discuss Price trends for llll.com non chips in and after August 2016

[dnk]

It appears that the floor price of llll.com non chip domain names on Namejet is $250 in the last few days. Do members think that the prices are likely to increase or decrease in the future, especially since people are on vacation in many countries in August. Are the prices of llll.com domains with a,v, s usually higher?

 

[accent]

Both.

Same as the stock market: the current price is, by definition, the point where buyers and sellers balance. That point will almost certainly be BOTH higher and lower at different times in the future. Try to see the long term movement. Is the Internet growing? What about alternatives to domains?

A complicating factor is that this market has both short and long term investors. Some of the money coming from China is leveraged. That increases volatility on both ends.

Short domains with "S" do go a little higher, S is the most common letter in most languages. "A" is second in the West, but it is not a CHIP letter for China. "V" is seeing some love recently because of VR, but in general I consider it the worst letter except for "Q". The main market for "V" is Europe and they are in recession.

A good indicator of letter quality is to look at what you can buy cheaply and extrapolate what is missing. That's how I learned that "S" at the end of a LLLL is really hard to find.

 

[Dominic Belley]

It appears that the floor price of llll.com non chip domain names on Namejet is $250 in the last few days.

Not only "non chip" but also "non western" which are two categories of higher value.
The $250 floor really only concerns combinations of the least popular letters.

 

[promo]

Usually prices go up when we get close to Xmas.

Xmas = webmasters roll in dough because of advertising income.
End of tax year = lets invest everything as fast as possible in order to no pay taxes.

Many webmasters are domainers. So what follows is that the liquid investor market historically always picks up end of year.