Comments on: Thousands of NNNNN.com’s Will Drop This Month

By: rkbdomain

rkbdomain — Thu, 12 May 2011 22:10:18 +0000

Had not been following domains for a while, just sitting on the numerics I still had. And recently I went to scan the available NNNNN’s just for old times sake, and guess what? They are nearly all gone once again. I think there’s left than 1,000 left out of 100,000. I haven’t finished my scan, but I am showing basically everything without a “4″ in it is gone. And this is a few years after the buyout, so people must have re-registered their domains several times or maybe this is new registrations. I think what happened is the NNNNN.com buyout looks like it was ahead of its time. Chinese internet usage and domain buying has continued to grow, and my guess is this led to the continued evaporation of available numerics. Plus NNNN.com sales have been on fire recently. I think when we started looking at the buyout there were over 10,000 left. Anyways, definitely not trying to stir up another buyout, just noticed that it seems to have happened while I was sleeping. Except for non-US zip codes with a “4″ in them, the NNNNN.com’s are gone once again… Crazy world.

By: rkbdomain

rkbdomain — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:10:18 +0000

Yes, the NNNNN.com buyout did not go as many of us had hoped. You can sort of see the trajectory of NNNNN.com prices fall along with the larger economy. There was an initial spike after the buyout, then prices steadily trended downward until late 2008 when the bottom had fallen out. Part of it was $$ dried up in the domain market in general, part of it was the fallout in the LLLL.com market, and part of it was that NNNNN.com’s representing zip codes that had previously gone for $x,xxx were going for $xx after the fallout in the US housing market, which I think hurt all NNNNN.com’s. I am holding some for the long term, but got rid of most of mine. Long-term I think prospects are still good for all numeric domains, including NNNNN.com’s, but short term it is obviously not looking good.

By: Ali R Khan

Ali R Khan — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:12:34 +0000

Great info..Wondering if you are dropping some 4l domains, when dont you sell at dirt cheap price??

By: Namecake

Namecake — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:27:39 +0000

Interesting post. As you say, not every investment can be a winner, it’s a matter of winning more hands than losing. I think a lot of people are feeling the pinch at this moment in time.