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Originally Posted by biggedon  some may see prices on the rise, but probably missed the fact that they were overpriced in the first place.
before the mortgage, bank and stock failures, LLL.com values were doubling in some cases and many names that were previously sellling for $1K > $2K suddendly jumped up to $4k and $6K.
these prices then fell back down to the $2500 > $3500 range and to this day still haven't climbed back their previous peaks.
i agree partially with Mike031 about LLL trading among newbie domainers, because i've seen many of these circulate from domainer to domainer over the years.
the LLL.com has become a "status" symbol of achievement for many "entry-level" domainers.
but after you've owned and sold a few...then the thrill passes.
you move on to bigger and better usage names that have a wider range of appeal to the end-user market.
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IMHO I believe LLL.coms have a wider range of appeal to the end-user market than any other niche, unless it's a very specific product-related generic.
You see lots of English 1-word .coms being sold on the reseller market priced way higher than LLL.coms, but I doubt many of them end up with actual end-users.
There are too many 1-word .COMs out there which might have millions of Google results, but still no real meaning and when domainers tend to see them they are often sold at ridiculously high prices.
I bet there are a lot of companies who'd like to own IBT.com (example) and not so many who'd find any purpose owning Looking.com (example) or Therefore.com (example) etc. Many generics needs to be branded by the company to make sense, while acronyms are used in every company's name.
I am of course not comparing acronym LLL.coms to "category killers" like Cars, Loans, Fish, Electronics etc., but such generics mostly does not circulate the reseller market anymore and if they do, they are unachievable by most.