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LLLL Sales.com

Feb. 28th 2009

A brand new site has launched called LLLL Sales. LLLL Sales is an LLLL.com sales database. These LLLL.com sales are all organized by date and you can view the LLLL.coms using various different options — LLLL.coms can be organized by letter quality and by letter pattern (eg. CVCV, VCVC). You can even look at LLLL.com sales based on which letter(s) is in a certain letter position(s). With TDVR no longer being updated, it’s great to see Russell from LLLLSales.com step up and offer LLLL domainers a new solution for LLLL sales data. At present, LLLL Sales only covers LLLL.com sales, however I’d love to see it branch out into LLLL.net and even LLLL.org in the future.

Russell let me know a few days ago that he had created a new website for LLLL.com domainers and I just wanted to make a post about it here to let everyone know about it, as I really see it as one of the most valuable LLLL.com resources out there for LLLL.com domainers. Russell has compiled over 20,000 LLLL.com sales since 2005 which are viewable in a variety of ways — one can browse LLLL Sales.com looking at sales by letter quality, letter pattern, price, sales date, and venue. You can even search using a combination of these variables. No doubt this will be a very valuable resource for not only LLLL.com domainers, but anyone who wants more information about what’s going on in the LLLL.com space. Many of us were deeply saddened to see that TDVR is no longer being updated — it’s nice to see we now have a new site to get all the information TDVR provided with sales updated daily.

See: LLLL Sales

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Bad LLL.coms Falling More?

Feb. 28th 2009

Short domains are valued differently than longer domains, keyword domains, traffic domains, and the like. When it comes to short domains, more than anything else, value is placed on how short the domain is. And so LL.coms sell for more than LLL.coms which in turn sell for more than LLLL.coms. But why is this? Certainly a very good LLL.com should be worth more than an LL.com, and the same for LLLL.coms versus LLL.coms? When it comes to end users, that is certainly the case, however other than with end users, short domains tend to almost always sell for more strictly based on how few letters the short domain has.

Will this trend of valuing short domains almost exclusively based on the number of letters they contain continue? Will bad LLL.coms having lost approximately 50% of their value since July and bad LLLL.coms having lost about 90% of their value since last February, it appears that short domains may be starting to be valued based more on their merit rather than merely based on the number of letters they contain. Short domains have always been valued in part because of their collectibile nature (as domain tokens for domainers) and the promise that a short domain could be used for any use (eg. not having the limitations keyword domains have). Are all short domains worth valuing in such a fashion however? What about a domain such as QZX.com — what could that possibly stand or? Many domain name investors are now suggesting that domains such as QZX.com will find end users in China and while that may very well be the cause someday as Internet penetration continues to increase globally, there aren’t a whole lot of Chinese end users interested in short domains at present. Read on for my thoughts on the short domain market and while I think that changes may be coming to the short domain market, short domains have and will continue to play and important role in the domain name industry.

I’ve never understood the logic behind the very low quality LLL.coms, many of which realistically have little more chance of finding an enduser than a single premium LLLL.com and come along with a price 500 times higher — makes no sense to buy a bottom of the barrel LLL.com even if you believe in that market when so much higher quality examples are available for so little more. In the LLLL.com market, the difference between the likelihood of a $10 LLLL.com finding an enduser versus a $500 LLLL.com finding an enduser is huge — of course, one costs 50 times more than the other, so that is to be expected. In the LLL.com space, we have triple premium LLL.coms fetching under 3 times what the worst examples are fetching — just doesn’t make sense in my opinion. Either one is underpriced or one is still overpriced. Seeing as we’re in a recession, I’m siding with the latter rather than the former. Why would anyone buy a terrible LLL.com (unless of course they have a particular enduser(s) in mind)? What other purpose do many of them honestly have other than serving as a domainer collectible and with prices falling the way they are and considering the current economic environment, how many domainers can afford to have such a collectible?

