I wish I started buying domains at this time
 

I wish I bought domains at the time frame mentioned by this post

I scour domain forums and people are going apeshit over certain domains. If we all had the mindset and the cashola back in the day we would be millionaires right now. Simple stupid domains are going in high dollar sales without rhyme or reason. And even the top dogs video conferencing-- talking about it are stunned.

I scour domain forums and people are going apeshit over certain domains. If we all had the mindset and the cashola back in the day we would be millionaires right now. Simple stupid domains are going in high dollar sales without rhyme or reason. And even the top dogs video conferencing-- talking about it are stunned.

Chinese investors are going nuts over number-driven domains.

I can actually hear the bubble being inflated :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

How much would I get for a 3 character .org?

I let one go for $75 a few years back. Would it be worth much more now?

3 character .org are probably not worth a great deal, I'd have to check. However, for sure 3 letter .org have been selling in 4 figures as you can see here:

DNJournal.com YTD Top 100 Domain Sales Chart

I think we all wish that we had purchased domains back then. :)

Well many of us did. However, its important to note that people were saying the same thing back in 2006 as you're saying today in almost 2016 and they'll say same thing about 2016 in 2020 no doubt.

The point is that there is still great opportunity to get involve in Domain Names. If anything, the opportunity is greater in some respects because there is more clarity about what works and more traders who will give a trade price for something if you cannot find an end user.

https://gfy.com/fucking-around-and-pr...e-history.html

Oh I agree. I bought my first domains back in 2003, but prior to that time, I didn't buy any domains. Wish I had though. But yes, I see what you are saying and you are indeed correct.

I used to own several like domain like these but I dropped them...

I remember using NCSA Mosaic browser in the early 1990s and searching for common brand names only to find they didn't have web sites yet.

Like an idiot, I didn't register anything, not even realizing that people could pay to register domain names with some unknown organization.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...CSA_Mosaic.PNG

Nobody spends high dollar without rhyme or reason. And you should not buy if you can't calculate some of that value. There is a certain skill projecting future need required to do it well.

The Chinese have recently turned Domaining into a commodity sport and have been buying 3L 4L 4N 5N .com .net & .org domains hording them in a sense. They will be needed sometime by someone if you are taking the proper long term approach to your investments, it makes sense. Many in the U.S. were doing it with 3L .coms 10 years ago.
A avg 4L .com now brings 1.5k - 2.5k depending on the letters in it.

Watch sedo auctions for a good guide...
https://sedo.com/search/searchresult.php4?safe_search=1&rel=2&orderdirecti on=2&listing_type[]=3&language=us

we all wish we were smart back then

The problem with time machines is if you go back in time, you end up changing history and your future self might be completely different. :)

I can remember seeing beer.com available...

Must have been 1993 or so. Internic was such a pain to deal with in those days that it seemed difficult to register domains. I can remember having to type out a letter explaining why I wanted a .net domain, and having to do it twice as my first request was rejected.

I don't think they accepted credit cards yet either.

Do you suspect that they were intentionally dragging their feet back then? Looking at their name registration patterns, there was definitely a big corporate bias.

Estibot seems to think Beer.com is worth $7 million USD, however according to Wikipedia (which is correct on this as I remember the sale and the people who sold it) it sold for that price way back in 2004.

12 years in internet terms is like fifty dogs, so assuming they didn't over pay (which they may have done) technically this Domain Name could be worth well into eight figures all things being considered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...e_domain_names

How much are random 3 letter domains worth? I know I have at least one and the letters do not have q or z in them. I remember someone asking that a long time ago.

Ok so what is the end user of something like ndgp.com or 57269.com? For those 4L and 5N not to be a bubble all those names have to have targeted end users.

There is no market price for domains per se as a domain is worth only what someone else is willing to pay for it. However, when it comes to certain types of like 2L, 3L, 4L, 2N, 3N, 4N there are certain sales patterns that tend to be creating floors for these types of domains.

On the whole the first consideration is what is the extension. I only really know about dot com and you can get an idea about .net and .org from reported sales.

As regard "what is random 3 letter domains worth?" the thing that determines the value is the letters themselves so there is no easy way to guage value or appraise without knowing what the domain is.

It is impossible to predict what someone will pay for it. I like the sound of ndgp.com so I figure because of no vowels, because its radio friendly and easy phonetics then maybe we could be talking about $3k upwards (Estibot.com says $2.3k). As the other guy said, you just get a feel for these things by the combinations, positioning and so on.

You're right, its not necessarily that 4L and 5N are a bubble. However, I would say that perhaps you go to 5L and 6N and they you're going into an area where the domains may not find users outside of the trading market. I would say I'm less sure about them but regarding 4L and 5N, here's my back of cigarette packet calculation:

4L: 26 x 26 x 26 x 26 = 456,976 combinations

5N: 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 = 100,000 combinations

So you have a total of just under 557,000 Combinations serving a global population of approx 7 Billion people.

Just assuming everyone is online (which certainly isnt the case), there is just one 4L or 5N domain name in dot com form available for every 12,500 people in the world but even if you take just China alone it looks possible that some large portion of them *could* conceivably find a home.

However, the Chinese have specifically adopted numbering and this is why they like the numerics - many of the oldest chinese websites are on dot com numerics and many of the usernames on chinese websites are in a numerical form. The letters (minus a,e,i,o,u and v) have some other meaning within china which the Chinese like but I am not totally familiar with how they nagivate that one except that Q, J and Z are preferred letters.

Personally, I don't much like the numerics for any market outside China because I would feel obligated to also own the dot com with the numbers in text alphabet form but obviously they are selling for exceptionally prices and as you see above, they are very rare compared with the letter combinations.

Nice reply thanks. I know they are all .com I have 3 of them. They don't have numbers in them though.