Below are some high quality 4 letter names. All are easy to remember and brand able. If you have an interest in buying one of them the go to KnowledgeHQ and make your enquiry there.
Want more cool Domain Names? Go to Afternic portfolio. Or. Go to Sedo portfolio
LLLL Quality Domains For Sale
Another Fantastic Sale, Business.com sold for $360 Million USD, WOW!!!
The final purchaser is R.H. Donnelley who bought Business.com to increase their influence of the Internet in the yellow-pages and white-pages business, which publishes paper and online directories in 28 states under the AT&T, Dex and Embarq names, among others.
The Dow Jones and the New York Times were both bidding on the company. The sale was expect to close between $300 to $400 million. So the price was right on target. Business.com currently brings in about $15 Million dollars a year in revenue. So the sale was 24 times earnings. This is a rather high price for a company but generally bigger companies sell for a higher multiple. 24X is very health. If a company is able to demonstrate $1 Million dollars in revenue that would make it worth about $24 Million according to these numbers. However, smaller companies sell for a smaller multiple. Generally between 8X to 15X. Now you can see why 24X looks so good for this company. One could argue it was the domain name that made it so valuable.
The parent company has revenues of $442 million and has a market capitalization of $9.67 Billion. R.H. Donnelley’s stock currently trades at nearly 22X their current revenue. This purchase is right in line with the value of their stock so it is a good purchase from my perspective.
More recent LLLL.com Sales
LLLL.com sales are starting to pick up. Here are some recent sales,
XOZA com $245 Jul 07 Sedo Auction
DigU com $1,500 Jul 07 Sedo Auction
BICU com $1,999 Jul 07 Sedo Auction
DOFY com $750 Jul 07 Sedo Auction
HIGI com $1,850 Jul 07 Sedo Auction
QUJE com $510 Jul 07 Sedo Auction (excellent sale considering the letter quality)
Nipa com $2,262 Jul 07 SnapNames
Kahe com $5,111 Jul 07 Sedo
FYLE com $1,077 Jul 07 Sedo Auction
POFA com $1,770 Jul 07 Sedo
ITAT com $2,070 Jul 07 Moniker/Traffic
HODU com $609 Jun 07 Sedo Auction
EWap com $8,078 Jun 07 Sedo Auction
Loci com $10,000 Jun 07 Afternic
Heya com $4,100 Jun 07 SnapNames
Toga com $60,000 Jun 07 Afternic/BuyDomains (Nice sale, 60k!)
Poda com $11,840 Jun 07 Sedo
OPax com $4,488 Jun 07 BuyDomains
Answers.com buys Dictionary.com for, sit down please, $100 million
"Answers Corp has reached an agreement to buy Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com from Lexico Publishing Group, LLC for $100 million.
These properties attracted 11.5 million unique monthly users in the U.S. during the month of June 2007 according to comScore. They generated revenues of $7 million, EBITDA of $2.9
million and net income of $2.8 million in 2006. For more information, see the press release."
From the press release:
“Dictionary.com’s success is built on its unique, descriptive domain name and simple, straightforward interface,” explained Bruce D. Smith, Chief Strategic Officer.
Who can argue with this?
Generic domain names are hotter than the sun these days. The industry is really booming right now. But this sale is just awesome. It makes the recent sale of porn.com for $12 million look like peanuts.
I am totally blown away, $100 millions! I have to sit down now.
LLLL Decreasing Rapidly
LLLL.com will get more and more valuable as more people jump on the internet, especially with pronounceable and brandable LLLL. The reason for this is that UDRP actions and trademark issues will fuel the growth of made-up words LLLL.com.
It is exiting times for everyone holding a LLLL portfolio. The future sure looks bright. I would recommend everyone not to sell their names for peanuts. LLLL.com is a long time investment. The numbers will pretty soon be below 20k.
The latest data shows that the number of LLLL.com are resolutely going down and not once reversing yet.
By the end of August 2007 we should be firmly under the 30.000 line and heading for the next break spread 20.000-25.000. In just a couple of days the numbers dropped from 26k to 23k.
When below 20k it should be just a matter of time before some big domain registrar registers all of the remaining.
LLLL Steadily Going Down
There are 234,256 combinations of LLLL domains without the letters Q, Z, X & Y (the 4 most disliked letters).
There are only 2,277 LLLL domains left without any of these letters in according to dyyo.com. This means that it has now dropped under the 1 percent mark (2,277 / 234,256 = 0.972%).
How long will it be until someone register the remaining LLLL.com?
Let's say someone registerd the remaining 26,000 at a bulk rate of $5.00 = $130,000. They would have to renew 2 years x $130,000 = $260,000. Total price for 3 years registered = $390,000. If value increases to average $50 each - in 3 years 26,000 x $50 = $1,300,000.
I wish I had the money!
June 2007 new registration
June new registration is 7670, while a total of 2810 names have dropped. The total available names decrease by 4860 to 32585. Due to the constant deleting, catching, and tasting process, we don't expect to see the number goes above 30k again on any given day.
We still haven't seen any significant speculation registration yet at this stage. Will there ever be any big guy interested to come in to scoop up the available names? The 800 pound gorilla in the domain business, Buydomains, is already quietly buying up names. They pretty much doubled their holding in four letter domains in the past 1.5 years. With their registration of just above 12k, they are still thousands behind the biggest holders of 4 letter names. By all means they can be the one that bulk register the remaining 4 letter names.
And it could be the best time to jump in now for the small investors. As a couple of big registration spikes can wipe out the available pool immediately.
OK, so if one day all the names are registered, will the full registration ever hold? Four letter domains started with 'A' might be a good indication. Since they are gone 6 months ago, there are seldom any available for hand registration. And we see quite a few of them being back ordered now.
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