DN Journal rarely reported low quality LLL.coms selling above $10,000 even in the good times when these names were fetching $5000-$8000 in a reseller environment — If I’m dropping $5,000+ on a domain with the intention of reselling it to an enduser, I’d sure be expecting much more than that considering how low the probability of most names (taken on an individual name basis) realizing an enduser sale anytime soon is.

The higher the price you pay, obviously, the higher the price the enduser will need to pay. With weaker LLL.coms already having few endusers and requiring 5-figure sales for even modest returns on investment, something had to give.

Many of the bad LLLL.coms have very little chance of finding an enduser, but at the same time, they cost very little (assuming you don’t make your whole domain portfolio bad LLLL.coms which would then be accompanied by significant renewal costs). Having 100 weaker LLLL.coms sets you back maybe $1000 + $800 or so a year in renewal fees. Having spoken to enough successful LLLL.com domainers and helped many close sales, I know it’s more than possible to cover the renewal costs provided one is willing to proactively reach out to endusers — whether it’s profitable after the opportunity cost is another matter I’m not going to discuss here and would of course require assigning a value to one’s time.

Most small businesses (and even many bigger companies) don’t understand why a domain is worth $XXXX+ when they can just register a different one for $10. It’s ALOT easier to sell an LLLL.com for a few hundred than it is to see 5 figs on a bad LLL.com.

I’ve always been a fan of LLLL.coms ending in I for the reason you’ve mentioned — it just seems like a good alternative for many companies when it’s accompanied by a price 30 to 50 times lower than the LLL.com alternative. I’ve even sold a few LLLL.coms for low hundreds to ordinary folk who just wanted a particular domain for a particular reason — many LLLL.coms have some very niche acronyms desirable by the small segment of the population for whom the acronym has meaning — they’re probably not the kind of buyers that will get you mentioned on DN Journal but the sales do add up and a few hundred here, a few hundred there does go along way towards first breaking even and then turning a profit.

Like LLLL.coms, I think it’s important that LLL.com investors carefully consider what they’re investing in. I don’t buy for one second the argument that domaining is dead or that here isn’t money to be made today — it’s obviously a whole lot more difficult, but it’s more than possible.

JXW.com sold for about $5601 on 2/26 — seems to be a good example of how one could make some good profit if they could acquire a few LLL.coms (or LLLL.coms for that matter) for near minimum wholesale (because, to an English speaking person, they appear to be near minimum wholesale) which really ought not be sold for anywhere near minimum wholesale. I had a fair bit of luck doing that with quad premiums and a couple CVCVs this year — amazing that some domainers wouldn’t even Google search their domains to find out that it’s worth a whole lot more than an ordinary quad premium / CVCV / etc. The great thing about the LLL.com and LLLL.com market is that there are so many names out there, there’s plenty of bargains waiting to be had by people willing to put in the work to identify them.

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LLLL.com Letter Performance

Feb. 19th 2009

Regardless of what people may say, the letters in a domain name do matter, especially in a short domain name. We have a concept in the short domain world, which we refer to as letter quality, where certain letters are premium, others semi-premium, and others still, anti-premium. All short domains can be classified as being one of these three. As a general rule, short domains with premium letters sell for more than short domains with semi-premium or anti-premium letters. If we take this short domain analysis one step further, we can see that not only can we analyze a short domain by the number of premium letters it has but also by what letters the short domain has. In the short domain world, not only are their premium and non-premium letters, but there are also letters which are more and less premium in a short domain. For example, the letters “A” and “S” are typically considered to be super-premium letters in a short domain. In the case of LLLL.coms, the first LLLL.coms to cease bing available were LLLL.coms which had a starting letter “A” in the first letter position.

Like anything in the short domain world and in the domain world as a whole, exceptions abound. In this article, we’ll discuss some of those exceptions and that while we can give average prices for short domains having certain letter patterns, we cannot ascertain the value of any particular short domain without carefully analyzing not only which letters it has but also in which order the letters are in and the significance (meaning) that may possibly be attached to the short domain’s letters when so arranged. Traditional domain name metrics such as domain traffic and domain revenue are also important to consider when determining whether a short domain is worth buying.

