august as a dull month for domain sales traditionally, has this time performed by looking at recent sedo,moniker and domain round table conference results, also LLLL.COM's are appearing on daily sales charts of sedo.com, very good news for people like me
Domains are hot now, true..but even if the trend cools, look where the big money is playing right now....big money usually doesnt chase short termed trends..
Right, the big money is in highly searched, single-word dot coms. That is the way it has been for years. The LLLL domains are just hype unless they spell something. I'll take a good two-word combo over a brandable string of three characters any day. Just my opinion. Let me stress that I have at least one example of each of these types of domains that I complain about in my portfolio, and I regged or bought them out of desperation or misinformation or while under the influence. How else can you explain my axxc.com?
axxc.com is great! It can stand for Apparently Xerxes Xylophone Coagulates. Very brandable! These 3 and 4 character domains are so overrated, but hey if you got it spend it, right?
I know - horrible, right? LOL! It was an old stock ticker symbol for a company that was acquired or went bankrupt or something. It had a lot of traffic when I got it. It still gets more than one unique a day. When it can't cover its own reg fee, I will drop it.
Actually, it is LSK.com. It can be used for a site that advertises LASIK eye surgery. This is a HUGE market. At lease this is the first thing I connected the domain name with. Well, LASIK is an abbreviation itself, but LSK has all the consonants...
You take LSK.com and I'll take LASIK.com. How about that? 3 letter domains must be better than 5 letters, right?
All of those domains are basically taken, so if you don't already have them then you won't be making any money selling them. It is too late to enter the domain turnover game.
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