For Sale Are 3 letter .us worth all of this effort?

[actnow]

We all spent a lot of time and effort on the 3 letter .us last week.

Do you think it was worth the effort?

 

[stevo]

Only time will tell. I'm sure that some combos are worth substantially more than registration.

 

[NameTower]

I just sold four for $100, plus I made some other money helping others recruit names, so I guess so

 

[Steen]

No :-D

 

[Deleted member 4749]

See the small guys trying to justify their misfortune.

 

[dajimbo]

and the big guys trying to justify the money they spent.

See the small guys trying to justify their misfortune.

 

[Deleted member 4749]

and the big guys trying to justify the money they spent.

As of yet, I haven't spent any of my time and open any threads for that purpose.

 

[dajimbo]

I never said you did. But the topic itself is a no win situation. People owning three letter .us domains will say that the domains are worth the effort as they don`t want to see there investment lose money, and people without three letter .us domains will want to see them fail as they are jealous of the people who own them.

My opinion is that it was defenitely worth the effort and in 2 years time you can add a few more zeros onto the price paid for some of these three letter domains everyone bought last week.

Stu

As of yet, I haven't spent any of my time and open any threads for that purpose.

 

[Deleted member 4749]

I'm gonna leave it as it is, jealous unhappy unfortunate people don't deserve my attention.

 

[izopod]

If I might jump in the fray...

Investing in 3 letter combo's in the US domain might not be that bad of an investment. The most likely "end users" who tend to go for these are multi-national corporations and financial institutions.

I saw a 3 letter domain in the latest issue of Entrepreneur. In the lead story they were naming the top Venture Capitial firms. GrayHawk Venture Parnters made it in there... www.gvp.us

 

[Luc]

If I might jump in the fray...

Investing in 3 letter combo's in the US domain might not be that bad of an investment. The most likely "end users" who tend to go for these are multi-national corporations and financial institutions.

I saw a 3 letter domain in the latest issue of Entrepreneur. In the lead story they were naming the top Venture Capitial firms. GrayHawk Venture Parnters made it in there... www.gvp.us

i will start buying .US names when they start to receive the same amount
of typeins as .coms (in other words, never). "resale potential" has never
been my strong side.

is it worth it?
for resellers looking to score a few bucks on a quick trade, YES.
for investors looking to make steady income from it, NO.

just my 2 cents.
luc l.

 

[clemzonguy]

is it worth it?
for resellers looking to score a few bucks on a quick trade, YES.
for investors looking to make steady income from it, NO.

Exactly. While the price is $4.95 Yakov and others bought up all the good combos. People who followed the drops like Duke and those who ran scripts were able to catch some decent US combos for the registration fee. At any point one would be able to liquidate them for $10 making a profit of $5 per name or a return of double your initial investment. Investing money at the bank over the course of a year may only return 10% at the most so earning that much is a great investment tool. But you do have to put up the risk capital and take the time to find buyers and take the risk that you may not sell everything. Or that what you do sell may only be the cream of the crop and you will be left holding the bag for the rest. For those who expect to buy the names in the future at auction prices are going to be the ones taking the big risk. I don't think that people buying up Q, Z, W, X, G, K, or any other names really have an effect on the market as a whole other than as a selling point on this forum alone. I think within the US market each name's value depends on the businesses and acronyms which might be interested. I think .biz/.net will be better investments in these regards. I do not see .info holding high value long term unless there again is some significance in the word. if you look at most of the major domain sales where we wondered how a domain sold so high it usually was a niche buyer and lots of luck. With three letter names some effort will have to be made on the part of the domain holder to find buyers and unlike keyword names you won't necessarily have a starting point other than businesses which are listed in google many of which already have a website. They are not a source of any income stream at the present moment just a quick way to turn some cash and speculate without risk at the present moment (at least for those buyers who bought decent names like Yakov, Duke, etc). To the rest of you.....hope you get that $4.95 back by the time renewals hit next year and you get further into the hole waiting for those "buyers" to come find you

:huh:

 

[clemzonguy]

I'm gonna leave it as it is, jealous unhappy unfortunate people don't deserve my attention.

At least you are patriotric :cheesy:

 

[izopod]

i will start buying .US names when they start to receive the same amount
of typeins as .coms (in other words, never). "resale potential" has never
been my strong side.

is it worth it?
for resellers looking to score a few bucks on a quick trade, YES.
for investors looking to make steady income from it, NO.

just my 2 cents.
luc l.

Just an FYI. I agree "type-in" names are a better investment. Doesn't matter if it's .com, .biz or even .us. The question posed here are "3 letter Dot US" names worth the trouble? From my research, Multinational Corporations and/or Financial Institution could care a less about "type-in" value. I mean Grayhawk Ventures certainly didn't care. Neither will another company down the road who would like a 3 letter domain whereby they don't have to pay $40K for it.

Does this mean you should try to get every possible combination of a 3 letter dot US domain? My advice is no. For the average investor I would recommend you buy a few "just for the heck of it". For the serious investor, like Blink, Duke and Elequa, they have the ability to buy in bulk, and therefore maximize their investment returns.

Timing gentlemen is everything. You missed the boat when Blink made his post a while back. Throwing your money now at these domains (in large amounts) is not advised. Investment rule #1: Never chase a trend.

My suggestion if you really want to get the best bang for your buck would be to contact "Non Pro" domainers via whois to inquire about their 3-letter US domains. As always, be polite and professional, and offer them a high XX, to very low XXX price for their trouble. LESSON LEARNED: Don't wait two years down the road when you could have had them now for XX, or even XXX .

 

[clemzonguy]

Timing gentlemen is everything. You missed the boat when Blink made his post a while back. Throwing your money now at these domains (in large amounts) is not advised.

Most people missed the boat when Blink bought his names to begin with. THe "Elequa Effect" as should now be called affected the international market both in the 3 letter & 3 number arena. His absense here is quite prominent.

My suggestion if you really want to get the best bang for your buck would be to contact "Non Pro" domainers via whois to inquire about their 3-letter US domains. As always, be polite and professional, and offer them a high XX, to very low XXX price for their trouble. LESSON LEARNED: Don't wait two years down the road when you could have had them now for XX, or even XXX .

All-In-All "non pro" domainers would probably give you an unrealistic price quotes like 100K which is what I got on one site where I inquired about the .US version. A couple months later the guy asks about the .com which I had bought from another buyer much cheaper. I said surely if you valued your site at 100K you can make me an offer in that ballpark for the .com I have inquired about many other sites since then and the persons overvalue the names and just by your interest they assume the site must be worth even more. From most people I would usually get a cheaper counter offer later but with these people it doesn't phase them.

 

[actnow]

See the small guys trying to justify their misfortune.

We try to learn from the "pro's" like you!

 

[freestyler]

It depends, bought around 734 names which comes up to around $3635. So even if everything goes wrong i would lose $3635 which honestly is not that big of a amount.

I dont make a living buying and selling domains :laugh: where as if prices go up then .. arty:

 

[Steen]

See the small guys trying to justify their misfortune.

As you informed me, it would be "illegal" for me to register any, so I did not register any.


Do I think three letter .us is a good investment?
In many cases, sure.

 

[GT Web]

ya, if I could legally register them, I would have gone after a few....

I have a few decent 3-letter .info's stashed away and hope they will help put me through university one day...

hms.info sold for $10,000 - was that a trend, or mirage?

 

[QuantumBeam]

Persistence always pays off no matter what............. :approve: