The next big thing in domaining?

[scoops22]

I was just thinking now that all the LLLL.coms and L-L-L.coms are bought out.Im just curious what everyone feels like the next plan for great investing in domaining is.??Similar to these investing strategies.

 

[geb9696]

I think L-L-L.coms are going to be worth alot in the future. From what I have experianced you will be hard pressed to find them for under $25 a domain. Given that they are so many less then LLLL.coms and they work very well with end users I believe that this market will be the market to be in over the next year. I am also investing in LLL.in as I believe the India domain markets will be growing rapidly over the next few years.

 

[VURG]

I think L-L-L.coms are going to be worth alot in the future. From what I have experianced you will be hard pressed to find them for under $25 a domain. Given that they are so many less then LLLL.coms and they work very well with end users I believe that this market will be the market to be in over the next year. I am also investing in LLL.in as I believe the India domain markets will be growing rapidly over the next few years.

It's interesting how a handful of BuyDomains sales is the common argument to identify this niche as a very underated type of domain. Maybe further investigation into BuyDomains and other sales can be used to identify tomorrows niche.

 

[geb9696]

I was going more but the fact that I put up one of my L-L-L.coms for auction here at NP and it is already up to $30. I was using a number based off of what the domainers here are willing to pay for the names. If you go to the L-L-L.com aftermarket thread you won't see any sales under $30 there and I think that is a very telling point. I am not trying to put down LLLL.coms as I do own a few. I just think that premium letter LLLL.coms and CVCV.coms are going to be good investments but I think bad letter LLLL.coms will not appreciate in value as much as people want to believe.

 

[Psych101]

^_^.

 

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[...]I am not trying to put down LLLL.coms as I do own a few. I just think that premium letter LLLL.coms and CVCV.coms are going to be good investments but I think bad letter LLLL.coms will not appreciate in value as much as people want to believe.

[xfiles] I want to believe. [/xfiles]

:hi:

just curious, what odds would you give for something like ZXWV.com going for $50 a year from now?

10% chance ...? 50% chance ...? 70% chance ?

or what would you say? ("No idea" is a fair answer too!)

What about estimate for odds for something like Z-X-W.com going for $50 in a year ?

(I don't have an agenda, genuinely interested in your opinion ... I have a bunch of L-L-L.com too - haven't been thinking about them much lately with all the hubbub since the LLLL.com buyout, but maybe time to start paying more attention to what's going on with L-L-L too ...)

 

[geb9696]

When typing zxwv into Google I get around 40,000 result. None are in English. When I type ZXW into Google I get around 600,000 results with two relating to major products being the Ford Focus ZXW and the ZXW-Euro card. As an English speaker I find it hard to come up with a use for a domain like zxwv.com so unless the whole LLLL.com market has a buttom over $50 I would have a hard time paying that much for it. I think it takes more then a year to get there but still possible. So lets say 25% chance.

Now for Z-X-W.com I do see a use for this domain as it could be made into a site about the Ford Focus ZXW. I feel that while Z-X-W.com is not premium letters it still does have end-users to be found. I say 50% chance it would be sold for $50 or more over the next year.

 

[-REECE-]

More potential endusers for your average L-L-L.coms than LLLL.coms, no doubt. Only question imho, is what percentage of endusers are willing to have a name with 2 hyphens. In Ford's case, they can easily afford the non-hyphenated version, regardless the asking price. For a fansite, something like ZXWF.com for ZXW Fans might be a suitable option. ZXWP - ZXW pics, etc.

I don't really like 4x bad letter LLLL.coms myself and only have 1 as a memento of the last few hours LLLL.coms were readily available.

Another thing we should remember... There are very few 4x bad letter LLLL.coms. Whether that makes them a collector's item at some point.. I do not know, however for comparison purposes, we should compare L-L-L.coms to what the vast majority of recently registered (eg. October regs) LLLL.coms are -- LLLL.coms with 2 or 3 bad letters. IMHO, a LLLL.com with 3 bad letters and a premium letter should be equivalent in the long run to a L-L-L.com with 3 bad letters. It's very easy to make meaningful acronyms out of most premium letters.

When typing zxwv into Google I get around 40,000 result. None are in English. When I type ZXW into Google I get around 600,000 results with two relating to major products being the Ford Focus ZXW and the ZXW-Euro card. As an English speaker I find it hard to come up with a use for a domain like zxwv.com so unless the whole LLLL.com market has a buttom over $50 I would have a hard time paying that much for it. I think it takes more then a year to get there but still possible. So lets say 25% chance.

Now for Z-X-W.com I do see a use for this domain as it could be made into a site about the Ford Focus ZXW. I feel that while Z-X-W.com is not premium letters it still does have end-users to be found. I say 50% chance it would be sold for $50 or more over the next year.

 

[Fka200]

I have IE6 (Arabic supported).
I can see the link anchor text in Arabic but not the URL.

IE6 doesn't support unicode domains. Upgrade to IE7 -> Add Arabic as a language in your internet options. It will show up fine.

Also, Firefox has a whitelist/blacklist feature which changes the unicode to punycode by default. This can be turned off, though.

 

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[...] As an English speaker I find it hard to come up with a use for a domain like zxwv.com so unless the whole LLLL.com market has a buttom over $50 I would have a hard time paying that much for it. I think it takes more then a year to get there but still possible. So lets say 25% chance.

Now for Z-X-W.com I do see a use for this domain as it could be made into a site about the Ford Focus ZXW. I feel that while Z-X-W.com is not premium letters it still does have end-users to be found. I say 50% chance it would be sold for $50 or more over the next year.

Thanks for that research and analysis!

Interesting to note that your estimate of 25% chance of zxwv.com hitting $50 seems in line with current market price around $12 for 100% "anti-premium" LLLL.com .... And along the same lines, might expect something like Z-X-W to fetch around $25 in current market - again (roughly) reflecting your estimate of 50% chance of hitting $50 in a year.

So looks like the market agrees with your estimates pretty closely. Well done! And, fascinating ....