True value of LLL.com

[peaches017]

Who cares what 3character.com. I trust the guys and gals at namepros who buy and sell on a daily basis.

3 Crap Letters:
2 Crap Letters:
1 Crap Letter:
All Premium Letters:

Assume no higher meaning to any of these...

Peter

 

[accent]

Ahhhhh.....

Errrrr.....

Ahhhhh..... OK, I will just say it:

Would you please define "crap"?

This is surely the first time that question has been asked here!

 

[Charley]

3 lll.com, IMO PRICE - more than 15,000 US $ ....... I dont see people buying based on premium letters or non premium..

 

[Lasher]

Most LLL.com domains (as with LLL.us and LLL.whatever) are being bought and sold by domain speculators. Some people argue that they are overhyped and overvalued because most of them may never find an end user commercial value. As has been proven time and time again, a company with truly deep pockets or a service people need / a unique idea can take any old reg fee pronouncable name and brand it (google, yahoo, youtube, digg, etc).

On the other side of the fence (and I tend to be more on this side personally), something does not have to have commercial value to have cash value. Even if these domains only end up being traded between collectors, they have value. They are rare, there are more people who would like to own an LLL.com than there are people selling them so the price is high. An old and famous painting has no practical commercial value, an old stamp has maybe 40c of commercial value if used to post a letter, a first edition book has no commercial value - but people want them because they are rare and we all know the kind of prices they fetch.

Bottom line, nobody knows where the prices on these domains will settle. It all comes down to simple supply and demand and the biggest risk to the value of 'rare' domains is an increase in supply side, which tends to come in the form of new TLDs. For example, fictional company Bob Smith & Co based in Europe, how much would they have considered paying for BSC.COM? How much would they now consider paying before they just decide to go with BSC.EU instead? Maybe their product is mobile phone related and they decide to buy neither of these names and just use their trademark to do a sunrise on BSC.MOBI.

Every time a company or popular service puts their primary site on a non .COM domain, it weakens the foothold of .COM a little. Their users get used to seeing other extensions, they start to try type-ins in other extensions, they may even consider registering one for their own site and the cycle continues.

Anyway, enough rambling for early Monday morning, agree with me or not it is something to think about and it sure is going to be interesting to see how it all plays out.

 

[VirtualT]

what you say is true, but the fact remains that a company will have more global online credibility using a .com or a .net extension, than a .biz, .info or cctld, except perhaps where the extension is strong like .us or .eu, and they are better served by a cctld for local credibility such as .com.au

 

[JasMate]

Who cares what 3character.com.

From my experience almost everyone :cy: It does seem to be what the wholesale market are paying but to the end user a name can be worth 50X the amount :bingo:
It all depends on the name and how much value it holds to the end user.

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[accent]

Yeah - There certainly is collector value in domains - As long as they are domains. If the system is changed to another method of addressing information and businesses, then nobody will pay the reg fees anymore. If reg fees are raised to the sky, if hundreds of gTLDs are approved, if the world economy tanks ....

I worry too much.

There was a collector market in tulip bulbs, too.

 

[VURG]

Somebody recently told me that 30 years ago he bought a fridge for a present for his mother 30 years ago. For the same price he could have bought some property on a Greek island worth hundreds of thousands.

I view domain names as a form of online real estate. The way things are going, virtually every software based service is ending up free on the internet with time. The only real cost that is definate is the domain name. Here in Western Australia, most property on the ocean has more than tripled in value in the last 5 years despite the fact that development along the ocean is very limited due to our small population.

Personally, I think that the ratio of speculators to developers is going to rise quite significantly in the next 10 years. I think that LLL.com will continue to rise in value and continue to end up in the hands of people who wont let go of them.

I like 3character.com. It is a good reference. I think that to buy a LLL.com for 5%-10% higher than 3character.com wholesale pricing is good value in a very active market and I expect that the next 18 months will continue to be very active.

 

[equity78]

I am glad you like us Vurg and to Peaches the people who run 3Character.com are people on NP who buy and sell. With over 600 LLL transactions Price guide is based on a minimum wholesale reseller to reseller and will be updated again shortly with prices going up especially in the .us market