Haven’t quite gotten through all the letters yet but wanted to post what I’ve looked at so far. Will edit this post once complete with full details. Current data looks at January 2009 sales from A through U by first, second, third, and fourth letter position, at overall letter performance, and considers averages, medians, and geometric means. Sample sizes have been fairly consistent throughout at about 100-200 per letter. I haven’t really had much of a chance to look at the data yet and do intend to spend more time analyzing it another day, however some things do jump out, such as the good performance of the letter U against weaker premiums such as F,G, and H. Another interesting observation is the prices obtained for LLLL.coms containing a G versus those containing an H or F – most domainers consider these to be the 3 weakest premium letters, however this analysis would suggest G is the worst by a relatively large margin. There’s not a lot of information on most of the individual letter positions unfortunately and due to the large price fluctuations that have happened seemingly every month since buyout, it’s difficult to analyze the market over a much longer period of time (which would be necessary to get adequate sample sizes for letter positions). Geometric mean data for sales across all 4 letter positions per letter (the last piece of pricing information provided for each letter) is, in my opinion, the most important information this report offers.

How accurate is this data in a real world setting? Letter quality is correlated to a relatively large extent with prices. It certainly isn’t the only important thing to consider, however if we look at the 10 lowest reported premium LLLL.com sales in January 2009, it’s unsurprising the we find 7 out of 10 contain at least an F, G, or H. With 17 premium letters, we’d expect to find on average only 2-3 LLLL.coms containing an F,G, or H in the lowest 10 reported LLLL.com sales if all premium letters were of equal value. This is, of course, not what we find here.

dhsf.com $130.00
tbhf.com $139.00
bfen.com $140.00
mfgh.com $140.00
fmoo.com $151.00
TLOH.com $152.50
EINP.com $154.00
esgt.com $155.00
BCBH.com $155.37
GTNB.com $159.50

Letter A:

First Position Sales: $14957.01
Average: $679.86
Geometric mean: $203.55
Median: $159.25
Sample size: 22

Second Position Sales: $23,519.51
Average: $940.78
Geometric mean: $127.50
Median: $100.00
Sample size: 25

Third Position Sales: $5,540.72
Average: $221.63
Geometric mean: $81.67
Median: $54.00
Sample size: 25

Fourth Position Sales: $16,493.95
Average: $687.25
Geometric mean: $178.71
Median: $146.00
Sample size: 24

Overall geometric mean for the Letter A, considering each occurence

in positions 1 through 4 as a separate event:
Geometric mean: $137.52
Sample size: 96

Letter B:

First Position Sales: $15,733.57
Average: $425.23
Geometric mean: $68.95
Median: $54.00
Sample size: 37

Second Position Sales: $4,098.15
Average: $151.78
Geometric mean: $40.31
Median: $31.00
Sample size: 27

Third Position Sales: $22,538.69
Average: $804.95
Geometric mean: $84.46
Median: $42.00
Sample size: 28

Fourth Position Sales: $1,014.46
Average: $44.11
Geometric mean: $22.91
Median: $16.00
Sample size: 23

Overall geometric mean for the Letter B, considering each occurence

in positions 1 through 4 as a separate event:
Geometric mean: $51.23
Sample size: 115

Letter C:

First Position Sales: $11,064.29
Average: $481.06
Geometric mean: $99.82
Median: $69.00
Sample size: 23

Second Position Sales: $2,516.48
Average: $83.88
Geometric mean: $36.98
Median: $29.61
Sample size: 30

Third Position Sales: $6,065.64
Average: $195.67
Geometric mean: $47.42
Median: $29.95
Sample size: 31

Fourth Position Sales: $18,320.46
Average: $872.40
Geometric mean: $117.85
Median: $59.00
Sample size: 21

