There are other niches people are paying for giving good payouts, even from reg fee. No sense flipping at today’s $50 having bought at $30-40.

I think the big players are already sitting. Now we’ve got scraps and we’re talking in years again for good ROI. Ahhh, how I miss January!

Are the pros suggesting that everyone dump there double and single premiums? This will lower the price because of supply and demand, but eventually big players will be sitting with thousands of names and the price will only go up from there. If I was a betting man, (and I am) I would easily say that LLLL.coms and .nets should easily stay on a 50 percent incline for the next five years.

Average LLLL.coms
$60 year one
$90 year two
$135 year three
$200 year four
$300 year five

What would you bet on?

I am pretty sure LLLL domains belong to the group that is more vulnerable to fluctuations in value due to the fact that they don’t generally possess any generic name value as keyword domains do. Most four-letter domains do not receive much type-in traffic, either.

Still, the rate at which LLLL prices rose was inflated because of flipping among domain investors; monthly price increases of 30-50% are neither normal nor good for the market in the long run. It was only a question of time until this rate would start to fall. That’s not a bad sign, in my opinion. It shows that the LLLL sub-market is about to mature as well, and to grow at a more reasonable rate.

Are sellers thinking that with a possible world wide recession on the horizon that now it is time to sell? Are buyers less confident at the moment because of gloomy economic predictions and not paying extravigant prices for these particularly speculative domains?

I don’t know what the answer is but I am not 100% sure that a ‘natural market correction’ is the only factor influencing prices.

I think eventually better quality LLLL domains will go up in price and drag the lower quality ones behind.
When I’ve researched it a month ago I’ve found that most end user sales were for not premium 4 letter domains, some we’d even call crappy. So statistics show that related to their price the crappy LLLL’s have actually better end user potential

Sure every domain name ext be it .com or otherwise will drop down in value now and then.

I saw this coming as well and offloaded all of my lower quality LLLL.coms (1850 of them) between mid-January and mid-February. Some questioned my logic at the time, selling out at an average of $40 apiece on a commodity which at the time was still rising at the time… It couldn’t of course keep rising at the rate at which it was and I was fairly certain there’d be a hiccup before the $100 mark was reached, which indeed there was.

I’ve since diversified into higher quality all premium LLLL.coms, LLL.coms, and LL.ca. Now that this market has matured a bit, I think a diversified approach is necessary. As I’ve told many domainers already, the days of “get-rich quick” profits on LLLL.coms are over. They’re a long term play now and must be treated as such if domainers want to be successful in this market.