NNNNN.com's: Renew or Drop?

[GF]

I have some good-looking NNNNN.com's that I plan on renewing, however I have a ton of NNNNN.com's that I registered before the buyout in February of last year that I'm torn on.

I'm curious - what are your plans with your NNNNN.com's?

 

[godolphin]

I have 54 of them. I am in the same dilemma

 

[dmi]

I'm gonna drop them all.

If I had the funds to renew them through 2011, I'd renew, but unfortunately I don't -- so dropping is my only option. And nobody wants to buy them anyway these days.

 

[rkbdomain]

What I did is trimmed my portfolio and renewed the better ones. I think this is probably what the market in general will do. Numbers that start with 1 or other low numbers, have good number sequences, get decent traffic, represent words on cell phones, etc., are more likely to get renewed. There were about 20k NNNNN.com's available a year ago this time. I guess anywhere from 5k-15k will get dropped, probably somewhere in the middle. This is probably healthy for the NNNNN.com market in the long run, more time for people to develop their domains, wait for demand to catch up to supply, etc. The underlying dynamics that suggest strength in this market are still there, we are just in a massively bad economy for domains included, and it will take more time for Chinese internet penetration to expand (although this is happening very rapidly).

 

[www9]

Post you domains,
and we can suggest you,
you can choose some good of them.
and drop bad.

 

[rkbdomain]

Some criteria for keeping domains I have used (not a complete list):

* Is the .org/net/info/cn/etc. owned/developed?
* Are people searching for the number or are advertisers advertising based on the number (check google adwords keyword tools for both)
* Check if the number is a US zip code, a big city foreign postal code, etc.
* Type the number into google products search and see what comes up, you may be surprised.

Others should share their tips as well.