Overall geometric mean for the Letter C, considering each occurence

in positions 1 through 4 as a separate event:
Geometric mean: $62.37
Sample size: 105

Letter D:

First Position Sales: $6,974.10
Average: $290.59
Geometric mean: $75.18
Median: $45.00
Sample size: 24

Second Position Sales: $4,480.11
Average: $112.00
Geometric mean: $36.17
Median: $29.53
Sample size: 40

Third Position Sales: $7,316.90
Average: $332.59
Geometric mean: $67.63
Median: $36.50
Sample size: 22

Fourth Position Sales: $2,320.51
Average: $92.82
Geometric mean: $39.44
Median: $34.00
Sample size: 25

Overall geometric mean for the Letter D, considering each occurence

in positions 1 through 4 as a separate event:
Geometric mean: $48.91
Sample size: 111

Letter E:

First Position Sales: $18,330.60
Average: $539.14
Geometric mean: $100.75
Median: $88.50
Sample size: 34

Second Position Sales: $23,111.46
Average: $624.63
Geometric mean: $125.58
Median: $70.00
Sample size: 37

Third Position Sales: $8,429.56
Average: $351.23
Geometric mean: $84.62
Median: $51.00
Sample size: 24

Fourth Position Sales: $39,415.24
Average: $1065.28
Geometric mean: $132.48
Median: $41.00
Sample size: 37

Overall geometric mean for the Letter E, considering each occurence

in positions 1 through 4 as a separate event:
Geometric mean: $112.10
Sample size: 132

Letter F:

First Position Sales: $7,736.36
Average: $309.45
Geometric mean: $81.23
Median: $69.00
Sample size: 25

Second Position Sales: $1,169.35
Average: $43.31
Geometric mean: $28.87
Median: $25.00
Sample size: 27

Third Position Sales: $16,866.16
Average: $432.47
Geometric mean: $49.87
Median: $29.00
Sample size: 39

Fourth Position Sales: $4,531.58
Average: $96.42
Geometric mean: $33.61
Median: $22.00
Sample size: 47

Overall geometric mean for the Letter F, considering each occurence

in positions 1 through 4 as a separate event:
Geometric mean: $42.79
Sample size: 138

Letter G:

First Position Sales: $14,779.73
Average: $547.40
Geometric mean: $45.93
Median: $25.25
Sample size: 27

Second Position Sales: $1,842.32
Average: $49.79
Geometric mean: $24.06
Median: $17.00
Sample size: 37

Third Position Sales: $5,566.80
Average: $139.17
Geometric mean: $28.42
Median: $18.65
Sample size: 40

Fourth Position Sales: $5,049.91
Average: $144.28
Geometric mean: $31.48
Median: $20.00
Sample size: 35

Overall geometric mean for the Letter G, considering each occurence

in positions 1 through 4 as a separate event:
Geometric mean: $30.62
Sample size: 139

Letter H:

First Position Sales: $13,893.69
Average: $385.94
Geometric mean: $61.92
Median: $30.00
Sample size: 36

Second Position Sales: $1,379.20
Average: $47.56
Geometric mean: $28.82
Median: $28.55
Sample size: 29

Third Position Sales: $4,308.43
Average: $179.52
Geometric mean: $45.90
Median: $29.76
Sample size: 24

Fourth Position Sales: $3,738.06
Average: $79.53
Geometric mean: $38.52
Median: $30.00
Sample size: 47

Overall geometric mean for the Letter H, considering each occurence

in positions 1 through 4 as a separate event:
Geometric mean: $42.35
Sample size: 136

Letter I:

First Position Sales: $13,565.45
Average: $467.77
Geometric mean: $85.79
Median: $43.98
Sample size: 29

Second Position Sales: $16,224.29
Average: $450.67
Geometric mean: $78.31
Median: $40.00
Sample size: 36

Third Position Sales: $22,868.03
Average: $618.05
Geometric mean: $125.36
Median: $79.00
Sample size: 37

