if you had the money, would you invest in 3letter.coms and hold them for a few years?
 

so lets say you had some cash laying around and wanted to invest like 25k$, would you consider buying a bunch of 3 letter.coms and sitting on them for a few years until you find the proper buyer?

do you think this is a good idea? interesting? bad?

thanx!

no i wouldn't... unless you manage to get them cheap, under current market price

just my opinion... but fact is that i have much experience in domains, but none in 3 letter ones :)

depends on the domains

maybe stuff that means something and you know you will monetise, but not like xqc or something.

bed.com
hat.com
wet.com

etc sure

not xft.com, ltr.com etc

I was thinking more for xft.com and what not

companies are emerging every day, isint it only a matter of time until someone with those 3 letters wants that domain for their company?

Only problem is that you can't touch any domain like that for $25k

3 letter .com's are worth investing in - it's common sense.


even the lamest no meaning 3 letter (not 3 character but 3 letters) are always in vogue.

Xylophones for trade?

Buy some Gucci underwear yo.

Have you tried looking through Sedo and making some offers ?

Of course it is and if you look around you might be able to get a package deal and get a bit more for your money

Yes, if the year were 1997.

But now, dunno.

The prices for 3 letter DOTCOMs are much higher now; they get auctioned on SnapNames for $2500+ each, depending on the letters.

WET.COM etc.. are six figures+.

Although, I do like domains in general. My domain portfolio is almost 20,000 names.

yeahh... he should buy all ones from yakov for a million or whatever amount he wanted for them :1orglaugh


seriously, if u an buy them cheap, do that.. if you pay current market price among domainers... i dont think its the best investment
you can buy a type in domain for $25k and make your $25k back in 2-4 years, and you still have the domain worth $25k

or you can buy some random names like ytb.com and hope someone buys them in few years, but it might not happen at all
and they obviously dont get much ( or any ) traffic so they wont make money in the meanwhile, you will just freeze capital

whatever, im done in this thread... theoretically you can obviously buy a name for $4k and sell for half a million but i wouldnt count on that

here is a successfully proven model for acquiring 3-letter.com's for approx $4k-$5500

1) create account http://IPalert.com (platinum recommended)

2) load up our Instant Backorderer so you can place backorders very efficiently and quickly in one-click.

3) backorder every 3 letter .com that is expiring. there are usually 2 or 3 every few days to keep you on your toes.

4) since a lot are snapnames priority domains - go fuck some people up in the snap auctions.


Within a few weeks you will have wholesale acquisitions of 3 letter .com's or We will refund your IPalert account charges.

I don't think it's a bad idea, but only as a small part of a diversified investment portfolio. (Personally I wouldn't do it even as that, though I buy other domains). It's a gamble, and even with the "wholesale" prices, you're competing against other people doing the same thing, who have some decent data on which to base their pricing. It's a reasonably competitive business, and as you've described it, that's a fairly passive strategy, so I wouldn't expect quick, big returns. You can improve your odds of getting a quick return by seeking out companies with those initials and contacting them, but if you're just going to sit on them and wait, with unpopular letters, I would expect to wait to several years on average. Some letter combos, like qjk.com, it's just really going to be tough to find an interested premium buyer. You could easily go a decade without any interest, other than from other folks like yourself looking to buy low and sell high.

yes that's the point

yes and no,it really depends on the domain and what's the price you'll pay for it.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh oink

Three-letter .coms that make sense? Yes. Random ones? Not really.

That would depend on what names it is and what u pay for them, just like most other things :upsidedow

the master has spoken :)

In my view, there are better investments than 2 and 3 letter acronyms in the domain name sphere...

Click over to DNJournal's weekly sale list...
http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm

Note most of the highest priced sellers are NOT acronyms, but rather one, and often two word, dictionary domains.

Shorter is not always better when it comes to value. A noteable exception to that are short domains that are actual dictionary words, such as "ax", "bed", "sex" ...

To be clear, short acronym domains have some value for sure, but much of it is hype ...

Ron

>> companies are emerging every day, isint it only a matter of time until someone with those 3 letters wants that domain for their company?

yea then they get a trademark and just take it off you like the wankers at cjb.net did to me with cjb.com

Acronyms are difficult to legally protect unless they are world-famous ... ie. IBM.

So how did they do get the cjb.com domain?

I could find no record of any UDRP actions for cjb.com

Or did they send a cease and desist and/or file a lawsuit?

Even if the dispute happened way back in the pre-ICANN days, most often it still took a lawsuit against the registrant to get NSI to act...

Unless you used fake whois info and/or allowed it to expire while it was being disputed - a quirk many registrants involved in disputes didn't know about.

So again, how did they do get the cjb.com domain?

Ron