After seeing the high valuations on the VKN.com thread, I wanted to see people's opinions on this name. Aside from name quality, there's nothing much to speak of on the name...gets about 110 uniques a month give or take, currently registered since 2002 so not very old, 113 OVT for oty and 818,000 Google for oty, low linkpop and no PR. Now onto name quality: It has 2 premium letters O and T with one "bad" letter Y, though Y is IMO better than most of the other "bad" letters. One good thing is that it's pronounceable (oh-TEE) and the T being in the middle allows for O___ the/to/than/that/top/etc. Y___ acronym posibilities. Some that I thought of were Of The Year (annual awards site, "oty" can even be the name of the award), Old-To-Young (beauty site, plastic surgery, etc.), Only The Youngest (adult teen site), Over To You or Only To You (direct to consumer services), etc. Any thoughts on value?
So far, the highest offer I've gotten has been $7,500, and they were the 3rd person to offer $7,000 or more. I'm HOPING to get $9,000 for it, but that seems pretty bleak. I don't understand why pronounceability is such a big deal with a 4-letter domain, but not with a 3-letter domain.
Seriously, what difference does a "Y" in OTY make? Who says "Y" is a bad letter. To me all the letters are the same, your domain is worth quite abit around the high $XXXX range. Its still a premium 3 letter domain. For example, "X" is a bad letter, but when you have "XXX" its a whole different story. So who decides wether a letter is bad or good and how it affects anything really besides the price because its so called "bad letter" So what makes a letter a "bad letter" anyways? You guys see my point? Goodluck with your domain, its a very valuable domain.
Thanks for your opinion. 3character.com is the guide that I've seen a lot of people go off of for premium, good, and bad letters. For what it's worth, Y is not the easiest letter for acronyms. Besides You, Year, Young, Youth, Yields, and maybe a handful of other Y words, most words beginning with Y just aren't very good acronym words. That said, while Y might tremendously hold back some names, this is an example IMO where the other 2 letters being as good as they are make up for the Y.
Hey Nametrader, good to see ya on this forum as well, why so long to come on DP? Wish I had some LLL.com. High $x,xxx for this name.
Unless you NEEEEEED the money man... Sit on it for another 5-10 years and retire. 3 letter .com's are a sold out limited edition and you own one! Sit on it.... They can make TONES more extensions but .com will always be the most recognizable. In 5-10 years who knows what multinational company could use that as an acronym. They may pay whatever you ask...
I've built up a pretty nice portfolio based on selling and reinvesting into more names. Ideally, I would like to get up to the top of the chain, more prime LLL.com, LL.com and .net, 1-word .com, etc., build a solid parking revenue, and have the best of both worlds, money now and long-term investment for later. LLL.coms will always be highly sought after, but that's also why there will always be a bunch for sale. It's at just the right level to not exclude most of the market on cost like LL (sure some people can't afford mid $x,xxx+, but most people can't afford high $xx,xxx+) but to exude eliteness and rarity that sets them apart from other names at their value level. Anyhow, this and the other better names I have are more or less stepping stones to get to the high end names, so while some people would hold onto a name like this for a long time, I thrive off of money flow and have a knack for finding good deals on names, so it's better for me to sell.