Domain Magnate

About a year ago things were quite different and domainers were encouraged to invest by ever rising prices on both short domains and generics and recent buyouts (such as LLLL.com and premium letter LLLL.net’s) which proven to be quite worthwhile. Minimum prices for LLLL.com’s reached $65 during peak times and there was a healthy supply of buyers. So back in those times it made sense to buy lots of NNNNN.com’s as well and hold them because prices would rise eventually. Which is what many domainers did buying up to 1k of them each. I had 875 of them at a total cost of around $6k - several other investors purchased more than 1000 of them and now realize the mistake and decide not to renew most. read more »

There are 1,426,613 .ru domains registered in total and 60,491 .su
.ru stands for Russia and .su is the obsolete extension of Soviet Union, which is still being used.

But the shocker is all 3 character .ru domains are registered! I could hardly believe that the first time I heard about it mentioned on NP, but a bunch of random checks show that this is true, most appear to be registered by one company: LEGATO LLC and were taken a month ago.

Personally I think the buyout is quite premature, there is hardly enough reseller interest to sustain market values above reg fee for these and it’s highly probably that they will all be dropped in a year, in a same way as it happened to LLLL.com around year 2000, when one company bought about half of them and dropped them a year later realizing it was a bad idea.

One thing is clear though - this should help push the LLL.ru domains prices up on the market. The current prices for these seem to be around $250 and up.

For comparison LLL.ca domains sell for a minimum of $100 now. Canadian tld recently passed 1 million registrations. LLL.co.uk names sell for $1k and up, there are currently about 7 million of them registered.

Only 218 L-L.ca domains remaining currently.
With LL.ca domains selling for a minimum of mid $x,xxx and up to 5 figures and LLL.ca selling from low $xxx, 32% of L-L.ca domains still remain unregistered. Seeing as L-L.com are worth about 30% of LLL.com, it makes sense to assume that similar connection will hold for the L-L.ca domains in the future. Right now only $2400 will let you buyout the remaining L-L.ca names if you use 10dollar.ca

Here is the full list:

a-q.ca
a-x.ca
b-q.ca
b-x.ca read more »

Now it’s official

ALL NNNNN.com Have Been Registered

The registrations rates were crazy in the past few days, even higher than with LLLL.com

Lets see how the prices rise now and how fast we can get to a minimum of $20-$25 for NNNNN.com. If there will be enough trading activity going then probably within a few weeks!

I’m going to start a priceguide on NNNNN.com’s soon.

See the historical countdown here

Yes it’s happening! For all the non believers, recent count shows only 1829 NNNN.com’s available only. The buyout is very close and it might happen within a few hours to a few days. After that it will be hard to find NNNNN.com’s at reg fee..

Half of the remaining NNNNN.com are starting with 0 and many contain 4.

Already sales are picking up. Here is a recent sale of NNNNN.com which appears to be a ZIP code for $40 on DP.

update: 982 remaining:


02037.com
02039.com
02057.com
02069.com
02075.com
02076.com
02079.com
02087.com
02091.com
02097.com
02219.com
02231.com
02253.com
02257.com
02263.com read more »

Yeah time passes by quickly. Would you believe it’s been a whole week since DomainMagnate.com was launched?

After one week the blog is averaging over 300 unique visitors per day and growing rapidly. I have big plans for this blog. Many cool things will come out soon.

Unlike many others I’ve been late to the domaining game. Domains with traffic and ppc income were/are too expensive and premium generics are unaffordable. The new players have to use new ways to succeed in domaining: finding bargain deals, following the buyouts and selling.

But there are still fortunes to be made and domaining seems to be living the new boom now, especially inspired by the super high prices of premium generics and quick rise in prices of short domains after big buyouts. Many consider this strategy very risky and it truly is, but the rewards are well worth the risk in this case.

So far most posts of the blog covered the buyouts, because it is the best way to make money in domaining now. How else can you get 1000% in 4 months, other than buying LLLL.com’s?

After the current NNNNN.com buyout we won’t see that many buyouts as in the last months so if you haven’t yet, go and buy some NNNNN.com today.

According to 4-ok.net there are currently 218,443 LLLL.net’s remaining unregistered, out of 456,976, which is 47.8%.

All premium LLLL.net’s were registered not long ago and since then their min prices are up to about twice the reg fee.

Remaining LLLL.net’s by first letter:

A: 5097
B: 7198
C: 5832
D: 6633
E: 7496
F: 8171
G: 7634
H: 6772
I: 7236
J: 9172
K: 9627
L: 7842
M: 6855
N: 7500
O: 8669
P: 8289
Q: 13014
R: 8812
S: 4949
T: 6439
U: 11408
V: 12355
W: 8721
X: 11223
Y: 10706
Z: 10958

CVCV.net’s are picking up as a cheap alternative to CVCV.com that have crossed into $1k.

Recent sales from read more »

NNNNN.com Available List Posted 8190 Remain Unregistered.

With current trends going on NNNNN.com will be history in 3-5 days.

- All NNNNN.com’s starting with 1,2 and 9 are now gone. In fact there is one 9NNNN.com remaining but don’t expect it be long after this post: 97949.com (added: the winner is RezaS on NP)

- 2-3K NNNNN.com get registered every day for the last 5 days.

Latest available list includes 190 5N’s and can be downloaded for free here

Check out the NNNNN.com guide before registering these, to take the higher quality domains.

NNNNN.com Countdown Approaching 10k.

Around 11k NNNNN.com’s are currently remaining unregistered. Latest count shows 10, 736 10,681 8,200! They are likely to run out within a week if this trend continues.

According to NNNNN Domains Marchex owns around 60K NNNNN.com, which are valid US zip codes, so that only leaves the other 40K available on the market and thus makes NNNNN even more rare and more valuable.

Everyone obviously ponders on the prices NNNNN.com’s will fetch right after the buyout. Nothing is certain except death and taxes, but from previous buyouts we can expect the price to climb slowly and I predict it will reach $20 within 2 months after the buyout.

With LLLL.com’s we’ve seen the min prices climbing very fast to around $60 currently within 4 months and premium LLLL.net’s were bought out only a week ago, but are already selling at twice the reg fee. Usually the prices go up within weeks after a buyout occurs.

There are two main questions people ask related to numeric domains and NNNNN.com’s:

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13,628 NNNNN.com Remaining from my most recent scan.

Download the list here

Also check out the NNNNN.com Countdown timeline

We are very close to the buyout, so if you want to reg some NNNNN.com’s now is a good time to do so