LLLLL.com - why they will appreciate

[hugegrowth]

Here is why I think made up, pronouncable five letter .com's will appreciate.

Total 5L .com's possible: 11,881,376

Total domains registered all extensions: about 140,000,000
of this number the total 5L .com's would be about 8.5%

Total .com domains registered: about 70,000,000
of this number the total 5L .com's would be about 17%

Now, if you don't count all the nonsense 5L .com's that aren't pronouncable, real five letter words that are long gone, and if you don't want certain letters, the pool of 'good' 5L .com's drops, I'd guess to about a third of the total available, which changes the percentages to 2.8% and 5.7%.

As domains continue to get regged, these percentages will go down further.

These kind of names can meet the demands of being short, easy to remember, all letters, and pronouncable - and may be even better than some 4L .com's

This post isn't meant to make you go out and spend every last dime on 5L .com's but just to think about them in a different way.

 

[jasdon11]

456,976 is the number of LLLL combinations.

 

[simon]

lol

 

[Theo]

26^5 = 2,741,856

To look up each domain "brute force" style, at 1,000 lookups per minute (technically feasible on a linux box), it'd take 2,741 minutes - or 45 hours (almost 2 days). One would be banned before this.

If we went down to 1 lookup per second to avoid getting banned, it'd take 31 days

 

[hugegrowth]

better fix my calculator - lol - makes a good case for LLLL though.

Just makin sure yer all on your toes... :whistle:

First post heavily edited and still think nice, pronouncable 5L .com's are a good buy and hold.

 

[Devil Dog]

The value will go up because domainers say it will go up.

 

[jr360]

The value will go up because domainers say it will go up.

I agree, and it would also help if the media focus some energy on the public corporations quietly buying up portfolios from other investors.

The more noise, the more demand.... the more $$$$

JR

 

[Theo]

I have glute.com - that's an @ss of a LLLLL .com

 

[domain newbie]

i recon good lllll.com is better than crappy llll.com

mcccm.com is better than zjkq.com i recon.. so around 40$ for good lllll.com as the crappy llll.com sells @ this price on ebay

 

[sashas]

the same problem with extra low quality LLLL.coms - no end users.

Yes, yyyq.com can find an end user. So can Yhas.com

But I really don't think the poorest of the lot - zxqv.com - can find somebody willing to pay x,xxx for them.

 

[thevirtual]

reg fee

 

[hugegrowth]

Look at a name like: Saplo.com

Five nice letters, easily pronouncable, looks good, short, easy to remember, still available to reg. These are the kinds of names that should be good for buy and hold. It can be used to brand almost anything, and might even get a little type in. (I'll check back tomorrow and it'll probably be regged).

 

[Theo]

The difference is, once we go past the 3 or 4 letter realm we are not talking about domain length but rather, brandability. The possibilities are greater because the permutations are more, however this is not a de facto reason for appreciation of the 5 letter namespace overnight, just because all the 4 letter ones are gone.

 

[hugegrowth]

Makes me wonder if in five years will there be anything decent left to reg in .com, at the rate things are going.

 

[Theo]

Makes me wonder if in five years will there be anything decent left to reg in .com, at the rate things are going.

It's already been mentioned by Frank Schilling and others that we are at the edge of time; the opportunity exists now and it won't be around much longer.

 

[DomainMagnate]

26^5 = 2,741,856

26^5 = 11 881 376

Theo, invest in a new calculator :lol:


I recently checked all the premium cvcvc.com's and I think they will be the first to go. But there are still plenty of them, so it's gonna take lots of time till any LLLLL.com's have reseller value.

 

[Theo]

I stand corrected I can't invest in a new calculator, this is the one in Windows Vista

The 5 letter namespace is beyond the usual "CV***" approach. With 5 letters, one can have actual words. These are already gone, so inventing sound patterns does not quite cut it.

 

[sunroof]

This discussion brings up something I've been thinking about for a while: what is relative value of a .net to a .com? For example, if abcd.com sells for $100, what should abcd.net sell for? I've been using a ball park of about 10%, which means abcd.net would be worth about $10.

This will become more important as end users start to look for something more affordable, and turn to the next most popular extension. I'd be interested to hear what percentage others are using to value a .net compared to the same .com.

 

[Gerry]

Makes me wonder if in five years will there be anything decent left to reg in .com, at the rate things are going.

The number of new regs in .com on a daily basis still exceed the number of .com's being dropped on a daily basis by a good bit.

The .com arena is to the point of being over saturated with domain names. And everyone is hoarding them. The number registered far exceeds the number of actual sites. And that is a bunch!

I agree with Acroplex 100% that brandability is crucial. Regging LLLLL for the sake of regging is ridiculous. And costly.

Brandable words or two words combined are very good choices for potential growth. The only issue here is everyone's individual perception as to what a brandable word is.

That is why I am on the look out for short two word domains that are brandable like AndBy.com. Seems like every tv show or sports event broadcast has multiple sponsorship and when the run down the list of sponsors it always includes...

and by...

 

[Theo]

I sat down and wrote about it in my blog.