Official NNNNN.com Evauation Thread

[DomainMagnate]

All NNNNN.com's have been registered a couple hours ago and now is the time to start discussing their value.

First some general guidelines:

1. According to http://www.3character.com/priceguide.html:
1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 are considered premium numbers. Other lesser high quality numbers include: 4 and 6. Lower quality numbers include the number 0. Premium NNNNN's were registered first, then more than 10k 5N.com were remaining

2. Domains starting with 0 are considered lower quality, while domaings ending with 0 are more round and thus better.

3. Lower numbers are typically more valuable, due to higher amount of possibilities and potential uses

4. Repeating digits are good, most valuable will be the domains with many repeating numbers.

5. Numbers ending in “5″ or multiples of “25″ are a little bit better.

6. Numbers that have special meaning, like zip codes, words on mobile devices, area codes etc. represent higher value.


Post more tips below to compile a complete appraising guide!
Also feel free to post some special numbers for appraisal. not the regular random NNNNN's you've just registered, but something more valuable, like 63400, 12349, 77723..

Current min prices for NNNN.com are around $350-400


Feb 20: 4 days after the buyout the min NNNNN.com prices are now basing around $12-15



Check the latest NNNNN.com Price Guide for frequent updates.

 

[rkbdomain]

Examples of Developed NNNNN.com's

One common refrain I hear from the NNNNN.com-naysayers (i.e., all those who missed the boat on the buyout), is that there are no developed NNNNN.com's and nobody is going to want to buy these weird domains.

Well, it's simply not true. I just looked at the first 100 1NNNN.com's, and they are mostly developed websites. About 40 are Marchex-owned US zip code web sites, and the following 20+ are developed for all sorts of purposes, US businesses, Chinese business and social sites, zip-code related businesses, and others.

One thing to note is the interesting use of numbers related to a particular product, like adequate.org using 10015.com because of the ISO 10015 quality assurance standard, and Timberland.com using the popular boot number. There are lots of productive and creative uses for numeric domains!

10008.com Developed Chinese website
10012.com US media business.
10014.com US Business Wiredset Digital Agency
10015.com Adequate.org (ISO 10015 quality assurance standard).
10020.com Developed Chinese website.
10022.com WhatsUpNYC.com NY guide.
10026.com China IT Outsourcing Managed Service).
10035.com HiChina Web Solutions.
10042.com Developed Korean gaming website.
10044.com Roosevelt Island Computer Repair.
10049.com WhatDomains.com
10051.com Developed Chinese website
10054.com NHKJ.gov.cn
10061.com Timberland.com
10069.com Bracha Real Estate Group (Trump Condominiums).
10071.com Chinese Internet Company
10076.com Chinese Film Commentary
10086.com Developed Chinese website.
10088.com Developed Chinese website (www.51688.com)
10090.com Chinese school-related website.
10092.com Developed Chinese website

 

[VURG]

I think that anything bought for reg fee in the last two months is probably still worth reg fee. (Some exceptions apply) The significance of a buyout is often overated.

 

[rkbdomain]

In that case, I have no US zip codes, but I have 14 German post codes:

98646.com Adelhausen bei Hildburghausen
84553.com Halsbach
87754.com Kammlach
97996.com Niederstetten
02625.COM Bautzen
36404.COM Gehaus
37434.COM An der Rhumequelle bei Gieboldehausen
50997.COM Köln
51143.COM Köln
66892.COM Bruchmühlbach-Miesau
67697.COM Otterberg
82284.COM Grafrath
84547.COM Emmerting
87727.COM Babenhausen

You may have many more foreign postal codes as well, many many countries have 5-digit postal codes.

 

[Croach]

Twenty days ago there were 19,000 unregistered NNNNN.com domains. Less than two weeks later on February 16th the final domain was registered. Almost immediately the average prices reported were between $12-15. Almost none of the inventory of these domains held by investors have tested the prices on the resell market. It appears that there were very few investors that intended on flipping for a quick profit. Almost all of the sales after the initial sellout have been from drops.

This is very good news for investors. There are only 100,000 of these domains and approximately 41,000 of them are zip codes. Marchex owns both the .com and .net variations of about 99% these domains. Of the remaining 60,000 domains two thirds were already registered and many were already developed before the run on the market began three weeks ago. Of the remaining 20,000 I believe there are approximately 5 investors that own about 10,000 of the remaining domains. These investors already have a history of long term investment and development. This leaves a very small float for investors that waited until the buyout to claim a piece of this market.

In order to gauge the strength and trends of the NNNNN.com market I will report and analyze one day of Snapnames drops each week. While Snapnames does not necessarily represent the total market, with so few names for sale it is the most liquid market for NNNNN investors. I believe I captured all of today’s sales, but am not positive. I’ll continue monitorig and reporting sales on a weekly basis. Today there were a total of 46 NNNNN.com drops. The range was $21.00 to $39.00 with the average sales price at $26.30.

All prices are final prices. I placed initial bids on all of these names three days ago so that I could track their prices. I was not the winner of any of these auctions.

