Recent 3 char.com sales

[loscocco]

Recent 3 char LLL or NNN .com sales

Does anyone know of any other recent 3char .com sales? just trying to get a feel for the values of them

PBR.com $38,501 3/21/2006
NHS.com $151,300 2/21/2006
SEX.com $12,000,000 1/25/2006
JEW.us $29,500 1/17/2006
DSO.com $20,000 5/22/2005
EOL.com $43,000 5/17/2005
OLT.com $93,000 5/10/2005
PPZ.com $3128 7/2005
HWO.com $5100 7/2005
VTG.com $19,466 4/2005
MGL.com $17500 4/2005
GED.com $150,000 1/2005
FEM.com $14000 9/2004
TW1.com $10,000 8/21/2006
ibc.com $60,000 Euro
tdc.com $1,000,000 Euro
glu.com $75,000

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Not to be difficult, but you might change your title to 3Letter.com sales - as otherwise folks will come here looking for 3char.com sales, or won't be interested if they are 3Letter people.

Just my .02

-Allan :gl:

 

[Razvan]

Here are some recent snapnames auctions:

fgi.com $15,259.00
uob.com $30,249.00
znw.com $4,300.00
vjw.com $5,300.00


Hope it helps.



~ Razvan

 

[gazzip]

A few other sales from Snapnames

rod.com $30,250
twm.com $8,864
ovn.com $6,500
yol.com $5,600
cjd.com $5,200
sji.com $4,400





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[domainer50]

How come sji.com only went for 4.4k? I was under the impression that these 3 letter names go for 10k+?

 

[Keynes]

How come sji.com only went for 4.4k? I was under the impression that these 3 letter names go for 10k+?

Perhaps it wasn't a very recent auction...give it a year and pretty much alll LLL.com will be close to 10k as a base price.

 

[gazzip]

At the drops it all depends on who/how many people have backordered the name + these were sometime in 2005 I beleive.


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[domainer50]

Perhaps it wasn't a very recent auction...give it a year and pretty much alll LLL.com will be close to 10k as a base price.

Ah. So i see. If the prices are going to continue to double every year, whey are people selling their names now? Why not wait?

 

[loscocco]

Not to be difficult, but you might change your title to 3Letter.com sales - as otherwise folks will come here looking for 3char.com sales, or won't be interested if they are 3Letter people.

Just my .02

-Allan :gl:

thanks Allan just edited it

 

[Keynes]

Ah. So i see. If the prices are going to continue to double every year, whey are people selling their names now? Why not wait?

Opportunity cost, of course. There is also risk -- it's not certain that prices will double (heck, anything could happen in a year.) A lot of people diversify into traffic names or ccTLDs from large holdings of LLL.coms and others are happy to take a quick flip profit. To each, his or her own...

 

[domainer50]

Opportunity cost, of course. There is also risk -- it's not certain that prices will double (heck, anything could happen in a year.) A lot of people diversify into traffic names or ccTLDs from large holdings of LLL.coms and others are happy to take a quick flip profit. To each, his or her own...

I cant help but agree. Well though out post. Though if i ever get my hand on a LLL.anything im going to hold onto it until the market stops growing and is at a stand still.

 

[zestydomains*com]

Ah. So i see. If the prices are going to continue to double every year, whey are people selling their names now? Why not wait?

Some folks sell to take their profit and move on, but many are moving into the buy and hold mode with LLL domains (in all the top extensions). These holders are typically well funded individuals or companies, and as they hold, the supply available on the resale/wholesale market continues to dimish, and prices rise with strong continued demand.

Thinking back on this, I can recall a few conversations about 4 years back with others as we speculated as to whether LLL.com's would ever be worth $1000 or more minimum (for even the worst combos). Needless to say, $1000 for an LLL.com is now a long ago dream.

The new specuation is to how long it will be that LLL.com's will be selling for $xx,xxx minimum. The mapped trends show value growth for LLL.com's to be growing consistently at about 70% to 80% a year. Looking forward, an analysis of the charts suggest that this might likely happen somewhere within the next 1.5 to 2.5 years.

As a reference, I've posted a chart, which will be updated again at the first of the year, at this link:
www.3character.com/3-letter-domain-name-sales-history.html

Fewer and fewer LLL domains are coming up for sale as time goes by. As more go to end-users, and other LLL combos are resold less and less, prices will likely continue to grow.

