Value of four letter .coms and .nets?

[gericsb]

I believe there are still some unregged four letter .coms and ,nets Do these domains have any value?

 

[Speed]

it depends. like kdjr.com. Would you value that 4 letter domain?

 

[jkennedy]

Four letter .com's will be the next .coms to go... in time.
So say you have one that does'nt really have any obvious meanings it may not be worth much now, but it will only increase in value as the rest get taken.

I would suggest holding on to any four letters for now, and see what happens.

IMO

 

[netzilla]

The value is in the eye of the buyer if they want it bad enough then the cash will come.

 

[Speed]

Well, if the word has a meaning, then it would be very expensive. Like cars.com, or autos.com, or cash.com, or book.com, or sound.com. Go figure. :D

 

[gericsb]

I guess I should have specified--not well known words! I certainly would not lump cars.com in with wxyz.com (Yeah, both are 4-letter .com's, but one of them is worth a million bucks-guess which one?)

 

[NameClerk]

There are plenty of 4 letter .com's left with more dropping every day. Most days you can uncover some decent one's from the drop lists if you put in the effort.

If you're picking from the general pool of available ones you're gonna see plenty of q,x,y and z's. Oh, did I forget to mention the j,k,v and u's.

The overall availability is slowly dwindling, which will certainly help the value both short and long term. I think they're a great investment but you'll probably have to tie up some capital for a fair amount of time to really make them pay off. People like to tie up capital in things that will make them money NOW.

That's probably what keeps so many people away from them. Buying traffic names and speculating in emerging technology domains is like a Vegas casino or the NYSE; Exciting!

Buying FMNU.com for a long term hold feels like you just got yourself a US Savings Bond. Yaawwwnnn.

In the end, it'll probably be a good investment, which is smart, regardless of the amount of excitement it provides.

Just my opinion.

Bill

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[PS-NP]

Good points bill, I agree with all that. So what are the best letters to look out for? I don't know why but i keep reg'ing meaningless stuff starting with X - i guess I just like the letter lol - but which letters at the start would you say has more value - if there is such a theory?!

 

[jkennedy]

Good points bill, I agree with all that. So what are the best letters to look out for? I don't know why but i keep reg'ing meaningless stuff starting with X - i guess I just like the letter lol - but which letters at the start would you say has more value - if there is such a theory?!

LOL...my first four letter starts with an x.
I would guess that A would be the best letter to start with if it was a random mix.

 

[NameClerk]

It's very simple. The most common letters a,b,c,d,f,l,m,n,p,r,s,t are the best to have if you're looking for acronyms.

If you want a 4 letter that can be pronounced or "branded" like "VURG" (What up Phil?), than you're going to have to mix in a vowel to make it sound good. A is easily the best vowel. E,I and O are pretty versatile with U being the easiest to find due to it's lack of representation in the world of words.

I am a fan of the word Urban though. I often using it when domain spinning.

 

[cache]

I like what you said here. I would also add that I consider the "US Savings Bond" as lotto, some saving bond number may win big.

There are plenty of 4 letter .com's left with more dropping every day. Most days you can uncover some decent one's from the drop lists if you put in the effort.

If you're picking from the general pool of available ones you're gonna see plenty of q,x,y and z's. Oh, did I forget to mention the j,k,v and u's.

The overall availability is slowly dwindling, which will certainly help the value both short and long term. I think they're a great investment but you'll probably have to tie up some capital for a fair amount of time to really make them pay off. People like to tie up capital in things that will make them money NOW.

That's probably what keeps so many people away from them. Buying traffic names and speculating in emerging technology domains is like a Vegas casino or the NYSE; Exciting!

Buying FMNU.com for a long term hold feels like you just got yourself a US Savings Bond. Yaawwwnnn.

In the end, it'll probably be a good investment, which is smart, regardless of the amount of excitement it provides.

Just my opinion.

Bill

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[JYM]

The problem is that part of a domain's value is just the rarity of it. For instance, there are only 17576 LLL.com's that can exist (seems like a high number, but very low compared to the millions of domains registered). Comparively, there are 456976 LLLL.com's that can exist (greater than LLL.com's by a factor of 26). This will decrease the value tremendously in terms of rarity.

However, there are many great four letter domains that can make great acronyms. The example I like is ESPN.com, which, if anyone owned right now, would easily be worth a million or more dollars (simply because ESPN is a huge television network).

There are still many many available LLLL.coms. Most of the better letter combinations have been taken, as well as many pronounceable ones. Still, you may get lucky and someone will pay a lot for your domain. But since there are so many more possibilities than LLL.com, your chances will be that much smaller.

I have reg'd IPZY.com, which I think is pronounceable and I'm even going as far as making subdomains for it to make them sound pronounceable (t.ipzy.com, p.ipzy.com). Since development is key, I'm developping it right now and I will advertise later in order to sell it for much more. After all, a developped site with an LLLL.com name (not too hard to remember) is much better than keyword-keyword2-keyword3.info which has the same development and traffic.

 

[Archangel]

What if the letters are all quality? I have GERB.net, which is blindingly easy to spell/remember/brand. Does it have any hope?

 

[antman]

I just rate LLLLs by character frequency:

e t a o i n s r [Good]

h l d c u m f p g w [Average]

y b v k x j q z [Bad]

As always, subject to how the letters appear in what order

 

[Charley]

I think they're a great investment but you'll probably have to tie up some capital for a fair amount of time to really make them pay off.

Could you cite an instance for this ?

 

[greggish]

I just registered xfce.net, my first 4 letter .net. Even though it starts with "x" I still think it's pretty good.

 

[ppx]

Four letters without z, x, q etc. will become great value soon.

 

[accent]

I just rate LLLLs by character frequency:

e t a o i n s r [Good]

h l d c u m f p g w [Average]

y b v k x j q z [Bad]

As always, subject to how the letters appear in what order

Wow - I use a completely different list. I think the above is based on how often the letters appear in total -- and "the" is the most common word. I look at how often they are the first letter of words and (very important) of last names. Look at this:

s c m b p a t d r [good]

e l g i o n f h w [OK]

j k u v y z x q [not-as-good]

Understand that this is for English. I know that "j" and "y" are common in Chinese, and probably most of the not-as-good letters see a lot of use by somebody somewhere, but the IDN system will take a lot of that market away from what we are discussing as LLLL.

The LLLL.nets are tempting, it is possible to get some nice names there, but it will be a long time before they have any value - which brings a point --- the best LLLL.coms I have came in a couple of small groups I bought from other domainers. Both sold to me for much less than they had paid in registration and renewal fees. They got the good names but they got in too early.