When do you think LLLL.COM domains will be 1,000 dollar and above???

[grigio]

When do you think that LLLL.com will be worth over 1,000 dollar??

 

[Kate]

Back in the day, our (absent but fondly remembered) friend Italian Dragon, myself, and others were speculating that the natural value or "target price" (underlying price after the dust settles) of LLLL.coms should be about 1/26 the value of a comparable LLL.com (there are 26 times as many LLLLs). If we use that metric with a minimum price today for LLLs of $3,500 we get a target for LLLL.coms of $135.

The flaw in that logic is using the LLL as a benchmark. They just cannot be compared.
The LL & LLL are popular as acronyms. For any 'decent' LLL.com there are tens if not hundreds or thousands of companies worldwide, that share the same acronym. You have a number of potential end users (buyers). That is what makes these names so liquid among resellers.

On the other hand LLLL are much less attractive for that purpose. The brandables like good CVCV will always be worth something but let's face it - there is virtually no market for mediocre LLLL.com such as QHKX.com, unless you find that Chinese end user maybe - easier said than done IMO :sold:

I think that most of the LLLL.com are barely worth more than $$ at this point and don't even bother with .net .org or any 'lesser' extension. Scarcity alone does not make domains more valuable.

 

[-REECE-]

I was making jokes about the Chinese end users myself until not too long ago, however there are some out there and when the economy gets back on it's feet, I think we'll continue to see more Chinese end users out there for what us North American / European folk see as bad letter combinations.

At least about 30-40% of LLL's have very few meaningful acronyms -- they have value not necessarily for their rarity but because of what they've come to mean to domainers in the domain name world. I would say LLLL.coms - at the very least, quad premium LLLL.coms, are at least moving along that path. Just like a terrible LLL.com sells for half a good one while having realistically 1/100th the end user potential, quad premium LLLL.coms sell at significant premiums to regular LLLL.coms, in many cases there not really being much in the way of a reason for it, other than the fact that it falls into that "collectible" category.

Could ordinary LLLL.coms someday be valued in such a way? I would say they temporarily were in Jan-Feb 2008 where people were buying LLLL.coms because they were LLLL.coms rather than because of any normal indicators of value (traffic, revenue, end user / development potential, etc)

The flaw in that logic is using the LLL as a benchmark. They just cannot be compared.
The LL & LLL are popular as acronyms. For any 'decent' LLL.com there are tens if not hundreds or thousands of companies worldwide, that share the same acronym. You have a number of potential end users (buyers). That is what makes these names so liquid among resellers.

On the other hand LLLL are much less attractive for that purpose. The brandables like good CVCV will always be worth something but let's face it - there is virtually no market for mediocre LLLL.com such as QHKX.com, unless you find that Chinese end user maybe - easier said than done IMO :sold:

I think that most of the LLLL.com are barely worth more than $$ at this point and don't even bother with .net .org or any 'lesser' extension. Scarcity alone does not make domains more valuable.

 

[james0306]

When you have names like QIYE.com that sell for $20,300, anything is possible. It will be 20+ years before the minimum is $1,000.

QiYe.com means "Enterprise" in China, the prise is still quite cheap compared to its potential application

 

[vanbollu]

Some LLLL.com domain wouldn't be above $1000 now or later.

 

[kleszcz]

Sobering thought but....

I would be willing to bet that in 10/15 years there will not be any extensions at all (as we now know them), and there will be an entirely different way the Internet is navigated by then. Whatever people own when the changes come will somehow work into the new systems, but be rest assured there's a whole new grid process being developed as we speak.

Remember Compuserve?

The best thing to do is not be greedy, take your profits when you can and move on and follow the technology. Falling in love with something that will become obsolete could be your worst nightmare and give you a heart attack when you look back at what you coulda' or shoulda' done.

The one thing that never changes about technology is it's always changing.

Roll with the changes.

JMO

L2

Compuserve, the good old days. I can see things have changed a lot. Im not sure about changes but I was completely falling in love with LLLL.com. I still like it though. :P

L2, rep'ed to you.

 

[Larry Fling]

Only Quads or Words.. Not these zqcw, qwxy domains...
We will not have to wait 10 years..

 

[james0306]

for bad combination ... Never

 

[cheehoo]

hey bro,

um seriously I dont think the triple, double, single and anti premium domains will get above 100 if they are lucky. Seriously only the cvcv, vcvc and pronouncable will do very well. Just MHO

thanks