Yeah, draggar, I agree. You will do well with ANY NNN.com, don't get me wrong, even if it has a 4 (and 444.com, possibly the worst domain for any Chinese guy, is actually "cool" being a triple repeat figure, I used to own a 4444 domain in a ccTLD cuz it had four 4's, ie "cool", and got good requests for it) I think the "
all Chinese people avoid the 4 like the plague" thing is still true enough to some extent (I have buyers in the PacRim who specifically demand "no 4's" in any list I am to send them) but it's getting a little tiring, domainers mature as they go along, and just like the 13 is "bad luck" in the West, no one in his right mind will ovoid buying 1313.com or 013.com at the right price. Ditto for 04, 44, 4444 and all related for the Asians investors
I used to trade NNNNN.com's but those plummeted, especially if they had a couple of 4's in them lol....and the buyers were mostly Chinese. Those are zipcodes all over the world, including cities, regions and countries so they're far from being a US zip thing. I felt like holding on to them had I had the $ to renew. But people still do not seek them. I never paid all that much for any of them but there you have a category that suffered unfairly when the domain market turned south. The NNN.com's, NNNN.com's and LLL.com's (most of us can buy one or two of the last 2 types) are 3 that have gone on to appreciate considerably and never actually lost value or started to get sold cheap, like some LLLL.com's. 2-char domains are out of most domainers' league (LL.com, NN.com, even CC.com), and even LL and NN in net or org extensions go high into the $XX,XXX ranges. If you're lucky a CC.net can be priced OK ($2.5 K or even less I've seen), and a CC.org is even cheaper. But CC or CCC will never have the allure of a true NN, NNN, LL or LLL
Any Chinese/PacRim domainer reading this can tell us why superstition is carried to that extreme there (there's no 13th floor in 99% of Western buildings, so much for that) but the 4 to them is really something they need to get over IMO lol....when I saw 114.com sell for $2.1 M it was really something else, well beyond anyone's wildest expectations. $1M for 888.com or even 88.com still would've raised eyebrows. If the Chinese come up with a NNNN phone access code/number which $1.4 B+ people can access, and a DNF dude happens to own that NNNN.com, well ....... wow
....(I am surprised to read the stats draggar brought up that only one of the top 100 domains for the year has been a NNN.com, and $41,800 isn't that high a threshold for that class. In fact, an Asian trader emailed his contacts like 2 yrs ago (me included) where he was selling a Boeing plane model type NNN.com (737 or 767 or something like that) for like $45K and I heard after it went real fast, so.... it depends on somebody w/deep pockets being at the right place at that time of the offer...)