I may be new to this board but not to domain investing - i have been registering domains since 1996.
I have one thing to say - BE CAREFUL - you may be wasting your money and time. I speak from experiencing both phenomenal successes and pathetic failures
.net domain names are ugly and unappealing - can you name ONE well known website which uses .net ? oh , i can actually , php.net
ugly? yes because your company address has to look good, sexy, successful, smart, etc. etc. you don't go on a date wearing last year's shoes ..
IF I had an online private jet booking firm I would not use pjet.net as my domain name in a million years. even though it is pronounceable and rhymes.
just because they very occasionally sell does not mean the rest are worth anything. if you caught a salmon in a puddle would you assume there were more salmon in there? no of course not. in mathematics it is called a discontinuity, many things in the world can not be represented by nice lines on a graph.
what is the answer? be more creative people. the whole LLLL thing is a .com phenomena - why do you assume it will apply to .net? After all .nets are not a new thing ...
so what would I call my jet company? i would get the best .com I could afford .. or invent a new word just like in the 'old' days - brandnames!! and just like google did. And spend the rest of the money on advertising.
And if you are simply looking for PPC names then good luck - that industry's days are numbered IMHO.
And for non-commercial websites - who cares? the domaining industry is solely reliant on e-commerce , no?
Maybe one day there will be only one ultimate TLD - just a .
http://privatejethire. Not sure if a technical possibility but .com is basically acting as that TLD right now. It is perceieved as the top - and nothing else will do.
The only exception is in countries with confidence in their own internet industry. In the UK I believe a .co.uk name will now have a similar value to .com - it was not always like that - when they first appeared they were definately second best. Same story in france and germany. In fact there is some evidence of anti-.com feeling in many countries - all the spam, phishing, fraud, scams are associated with ".com". And .net!
Just my opinion, of course.