nicedomains said:
Unfortunately, this may be the most accurate post in this thread!
And this the most inaccurate post I have ever seen!
LLLL.com haters wake up and smell the coffee.. How can you claim something is worthless when
minimum reseller price for the
worst LLLL combinations are already 3-4x registration price?? LOL... Oh yes my flop predictions: .asia, .biz, .mobi
hello :wave:
I
really like LLLL.com but can't say I'm all that sure about what will happen in 2008 - probably safe to say that "prices will fluctuate" and leave it at that. Long term, they seem like a reasonable bet (though still not a sure thing) ... Right now minimum reseller price for the "buyout babies" (say the last 4000 regged leading up to the Nov 2 sellout) is bouncing around 2 times reg fee, down a bit from 2 to 3 times reg fee in the beginning of the month (if anyone wants to buy a few off me at 3 or 4 times reg fee I'll be happy to "arbitrage" some added value into the mix for you -> remember folks, the more you pay for something, the more it's worth!)
Probably just the first of several 2nd chance "buying opportunities" / (or desperate last chance panic selling opportunities, for those so inclined) ... where it will finally end up, who knows - you pays your money and you takes your chances! If it works out the way I suspect it will in the long run, there's going to be quite a few happy newbies and old pros too ... and if it doesn't - well, what the hell were we thinking anyway! XYZQ.com LOL ... (That's almost as funny as XQZ.com might have seemed a few years ago!)
Probably about 100 NPers with $50 to $500 each on the line, another 50 of us with $500 to $5000 to lose, and then maybe 20 serious players with $5000 to $50,000 in LLLL.com ... I don't think anyone's mortgaged their house (yet) to get in on this one (though I remember hearing someone mention that they wish they had!)
So ... my prediction, adding it all up as best I can: an uncertain future + an excitable crowd with a lot of newbies in the mix + a lot of hype in both directions (right now mostly positive, but that could turn on a dime) = volatile prices ...
Maybe only 1000 LLLL.com will find end-users in 2008 ... even 10,000 would still be a drop in the bucket relative to the who knows how many hundreds of thousands still held by domainers. It may be 5 or 15 years until there is a real "scarcity premium" for all remaining LLLL.com sufficient to command $xxxx for XYQZ ... In the meantime, many impatient, impulsive domainers who suddenly realize that paying renewal fees from 2008 until who knows when was never exactly part of their game plan are likely to sell cheap or (less likely, but possible) let some drop. And at the same time, a few patient, calculated-risk taking long-term players are going to enjoy those buying opportunities, and quite possibly end up with enough valuable LLLL.com domains to retire on (if they live long enough to see that distant day, LOL!)
Bottom line for 2008: some flippers might flop ... but a lot of "floppers" just might flip their wigs while they sit on the sidelines watching LLLL.com prices see-saw up to mid $xx minimum and beyond by the end of the year.