Quad Letter Domains

After venturing onto Ebay after what seems to be months not weeks, I was pleasantly supprised by the number of LLLL.com domains being offered at auction today. It gave me an opportunity to really study the marketplace from another perspective although its difficult to ascertain who is buying and who is selling on Ebay but it seems the majority of LLLL names are selling at reseller prices. I counted over nearly 100 LLLL.com auctions and of those 100 most names were reaching approximately $10-$20 each. Nothing to get excited about I hear you cry… well, yes and no, although we are not seeing the dizzy heights of LLL.com territory this market niche is very much in its infancy but the average price of a random LLLL.com domain in October was $5-$10 which means we are already seeing a steady increase in value even for names of a low quality.

Lets not confuse the names offered on Ebay with medium - high quality LLLL.com offered for sale in other marketplaces or for those that do find there way onto Ebay itself. These domains must be categorised in a very different way. Infact the market can be split up into many different sub categories. Anti-premium, random, semi-premium, premium, pronounceable, the list goes on. What I am seeing today is the majority of domains offered for sale on Ebay seem to fit the anti-premium and semi-premium categories. I will be watching the lists I have accumulated very closely because, no doubt, some of these names will be snapped up at good reseller prices and offered for sale at double there current market price within a matter of weeks not months.

written by Richard