price of LLL.com

[xdn]

as shown in 3character.com, now the Minimum Wholesale Price (regardless of letter combo) of 3-Letter .com: $4750

what's your thought about this price? can I buy LLL.com for $3xxx in current market? it's long time i don't come here

thank you!

 

[DomainMagnate]

Here are some recent sales on auctions:

hjt.com $4,400
whz.com $4,050
aoq.com $3,499
XTQ.COM €3,050 ~$3,750

I guess the real min is below $4k

 

[mediawizard]

I'll agree with DM - real min. is below $4k.

Saw one close on sedo for $3700 a couple of days back.

Anyone wonder why?...

 

[DomainMagnate]

I'm guessing because almost all of the lower quality LLL.com's sales were/are done between domainers and after the prices declined during the recession domainers just stopped buying them, while other domainers had to sell some of theirs. Same thing with lower quality LLLL.com's and CVCV.com's. High quality CVCV.com's however are always in high demand, because end users want them, same as good LLL.com's

 

[PRED]

3charactercom is not a bible lol
it has never been accurate

yes, minimums are considerably below 4k, and the worst LLL.com are still wildly overpriced. been saying for years

look, even at traffic auction couple of domains that actually sld, 2 not bad LLL sold for 3k euro range. on that stage!

take each one on its own merits

far better to buy a cracking one for 10 or 12k with heaps of dev. potential and is memorable, with lots of acronym potential or is pronouncable and/or flip potential to endusers, rather than buy qxz.com for 3,800 or something.
seriously, what will be achieved by buying it?
almost zero chance of an enduser, and if you find one, if, what is the chance they will pay you more than the kings ransom (to them) of $3,800?

i see the worst ones going down to $1k level if economy keeps heading down

1k is 1k at end of day and there are bargains out there. quality 2 word coms, services, products etc
if you hunt and work hard

 

[DomainMagnate]

i see the worst ones going down to $1k level if economy keeps heading down

You're quite the optimist PRED, that's the spirit

 

[theinvestor]

I will buy every single one i can get for 1K - that is a little extreme.

 

[PRED]

lol
well i remember seeing them for low xxx on ebay in 2000 or whenever it was for pretty good ones and remember thinking, whats that all about then. and i owned domains then. although i wasn't a 'domainer' then
tbh LLL should be treated the same as other .coms imho but for some twisted reason theyre not

in the same way a great .com like car.com can be worth 7 figures, and carf.com is a great brandable only worth say mid xxxx, maybe slightly less

thats the way i see LLL
take away the actual words, like tin, buy etc that are worth fortunes
i consider something like rth to be worth a heck of an amount, xx,xxx range, possibly 100k to right enduser and worth hanging on

whereas i consider something like qzx worth xxx
that should be the true value if you really think about it
unless by freak chance theres a couple of companies with those letters. and tbh even then, 'IF' they can afford it, and they may not even be bothered about owning com if they own .cn or .co.uk etc

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I will buy every single one i can get for 1K - that is a little extreme.

of course people will now, as i would, because some fool is queing up to buy for the 'minimum'
a profit can be turned

but i see them just steadily losing value. the real bottom end i'm talking about, over the years

however i see the top end rising. the real gem LLL

 

[frankburns]

nice post

lol
well i remember seeing them for low xxx on ebay in 2000 or whenever it was for pretty good ones and remember thinking, whats that all about then. and i owned domains then. although i wasn't a 'domainer' then
tbh LLL should be treated the same as other .coms imho but for some twisted reason theyre not

in the same way a great .com like car.com can be worth 7 figures, and carf.com is a great brandable only worth say mid xxxx, maybe slightly less

thats the way i see LLL
take away the actual words, like tin, buy etc that are worth fortunes
i consider something like rth to be worth a heck of an amount, xx,xxx range, possibly 100k to right enduser and worth hanging on

whereas i consider something like qzx worth xxx
that should be the true value if you really think about it
unless by freak chance theres a couple of companies with those letters. and tbh even then, 'IF' they can afford it, and they may not even be bothered about owning com if they own .cn or .co.uk etc

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of course people will now, as i would, because some fool is queing up to buy for the 'minimum'
a profit can be turned

but i see them just steadily losing value. the real bottom end i'm talking about, over the years

however i see the top end rising. the real gem LLL

 

[grcorp]

There will always be value in short domain names.

