6N going to be the cap?

[Pandemic]

It's starting to appear that premium 5n - 6n will be the cap across the board on all extensions. That's not the best news for me personally as I own several 7n premiums.

We've seen it happen one by one with .com, .net, .org, .biz and .co. And I'm still the only one who believes that 5n .info will be next, lol.

I hope that everyone here does really well with their shorter numerics.

Best of luck to all!

 

[vturbo]

I believe that 5n .info will be next too, and also registered many, so you're not alone.

 

[Pandemic]

Not sure if anyone has noticed the run on 6n .net lately, but I believe anything without a 0 and 4 is now completely bought out right from underneath everybody over the last two weeks. I believe they're all gone. That would explain the large recent spike in premium 6n .net sales. I'm going to get yelled at for saying this, but there could be a massive shift to 5n .info with the recent buyout of 5n .co, 6n .net, and 5n .biz for the most part. If people truly like shorter numerics, it stands to reason we're about to see that go down in a matter of days and a rapid shift. Just a guess and I apologize in advance for what many will call hyping it. No doubt 5n .info will go down before a 7n buyout.

Can't believe the buyout though in 6n .net that just happened!

 

[Pandemic]

We may be facing a 100% buyout of ALL 6n .net within 30 days.

I would say 6n.net and 5n .info are on deck for complete buyouts.

Seems 5n - 6n are the primes that everyone wants.

 

[imadoer]

i dont know why you guys are so hype on NNNNN.info the chinese do not care for dot info

 

[Chirag]

@imadoer sold some 4N.info and 3L.info to chinese for better rates, so "they are not interested" is out of the context kind of thing. They might not jump on it or maybe they might not try to buy everything in that niche so price would remain same would be better option to bet on

 

[imadoer]

well place your bets on it you can count me out... i'm not betting on it. i been in on almost every single buy out but not this one

 

[decode]

The 2013 Population data for China is 1.357 billion people....or more than 4x the number of total domain name registrations to date.

Mobile phone numbers in China have 11 digits.

Mobile phone use is growing more in China than anywhere else in the world. If 11 digits works for phones it will and does work for domains.

As long as there are more people than domains reg'd there is no cap to names favored by any group.

Why wouldn't a non-domainer getting himself/herself a numeric domain because it is the custom of the land buy one regardless of 7N or 8N or 9 N etc.?

Just like here on NamePros there are people with the budget for LLL.com or NN.com and people hand registering 7N.com because that is what they have a budget for.

Staying power (multiple renewal fees) will be the key to maximizing the value of long string numeric value.

For years I couldn't sell a 5N matching a wealthy US zip code. Now they sell at auction like it's obvious they have value, but it wasn't obvious for years and years. The puck wasn't there yet.

note - I'm not saying the long patterns will sell out any time soon (if ever) but there are valuable strings up to 12N that will have long term value. The simple math of 1.3 plus billion people with massive domain demand can't be overlooked.

Another point... How many people do you know that buy 1 domain and don't come back to the table for seconds. Seriously, if 1% of the Chinese population buys 10 domain names that is 157 million domains. That is at 1% market with a low estimate of 10 dns per user. It makes sense that a very smart marketplace will easily surpass 1% marketshare. At 3% with 10 domains per person it would be 100 million more domains than is registered. This my friends is domains at scale and it is coming.

 

[Pandemic]

Good point, but anything above 6n is too long in my opinion, with the exception of those in 7n - 8n having really good easy-to-remember patterns. Time will tell, but a "random" 7n - 8n pattern would be useless in my opinion as nobody could ever remember the URL. I don't believe China has 11 digit phones unless for international calls, but I could be wrong. Ether way, they won't buy on matching phone numbers. This is about an internet presence, and remembering a URL. Who would ever remember 75826957.com? And it also looks like crap.

 

[heartland]

@Pandemic, i agree that anything over 6n is just too long to remember unless the pattern is really unique. unlike phone numbers, you can conveniently save in your cell or write it down. Do you write down the web site URL just to log in next time? i heard some are registering domain for other purposes, with extremely long Ns. those are special case, and they will expire without any value.

 

[Pandemic]

Having a "random" 7n - 8n .com would be the equivalent to darn near having an entire sentence for a URL, lol. Even if you write it down you would probably have errors. The best bet and test is if you could remember it off just memory. Hell, some people barely remember their own social sec #.

 

[mibworld]

The Chinese are not buying any of these domains to build websites. Most are useless for that purpose, They are just an investment vehicle without any real world uses.

 

[Pandemic]

That actually brings me to a whole other theory, and I was about to start a brand new thread on it.

If I believed in conspiracy theories, I would be inclined to think that the Chinese gov't is behind this massive accumulation of numerics to completely control that sector. For what reason I have no clue, but I could make some guesses for the future. The Chinese government is notorious for being extremely controlling and sneaky, which is not surprising for a communist country. The Chinese government is brilliantly sneaky.

 

[Pandemic]

One way to potentially prove that theory would be when doing a WHO IS look up, and checking for private registration in China. Now, if they're all private reg, that would leave very little doubt of government involvement.

 

[mibworld]

You don't need the Chinese involvement for that. I think this is just a classic bull market (or a bubble, maybe), where many new medium and small investors are attracted by quick profits. It is not even a Chinese phenomenon exclusively anymore. I've seen lots of new members here at namepros and at other forums. If you look at whois you see lots of Chinese buyers, but recently there are many different ones, not just a few big investors.

 

[Pandemic]

You may have missed my point a bit, but no problem.

 

[sin]

Personally I think the cap is 7n I only like 8, or 9N if they have 7+ 8's

 

[marsi]

With the sharp rise of 5N.com prices; 6N.com is the Cap at least until the renewal time (Oct/Nov, 2016).

With few exceptions; Long meaningless Numeric & Hopeless Extensions will eventually drop,...Hard!!

 

[Pandemic]

Marsi you are exactly right.

 

[marsi]

I'm just being realistic; folks who missed the bus and new domainers are going crazy chasing the buyout of 7,8,9,10,11,12N and beyond and they're getting creative along the way with .in, .io, .gift, .im, .....etc. Flooding the market with Billions of redundant domains with no end users and where the blind leading the blind.

I own some 7N too; just focused on pattern and quad/triple '8'; I figured renewals for at least 2 years; just as a calculated risk that comes with any speculative investment!