Great thread and hope this helps,
zesty

 

[domainer50]

Something i do not understand is, if the names are all registered, then why does the price continue to grow. Its not like people are getting them every day, they have been bought out, now they just sti there?

 

[loscocco]

Something i do not understand is, if the names are all registered, then why does the price continue to grow. Its not like people are getting them every day, they have been bought out, now they just sti there?

Pertly because as more and more of them become bought up by end users and taken off the market there are fewer available for purchase.

 

[Spade]

Something i do not understand is, if the names are all registered, then why does the price continue to grow. Its not like people are getting them every day, they have been bought out, now they just sti there?

Its basic Supply and Demand. As the demand increases (more domainers in the market) the prices will continue to rise because there is a fixed amount of LLL.com's. So more and more people want them, but there are never anymore to be found.

I know I will be hanging onto mine unless the right price comes along.

 

[gazzip]

Perhaps it wasn't a very recent auction...give it a year and pretty much alll LLL.com will be close to 10k as a base price.

Yep - Another one at snapnames right now - ypr.com currently at $10,001 with 1d 23h to go


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[Keynes]

Some folks sell to take their profit and move on, but many are moving into the buy and hold mode with LLL domains (in all the top extensions). These holders are typically well funded individuals or companies, and as they hold, the supply available on the resale/wholesale market continues to dimish, and prices rise with strong continued demand.

Thinking back on this, I can recall a few conversations about 4 years back with others as we speculated as to whether LLL.com's would ever be worth $1000 or more minimum (for even the worst combos). Needless to say, $1000 for an LLL.com is now a long ago dream.

The new specuation is to how long it will be that LLL.com's will be selling for $xx,xxx minimum. The mapped trends show value growth for LLL.com's to be growing consistently at about 70% to 80% a year. Looking forward, an analysis of the charts suggest that this might likely happen somewhere within the next 1.5 to 2.5 years.

As a reference, I've posted a chart, which will be updated again at the first of the year, at this link:
www.3character.com/3-letter-domain-name-sales-history.html

Fewer and fewer LLL domains are coming up for sale as time goes by. As more go to end-users, and other LLL combos are resold less and less, prices will likely continue to grow.

Great thread and hope this helps,
zesty

Great post, Zesty. The market does have its limitations, of course (and there is risk), but this shows that we still have a lot of growth before we reach any equilibrium point.

 

[accent]

I cant help but agree. Well though out post. Though if i ever get my hand on a LLL.anything im going to hold onto it until the market stops growing and is at a stand still.

I think the LLL.com market is very strong.....

But.....

There are cycles to every market. The hard part isn't buying things that will appreciate (hard enough, that) the true test is when to sell. By the time you notice that a market is "at a standstill" it is too late, the buyers are already gone, and you will take a big loss over what you could sell for a little earlier.

I think it was Baron Rothschild who said the best advice is to sell early.

Not too early --- let the winners grow, but all markets fall and when they do they often fall so fast that all you can do is watch. That is why some LLL.com owners occasionally take some of their money off the table.

 

[midnight251]

TGN.com sold by a friend of mine for 75K (I think he would have got more for it, IMO). I wish I got one (LLL.com) way back when, and that was not too long ago.

 

[domainer50]

TGN.com sold by a friend of mine for 75K (I think he would have got more for it, IMO). I wish I got one (LLL.com) way back when, and that was not too long ago.

Eh, dont we all. But at the time who thought xwl.com woudl have any value? I guess you just had to get lucky

 

[Keynes]

I think it was Baron Rothschild who said the best advice is to sell early.

Not too early --- let the winners grow, but all markets fall and when they do they often fall so fast that all you can do is watch. That is why some LLL.com owners occasionally take some of their money off the table.

Sales depend on lots of factors: diversification, need for liquidity, solid offers, etc. When you say "sell early", this statement is relative and we have no way of know what early means in the context of the domain market. Certainly, we're in a moderate upswing now, but we may be near the bottom of a larger growth cycle that will take many years. As we know from most market recessions/depressions, the long term trend dominates; these are opportunities for entry as much as exit.

 

[snoop]

I think the LLL.com market is very strong.....

But.....

