Why are some people going buck wild over 4 letter .coms?

[Kid Kool]

(or 4 letter .nets for that matter)

I mean I can understand if one gets traffic or can be pronounced and therefore branded..

but when it's all said and done..what can you really do with something like

uoiy.com etc?

What do you guys think?

 

[Chuck]

I think it's just the next best thing for those priced out of the market for LLL.com's and the farther the three letters are driven up will continue to help the value of the LLLL's, even the qjyx's

 

[acesfull]

The growth in value of 3-letter .coms are partly responsible for elevating the value of 4-letter .coms. In 2001, you could get 3-letter .coms in the $500 to $2,500 range. Now the range begins around $5K for less-popular letter combinations.

Also, all 4-letter .coms have been registered, although the less-popular letter combinations often go through cycles of dropping and re-registration.

The better 4-letter combinations often have a number of uses and match different things, and often take on new meanings as time goes on. The fact that all the 4-letter .com real estate is gone raises the price, as demand grows for short .coms in general.

Many 4-letter .coms get significant traffic and earn good PPC revenue, however, it's hard to predict which ones will do good, unless there are obvious uses (as indicated by a Google search).

I also think that, with growing Internet users around the world, more people and businesses will want affordable short .coms, and 3-letters may be out of reach for most - so that leaves 4-letter .coms as an option, unless they want to go for something a bit longer with digits or multiple words.

Although there are almost 457,000 LLLL.com combinations, that is still a relatively small number in the total domain world. The lesser-popular letter combinations are currently limited in value (those with J, K, Q, U, V, X, Y, Z), and those will gain value much slower than popular combinations. Also, some of those "less-popular" letters may be more popular in other countries.

 

[BostonDomainer]

(or 4 letter .nets for that matter)

I mean I can understand if one gets traffic or can be pronounced and therefore branded..

but when it's all said and done..what can you really do with something like

uoiy.com etc?

What do you guys think?

Well, I really think it has to do with the realization that value is not only in the name itself but how it would look visually projected and pushed to a mass audience. (it's a running theory of mine). 2-4 years ago I would have never registered a domain like VEOH.com but here it is some years late topping the charts of download sites. It's a combination of shortness, visual aesthetics, and inherit brand appeal within those combinations. i.e LQQK.com perfect example.

 

[BELLC1]

I was one of those guys who sold out of all my really horrible LLL.com's back in 2000 and was damn glad to get $1000 each for them. But as I remember, this current wave of LLLL.com buying is not the first time we've seen this. Perhaps the marketing with DNForum and other resources has stimulated investor demand, but I still believe we will soon see another huge drop of LLLL's just like the last couple times because most have little value.

 

[Kid Kool]

I think those are some good points. I just wonder if we're looking at bubble 2.0. I remember at one time in around 2000 every 3 character .com and even .net(!) was registered, but by 2002 they were considered junk. A company called something like "the giant games company" had registered a zillion of them, and then let them drop after the .com bust...suddenly 3 char .coms were plentiful and worthless....then a few years later 3 character .coms made somewhat of a comeback.

I think practicality of real world usage is something to always factor in. Right now all 4 letter .coms are registered, but what happens when some big domain holder drops 20,000 of them for the hell of it. It is much like real estate...people keep flipping and flipping with each other...leapfrogging but sooner or later someone has to ultimately live in that $500,000 one bedroom condo for it to be real....

I think the domain industry is being kept afloat by some who are so wealthy that they can afford to hold on to practically everything thus limiting supply, and also by the boatloads of curious newbies who hear about the much hyped big sales that occur...many of which are actually between domainers themselves.

Don't get me wrong, I think 4 letter .coms are okay, if it remotely means or stands for something, but in the end I think a vision for some sort of an actual site utility should come into play sooner or later. I mean what's the end game?

I used to own a few back in the day, but I don't recall ever doing too well with them.
Maybe I will start buying them again.

 

[BostonDomainer]

I was one of those guys who sold out of all my really horrible LLL.com's back in 2000 and was damn glad to get $1000 each for them. But as I remember, this current wave of LLLL.com buying is not the first time we've seen this. Perhaps the marketing with DNForum and other resources has stimulated investor demand, but I still believe we will soon see another huge drop of LLLL's just like the last couple times because most have little value.

Well perhaps it is not the first time it's happen but it's the first time it has happen in this magnitude. The same thing happened in the LLL.com realm. he difference now is that sharp domainers and investors have history and historical data to back up there investment. Crappy LLLL.com may not sell at premium but they will sell in the same fashion that crappy LLL.com names sell. This industry is ever growing and expanding, LLLL.coms will continue to increase in value and I hope investors do not neglect this potential the way a lot of us did with LLL.com. We have empirical data that supports the trend... why not run with it.

 

[GAMEFINEST]

I feel sorry for the buyers who went after the crappy ones...cuz of hype

 

[lotk.com]

I feel sorry for the buyers who went after the crappy ones...cuz of hype

I was one of them, but was lucky enough to only lose less than $1000. I was mad at myself at the time, but it's not a big deal now since I have easily made over that on several deals.

 

[hugegrowth]

what can you really do with something like uoiy.com etc?

What do you guys think?

It could be for an accountant or lawfirm named "Underhill, Osgood, Ivey and Young", for example. And Chinese names often start with Z, Q or X, so throw one of those in with some more commonly used letters and it has a shot. Not that I think these are great letter combinations, but there is possibility for use, and they sell for less because you might have to hold longer to find a buyer.