question Why do people pay $XXXX for domains like 10333.com ?

[blvcky]

Ive noticted this alot in GODaddy Auctions, I still dont understand why people pay upwards of $1K for domains like 10333.com, 23373.com.

Can someone explain? TIA

 

[gilescoley]

The Chinese love numerical domains, the individual numbers have special meanings in China

https://www.domainholdings.com/numeric-domains-chinese-culture-and-how-you-can-profit-with-domains/

 

[Samer]

An amazing first post. Welcome to NP! This is the biggest thing that bothers me. Chinese love these “NNNN”; yet i consider them worthless, many hard to memorize; not in use; I see them “vanity” domains (rare, not useful) Outside NNN.com like 365.com, point 4N.com in use? most of them revert to dead links.

Consider there are;

• 100 two number .com (2N);
• 1,000 three number .com (3N);
• 10,000 four number .com (4N)

Compared to the 456,976 llll.com all taken; which I see; more useful, easier to remember; honestly? I value more. beauty of domaining; one trash, another’s treasure. i see “1031com” as garbage; yet‘ll fetch easy $1000+

“lucky number” like 8, make them sell for more. there’re many nuances,seems $1,000+ min for Vanity domains, will never spend $0.01 on.

Invest what you understand; still perplexes me.

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

here we go!

10333.com Typically domains with zeros (0) aren't valuable but this one has triple 3's so it has that going for it. plus it is 5 numbers. The number 5 in and of itself is lucky.



In China there is a saying. "All Good things come in pair." what's better than that? "All Greater things come in three's".

so three 3's is more auspicious aka "lucky".

Plus the bonus is that it is memorable and easier to type out.

Please also note. No insult to Chinese but Chinese mainly speak or read English as does most of the world. But China is 1.7 billion population.

To Chinese shorter is always better. This is more true in China. Chinese people are fast and no nonsense. so it applies to everything they do.

Speed is China.

And making money quickly. So if you are not about speed or making money. You have no business being in China, lol

Also Math is involved here.

how many 5 number patterns out there can there be that begin with 10 but end in 3 numbers that are the same?

let's see. and I'll add comments for each.

10111.com
10222.com
10333.com
10444.com
10555.com
10666.com
10777.com
10888.com This one is the best because it's all 8's at the end. 8 is the luckiest number in China.
10999.com This one is second best. 9 mean's King
10000.com

all the rest are "okay" except for 10444.com maybe because 4 is bad luck because it's chinese translation sounds too close to sounding like the Chinese word for Death. but even so many domains with three 4's have been sold for good money simply because it's three 4's and it's 5 numbers.

ok so we're talking about 5 number domains starting with 10 with the last three all matching.

So each domain above the 3 numbers each count as plus 1.
The 10 isn't a lucky number. It's nothing really.

1 counts as 10
0 counts as 10

typically a set of 5 numbers looks like this 10X10X10X10X10= 100,000 possible combinations of 5 number domains. That in and of itself is already rare.

so but the domains above? because they all end in three of the same numbers at thee end? looks like this.

10X10X10= 1,000 that's how many domains that can ever had the pattern of 10 (or any 2 numbers) plus 3 numbers that are the same at thee end.

Also you need to factor in the fact that Chinese love .com. Even more than their own .cn domain extension.

The 23373.com I think the equation above still applies even though the three same numbers are separated.

The calculation is still the same.

 

[gilescoley]

Ive noticted this alot in GODaddy Auctions, I still dont understand why people pay upwards of $1K for domains like 10333.com, 23373.com.

Can someone explain? TIA

Here are some of the top numerical sales to shock your senses

NN.com
37.com 1,960,800 USD
01.com 1,820,000 USD
20.com 1,750,000 USD
11.com 525,000 USD
33.com 358,000 USD
60.com 310,000 USD
45.com 280,000 USD
11.com 188,889 USD
25.com 124,556 USD
15.com 100,000 USD
61.com 100,000 USD
06.com 91,888 USD
49.com 91,500 USD
64.com 89,000 USD
70.com 87,000 USD
94.com 81,000 USD
46.com 80,000 USD
06.com 80,000 USD
63.com 75,000 USD

NNN.com
114.com 2,100,000 USD
588.com 1,000,000 USD
100.com 950,000 USD
399.com 821,819 USD
989.com 818,181 USD
899.com 801,000 USD
345.com 800,000 USD
333.com 750,000 USD
997.com 688,888 USD
358.com 480,000 USD
586.com 416,000 USD
151.com 415,000 USD
770.com 343,208 USD
708.com 327,000 USD
380.com 323,000 USD
695.com 312,732 USD
173.com 302,790 USD
509.com 295,000 USD
125.com 292,214 USD
800.com 250,000 USD
015.com 223,000 USD
701.com 205,001 USD
281.com 201,100 USD
880.com 188,889 USD
444.com 178,889 USD
248.com 175,000 USD
417.com 169,000 USD
245.com 168,889 USD
384.com 158,720 USD
419.com 150,000 USD
864.com 147,000 USD
742.com 142,000 USD
458.com 140,000 USD
429.com 138,010 USD
246.com 124,568 USD
746.com 121,000 USD
252.com 111,111 USD
242.com 111,111 USD
144.com 110,000 USD
029.com 110,000 USD
106.com 107,000 USD
235.com 100,000 USD
027.com 100,000 USD

NNNN.com
0123.com 252,500 USD
8181.com 225,000 USD
9595.com 180,000 USD
0007.com 172,500 USD
5432.com 148,000 USD
1515.com 121,000 USD
0060.com 120,848 USD
6500.com 120,000 USD
1992.com 110,000 USD
8788.com 106,000 USD
9555.com 102,000 USD
1001.com 100,000 USD
3833.com 90,500 USD
3339.com 85,000 USD
7910.com 83,250 USD
3789.com 70,000 USD
4600.com 68,000 USD
6464.com 65,358 USD
0778.com 64,000 USD
1396.com 60,000 USD
7525.com 59,999 USD
8008.com 58,889 USD
1905.com 57,000 USD

NNNNN.com
88888.com 245,000 USD
88889.com 70,000 USD
17176.com 55,000 USD
10023.com 50,000 USD
22666.com 46,500 USD
83333.com 43,000 USD
99678.com 40,200 USD
60666.com 36,250 USD
70777.com 34,501 USD
33339.com 32,251 USD
88808.com 30,000 USD
29777.com 29,680 USD
77787.com 26,055 USD
79000.com 25,500 USD
55588.com 25,050 USD
02666.com 24,250 USD
68365.com 22,500 USD
97088.com 22,500 USD
88567.com 22,383 USD
47150.com 21,250 USD
89889.com 21,200 USD

NNNNNN.com
999555.com 44,000 USD
899999.com 31,005 USD
000000.com 28,500 USD
996666.com 28,202 USD
123999.com 25,584 USD
628888.com 22,301 USD
556655.com 20,550 USD
365789.com 20,249 USD
758888.com 20,102 USD
123123.com 20,000 USD

 

[Jimmysun]

If I am not a domainer and someone give me those for free, I would probably drop them in next renewal.