There are cycles to every market. The hard part isn't buying things that will appreciate (hard enough, that) the true test is when to sell. By the time you notice that a market is "at a standstill" it is too late, the buyers are already gone, and you will take a big loss over what you could sell for a little earlier.

I think it was Baron Rothschild who said the best advice is to sell early.

Not too early --- let the winners grow, but all markets fall and when they do they often fall so fast that all you can do is watch. That is why some LLL.com owners occasionally take some of their money off the table.

Agree, the upswing won't last forever, regarding the 70-80% past growth rate that is really just indicitive of the overall domain market.

I don't think 3 letter domains have really done any better than the average, in fact if you take into account that most have very low ppc revenue they have probably underperformed keyword type names. Having said that it is still an amazing return compared to non domain investments.

 

[dotnom]

Snapnames 3 chars auctions from Aug (.com & .net)

Domain Name Winning Bid User Date
sph.net $2,002.00 onlinemginc 17-Dec-2006
nil.net $4,700.00 bonkerstwo 15-Dec-2006
kkc.net $2,104.00 onlinemginc 11-Dec-2006
inw.net $1,650.00 benfranklin 10-Dec-2006
fgi.com $15,259.00 bbbbkarato 09-Dec-2006
djg.net $1,550.00 onlinemginc 21-Nov-2006
xng.net $1,050.00 onlinemginc 21-Nov-2006
frs.net $1,650.00 onlinemginc 20-Nov-2006
oks.net $2,002.00 onlinemginc 19-Nov-2006
gnr.net $1,250.00 elkie 09-Nov-2006
bzu.net $900.00 iglu 09-Nov-2006
bwo.net $1,155.00 onlinemginc 01-Nov-2006
dqk.net $750.00 onlinemginc 01-Nov-2006
age.net $15,800.00 benfranklin 31-Oct-2006
cee.net $1,750.00 onlinemginc 29-Oct-2006
jzr.net $875.00 onlinemginc 29-Oct-2006
pis.net $1,383.00 vaxis 25-Oct-2006
uob.com $30,249.00 f 25-Oct-2006
czc.net $825.00 therealed 14-Oct-2006
kda.net $1,125.00 therealed 13-Oct-2006
tfx.net $975.00 aldoz 10-Oct-2006
sls.net $4,700.00 denloan 09-Oct-2006
udd.net $980.00 therealed 09-Oct-2006
nmf.net $1,050.00 namepimp 02-Oct-2006
gke.net $926.00 onlinelife6 24-Sep-2006
poh.net $1,150.00 excite 22-Sep-2006
blt.net $1,600.00 skyline.coup 21-Sep-2006
ctl.net $1,300.00 aldoz 21-Sep-2006
jsc.net $1,070.00 fatjobbie 20-Sep-2006
wfj.net $825.00 benfranklin 12-Sep-2006
tjn.net $976.00 therealed 12-Sep-2006
dtx.net $1,550.00 jtf46 07-Sep-2006
ksf.net $885.00 911domains 02-Sep-2006
znw.com $4,300.00 gm99a 29-Aug-2006
kjr.net $876.00 benfranklin 28-Aug-2006
bdz.com $4,322.00 prodigy 23-Aug-2006
vta.net $1,400.00 jtf46 21-Aug-2006
oxn.net $675.00 benfranklin 21-Aug-2006
qaz.net $554.00 benfranklin 21-Aug-2006
vmd.net $876.00 happysynergy 15-Aug-2006
aih.com $12,249.00 bonkers 10-Aug-2006
lck.net $111.00 namepimp 09-Aug-2006
fhf.net $851.00 namepimp 07-Aug-2006

 

[Christopher Hunt]

how much more for a 3 letter that is actually a word?

i.e., something very generic but not very fancy like fog.com or row.com ...?

 

[accent]

..... Certainly, we're in a moderate upswing now, but we may be near the bottom of a larger growth cycle that will take many years. .....

I am getting the same impression, in large part from the big money that is buying at Snapnames (and I expect elsewhere). It looks to me like a number of groups, companies and/or individuals have concluded that premium domains are heavily undervalued and are buying with determination.

Smart money moving in mass to central resources is a prime indicator of the early stages of an upswing.

The "why" escapes me - traffic domains are approaching other investments in ROI (I think that is true???). How do these guys spending millions on a monthly basis plan to make money with the domains?

And --- what things do they value in a name - I want to help them look.