LLLL.coms and the Mobile Web

I just read a great article by Lesley Caulie of USA Today about how the web as we know it today will be rapidly superseded over the next few years by the mobile web. According to JupiterResearch, online spending in 2007 amounted to $117 billion! There are currently 2.5 billion cell phones in use, with 1 billion additional phones expected to be in use within 2 years. Smartphones are becoming increasingly capable and broadband penetration is also increasing…

That’s all fine and dandy, but what does it have to do with the future success of LLLL.coms, you ask? Simple. LLLL.coms are short… And cell phones — even if they do have qwerty keyboards, are a pain to type on. Research conducted by User Centric found that iPhone users made an average of 5.6 typos per text message. Traffic from LLL.coms and 5L.coms will all of the sudden be finding it’s way to LLLL.coms… People use cell phones when they’re “on the go”.. Would you prefer to type in IBM or International Business Machines Corporation to get to IBM’s website? It’s rather obvious why IBM chose IBM.com for their site, no? With greatly reduced typing speeds and greatly increased frequency of errors on cell phones, an 8 or 9 letter .com is all of the sudden as much of an atrocity as typing internationalbusinessmachinescorporation.com would be everytime you wanted to access IBM’s site.

Did I forget to mention that there are 4 times as many cell phones as desktops in the world today? Cell phones are cheap — and alot of people in the world today still can’t afford desktops… What does this mean for LLLL.coms? Increased traffic from third world countries, which, while low paying, is certainly better than no third world traffic, no? Some owners of bad letter LLLL.coms will suddenly find themselves with clicks galore as they learn to discover that their domain name actually has meaning or significance in another language…

 If you thought LLLL.coms went up alot lately… There will come a time when you’ll be kicking yourself for not buying more of them when they were under $100 per. Just you wait and see

LLLL.com Arbitrage: Pushing Back Renewals…

Ergo, a Namepros member recently asked me why I was both buying and selling LLLL.coms for relatively the same prices. Lately, I’ve been selling some LLLL.coms for less than a $10 profit (sometimes even less than $5) and he was wondering what the purpose of that was.

One good thing about LLLL.coms (or domaining in general, for that matter) is that you can approach it from a strategic perspective. I can look over my list and sell my names which are set to expire in March, April, May, etc of this year and trade or sell them for LLLL.coms which are due to expire sometime next year. If I do this daily, I can potentially save myself a $12,000 LLLL.com renewal bill on 1800 LLLL.coms.

Why not give it a try? Figure out what a fair price for your LLLL.coms are and try and resell them for equivalent LLLL.coms (ideally better ones) which are expiring next year! Your credit card will thank you later on!

Doesn’t this add a whole new perspective to LLLL.com arbitrage? You’re profiting just the same here, let’s not kid ourselves… The profit is in reduced renewal fees.

Source: LLLL.com Arbitrage: Pushing Back Renewals…

Buyers going CRAZY for Triple Premiums at TDNAM

    

In auction at TDNAM: Look at all these triple premiums!!
 domain| bids| prices| time left

jdag.com – 10 $274 3H 5M
swmo.com 30 10 $193 5H 13M
opzy.com – 6 $161 7D 3H
arjf.com – 12 $160 1H 1M
blly.com 30 9 $151 1D 1H
cknp.com – 7 $151 1H 39M
aebx.com 13 9 $142 51M 52S
dyio.com – 6 $130 2H 5M
imiu.com 35 11 $126 4D 1H
eoup.com – 11 $125 2H 13M
dulh.com – 6 $125 2H 4M
dpum.com 17 9 $125 2H 2M
clwo.com – 7 $125 1H 40M
bwro.com – 6 $125 1H 26M
gtmw.com – 4 $105 8D 1H
sebx.com – 11 $100 4H 51M
etgy.com 15 6 $100 2H 15M

These auctions aren’t even done yet — and look at the prices!  And to think I was picking these up for $50-$70 only yesterday… Absolutely incredible

LLLL.coms SOARING in Price

From Yusu.com selling for $3225 on Sedo, to seemingly out of this world TDNAM prices reaching $100+ on triple premiums… Today will go down in history as the day the market woke up and finally began appreciating LLLL.coms for the valuable, scarce assets they really are.

The Network Solutions fiasco (outlined in the post below) is only further propelling LLLL.com prices upwards. Supply of good brandables is rapidly decreasing as panic ensues over the possibility of other registrars following Network Solutions in initiating tasting on a registrar scale.

The depleting supply of TDNAM Buy It Now LLLL.coms (only 3 LLLL.coms under $49 at the time of this writing) is causing increased competition at TDNAM auctions and at other venues including Ebay, where some non-premium LLLL.coms have been selling for in excess of $100 lately.

This chain reaction is starting to look more and more like a nuclear explosion — an explosion who’s shockwave is only starting to be fully understood.

Look forward to rapidly increasing LLLL.com prices in the coming days… And remember, the best time to buy is always now.

“NetSol and Unethical go hand in hand”

A great thread on Namepros explaining a dramatic move Network Solutions has taken in an effort to extort you into paying $35.00 for your names.

In short, if you don’t register it immediately — they will. So register whatever you find, or else you’ll end up having to buy it from them. As sad as this sounds, I see it as a great opportunity for LLLL.coms to further increase in value. Everytime someone searches for a 5 letter .com, 6 letter.com, etc it will now be registered by Network Solutions and assigned a price tag of $35.00.

What do I suggest doing? Playing hardball. If NetSol is going to go around doing this, why don’t we give them a taste of their own medicine? Why not go around searching for all 5 and 6 letter .coms (the logical alternative to LLLL.coms) so as to make everyone interested in them forced to pay a minimum of $35.00 for the privilege of owning one? Won’t that make that $15.00 anti-premium look like an absolute steal when qzjxyw.com costs $35.00?

Original Source: http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/415767-network-solutions-unethical-go-hand-hand.html

Recent Purchases

Jan 08, 2008: 

ODGT.com $225
OYRN.com $69
OJND.com $59
OJDN.com $59
OJNP.com $54
FRJL.com $50
OGJL.com $49
OFJL.com $49
OPGJ.com $49
ODGJ.com $49
LNIJ.com $49
LFOJ.com $49
ODJL.com $49
ORJH.com $49
OHZC.com $39

With the goal of helping newer LLLL.com domainers better understand values and what can be had at particular price points, I will be keeping a diary of all my LLLL.com purchases. Let me emphasize that this is not what you should be selling for, rather, this is what you should strive to buy comparable names for.

For a day to day listing from today forward, please see: http://4letternoob.wordpress.com/recent-purchases/ (also available by clicking the link under Pages)

I made $1008 USD profit yesterday

From LLLL.coms only, of course.

•  Finalized my $400 UUOU.com auction sale. My Cost: $175 in December 
• Sold 21 LLLL.coms with 2-3 semi-premiums in each for $600 on Namepros. My Cost: $147 in October
• Sold 9 LLLL.coms with repeating letters and 1 triple premium for a total of $400. My Cost: $72 in September-October. 

In less than 4 months, I turned an investment of $392 into what I received yesterday — $1400 in sales and $1008 in profits. And people wonder why I’m so passionate about LLLL.coms

There still are tons of great LLLL.coms out there for very reasonable prices. I picked up NOBW.com for $60 earlier today. That’s an easy flip @100% ROI should I choose to sell it.