Fourth Position Sales: $15,517.36**
Average: $310.35
Geometric mean: $57.98
Median: $41.00
Sample size: 50

Overall geometric mean for the Letter I, considering each occurence

in positions 1 through 4 as a separate event:
Geometric mean: $80.94
Sample size: 152

Letter J:

First Position Sales: $2,602.06
Average: $72.28
Geometric mean: $33.09
Median: $26.75
Sample size: 36

Second Position Sales: $5,375.01
Average: $122.16
Geometric mean: $29.32
Median: $20.00
Sample size: 44

Third Position Sales: $1,933.96
Average: $37.92
Geometric mean: $23.91
Median: $21.81
Sample size: 51

Fourth Position Sales: $1,400.45
Average: $38.90
Geometric mean: $24.30
Median: $21.94
Sample size: 36

Overall geometric mean for the Letter J, considering each occurence

in positions 1 through 4 as a separate event:
Geometric mean: $27.16
Sample size: 167

Letter K:

First Position Sales: $7,778.41
Average: $288.09
Geometric mean: $30.17
Median: $16.66
Sample size: 27

Second Position Sales: $1,139.54
Average: $35.61
Geometric mean: $22.23
Median: $20.25
Sample size: 32

Third Position Sales: $8,210.48
Average: $273.68
Geometric mean: $26.70
Median: $17.65
Sample size: 30

Fourth Position Sales: $1,686.55
Average: $54.40
Geometric mean: $21.35
Median: $18.00
Sample size: 31

Overall geometric mean for the Letter K, considering each occurence

in positions 1 through 4 as a separate event:
Geometric mean: $24.67
Sample size: 120

Letter L:

First Position Sales: $15,336.38
Average: $547.73
Geometric mean: $65.52
Median: $36.00
Sample size: 28

Second Position Sales: $5,783.42
Average: $148.29
Geometric mean: $50.89
Median: $41.00
Sample size: 39

Third Position Sales: $6,680.10
Average: $215.49
Geometric mean: $63.31
Median: $59.00
Sample size: 31

Fourth Position Sales: $9,293.07
Average: $331.90
Geometric mean: $57.53
Median: $41.45
Sample size: 28

Overall geometric mean for the Letter L, considering each occurence

in positions 1 through 4 as a separate event:
Geometric mean: $58.37
Sample size: 126

Letter M:

First Position Sales: $15,326.69
Average: $567.66
Geometric mean: $112.41
Median: $76.00
Sample size: 27

Second Position Sales: $16,127.41
Average: $460.78
Geometric mean: $94.94
Median: $90.00
Sample size: 35

Third Position Sales: $6,630.65
Average: $228.64
Geometric mean: $66.58
Median: $50.00
Sample size: 29

Fourth Position Sales: $2,430.40
Average: $93.48
Geometric mean: $34.40
Median: $25.50
Sample size: 26

Overall geometric mean for the Letter M, considering each occurence

in positions 1 through 4 as a separate event:
Geometric mean: $72.14
Sample size: 117

Letter N:

First Position Sales: $6,415.55
Average: $188.69
Geometric mean: $39.00
Median: $25.15
Sample size: 34

Second Position Sales: $13,512.89
Average: $435.90
Geometric mean: $78.29
Median: $54.00
Sample size: 31

Third Position Sales: $9,025.56
Average: $282.05
Geometric mean: $78.95
Median: $111.50
Sample size: 32

Fourth Position Sales: $7,076.26
Average: $307.66
Geometric mean: $63.78
Median: $41.00
Sample size: 23

Overall geometric mean for the Letter N, considering each occurence

in positions 1 through 4 as a separate event:
Geometric mean: $61.92
Sample size: 120

Letter O:

First Position Sales: $4,338.47
Average: $105.82
Geometric mean: $41.67
Median: $30.00
Sample size: 41

