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 »

This was posted at NamePros by betthelot:

If it helps, I can give you the other meanings of numbers in Chinese

Very useful if you are into numeric domains. Also explains why 4 is considered bad

1 single-mindedly, whole-heartedly, heart and soul

2 mandarin duck (it means that the good things appear in pairs)

3 promotion (especially in the officialdom)

4 death

5 me
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It’s been a while since I posted anything about the 5 digit domains and that was mostly because there are not many sales and even those get unnoticed since they are rarely reported outside of snapnames and namejet.

But here they are:

Sedo

92629.com $650
92624.com $360
10323.com $60

Snapnames

65588.com $110.00
53788.com $59.00
22877.com $50.00
88820.com $60.00 read more »

Here is a list of 28 NNNNN.com I’ve researched with all the 5 number domains ending within 24 hours on snapnames and the current min bids to enter:

12735.com $18.00
25622.com $16.00
31861.com $14.00
35383.com $17.00
41405.com $12.00
44664.com $41.00
51655.com $14.00
51935.com $16.00
56749.com $16.00
60066.com $47.00
66702.com $16.00
67727.com $16.00
67933.com $16.00
68223.com $16.00
69623.com $14.00
70318.com $16.00
70688.com $16.00
77570.com $17.00
85968.com $14.00
86050.com $14.00
86090.com $16.00
86127.com $16.00
86161.com $17.00
86377.com $16.00
86727.com $16.00
87756.com $16.00
91251.com $16.00

Expect the biding to go up near the last 5 minutes as usually on snapnames, but few of these are pretty good.

There are many NNNNN.com auctions ending in the following few days on snapnames:

Domain Current bid End date
12830.com $24.00 02/21/2008
55699.com $22.00 02/21/2008
18681.com $21.00 02/21/2008
12488.com $19.00 02/21/2008
58820.com $19.00 02/21/2008
74512.com $19.00 02/21/2008
80388.com $19.00 02/21/2008
99465.com $19.00 02/21/2008
23770.com $18.00 02/21/2008
28942.com $18.00 02/21/2008
36389.com $18.00 02/21/2008
56869.com $18.00 02/21/2008
68586.com $18.00 02/21/2008
76881.com $18.00 02/21/2008
82544.com $18.00 02/21/2008
87071.com $18.00 02/21/2008
58877.com $23.00 02/22/2008
21166.com $21.00 02/22/2008
77116.com $21.00 02/22/2008
11584.com $19.00 02/22/2008 read more »

Few days after the buyout NNNNN.com sales are heating up.

Update: I’ve received reports of some random NNNNN.com’s sold in bulk privately for $8.5-10 each. Get those bargains while you still can

Several sales have been reported so far on the forums.

I’ve sold 5 random NNNNN.com’s for $12.5 each (not selling that cheap anymore):

87816.com
87826.com
37535.com
37675.com
38417.com

Another sale reported here:

These 5 sold for $15 each:
72252.com
82292.com
71131.com
75525.com
72292.com

Another sale here

37467.com $15 Spells Eshop.com

More sales from SnapNames

01140.com $22
00108.com $29
05211.com $22

$10-15 or about twice the reg fee is the minimum anyone would sell NNNNN.com’s. But for now, while they are still fresh you can choose the better ones.

Now is a very good time to buy some good NNNNN.com’s for cheap before the prices rise and stabilize.

A few notable previous sales:

46000.com $299 2007-12-25 SEDO.com
34000.com $1,050 2007-11-21 SEDO.com
84444.com $500 2007-11-06 AfterNic.com

Domains ending with a few zeros and with many repeating digits are obviously more memorable and thus more valuable.

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 »

NNNNN.com’s are running out by 2K registrations per day and around 6K are remaining right now.

Here is a list of better quality NNNNN.com’s that don’t have . All 5N’s with ‘0′ at the end are already registered and ‘0′ in other places, other than the last digit, is considered not good.

Download the list here

Also all NNNNN’s starting with 1,2 and 9 have been wiped out.
Please note that ‘4′ is considered a bad digit as it supposedly brings bad luck in Chinese culture, but adding other digits, like 5,6,7 depending on the number might neutralize that effect. From that point it’s getting too complicated to be covered here, but you’re welcome to read up on numerology, thanks for the link to replic8te.

For me an easy way to get higher quality NNNNN’s is by simply checking google results for the number. Here are number of google results for the first 100 NNNNN’s from the list, sorted:

41758 154,000
41691 156,000
41679 236,000
41892 364,000
41738 365,000
41783 365,000
41857 365,000 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.