I suspect it was on a lot of radars - until someone put 2K on the table and said "mine". Great domain, I am sure they will make a profit, but I suspect the ROI on less collector-type domains might be better.
netklick said:
Hi guys, I have about 150 LLLL expiring in the next 20 days. They are not all best quality ones but some are pronounceable like XAXM.com, XAVM.com, QAVN.com, etc, etc... What do you suggest I do with them? .....
It totally depends on your situation. If you can put forward the money to renew them
for two or three years and not miss it, then you probably will beat the stock market or other conventional investments. If you have a lot of time and not a lot of money you might do better shifting sideways into better names that have less of their overall cost as renewals.
It is a tough question - the conventional wisdom is to go for quality over quantity --- but that does not always hold true.
On January 23, 2008 Reece posted values for the different sectors of the LLLL.com market. This was a little before the peak, the closest to it that is preserved in archive.org:
4letternoob.com said:
... Minimum Wholesale : $33.00 ...
Triple Premium Min Wholesale: $45 ...
Quad premium LLLL.coms minimum wholesale approximately $250 ...
As you can see, the percentage drop in the low end has been far greater than the high end. (That does not mean that prices will return to the same ratios, but it is a good guess) Some of this divergence is due to renewal cost - but there also are other factors. There is a resistance to higher prices, both by investors and by end users. When demand increases and supply is fixed, formerly oversupplied bottom of the barrel domains become ROI stars.
As mentioned, your time is a factor. If you have little additional money for this investment and would like to put some time into improving your holdings then you can sell from the bottom of your holdings and buy better names, although I would suspect you would do best picking through the lower priced offerings. There are a lot of pretty good domains mixed in the "bottom of the barrel", at the moment.
---Just one point of view. Other people would advise you differently. Actually, there are enough people studying LLLL.coms that the odds have evened up pretty closely in the different strategies. Overall it depends on how the future will treat LLLL.coms, and not so much where in the market you invest.