The May 2008 LLLL.com Price Guide

Data derived from TDVR. LLLL.com segment data derived from LLLY.net. Numbers in parentheses reflect Apr 18, 2008 statistics. Current prices reflect the results of the 650 most recent reported LLLL.com sales within the May 01 2008 through May 18, 2008 timeframe.

As can be seen, prices have stabilized and are no longer fluctuating significantly in either direction, which is a good indicator of a healthy market long term. Lately, there have been far more lower quality LLLL.com sales than there have been higher quality LLLL.com sales, so I’ve been forced to remove the upper percentiles to avoid giving major confusion to what higher quality premium and pronounceable LLLL.coms go for.
The quad premium market continues to perform abysmally, while the pronounceable and rare markets seem to have stabilized, much like the low end. Min wholesale on quad premiums is approximately $330, identical to what was reported in the previous 4 Letter Noob update, however prices nearing the minimum appear to be occuring considerably more frequently.

Approximate Reseller Price By LLLL.com Segment:

**Please use these prices only as a reference. They are meant to reflect minimum, not maximum prices one should expect to pay in the process of acquiring a particular type of LLLL.com. Consider the below prices nothing more than a “Buyer’s Guide” to LLLL.com domaining. Prices reported below are intended to illustrate what a typical LLLL.com of a particular type would go for on a typical day at your typical venue… They are not meant to represent what double letter, triple letter, CVCV, VCVC, CVVC, VCCV, other pronounceables, meaningful acronym, or real word LLLL.coms may go for. Triples saw lower minimum wholesales for the most part since the last update, however they also saw many higher priced sales as well — please don’t let what follows confuse anyone into believing prices on triples are crashing, which is not the case.

Anti-premium: $33 (reported at $35 in the previous 4 Letter Noob price guide)

Single Premium: $33 (reported at $35 in the previous 4 Letter Noob price guide)

Double Premium: $35 (reported at $40 in the previous 4 Letter Noob price guide)

Triple Premiums

$40 with Q (reported at $45 in the previous 4 Letter Noob price guide)
$45 with X (reported at $50 in the previous 4 Letter Noob price guide)
$50 with Z (reported at $55 in the previous 4 Letter Noob price guide)
$60 with Y (reported at $65 in the previous 4 Letter Noob price guide)
$70 with J
$80 with V (reported at $85 in the previous 4 Letter Noob price guide)
$80 with K (reported at $90 in the previous 4 Letter Noob price guide)
$120 with U
$130 with W (reported at $140 in the previous 4 Letter Noob price guide)

Quad Premiums: $330-$1000+ depending on the letters. Quad premiums containing an F or an H tend to report the lowest selling prices. Strong letters include A, S, E.

Examples of what would usually fetch < $400 :
Likely contains: F, G, H
Likely does not contain any: A, S
Likely does not contain any repeat letters or double letters.

AAAB, BAAA, AABB, and pronounceable quad premiums are noticeably absent from the under $500 group, pretty much without exceptions. Strong double repeating starting letters (such as A or S) generally lead to sales above $600. Factors influencing LLLL.com valuations include the letter quality, brandability, pronounceability, age, frequency, and traffic. The 2 strongest premium letters are A and S. Other higher quality premium letters include E, M, D, I, T, O. The three weakest selling quad premium letters are F, G, and H. Letter position is also important. Certain letters perform better in certain positions than others (although the above rule holds on average across all letter patterns). C,I,L make stronger ending letters than they typically are elsewhere in an LLLL.com. A and O are strong in either the starting or ending position and S is stronger in the starting position. This is by no means an exhaustive list, merely examples of letters which perform better in particular positions.

Quad Premiums containing 3 of the same letters (eg: FFFO.com, UOOO.com) tend to sell at a significant premium, regardless of the quality the letters are. It’s fairly safe to say all quad premium triple letter LLLL.coms will fetch $1XXX at auction As a whole, (including non-premiums), triple repeats are ~ $500-$3000+ depending on whether the triple letter LLLL.com contains bad letters, receives traffic, is aged, has numerous potential endusers, desirability as a collectible,… The names are commonly referred to as AAAB and BAAA, reflecting that they contain 2 different letters, where A and B represent 2 different premium letters from the set of 17 premium letters (A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,L,M,N,O,P,R,S,T). When the triple letter pattern is broken up (eg. ABAA, AABA), we tend to see prices in the $300-$1200 range (depending on if premium or not, as well as factors mentioned above). Triple repeat letters containing at least 1 bad letter tend to sell for $500-$1500. AABB type LLLL.coms tend to sell for between $500-$2000+, with $500 being the floor for combinations containing 2 bad letters (eg. XXQQ.com) and $1000+ being what all premium conbinations (eg. TTII.com) would typically fetch. Palindromes (ABBA type LLLL.coms) tend to sell for approximately $300+, with premium combinations extremely difficult to obtain under $800 and frequently sell for $1XXX. Upon doing some research, I’ve been able to conclude that on average AABB > AAAB/BAAA > ABBA for quad premium specimens. For other LLLL.coms, the pattern is typically AAAB/BAAA > AABB > ABBA. Important to note that in general AABB > ABBA.

10th percentile:

End of guide.
Release date: May 18, 2008.
Next release on: TBA