Surely you're not comparing a sale from 2008 to now? You could have also handreg almost any 5N and surely just about every 6N. Around then I bought some 20 4N's from someone in a lot for $3k and I still have half of them.
I am indeed.
Since you have mentioned 2008, just take a look at 5N sales since then... and then look at N-N-N sales against that same timeframe.
2 published Sales - one in 2008 and one in 2011. Meanwhile 5N has an avalanche of sales to report.
Point being, you can handreg N-N-N right now and maybe be prosperous to the tune of a few hundred dollars someday... but the sales and use data of domains fitting that profile just does not support any positive price movement imo.
The fact that you could handreg all of the listed ones in this thread, and there are only 1000 of them with two reported sales should tell you everything you need to know about a two hyphen .COM.
I was against the double dash thing for a little where there. But then I couldn't pass it up. I don't think I'll retire on the ~$45 investment (and I may even need to renew them a couple times). So long as the numeric market in general holds up and maintains an upward trend, I think they'll do OK.
I agree with you, it can't hurt to buy a few as a 'just in case' but for me I add this to the list of DNs that I don't like for the immediate future.
120 left now, all starting with 0 or have 4, just like 6N's available.
If there was inefficiency in this market it was fixed in last 5 days.
It doesn't matter how many are left, there are [x] amount of domains left in .worthless namespaces, nobody is dashing for them. Nobody is clawing for domains with two hyphens in them, except for thread lurkers looking to cheaply speculate.
All of this unsubstantiated talk of domains just based on where people are speculating is tantamount to the release of the gTLDs. Every new domainer was gung-ho about gTLDs and now they are barley addressed, because they ended up exactly where most of us knew where they would - the debate is over and lots of gTLD investors lost.
All I am saying is, that throwing up number combinations with unsubstantiated 'value' in a thread and having forum lurkers rush to register is hardly an indicator of anything - that's domaining, it happens every day.
I will give you kudos on one thing; your skill at spin marketing and presentation of unsound stats and proofs. People eat up unsound spun data, and you are serving it hot in large quantities.
