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Originally Posted by dnforumdude  What are you gonna do with numbers, "COME VISIT MY WEBSITE AT 2578.COM" ?? (im not saying for domains like 2424.com 2552.com)
- Uh where was it honey you saw the amazing sale at 1355612462546.com?
At least for "most" LLLL.com's you can have some meaning to it.
3 NNN at least it could be memorable |
Good question. I thought the same until last month when I realized that 80% of the NNNNN.com's were already bought out and Chinese domainers were buying these en masse. Luckily I was able to get in before the buyout was complete.
Basically, about 46% of the NNNNN.com's are already developed websites in end-user hands, you can check out my blog for the statistical sampling I have done and for examples of the developed sites. Most of these developed sites are US zip code sites operated by Marchex, then followed by Chinese sites (numbers represent letter-sounds in Chinese and are easier to remember for Chinese internet users than Western letters), and then followed by mobile phone related sites (phone numbers and words spelled on cell-phone keypads). So there are only about 54k that are in the hands of domainers, a much smaller number than the 300k LLLL.com's that are waiting for end-users.
There are 3 NNNNN.com's in the Alexa top 100 Chinese site listings, and lots of other numerics as well. And the Chinese market is growing very, very fast, so demand is expected to continue to rise for numerics as well, I think internet penetration is only around 16% in China right now, up from 10% a year ago.
5-digit numbers are also postal codes in many wealthy countries (Kuwait, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Sweden, etc.) as well as part numbers (10015.com is used by Adequate.org for the ISO 10015 quality assurance standard and 10061.com is used by Timberland because of the popular boot number). Just type any 5-digit number into google shopping and you will get tons of results. Numbers also get good type-in traffic as people search for them a lot, and many of my NNNNN.com's earn several dollars a day in parking revenue.
Any given 5-digit number will have a few hundred thousand (at least) google results, suggesting a myriad of possible development potential. And, yes, some people do simply use NNNNN.com's as a unique website identifier (48073.com is for a contemporary art site).