Well it was 4 number .com madness today on NameJet.com when five, 4 number .com’s sold for a combined price of over $43,000.
The highest price domain, 9944.com sold for over $13K.
Wow
I’ll be the 1st to day it, I don’t get it.
0606.com for over $6K?
Anyone have any idea of what I’m missing here?
| 9944.com | $13,101 |
| 9292.com | $11,100 |
| 4646.com | $6,655 |
| 0606.com | $6,303 |
| 0303.com | $5,826 |
Sure, It’s called Domain Investing 3.0
Your title should be “Here come the Chinese”. Number domains are very popular in China, and all of Asia. They are easy to remember, spell and write. The prices on Namejet are not high, actually low. 9898.com sold for $23,000 on the Chinese website 4.cn. 4.cn is the top Chinese domain selling platform, similar to SEDO.com On their website they list some recent sales, with prices in RMB.
bq.com￥1,301,000 RMB
886.com￥401,000 RMB
199.com￥368,666 RMB
022.com￥271,000 RMB
88.com.cn￥203,000 RMB
232.com￥199,000 RMB
025.com￥184,000 RMB
867.com￥170,000 RMB
9898.com￥168,000 RMB
I added a few more sales in USD:
3366.com sold for $9500 in 2008 dnjournal
2888.com $9000 2010 dnjournal
8882.com $9000 2010 dnjournal
1199.com $13,000 2009 dnjournal
1880.com over $5000 Pool
The is a no reserve ACTIVE auction of 1199.com on 4.cn that ends in 3 days. This auction will be popular and should be a nice profit for the seller.
Big
What is the exchange rate of RMB to USD?
google says:
1 Chinese yuan = 0.146527 U.S. dollars
“number domains” to be used for…?
Numbers are universal, can be representative and have associated meanings or significance in a various languages/cultures . . . so they’re kinda neat.
I picked one 4 letter combo, long ago, because to me it concisely represented the idea of the Web being a digital world, built of zeros and ones, and I figured I’d some day use the domain to chat about the digital world.
Unfortunately, I do still have a bit of math anxiety. 😉
bigbobm, nice insight into number domains. Jeff, 0101.com…wow!
In case anyone missed the earlier news, the sale of 199.com for￥368,666 RMB as listed above by bigbobm was by a Greg Ricks’ name:
http://domaingang.com/domain-news/greg-ricks-sells-199-com-for-54000-on-little-known-chinese-auction-site-4-cn/
http://domainnamewire.com/2010/04/06/gregory-ricks-sells-199-com-on-4-cn-500-com-is-next/
I can testify that in chiense language numbers are easiest to remember, because have similar promounciation as certain words. Especially when made into jingles or limericks and repeated enough times, you can not get it out of your head.
The price is too high!Resell them is no easy in china!
It is what it’s worth for the buyer. They (often) know what they do. It absolutely doesn’t matter what other people think: It is worth what it is payd for. In despite of any whatever third party opinions, trends, apraisals, emotional reactions, beliefs: The Market is just The Buyer. Overpaying and Underpaying are just opinions, usually of people who cannot afford what the winner pays. It is business as usual: It takes just opportunity and budget. No more – No less. Let us be happy for the lucky ones instead of mourning about …
Not only through China, there are other asian countries were number domains are very popular.
Apart from that they are also very useful for premium sms/text messaging services, where to subscribe for a service or download content you have to text to a xxxx number.
I promoted such services almost 10 years ago in my country, with great success…
Best Regards,
Nuno Alex Oliveira
DNabc.com
@ J.R , A most refreshing perspective and one i concur with.
Although I believe these were sold way too expensive, looking into Chinese numerology can explain the selling price to a certain point.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerology
Some numbers are considered “lucky” and I bet all of these numeral .coms were sold to China. 🙂
I own 2564.com
I regged it because it spells out BLOG in numbers.
About one week ago it started getting 200+ visitors a day, 100% of the traffic from China.
I just asked a Chinese client of mine if the number had any significance and after searching he could find no reason for the traffic or any significance of the number in China.
Go figure.
I’m in the same situation as Rob, and although I own some NNNN like 2386.com it’s a NNNNN that has the most traffic of all my numeric domains: 11522.com
And I still don’t know why, but I haven’t spent too much time investigating it…
Seems like another it to make people invest into more number domain. I don’t see the potential. I would rather take my chances with appealing domains.
They are appealing domains, for different markets.
I also prefer one word or keyword rich domains, but they are for entirely different uses.
“I’ll be the 1st to day it, I don’t get it.”
Day it? Or say it?
Joe
Either one works for me
“The price is too high!Resell them is no easy in china!”
Are domain purchases strictly for re-sale?
???
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“I don’t see the potential. I would rather take my chances with appealing domains.”
Only the prettiest girls have dates on Friday night?
Different types of domains appeal to a different group of people.
For example, MB likes legal domains.
Another person likes Cuban domains.
Isn’t it similar to when someone says –
‘I just don’t understand what Bob sees in Mary?’
Just because we don’t recognize the potential for a particular domain doesn’t mean it isn’t there.
I realize that is the point Michael is raising.
Just because we/domainers don’t understand a particular domain purchase price doesn’t mean it isn’t worth that price.
The 4.cn auction for 1199.com ended today at 190,000 RMB or $27,832.72 U.S. dollars.
Not to mention their other recent sales list:
2. 886.com￥401,000 RMB
3. 199.com￥368,666 RMB
4. 022.com￥271,000 RMB
5. 88.com.cn￥203,000 RMB
6. 232.com￥199,000 RMB
7. 1199.com￥190,000 RMB
8. 025.com￥184,000 RMB
10. 867.com￥170,000 RMB
From their top ten only 2 domains weren’t numeric.