Second Position Sales: $45,945.54**
Average: $1392.29
Geometric mean: $200.95
Median: $180.00
Sample size: 33

Third Position Sales: $10,633.52
Average: $425.34
Geometric mean: $94.09
Median: $97.00
Sample size: 25

Fourth Position Sales: $17,665.77
Average: $410.83
Geometric mean: $65.95
Median: $31.00
Sample size: 43

Overall geometric mean for the Letter O, considering each occurence

in positions 1 through 4 as a separate event:
Geometric mean: $79.66
Sample size: 142

Letter P:

First Position Sales: $12,109.81
Average: $484.39
Geometric mean: $62.76
Median: $41.00
Sample size: 25

Second Position Sales: $2,789.04
Average: $84.52
Geometric mean: $33.56
Median: $20.50
Sample size: 33

Third Position Sales: $16,447.77
Average: $548.26
Geometric mean: $46.79
Median: $28.95
Sample size: 30

Fourth Position Sales: $4,223.17
Average: $183.62
Geometric mean: $59.14
Median: $55.00
Sample size: 23

Overall geometric mean for the Letter P, considering each occurence

in positions 1 through 4 as a separate event:
Geometric mean: $47.54
Sample size: 111

Letter Q:

First Position Sales: $1,655.69
Average: $24.71
Geometric mean: $16.74
Median: $17.40
Sample size: 67

Second Position Sales: $1,319.48
Average: $24.43
Geometric mean: $17.56
Median: $16.63
Sample size: 54

Third Position Sales: $3,260.67
Average: $54.34
Geometric mean: $18.25
Median: $14.74
Sample size: 60

Fourth Position Sales: $2,535.03
Average: $53.94
Geometric mean: $21.21
Median: $17.10
Sample size: 47

Overall geometric mean for the Letter Q, considering each occurence

in positions 1 through 4 as a separate event:
Geometric mean: $18.19
Sample size: 228

Letter R:

First Position Sales: $7,100.90
Average: $208.85
Geometric mean: $36.42
Median: $28.78
Sample size: 34

Second Position Sales: $10,548.63
Average: $301.39
Geometric mean: $42.10
Median: $20.40
Sample size: 35

Third Position Sales: $13,530.17
Average: $520.39
Geometric mean: $77.59
Median: $38.00
Sample size: 26

Fourth Position Sales: $4,157.15
Average: $129.91
Geometric mean: $44.94
Median: $27.75
Sample size: 32

Overall geometric mean for the Letter R, considering each occurence

in positions 1 through 4 as a separate event:
Geometric mean: $46.66
Sample size: 127

Letter S

First Position Sales: $10,130.81
Average: $440.47
Geometric mean: $86.87
Median: $56.55
Sample size: 23

Second Position Sales: $2,305.13
Average: $115.26
Geometric mean: $48.48
Median: $38.00
Sample size: 20

Third Position Sales: $18,259.08
Average: $702.27
Geometric mean: $133.47
Median: $120.50
Sample size: 26

Fourth Position Sales: $28,255.64
Average: $1130.23
Geometric mean: $157.60
Median: $110.00
Sample size: 25

Overall geometric mean for the Letter S, considering each occurence

in positions 1 through 4 as a separate event:
Geometric mean: $101.24
Sample size: 94

Letter T

First Position Sales: $13,596.00
Average: $367.46
Geometric mean: $73.19
Median: $51.00
Sample size: 37

Second Position Sales: $18,696.00
Average: $603.10
Geometric mean: $99.85
Median: $61.00
Sample size: 31

Third Position Sales: $17,697.22
Average: $632.04
Geometric mean: $56.49
Median: $30.51
Sample size: 28

Fourth Position Sales: $5,223.23
Average: $174.11
Geometric mean: $57.03
Median: $37.50
Sample size: 30

Overall geometric mean for the Letter T, considering each occurence

in positions 1 through 4 as a separate event:
Geometric mean: $70.28
Sample size: 126