09092.com $21.00
76758.com $21.00
05898.com $21.00
08892.com $21.00
09882.com $21.00
09885.com $21.00
12665.com $22.00
18306.com $22.00
18665.com $22.00
26612.com $22.00
26628.com $22.00
68383.com $22.00
68829.com $22.00
99859.com $26.00
26685.com $27.00
39882.com $27.00
48987.com $27.00
52378.com $27.00
58662.com $27.00
58832.com $27.00
58872.com $27.00
59882.com $27.00
65882.com $27.00
66134.com $27.00
66982.com $27.00
68609.com $27.00
69186.com $27.00
70322.com $27.00
71278.com $27.00
86650.com $27.00
88712.com $27.00
95082.com $27.00
95862.com $27.00
95891.com $27.00
95892.com $27.00
96382.com $27.00
96509.com $27.00
96581.com $27.00
96832.com $27.00
96902.com $27.00
26608.com $28.00
86652.com $28.00
26515.com $34.00
31110.com $36.00
59980.com $37.00
83331.com $39.00

 

[theSun]

Just another hint of the value of NNNNN.com, is that people in china are already buying them at $10-$20 each. However, it is still underpriced. The value should be $50+ as the current market for NNNN.com is $500.

 

[godolphin]

Just another hint of the value of NNNNN.com, is that people in china are already buying them at $10-$20 each. However, it is still underpriced. The value should be $50+ as the current market for NNNN.com is $500.

Good insight!

 

[JamesDavid]

77221.com I own it. It is a Houston, TX Zip Code plus contains all premium numbers. I am open to suggestions, offers, appraisals, comments....

Its funny because, 7, 72, 21 are my favorite numbers...

 

[gtss]

Thank you

 

[DomainName1]

Thanks for putting this thread together Michael! It will be interesting the see the pricing of the 1st aftermarket sales in this forum!

 

[Langfhir]

Allow me to offer the first number to be appraised:

61104

Zip Code for Rockford, Illinois, pop. 150,000

Link

 

[DomainMagnate]

Allow me to offer the first number to be appraised:

61104

Zip Code for Rockford, Illinois, pop. 150,000

Link

I'm thinking around mid $XX now. US zip codes are among the best NNNNN's and since marchex have most of them they are quite rare

 

[GF]

92631.com - Fullerton, CA ZIP code

 

[Yefim247]

Amazing how fast they have gone. This way I think the price on them should grow fast!

 

[rkbdomain]

Congrats! And Two Thoughts about the Future

here

 

[DnEbook]

oh no ..... my 04440.net is not .com , starts with a 0 and has 3 ... 4's

LOL !!

 

[DomainMagnate]

oh no ..... my 04440.net is not .com , starts with a 0 and has 3 ... 4's

LOL !!

heh well it's a good number, but I don't think there is a market for NNNNN.net now.

Although its interesting that marchex redirect all their US zip code NNNNN.com's to NNNNN.net. So I guess they own like a half of NNNNN.net's too

 

[filter]

how about -> 46457 (.com)

just easy to type - no significant results from Google

I won't be selling it for less than $100, though may take a few years before the market reaches that level.

As funds allow in the near future I'll consider buying similar (easy typers) priced between $10 and $20 (quick buy at $10, might shop around a bit at $20)

But what say you?

 

[rkbdomain]

Turns out a bunch of domainers from Germany were following the countdown and even buying many of the remaining NNNNN.com's. One even remarked that he tried to register his postal code and it was already gone, so to those of us that bought a lot of foreign postal codes, the world is watching and interested, congrats!

how about -> 46457 (.com)

just easy to type - no significant results from Google

I won't be selling it for less than $100, though may take a few years before the market reaches that level.

As funds allow in the near future I'll consider buying similar (easy typers) priced between $10 and $20 (quick buy at $10, might shop around a bit at $20)

But what say you?

I like it, 464 is a nice sequence and then 57 is a good increasing ending. Easy to remember and it seems like my NNNNN.com's with nice sequences actually get the best type-in traffic so who knows.

 

[DomainMagnate]

Turns out a bunch of domainers from Germany were following the countdown and even buying many of the remaining NNNNN.com's. One even remarked that he tried to register his postal code and it was already gone, so to those of us that bought a lot of foreign postal codes, the world is watching and interested, congrats!

yes I've had many visitors on my blog from that forum, also Russians an Chinese domenforum, domain cn :D

46457 is pretty cool, good to know you won't be looking to sell cheap and quick :D

I have some foreign codes and I also have a bunch of NNNNNs with around 10 million results in google. It's interesting that smaller number usually have more results in google, which further shows that smaller numbers are more valuable.

 

[filter]

Thanks. If I had regged more than a handful, I'd consider doing the "quick flip for instant 50% ROI" (and am hoping you and some other large holders will be putting some cheapies out on the market soon). But the real value in these (as with the "random" LLLL domains) is going to be seen more obviously quite a few years from now - in the meantime will be resellers doing the "future possibility discounted to present value of money" calculation based mostly on scarcity premium.

Noting that I've quickly become pretty fond of these numbers now that I have a few, I'm guessing that there may be an increasing demand among resellers once they try one or 2 on for size. (Strong "hypability" quotient - not being cynical, as I think these do have solid value in the long run - so maybe some very "helpful hype" in play here.)

Here are a couple more for evaluation: 47212 (212 is NYC phone area code) and 41556 (415 is San Francisco area code) ...

 

[DotCN]

it's a good idea.

 

[filter]

One of the reasons I like them is that they are fairly easy for the average person to remember - and more so if a chunk of the digits has some meaning.

See here for some interesting reading about human memory -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_or_Minus_Two

and also the original source material for the "7 plus or minus 2" meme here -> http://www.musanim.com/miller1956/

 

[namethreads.com]

Does anyone have a US zip code list?

Does anyone have a German or other country post code list?

If so, I'd very much appreciate it if you posted it, so that we can scan our domains against this

 

[rkbdomain]

Does anyone have a US zip code list?

Does anyone have a German or other country post code list?

If so, I'd very much appreciate it if you posted it, so that we can scan our domains against this

I had posted this at the beginning of the countdown thread (seems like years ago!)

Huge database of foreign postal codes, many NNNNN's available here