LLLL 10 years from now

[DomainBlend.com]

I wonder how much a LLLL.com domain will worth 10 years from now.

The way i see it is, instead of selling the LLLL.com domain for $50 today i will pay another $100 renewal for 10 years so the total cost will be $whatever you bought the name for plus $100 renewal . but after 10 years you can get $$$$$ from it. Kind of a long term investment.

Correct me if I`m wrong .

 

[AEProgram]

To make predictions related to tech thats even one year out is a dangerous game let alone 10 years. After all 10 years ago who would of guessed what would be popular today? Actually 10 years ago the plan was for myspace to be a trillion dollar company today.

Domains are going down in value rapidly, you should judge things based on auctions / sales, not based on anything else.

The people that continue holding on to dear life for domains they have no plan on monetizing / developing and are asking silly prices will regret it.

The people I feel very bad for are those who use a certain popular broker that has a vested interest keeping domain prices high, in turn these people really are losing out big time! Then again, how bad can I feel for someone that their entire decision making process when choosing a broker was based on how fancy their sales page is.

Anyway good luck regardless!

 

[forge]

Odds are you're wrong. If it's a junk letter LLLL.com, it's almost assured you're wrong. The availability of "premium" letter names will diminish, which could increase demand/price, but at the same time over a 10 year span of time any number of events could change the marketplace drastically.

 

[johname]

10 years from now your LLLL letter combo will still have to mean something to somebody. If you feel someone other than a fellow domainer would desire your LLLL then 100 bucks for a decade of waiting is a good bet in my opinion.



they were right about myspace, just someone else FB did it better

\/ ill debate this in another thread is you want but I feel its off topic to make posts that contain only where will FB be in ten years.

 

[AEProgram]

10 years from now your LLLL letter combo will still have to mean something to somebody. If you feel someone other than a fellow domainer would desire your LLLL then 100 bucks for a decade of waiting is a good bet in my opinion.



they were right about myspace, just someone else FB did it better

are you confident FB will be anything is 10 years?

Remember, in 1998 AOL chatrooms where the way of the future, and AOL profile pages where a breakthru

 

[NPer]

are you confident FB will be anything is 10 years?

What he is saying is that the idea of domains "appreciating in value" over time is nothing new, and that it would take someone/ some entity to actually make the right decisions now to benefit somewhere down the line. He is referring to the difference between a taking risk on domains which do have value today vs those which don't= crappy domains... and whether renewing for 10 years will pay off or not.

This is not about where FB will be in 10 years. He compared MySpace and FB's progress over the years... FB came after MySpace but had a better recipe for success.

 

[DomainBlend.com]

as you all know domain names are property not a business, so keeping the property will result in increasing the value. Let’s say that I spend $1000 today to renew 10 LLLL.com domains what’s the odds that i`m not going to get $xx,xxx.xx in 10 years. And if I didn’t, don’t you think that I will get my $1000 back. There is a difference between today`s domain value and money value and their values after 10 years. The $1000 maybe will worth $100. But as you guys know that no profit without risk.

The reason i started this thread that i want to see how you guys thinking, is it just flipping domains with whatever profit you get or a long term business.

Thanks to all members reply to this thread .

 

[NPer]

Let’s say that I spend $1000 today to renew 10 LLLL.com domains what’s the odds that i`m not going to get $xx,xxx.xx in 10 years. And if I didn’t, don’t you think that I will get my $1000 back. There is a difference between today`s domain value and money value and their values after 10 years. The $1000 maybe will worth $100. But as you guys know that no profit without risk.

Again, it would really depend on the quality of the 10 domains you are talking about. There are domains which have been renewed for over 10 years... and they still haven't been sold to end-users yet.

 

[DomainBlend.com]

Again, it would really depend on the quality of the 10 domains you are talking about. There are domains which have been renewed for over 10 years... and they still haven't been sold to end-users yet.

If i was in the domain business 10 years ago, i would did the same thing with the LLL.com or LL.com domains. Which makes a lot of money in today`s market even to re sellers. I will PM you my domains that i wanna keep later today.

Thanks again for answering my question.

 

[NPer]

If i was in the domain business 10 years ago, i would did the same thing with the LLL.com or LL.com domains. Which makes a lot of money in today`s market even to re sellers. I will PM you my domains that i wanna keep later today.

Thanks again for answering my question.

Thing is, in retrospect we can all say "what if I went back to 1994"...

In 2004, I'm pretty sure from what I've read, LLL.com were worth way more than $50 then. (You said: "The way i see it is, instead of selling the LLLL.com domain for $50 today").

LL.com wasn't cheap then and they were as rare then as they are now... only 676 combinations exist.

You see some LLL.com selling for low $x,xxx. Sometimes the letter combination is bad. A better LLLL.com could be more appealing in some cases. Then again, a pronounceable LLLLL.com could be more appealing than a random LLLL.com.

 

[FanCube]

as you all know domain names are property not a business, so keeping the property will result in increasing the value.

I disagree, domains cannot be compared to property, perhaps to some extend to intellectual property. I am not sure what you mean when you say that domains cannot compared to "business". History has not shown that domains increase in value and are good investment objects. This has shown only to apply to "premium" and two and three letter .com's.

This reasoning does not make much sense. Would five letter .com's be the next big thing then?

Resellers have invested in four letter .com domains for years and there have been some significant sales in between but the increase in value during the last decade is far from premium keywords and shorter domains.

If i was in the domain business 10 years ago, i would did the same thing with the LLL.com or LL.com domains. Which makes a lot of money in today`s market even to re sellers.

Two and three letters were also very valuable a decade ago, but sure the price has gone up over the years. Probably because of the amount of end users. This make sense because of the limited amount of possible combinations and since a lot of end users have two and three letter abbreviations. It will be interesting to se if and how the new gTLD's will change the game.

 

[Kate]

10 years from now your LLLL letter combo will still have to mean something to somebody.

This.

Simply put, there is no demand for domains that are meaningless.
It is a fallacy to think that domains can only keep appreciating in value, just because they are short, scarce or whatever
That isn't true.

For example, if you bought semi-decent lll.biz or .us domain ten years ago, you would not even recoup the renewal fees if you had to liquidate them today.

Also, the LL/LLL should not be compared to 4L.
LL/LLL are valuable because they are used for corporate acronyms.
The 4L are different beasts.

People have bought mediocre 4L by the hundreds (or other toxic assets of the same kind) and have lost a lot of money.
$$$$$ in 10 years is delusional.

But I have a simple formula for you: if the domains are not already worth something today, then it's unlikely they are going to be worth much more in ten years

 

[vicky4712]

Difficult to predict

Its difficult to predict the price of the 4 letter domain 10 years from now.But if you're ready to hold these domains for long the better the chance to make money.It all depends upon your holding capacity.But instead of falling for 2,3 or 4 letter stuff,I would always advice you to invest in good 1-3 words generic domains which have a good commercial and market value.

 

[NPer]

Its difficult to predict the price of the 4 letter domain 10 years from now.But if you're ready to hold these domains for long the better the chance to make money.It all depends upon your holding capacity.But instead of falling for 2,3 or 4 letter stuff,I would always advice you to invest in good 1-3 words generic domains which have a good commercial and market value.

And welcome to NP!