Worth it?

[.Matt]

In your opinion, are 4 number .net's worth the reg fee at this time?

Are they a nice investment to have?

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Can anyone explain what it is that makes 4 # domains of any extention wirth anything whether now or in the future?

All 4 #.com's are gone. A large # of the 5 digits are gone as well, being zipcodes or similar.
Out of the first 9,999 .net's in sequential numerical order, less than 50 remain.
Out of the first 9,999 .org's in sequential numerical order, about 2500 remain, but the vast majority lower #'s are more heavily registered. #'s over 7,000 are more widely available and increase the total % of 4 digits available.
Even more important than that is that every combination of 4#'s has some meaning somewhere. Such as an address, the last 4 digits of a telephone number, a birthdate/birthyear, etc. A lot of letters have been deemed to be undesirable (z,y,q,etc), but all numbers are instrinsically valuable. Also, there are many more combinations of letters that are 4 characters long (26*26*26*26) while in numbers there are roughly 9,000 (Depending on whether or not you consider putting a "0" first as a 4 digit number; I typically do not).
I have yet to have a 4# domain that has not paid for itself by parking in the first 1-1.5 months that I've had it. Everybody likes checking for their address online, or birthyear, or similar, just to see if it exists. (For instance, one of my .net's is the last 4 digits of my phone number, and I have a subdomain for the first 3 digits, thereby giving me ###.####.net , or my phone number. Is it actual useful as of yet? Nah. Is it spiffy in its own nerdy way... yeah ) .com's are best, but my .net's and .org's (while I am more selective in my choosings) have all made their cost back in the same 1 - 1.5 month range. So basically, worst comes to worst and I'm still in the black/green with an opportunity to sell what I view as a valuable domain. I do view some # combo's as more likely to be type-ins, more likely to be pursued, and more likely to sell, and I do register them more frequently than a set of numbers that isn't as likely. Who knows though, only time will tell if my collection turns out to be my retirement nest-egg

 

[jamminsport16]

wait:

31.org & 75.org were available?

 

[IAmAllanShore]

wait:

31.org & 75.org were available?

"Available" might not be the right word. They aren't registered, might be the better way to put it. They can't be registered either.
http://www.whois.sc/31.org
-Allan

 

[equity78]

WELL THANK YOU Allan I was going to take 3257.net because Keypad it spells something, FARM, and then I see ELEQUA owns the .info and .biz WORTH the $6.75 at Fabulous IMO NP$ ON THE WAY THANKS DUDE

 

[jamminsport16]

oh ok.
i wish i could know how much they would be in the future =]

*I asked my mom 3 weeks ago if I could buy 1 domain & try to sell it. Well I bought over 10 lol :/ yikes. (1 including: naked-girls.org <-- hope she doesnt see that)

 

[EbookLover]

Thanks for the explanation Allan. I never considered the zip code at all.

 

[sibaong]

31.org and 75.org are taken :notme:

 

[IAmAllanShore]

31.org and 75.org are taken :notme:

I think I might have touched on this earlier, but they aren't really "taken" I don't think.

It's more that they aren't registered, because they are unavailable to be registered. Much like remaining single letter .com's

http://www.whois.sc/75.org
http://www.whois.sc/31.org

-Allan

 

[sibaong]

Hmm... yeah it's wierd, both are taken (registerfly) but no web or whois info