Domain Magnate

Despite the recession in US economy and a certain amount of uncertainty in the domaining market July 08 have been pretty good for me. I had around $50k in sales, with over 2/3 of it being profit. While most sales were private and the buyers preferred to keep them confidential, couple of the top sales are through public auctions so I can mention them here:

Dickinson.com $12K on Bido
Krom.com $5,5k through AfterNic
Harlot.com $5145 on Bido (I owned 50% of this one)

I rarely disclose my earnings and report sales, however I feel this is needed to encourage others to see the hidden opportunities in domaining. What I like most about the industry are the large gaps. Appraisals always range widely and so do auctions and sales, it’s not unusual to see domains being resold for 2x and more shortly after. read more »

This weeks bargain on DomainMagnate.com:

 OOOM.com + BBBD.com + NNNM.com For $5500

- Post sold in the comments to claim the domains
- payment accepted only by escrow.com or direct wire, buyer pays all fees.

This is a very solid investment and a great addition to any domain portfolio. Especially now when the prices for LLLL.com’s had dropped a bit.

4 letter domains like these with 3 repeating premium letters represent one of the most rare LLLL types and are a great collection item which value will only go up.

Recent similar sales:

aiii.com     $2,100.00    04/30/2008    NameJet
cbcc.com     $3,840.00    04/23/2008    Afternic
onnn.com     $2500.00    04/18/2008    Namepros
alaa.com     $2,300.00    04/17/2008    Namejet
sooo.com     $2,250.00    04/12/2008    Sedo

Update: up to $2MM now and reserve reached!

Pizza.com up to $1,750,000, but reserve not reached yet.

It’s interesting that there were bids of $999,999 and $49,999, $19,999 for pizza and autos.net, drt.com. Which only looks fake, why would anyone bid near the reserve range?

Reserve also met for n5.com now with high bid $13k. Many NL.com were sold for $30-50K lately so this might turn out to be the bargain of the auction.

There are also some cheap domains that got no, or low reserves and no low prices:

flamed.com $110
profession.net $200
fela.com $750
tinkle.com $1550

New LLLL.com Price Guide is Out on 4letternoob blog by Reece.

Quad premiums had the highest increase in prices, which was only expected as they are the most desirable of all 4 letters.

Triple premiums with Z and other letters seem to be the real bargain at these prices. They are not too ugly and can have decent end user potential. If I find any at $75 a piece I’d buy them all! If you can get your hands on some triple premiums with K for $120 that would be a major bargain too.

According to the guide minimum prices are up to about $55 for the worst “anti-premium” type of LLLL’s, which sounds fair. The regular U+X, or Z+U type of domains which are being sold a lot around these days are worth about $65-70. Like xpru.com, xptu.com, zlhu.com. That would be a good price for them as well.

Triple premiums with Y,V and J aren’t that desirable and it’s strange to see them priced higher than K triples. But the guide is based on the actual sales data.. you can’t argue with the market.

Please note that the guide only refers to letter quality and disregards the other important characteristics as letter patters: CVCV, VCVC, CVVC, VCCV; number of vowels, for example domains with 3 vowels are usually worth $150 and up for the worst letters and 4 vowels would make it to $250 and up.