Of late there seems to be an ever growing divide between reasonable 2/3 premium letter LLLL.com’s and those which have 2 or more bad letters. I am consistently seeing more and more posts advertising lower quality names and getting very little interest. This is also what I found when I tired to sell some of my lesser quality names in the middle of December 2007.
Ive spent some time today checking through the many pages of domain garbage on Ebay to see what kind of four letter domains are currently for sale. Its been a while since ive gone through the entire lot! There’s a mixed bunch as there has always been but I have noticed a very significant difference in start prices. Many sellers are still sticking with the base entry of 99 cents and letting the buyers determine the value of there domains. I use and agree with this method of selling because it creates realistic selling prices. Buyers bid up the domains to their approximate true value. There has and always will be exceptions to the rule of course, and some domains will sell for more than they are worth and others not reach their true potential.
Earlier today I said that there was a fair amount of interest in how many all premium letter LLLL.net’s are currently registered/available. Well, I have now scanned all 83,521 possible combinations and have found that there are 17,571 domains still available to register, that’s just 21% left! Here are the stats:
There has been a fair amount of interest in the availability of all premium four letter dot net domains. I have started running a scan on a list of these and will post the results later. So far, it seems that there are very few four letter premium dot nets left, although this is probably because I have started with domains beginning with ‘a’ which would be the first domains people scan through and pick from before they get bored! I will publish lists of available’s as soon as my scans have finished running through! Watch this space!
Well its been a few days since I posted a bunch of names for sale over at Namepros. I have to say I’m a little disappointed in the interest I have had so far. Granted they aren’t anything that special and if it were six months ago I would happily take anything above reg fee for them. I think the problem right now is the time of year. The holiday season is upon us and even I have noticed a dip in general domain sales in the Namepros marketplace let alone in this particular niche. I think I will close my sales thread and hold out until the new year. Give it a few weeks after everyone is back into the swing of things and eaten enough mince pies to last till next Christmas.
I have been spending some time this week analysing my ever expanding portfolio and putting together development ideas for some of the names that receive consistent traffic. A domains value can be increased by lifting its unique visitors and revenue. What I believe to be different in this particular market is the significantly lower number of domains available. The more that are developed the more demand will increase because the number of unused domains available for sale will reduce. If these names have a legitimate use then you will only push their market value up even more than the current market reseller trend.
Well I have to say the enthusiasm of a particular Namepros member has certainly sparked a lot of positive and negative views on the current state of the quad letter .net marketplace. Reece of ‘Four Letter Noob‘ started the LLLL.net Countdown thread a couple of days ago and already has a lot of people talking. I certainly appreciate the time Reece has spent to scan the 450K+ LLLL.net names to check availability but am unsure as to what direction I will take in the LLLL.net name-space. I will certainly register a good 30-40 CVCV’s and all premium names so that I have a stock pile of .net names for ‘quadletter.net‘ but will we see a rise in their value in the near future? I suspect not for some time at least. There is obvious value in the premium VCVC.net’s that are, unfortunately, all unavailable. Sales of these names have increased considerably over the past months. Here are some recent sales stats:
A few weeks ago I noticed that the number of LLLL.com sale threads being created at Namepros was on the decline. This may have been due to all the hype about the four letter .com buyout and how it is best to hold onto your names and wait for the market price increase. Today that day seems either to have been a glitch on the horizon or a momentery trend as there is a lot more LLLL.com’s for sale in the Namepros marketplace. Its quite possible that a lot of domain flips are taking place because some domainers see this as a good oppurtunity to make a healthy return on previous LLLL.com investments while the reseller price is substantially higher than it has been. Of course, without looking at and analysing the sales on a monthly / yearly basis it is very hard come to a definate conclusion, although personally, I will be keeping a keen eye on this, as always, in an effort to make sure I don’t come up short if the LLLL.com buyout doesn’t hold.
Well, its been nearly a month since I analysed the trend of LLLL.com sales on Ebay. I have to say that for LLLL.com investors the news is good. I have noticed a huge rise in LLLL.com sales prices over the past month or so. At the beginning of November 2007 average domain prices were around $10-$20. Prices have risen quite substantially since then whereby an average of $25-$35 per random letter LLLL.com has been seen. Many of the domains in this price bracket fall into the random 3 x bad letter 1 x good or 2 of each categories.
During the LLLL.com buyout the only domains left to hand reg were those that included the letters, Q, X and Z. This would mean that by elimination these three letters are considered the worst letters to have in any LLLL.com combination. However, many people consider the following set to be all bad letters: JKQUVWXYZ. Of course it really does depend on the circumstances though. A pronounceable name such a ZUKU.com or QUVY.com would be highly sought after even though these names contain all bad letters. And we can’t forget that although to the Western market these letters are not desirable, in the Asian market these letters are used a lot more frequently.
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