Real Men of Genius

[billinchina]

I present to you, real American heroes

(Real American heroes)

Today, I salute you, Mr. LLLL.com buyer

(Mr. LLLL.com buyer)

In an online world with so many choices, you're all about .com.

(.com!)

Sure, anyone can buy a domain that doesn't cover it's registration fee in a year, but not just anyone can buy one with 4 letters.

(You've got a big name that looks small)

Find, register, promote, and spread hype. You've been buying thousands of them. One mistype and you'ld have a useless LLLLL.com, and a potential renewal nightmare.

So, crack open an ice cold Bud Light Mr. LLLL.com buyer, because as far as I'm concerned, you're not just buying a piece of the Internet, you are a real net citizen, providing links for the lost visitors of the Web.

(Mr LLLL.com buyer)







Just a little parody I put together that sums up my feelings about the LLLL.com craze. LLL.com names get type-ins and cover their registration costs; LLLL.com names don't quite live up to that.

 

[acc]

Just a little parody I put together that sums up my feelings about the LLLL.com craze. LLL.com names get type-ins and cover their registration costs; LLLL.com names don't quite live up to that.

:lol: Too bad the forum doesn't deliver sound.

I agree with the sentiment. Once you get past the good real words and a few common acronyms, the rest of the LLLL.anything regs have mostly only pure domainer to domainer speculation potential. Out of the 1000's of LLLLs available, one has to be pretty lucky to land a "brandable name" end user. Most are just not very usable.

 

[MNADomains]

:lol: Yeah, the music was in my head as I was reading this!!

Cheers

 

[dna]

Though they seem to be creating their own market,
the LLLL.com seems a foolish investment to me also.

 

[Spade]

LoL - you had me cracking up with just the title...

 

[GreenGambler]

Very funny.. LOL I like the parody and I think I sang it while I read

Though there are alot more than just "american" LLLL.coms investors, and it is a solid investment IMO, otherwise ... Props to you for the funny post

 

[ilcesco]

So, crack open an ice cold Bud Light Mr. LLLL.com buyer, because as far as I'm concerned, you're not just buying a piece of the Internet, you are a real net citizen, providing links for the lost visitors of the Web.

:lol:

That's exactly the same feeling I have when I hear that filthy Rick Shwartz talking about how is providing a "useful" service to the internet community redirecting traffic through stupid adverts on landing pages. At least have a bit of good sense and avoid telling anyone that you get money from dumb *ankers who mistakenly click on the links on your porn pages thinking they are legit.

By the way. Nice post.
I do beleive that some llll.com are worth registering especially if they are pronunciable, but I feel the same about the hype that some people is trying to spread.
Glad to hear something different from time to time.

 

[tzsxc]

funny post. A health dose of skepticism is alway good when the herd has left for the train.

 

[Dotmainer]

i think billinchina is just angry because he dont have/get any LLLL.com

 

[billinchina]

i think billinchina is just angry because he dont have/get any LLLL.com

I'm not angry about that (although I do wish I would have bought a bunch of LLL.com domains in the $700 range a few years ago). I generally don't like holding names that don't cover their registration fee.

 

[Smith]

That's exactly the same feeling I have when I hear that filthy Rick Shwartz talking about how is providing a "useful" service to the internet community redirecting traffic through stupid adverts on landing pages. At least have a bit of good sense and avoid telling anyone that you get money from dumb *ankers who mistakenly click on the links on your porn pages thinking they are legit.

Whats illegitimate about domain name traffic? The quality of traffic on generics is top notch.

 

[ilcesco]

Whats illegitimate about domain name traffic? The quality of traffic on generics is top notch.

I know I'll be quite unpopular saying this, but I do believe that type-in traffic is still a way to fool people to click adverts which they probably consider to be internal links of a proper website.

In my opinion a parked page makes sense solely for the purpose of not losing traffic money while in the process of building a website on the domain, or to obtain statistical informations on it if you acquired the name to keep it as an investment due to its rarity.

That said, there is nothing wrong with parked pages, I own a few traffic domains myself, what I want to say is that at least I have the decency to recognize that the page is in no way useful to the user who stumble upon that.

When somebody click a link on my landing page, I don't feel "proud" like if I'm providing him/her with a valuable service.

The 99,9% of internet users are not interested in the commercial proposals coming out of my pages, and even if they do, I'm sure they'd be choosing a much more reliable source than an impersonal parked page to do their shopping.

This "big domainers" instead, try to legitimate their pages like if they are providing a vital service to the internet community, redirecting traffic to where the people want to go.
You have just been lucky enough to register porn.com more then 10 years ago, when the web wasn't that popular, and you're living out of horny guys typing in porn in the address bar and clicking the first thing that comes over their mouse.
They haven't been creative or anything else, they have just taken advantage of non-savvy internet users, so don't expect me to admire them for their success.

