There are definitely more LLLL.coms which are being available for handreg lately and many backordered LLLL.coms which quite possibly could have otherwise been handregged. Those running LLLL.com domainers running automated scripts have been far less active lately and it hasn’t been uncommon lately to see an LLLL.com remain available for several hours.

How this impacts you and your LLLL.com investments largely depends on what you’ve invested in. If you’ve invested in the weakest LLLL.coms, having LLLL.coms available for regfee won’t likely impact their value much — the large majority of the time, these LLLL.coms are already selling for well below regfee. Where I do see a larger impact however is with higher quality LLLL.coms — in particular, quad premium, rare, and weaker pronounceable LLLL.coms. I could see the weaker CVCVs taking a hit as well, however the stronger CVCVs and other pronounceable LLLL.coms often tend to sell more on their own merit than because they have anything in common with regular LLLL.coms. There does seem to be a certain premium with pronounceable LLLL.coms that is placed on them due to the fact that they’re 4 letters long and pronounceable LLLL.com prices did rise in the months leading up to and shortly after buyout, however their performance since that point has been very different from that of weaker LLLL.coms.

It’s time to get a bit pickier with what you buy in the LLLL.com market and like a few LLLL.com investors have mentioned, a much wiser strategy would be to look for deals rather than buying domains off other domainers for full or near-full reseller value, in which case all you can hope for is that prices go up. Just because LLLL.coms are available for registration — something which hasn’t happened until very recently in a long time, does not mean they’re worth registering. LLLL.coms with 12 months until renewal usually aren’t going for more than $8 already, so paying $8 to register an LLLL.com that nobody wanted to backorder and even those running automated scripts passed on isn’t likely end up being a good investment unless you expect the value of your LLLL.com to outpace renewal fees — something which if it were to happen, would be most likely to happen on domains where the renewal fee is a very insignificant portion of the LLLL.com’s price. On a $800 LLLL.com, an $8 renewal fee accounts for just 1% of the LLLL.com’s value — if you have reason to believe the LLLL.com is a better investment for you than other alternatives available and makes sufficiently more to cover renewal fees, then by all means invest in LLLL.coms if you want. If you can find some LLLL.com deals, you’re obviously much safer paying $800 for an LLLL.com you currently estimate as being worth $1500 — even if the LLLL.com were to fall a full 50% in value, you’d have only lost $50 + the renewal fee = $58 over the course of a year of your initial investment, compared to $408 had you paid $800 for an $800 LLLL.com.

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