| Back in 2001, I picked up a lot of nice LLLL.com's. Mostly from Namewinner and most @ 30$ each. The lowest I sold any of them for was $800, the highest over @20k and an median selling price of $2k. All but one of the 2001 pickups was sold by mid-2005. I have continued to pick up LLLL.com's since and continued to see fairly decent returns. With a few exceptions, this is actually the highest profit segment of my portfolio. I have never paid more than high XX for any of them. With the exception of some I've sold via forums recently, all have been end user sales.
I am not saying this to contribute to the hype of LLLL.com's. But I do know that it has always been the easiest segment of my portfolio to get a nice return over the past 7 years. Most of these were acquired when domaining was something I didn't spend more than a couple of hours a week on because focusing on LLLL.com's was something that was easy to do and it is something that still remains affordable. To some extent, it is a segment of domaining that really is akin to buying a lottery ticket - other than being able to recognize what a good buy is.
Where I think a lot of people go wrong with LLLL.com's - and with domains in general - is that they take too much of a short-sighted approach in that they want to see 500%+ returns within 1 year. Yes, it IS doable but unless you are talking about a premium domain you get for peanuts, most solid returns are because of a willingness to be patient and hold out for solid $ from an end user.
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