There are only 17,576 possible LLL combinations. Add a letter and that's 456,976 LLLL combinations. One more and that's 11,881,376 for LLLLL domains.

That said, with 500,000 words in the English language (according to Oxford dictionary), along with every possible prefix and suffix add and intentional misspelling (i.e. Flickr), there are virtually endless two word combinations.

Sure, certain combinations (i.e. UsedCars, InsuranceQuote, FreeStuff, etc.) are worth more than the majority of LL or LLL .com's any day of the week... but the rarity factor still plays a role in how valuable shorter domains are.

With thousands of domains being registered every day, the number of active domain names will simply not go down, making the LL and LLL's even rarer.

As I said with an LLL .ca name recently... if the letters don't abbreviate something, it's an investment name. I'm not the only guy here who knows this, which is exactly why LL and LLL .com's get multiple offers, and a "wholesale value" has limited meaning.

 

[katherine]

I think it's the reseller market that took a hit. The end users are still there.

 

[Stian]

There will always be value in short domain names.

There are only 17,576 possible LLL combinations. Add a letter and that's 456,976 LLLL combinations. One more and that's 11,881,376 for LLLLL domains.

That said, with 500,000 words in the English language (according to Oxford dictionary), along with every possible prefix and suffix add and intentional misspelling (i.e. Flickr), there are virtually endless two word combinations.

Sure, certain combinations (i.e. UsedCars, InsuranceQuote, FreeStuff, etc.) are worth more than the majority of LL or LLL .com's any day of the week... but the rarity factor still plays a role in how valuable shorter domains are.

With thousands of domains being registered every day, the number of active domain names will simply not go down, making the LL and LLL's even rarer.

As I said with an LLL .ca name recently... if the letters don't abbreviate something, it's an investment name. I'm not the only guy here who knows this, which is exactly why LL and LLL .com's get multiple offers, and a "wholesale value" has limited meaning.

+1

 

[DomainMagnate]

There will always be value in short domain names.

There are only 17,576 possible LLL combinations. Add a letter and that's 456,976 LLLL combinations. One more and that's 11,881,376 for LLLLL domains.

That said, with 500,000 words in the English language (according to Oxford dictionary), along with every possible prefix and suffix add and intentional misspelling (i.e. Flickr), there are virtually endless two word combinations.

I agree with most of it, but the scarcity logic can be dangerous, for example take a look at L-L.com and N-N.com, those are in a pretty short supply, but the prices aren't nearly as high as you might expect. Surprisingly N-N.com's can be purchased for only $500 a piece despite the 3character.com price guide's min price of $1700. Of course hyphenated domains are not as desired as the ones without dashes, but I think we could draw some comparisons out of this.

 

[grcorp]

I agree with most of it, but the scarcity logic can be dangerous, for example take a look at L-L.com and N-N.com, those are in a pretty short supply, but the prices aren't nearly as high as you might expect. Surprisingly N-N.com's can be purchased for only $500 a piece despite the 3character.com price guide's min price of $1700. Of course hyphenated domains are not as desired as the ones without dashes, but I think we could draw some comparisons out of this.

Very good point. Had overlooked that.

I think most domainers will agree with me here... as soon as a variable besides letters comes into play (i.e. obscure ccTLD, presence of hyphens, presence of digits, IDNs, etc.), we're talking about a second class of domain names.

Ultimately, the real user of a good domain name is the consumer. It's a habit of internet users to assume that when given a domain name, it's .com, and that most of the complicating factors such as numbers or hyphens are not present.

Take the company Waste Management for example... they own wm.com for the simple reason that it's an abbreviation of their company name, and has virtually no possibility of error. If somebody sees the domain name on a business card, on an internet ad, on tv, etc., there's no doubting that they'll type in "wm.com" without thinking.

While w-m might be equally as rare, it's not consumer friendly, and its value would be determined accordingly. That's exacly why w-m isn't even owned by Waste Management. It's presently parked.

So, correcting my statement based on the point that you made... what makes LL and LLL.com's valuable isn't just their rarity, but their friendliness to the user.

 

[Deleted member 111831]

Tried to sell tqb here on DNF and the highest offer I get was 3.6k - so the minimum is that or lower imo