Domain Magnate

Some LLL.ca were auctioned in myid, pool and sibername in July 2008, here are some of the results as posted on dnforum:

tus.ca – $297
xcc.ca – $121
smb.ca – $655
otk.ca – $259
tbb.ca – $615
tlx.ca – $101
bjp.ca – $250
ewq.ca – $101
ghj.ca – $101
glq.qc.ca – $2250
hjk.ca – $101
lkj.ca – $100
zgs.ca $240
jph.ca $300
vvm.ca $152

Prices have been raising quickly during the last months. The better ones seem to get good prices in $200-300 and all premium letters fetch $600+. The recent sale of gmx.ca for over $30K must have helped too.

I still have a few LLL.ca’s at bargain prices here – these are going quick, so hurry up!

I’m reducing my .ca portfolio and selling some 3 letter and 3 number names at very attractive prices.

Having some of these in your portfolio is a must for any Canadian domainer. The LLL.ca were all registered last year and since then the prices have been growing steadily. Canadian domains can only be registered by Canadian residents.

gmx.ca was sold for 20,000 euros last week!

First person to post sold gets the name/s, payment expected within 24 hours.

019.ca
027.ca
028.ca read more »

Justin Godfrey, known as Rockefeller on dnf, recently posted about his sale of 92 LLL.com’s for $598K:

I just finished up a deal where I sold 92 LLL .coms for just about 600k, probably could’ve got more since it was only 6.5k each, but it’s nice to see people are spending freely again!

I suppose the LLL.com’s were of lower quality so this sounds like a good deal. It’s indeed good to see that there is healthy demand for the names in such quantities. The buyers are out there and ready to invest and spend money on quality domains! It’s the lower quality domains that are “in recession”, good generics and 2-3 letter .com’s are always in demand.

Myself I don’t own any LLL.com and never have. I always thought they were overpriced and not a good investment. They can’t be developed, they are too expensive for most end users and during the last half a year it’s unclear if the prices are going up or rather dropped.

So I’d much rather buy geo or generic domains.

The recent dnjournal report featured many high value .ca domains sales from myid auctions.

CV.ca $54,977
Income.ca $26,242
Diploma.ca $17,999
Pharmacies.ca $15,663
Eyeglasses.ca $11,410
ZZ.ca $9,959
STD.ca $4,149
LoansCanada.ca $3,112
MontrealMortgages.ca $2,624
AccountingJobs.ca $2,438
Enjoy.ca $1,817
VancouverTravel.ca $1,816
WebTemplates.ca $1,559
QuebecHomes.ca $1,556 read more »

159 L-L.ca Domains Available out of 676.

LLL.ca’s are selling for a min of around $100 and up and judging by the .com’s L-L usually sell for about 30% of LLL. The LL.ca – two letter Canadian domains are selling for 5-10k minimum now and this is out of reach for smaller end users, this makes L-L.ca the perfect candidate for that job.

See the current available list below:

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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.

Here is an interesting list with .asia domains which received more than one application.

Many generics, like:

card.asia
video.asia
policy.asia
vip.asia
ugly.asia
ship.asia
reform.asia
swallow.asia read more »

New LLLL.com price guide is out by Reece and we can see that prices have slowed a bit:

Data derived from TDVR.com, the largest LLLL.com database. Numbers in parentheses reflect Feb 17, 2008 statistics. Current prices reflect the results of the 500 most recent reported LLLL.com sales within the Feb 25, 2008 through Mar 5, 2008 timeframe.

*Minimum Wholesale : $48.00 ($52.00) -> 8%

10th percentile: $59.00 ($60.00) -> 2%

25th percentile: $65.00 ($67.00) -> 3%

Median: $85.00 ($81.00) -> 5%

75th percentile: $126.00 ($150.00) -> 16%

90th percentile: $400.00 ($445.00) -> 10%

How did this happen, what are the reasons and will the prices keep growing in future?

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Few facts first:

- LLL.ca were bought out on 10-10-2007 and now go for low $xxx min in snapnames
- NNN.ca were bought out around the same time
- There are currently 273 L-L.ca available out of 676
- LL.ca’s are now selling for $x,xxx-$xx,xxx
- You need to have Canadian presence to register .ca – e.g. be a Canadian resident, have a Canadian company, or have someone in Canada register these for you.

Here’s the list, many of these are premiums
a-q.ca
a-u.ca
a-x.ca
a-y.ca
b-g.ca
b-h.ca
b-q.ca
b-u.ca
b-x.ca
b-y.ca
b-z.ca read more »

Last Premium LLLL.net’s were bought out on Feb,5 2007 – 3 days ago. Now you can already see threads on namepros selling these for $20-25 each and some are getting purchased. It’s pretty obvious that these will grow in price and based on past LLL.net growth and LLLL.com quick rise to power, I predict the premium LLLL.net’s to have a minimum price of $50-100 by the end of the year – not a bad return for those who bought them for $5 each. I bought 400 premium LLLL.net’s myself, could have bought many more, but I figured I’d better keep these and renew them next year if needed as I’m mostly concentrating on LLLL.com’s now.

That comes to show the enormous leverage of a buyout. LLLL.com domains that were available 4 months ago are now selling for $60-70 and will continue to grow at high rates while new players enter the market and boost the prices by buying the 4 letter names in large quantities. At some point, several months from now, the prices will stabilize and continue growing at more regular rates close, but still higher than the LLL.com’s do now. Although the biggest winners will be the ones who originally registered the domains and had enough patience for the prices to grow to turn their $7 registration fee domains into $100+ domains.

All the decent cvcv.net/vcvc.net seem to be taken as well and have certain reseller value. People are also buying all good LLLL.net’s now inspired by the LLLL.com’s, but I think many of them will be disappointed because there are about 220K LLLL.net’s remaining. And unless a name belongs to a special category which was already bought out, like premium LLLL.net’s, or cvcv.net etc, it won’t have reseller value.A domain that looks “cool” to one person can be total garbage for rest, that’s why the safe way is always to buy domains that are supposed to run out soon. It’ll take years till we see the last of LLLL.net’s purchased, my prediction is 5 years or more – so don’t get too excited about these. There are more profitable opportunities around the corner