Four letter domain names are the new three letter domain names.
Now that all of the three letter .com bargains have been picked over, it seems investors are on the hunt for the next best thing…four letter domain names.
Sedo sold a whopping 100 four character domain names last week.
Prices ranged from $749 for bzbs.com and ysyg.com to $25,000 for hips.com.
Many of the domain names that were clearly sold to investors sold for several thousand dollars, which might start being a floor for four character .com domain names.
This would explain why Afternic is sending out inquiries to people asking them to price their listed four letter domain names. I suspect they’re seeing an equal surge in demand.
If you need more evidence of a surge in four letter .com demand, here you go.
Acro says
The sad reality is that a throng of Chinese domain investors, funded from earnings from the Chinese stock market prior to its humongous collapse, attempt to set an even game in the LLLL .com namespace, regardless of letters.
In a nutshell: Those who own truly premium letter combinations of LLLL .com domains, receive an endless barrage of spam from China, with offers at 1/10th their value.
XQJZ might be cool for China, but in the West such letters are at the very bottom of the food chain.
I’ve no problem with XQJZ owners making a killing among the Chinese, good on ya!
I just don’t need these spammers to flood my mailbox for letters that are priced 10x or more in the West.
Careless Domainer says
I sold one 4L thru Sedo and 1 4L thru Afternic last week. They were priced a little over $1K. The problem is, I priced them a couple years ago and had not changed those particular domains since listing them. (big mistake)
I speculate the Chinese buyers are sorting domains by price and then cherry picking the better quality 4L domains.
@domains says
I think it’s one of the big domain stories of 2015, how historically ‘crappy’ letter LLLL.com’s have risen in value so quickly, and also the rise in price of NNNNN.com’s this year. Remains to see if it will be sustainable but those who held onto those types of names the last few years are being rewarded now.
I have been watching NNNN.co domains slowly being bought up during 2015, many by Chinese registrants, starting with the popular patterns, triple repeating numbers, etc. There are no more available ending in ’88’, and ending in ’55’ is getting low too (picked a few up today myself).
Domo Sapiens says
Not sure I’ll be calling hips.com an llll
Mansoora Tahira says
i m selling my 4 Letter domain spxy.com hope for best price at flippa
Malik says
what will be value of zohp.com can it be sell easily