 

[AdoptableDomains]

Nice parody! ...Although rumor has it that a certain beer company's lawyers are wording their C&D letter to refrain from infringing on their trademarked intellectual property based on their beer commercial. It seems you can't parody a parody. 8-X :lol:

I'm not a real fan of 4 letter .com's just for the sake of being a 4 letter .com (after all, there are 456,976 of them), but I would really like to have the actual domain LLLL.com right now, because I'll bet it gets a ton of incoming links and high google search rank due to all the recent hype (what do you know...I just gave it one myself.)! Oddly enough, it's parked at sedo not pointing to acronyms or "LLLL.com" type domains, but to adult sites.

Before any newbies think they'll get in early on the LLLLL.com craze, the math shows there are 11,881,376 of them possible. There's only enough for a million domainers to get about 12 each, so register early.

 

[Ronald Regging]

I'm not angry about that (although I do wish I would have bought a bunch of LLL.com domains in the $700 range a few years ago). I generally don't like holding names that don't cover their registration fee.

I dont think I've ever had a name that covered it's own reg fee. It would be nice to offset the cost of renewals, but it's definitely not a prerequisite for a nice sale...

Personally I'm torn here. I'm a big supporter of nice pronouncable LLLL.coms. Its not hard to see that their value to end users has historically been strong, and will continue to grow as they become rarer. Random letter LLLL.coms really have limited use though IMO and I'm glad I cleared those out of my port.

Funny post though!

 

[VURG]

I like to compare shortness with domains to distance from water with real estate.

Profitable real estate properties are always desirable because they pay for themselves. Profitable domains are always desirable because they pay for themselves. Like profitable real estate, the value of profitable domains is usually proportional to how profitable they are and how predictable the profitability of the domain is.

Properties that are close to a river, lake or ocean are also always desirable as a large percentage of people prefer to be close to water than not. Water regulates the land temperature, sustains life, provides great views and also great leisure opportunities. The closer to the water, the more limited the supply. Typically, shortness to a domain makes it quicker to type and easier to remember. The shorter the domain, the more practical it is. The shorter the domain, the more limited the supply.

Properties close to water are great to have in periods of growth as the competition in the market for closeness to water pushes the prices up dramitically. The same can be said about short domains. Now is a period of high growth.

Finding profitable property & profitable domains usually requires a bit more skill and research for the novice investor.

Some prefer profitability. Others prefer shortness. Some do a bit of both.

 

[amarventris]

Make it a youtube. It'll get roars at the next conference as the roundtable icebreaker.

 

[floatingworld]

memorable 4Ls will eventually pull the price up of random 4Ls...as exactly happening now with 3L, as exactly happening now with second rank 4L.

 

[cache]

I feel the same, however I still buy llll.com

 

[briman1970]

I would really like to have the actual domain LLLL.com right now, because I'll bet it gets a ton of incoming links and high google search rank due to all the recent hype (what do you know...I just gave it one myself.)!

I have LLLX.com... since it's only one letter off, I'll sell it to you for 75% of what LLLL.com would go for... say $15K? :D

 

[Smith]

I know I'll be quite unpopular saying this, but I do believe that type-in traffic is still a way to fool people to click adverts which they probably consider to be internal links of a proper website.

In my opinion a parked page makes sense solely for the purpose of not losing traffic money while in the process of building a website on the domain, or to obtain statistical informations on it if you acquired the name to keep it as an investment due to its rarity.

That said, there is nothing wrong with parked pages, I own a few traffic domains myself, what I want to say is that at least I have the decency to recognize that the page is in no way useful to the user who stumble upon that.

When somebody click a link on my landing page, I don't feel "proud" like if I'm providing him/her with a valuable service.

The 99,9% of internet users are not interested in the commercial proposals coming out of my pages, and even if they do, I'm sure they'd be choosing a much more reliable source than an impersonal parked page to do their shopping.

This "big domainers" instead, try to legitimate their pages like if they are providing a vital service to the internet community, redirecting traffic to where the people want to go.
You have just been lucky enough to register porn.com more then 10 years ago, when the web wasn't that popular, and you're living out of horny guys typing in porn in the address bar and clicking the first thing that comes over their mouse.
They haven't been creative or anything else, they have just taken advantage of non-savvy internet users, so don't expect me to admire them for their success.

I think you're quite misguided. Maybe if you own meaningless 4 letter .com's the traffic is worthless, but targeted traffic converts to sales extremely well.

So while it's not something I would claim to be providing a "vital service" to the internet, it's undeniable that it is providing a service to both the advertiser and visitor.