LLLL.com buyout failed?

[katherine]

Will someone grab the remaining available please.
We have a buyout to sustain :smilewinkgrin:

 

[Mike Cruz]

gogogogogogo....

I only own two llll.com's at the moment, but would like to see the value rise a bit

 

[Gerry]

It was not my intention to turn this into an IDN thread.

But in view of the fact that you are spreading ridiculous propaganda relating to the way other nations cultures work, then it is fair to bring up a few of the pertinent facts.

The truth is LLLL.com were always bullshit. There was never going to be a big market in 4 letter acronyms because they get too specific. To then turn around and say that failure in the US will be somehow superseded with success in China is just BS.

What you feel about LLLL is perfectly fine.

To say I am spread propaganda the way other cultures work? Enlighten us all - how has the internet worked the past twenty years?

And where and when did I say, "that failure in the US will be somehow superseded with success in China is just BS."? Are you even in the same thread?

My agreement with another member about the value/perceptions of certain letters disdained in the US might be of value to other nations/speakers is simply that - agreeing with another member over the perception/value of letters.

Your comments are so ****ing ridiculous and presumptuous that they are laughable.

No it is the American Cultural supremacy that is the problem.

Hey dickhead - I used a personal story to illustrate how my wanting to learn and speak Russian to welcome our visitors was trumped by their wanting to speak the English they had learned.

Your little perception and mind of how Americans think and perceive themselves is in part true. What is not true is applying that line of bullshit thinking to everyone.

I have traveled and lived (sometimes not by choice) in south east asia and europe. I speak some Russian, German, and French. I am quite fluent in Latin, Spanish, and Italian.

As mentioned, myself and many other members here are quite aware of the impending IDN. What is to come does not have a flippin thing to do with what has been.

Nor does it change any of the studies (I used but one example) of the popularity of the english language studies in China. That enthusiasm is mildly related to the internet but is mostly due to trade and economics.

So quit making assumptions about me and quit making statements of what I supposedly said.

I am quite capable of expressing myself and hardly need someone to say, "what he meant was..."

So the question is - if they keep dropping and people keep picking them up as they drop - is the buyout still a success or a failure? (Or both?).

I've picked up a few though drops (post-drop hand registration). No, I don't plan on going hog-wild like I did with the nnnnn.com buyout but I have been selective.

A buyout is successful when all are claimed. Sure, many will drop. The issue, as mentioned earlier, seems to be will the buyout be sustained?

We can say the LLL is a buyout. But some occasionally drop and hit the auctions. Point is, they have all be bought (registered) by someone and none were available to register (is that the definition of a buyout?).

So, if we apply that same definition to LLLL then indeed a buyout DID occur - all LLLL combinations had been registered and none were available for registration for a period of time.

Dropping is dropping. An LLL that drops naturally will have a much larger market and demand for it. An LLLL that drops is more prone to scrutiny and may/may not get purchased by someone. There is potential to still find one every now and then for reg fee.

The buyout did occur. But will every one that was registered be in demand as when the rush to reg all of them? In other words, will that frenzy be sustained?

No. The LLLL.com buyout did not fail. Demand has waned.

 

[hugegrowth]

I think this pattern will continue for a while, drops and regs. What will be interesting to see is if the number of available LLLL creeps up from week to week. This has the feel of a ship taking on water, and someone pumping it out at the same time...

 

[katherine]

This has the feel of a ship taking on water, and someone pumping it out at the same time...

You took the words right out of my mouth.
$7+ a bucket

 

[DomainMagnate]

I'm actually getting more and more emails on my LLLL.com's lately, from other domainers trying to buy top names for cheap. Their offers are too low, so it never gets close to a sale, but still amusing.. might be a sign of something good to come.. or not

 

[Gerry]

I'm actually getting more and more emails on my LLLL.com's lately

Ditto.

I got one this morning that was worded kind of bizarre.

It said something to the effect:

We would like to make an offer on (LLLL).com.
What is your price?

Make an offer?
What is my price?

I really think that if someone wants to make an offer then they should make the offer irregardless of my "price". We all know that our "price" is an arbitrary value we give domains.

I did respond saying that I had no "set price" and to please forward their offer for my consideration.

 

[Stian]

I'm actually getting more and more emails on my LLLL.com's lately, from other domainers trying to buy top names for cheap. Their offers are too low, so it never gets close to a sale, but still amusing.. might be a sign of something good to come.. or not

I've started to get offers again as well. It's a great sign of what's to come.

