Kerrijo said:
There are over 63,000 LLLL available as of today according to the site you listed.
Yeah - that number is a little low because of domain tasting - I would guess the total is around 70,000 - about 15% left. 6-8000 are being taken per month (net) so the end would project to about a year from now. Or someone could buy the lot for a half mil tomorrow - peanuts for a lot of investors (not me).
So the question is: buy now with a better selection, wait till the last minute (with the risk of a buyout) and take what you can get, or follow the wise one's lead (JP) and play the LLL.gtld market.
Or have a beer and forget it.
Although the biggest percentage rise will likely be in the first year or so after LLLL.coms become unavailable, will the better quality of what is available now justify the additional reg fees? (I look at what I regged a year ago - for about half of them I see similar names still available. But I have better information now, and we soon will be down to the Q, X, and Z's.)
And you know, the harder question is the one we started with - for all those domains for which an end user does not present us with a lotterylike payout - when to sell? This market will probably balloon and crash in the future as it has once before. (A thread on another forum questions if we are already near the top, although they seem to be talking about the traffic domain market pulling equal in return to other investments.)
Timing is essential yet it is a very difficult thing to do. From other realms the best advice seems to be to take some profits as you go - a lot easier in theory than application.