Letter U

First Position Sales: $1,792.25
Average: $56.01
Geometric mean: $28.54
Median: $30.51
Sample size: 32

Second Position Sales: $25,661.86
Average: $733.20
Geometric mean: $136.54
Median: $69.00
Sample size: 35

Third Position Sales: $12,260.82**
Average: $350.31
Geometric mean: $44.06
Median: $34.10
Sample size: 35

Fourth Position Sales: $29,619.98
Average: $617.08
Geometric mean: $66.84
Median: $40.50
Sample size: 48

Overall geometric mean for the Letter U, considering each occurence

in positions 1 through 4 as a separate event:
Geometric mean: $59.75
Sample size: 150
** Only 1 sale was reported above $10,000 — YOUI.com sold for

$14,100 in January and was treated as a $10,000 sale so as to not

alter averages reported too much. Future analysis will also use a $10,000 cap to avoid very large enduser sales from significantly distorting findings, while still acknowledging their presence. Enduser and pronounceable sales significantly distort averages (which I do not recommend be used to make buying/selling decisions) and distort to a much lesser extent the median and geometric mean. Letters A/E/I/O/U are distorted a bit more in the 2nd and 4th position due to their role in pronounceable LLLL.coms (most notably, CVCVs).

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February 2009 LLLL.com Price Guide

Feb. 4th 2009

I had a few Wordpress bugs with the new server which thankfully were rapidly resolved by tech support (why didn’t I try asking them before spending 5 hours trying to troubleshoot!? ). Anyway, long story short, I’m way behind where I was hoping to be in getting LLLL.com back up — hopefully this can provide some reading until then.

January saw a $246,628 on 889 reported LLLL.com sales for an average of $277.42 per. The median (a much more reliable measure for the LLLL.com market)  LLLL.com sale was $30 exact, with reported sales ranging from  $3.28 to $14,100. February 1st was a particularly interesting day for the LLLL.com market, with 418 LLLL.coms auctioned on TDNAM. Sales were strong, with 59% fetching over $20+regfee (approx $28-$30). In all fairness, many of these domains are substantially above what I’d refer to as a “minimum wholesale” LLLL.com, however it is nevertheless good to see the market holding strong on larger bulk lots, such as this one — I’m sure we all remember a few of those bulk LLLL.com auctions in Sept-Nov 2008 which didn’t perform too well.

LLLL.com Performance

Sales under $5 2 [$3.28, $4.25]
5th percentile $6.86
10th percentile $8.00
25th percentile $14.51
Median $30.00
75th percentile $92.00
90th percentile $422.00

46 sales reached $1000+ , 25 reaching $3000+. In both categories, pronounceable LLLL.coms of mid-high quality stand out as being the most likely candidates to see top dollar sales.

   
Note: This is a complete list of LLLL.com sales which have been reported on Namepros or which have occured through a venue which publishes their LLLL.com sales. I’ve done my best to verify that reported sales did in fact take place, however I can’t guarantee that any LLLL.coms listed here have sold, nor can I guarantee that LLLL.coms which have sold did in fact sell for the price listed here (the prices listed are as they’ve been reported). No attempt was made to “weed out” enduser sales from non-enduser/D2D sales — using percentiles as I’ve done near the top of this price guide is a good way to get around distorted prices which averages may report due to extreme outlier sales and LLLL.coms of significantly above average quality.

Do keep in mind that this is a price guide, not an LLLL.com Bible, and do use caution when trying to interpolate or extrapolate findings. At the end of the day, your LLLL.coms are worth what you sell them for. This guide is intended to aid in pricing LLLL.coms strictly in a “reseller” environment — the large majority of enduser sales never get reported and it’d be silly to even pretend a price guide could offer meaningful data on the latter, not knowing who the potential endusers may be.

A special thanks goes out to Jeremy (who compiled this list of reported LLLL.com sales), Vlad, Andrei, skylineleong, and the countless others on Namepros who report and discuss LLLL.com sale.

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