We have already seen that the prices are on their way back up after the huge dip in Q1/Q2 2009.

Hold your names people!

 

[skynic]

All remaining llllcoms have been taken.

 

[tetrapak]

Will someone grab the remaining available please.
We have a buyout to sustain :smilewinkgrin:

As you wish! (wasn't me!)

 

[dominator]

All remaining llllcoms have been taken.

what means nothing

only for people with lower iq it matters whether all useless LLLL.com's are taken
or some useless LLLL.com's are still available

 

[Ukrainian]

I never say that worst LLLL.com's like GZVQ are worth of nothing. That's not true! It's a stereotype that people say that all crappy LLLL's are worth of reg fee. To know the true price of the domain, I'm looking for it's acronyms and possible end-users. I saw XX,XXX sales of triple-premium LLLL.com's (just 4 random letters, not a word). I will always look at the domain at first and look for those who may buy it, and only then I will decide whether I will buy it. I will even consider crappy LLLL.com with possible endusers than quad premium with no possible endusers.

 

[tattoos]

I have been (somewhat) successful with a random LLLL.com I picked up a few months before the buyout frenzy started.
Never thought much about the future value of it until I heard they were nearly all registered.

I originally got it because it was short and easy to type.
I used it to host my screen shots and pics that I would link to in forums.
The combination of letters is not pronounceable but (I think) is easy enough to remember.

One day I had an idea for a site, at the time I did not have many domains, the ones I did have were not suited for this sites niche except for the LLLL (because it was random and wasn't suited to "any" niche) So I used it.

The site is nearly one and a half years old, the random 4 letters of the domain has been searched for 17,619 times in the last 31 days.

I find the comments about certain letters being popular in other countries interesting and wonder if that could possibly explain why it became popular in Japan so quick. (now ranked in the top 2,500 sites in Japan according to Alexa and ranked in the top 25k globally).
The random letters are U, V, R and X in that order.
I ended up getting the .net, .org, .info etc as well when I noticed the steady increase in searches for the domain.

So I guess, if its short and (somewhat) memorable, it most likely can be branded to some extent.

Cheers
James

 

[katherine]

Get ready for the 5L & 6L buyout

 

[hugegrowth]

5L combinations = close to 12 million domains.

 

[tetrapak]

5L's have rarely got any acronyms, 4L's have still tons in many cases. Best is 3L of course, but see where the prices are..

 

[katherine]

I know but I'm sure there are newbies piling them up LOL
You never know, maybe any short domain will be valuable in 2079...

 

[sashas]

Ok, I am English. When exactly do I buy things on the Internet from a US site? OK, I used to get some stuff from Canada but only because it was not available in the UK. But basically the flaw to Schillings argument is that at consumer level the "Global Market" does not exist. OK, we have Walmart in the UK but it is called Asda!

The Global Market is a theoretical aggregation of Local Markets. If you want to be a successful global player you need to segment into Local Markets and be successful in each one. Don't believe me? Ask Google!

So true. Since people don't eat beef here, McDonalds had to make an all-chicken menu for its restaurants in India. And since a lot of Indians are vegetarians, half the menu at McDonalds is vegetarian too, including some burgers made specifically for India (McAloo 'Tikki', for instance).

Same for Pizza Hut and Dominos. Both have mostly Indian flavored pizzas that outsell everything else. Pepperoni might be the most popular topping across the United States, but here, Chicken Tikka and Chicken Makhani rule.

So yes, without going local, you can't dominate on the global front. The fear that the developing world will lose its cultural identity because of capitalism (i.e., we'll all have a unicultural world, with the rules dictated by corporates) has been held to be completely false as time and again it has been shown that people will not embrace something unless it embraces their culture first.

 

[Namebrander]

I wouldnt want to reg any of those 4 l coms left

Just shows you though fxtg.com is for sale on sedo and is at 3,000 $US with 11h 47mins left to go

Now how much would you pay another domainer for that? $10 max?

Good ole end end users huh

 

[Rubber Duck]

I wouldnt want to reg any of those 4 l coms left

Just shows you though fxtg.com is for sale on sedo and is at 3,000 $US with 11h 47mins left to go

Now how much would you pay another domainer for that? $10 max?

Good ole end end users huh

Chinese or

Foreign Exchange To Go?