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The 4L.com chip market is getting it’s butt kicked

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Taking a look at four letter Chip .coms shows a market continuing into further decline.

Using data from Namebio let’s dive in.

Back in 2017 outside of one outlier $210 sale the lowest 4L chips (no aeiouv) were going for $770 – $840 at the low end. Namebio recorded 2129 sales.

Taking a look at 2018 volume and prices are down, only 654 sales through the first 9 months. Prices are now as low as $354.

2016 showed a much better time when the 100th lowest sale was still $1,200.

 

About Raymond Hackney

Raymond Hackney has been involved with domain names since 1997. One of the most prolific writers in the domain industry and founder of TLDinvestors.com and 3Character.com

Comments

  1. eric freedman says

    I expect prices to become lower I think the chip market is doomed. At the peak they were selling for 2-3k Joe they are in the $300-400 range Did the bubble pop? Well it did to me. Idk about you guys that are still buying them. I do wish everyone luck cause it will be needed to recover your money imo

    • Trent says

      Weren’t you the guy on namepros buying them all day long, cryptocurrency made this whole sector worthless, nobody wants the coveted jxzf garbage that used to command $2500 on the drop of a dime all day long

  2. Barry Felds says

    Are those were the days.. I remember them well…

    Domain Shane not letting any negative ‘china bubble’ comments appear on his blog.. He and his Team China new best.. they had the inside mail on this ‘China Place’.. all learnt thru hands on experience via multiple visit to their local Chinese restaurant.

    Namepros day traders busily registering all the available combinations of the square root of 8m x 8 \ 8 tigers – 4 + Chairman Mao’s Birthday

    A spike in ‘lucky pinyin’ searches on google

    A spike in google searches from the US asking ‘where is this China place’

    The makers of the board game Scrabble being petitioned by domainers to let all 4-5 letter combo words without vowels to be deemed to be ‘real words’ with multiple business opportunities and vast riches awaiting a budding chinese entrepreneur toiling away in a factory Guangzhou.

    US domainers demanding that the Pandas at the San Diego zoo be renamed ‘chip’ and ‘Pinyin’

    Are those were the days..

    P.S. All is not lost. I did read on namepros that if there is life on Mars that them aliens 👽 would need a domain name chop chop and that they like emoji domains because they are superior beings and commicate in their own language. Domain Shane and his ‘Team Mars’ confirmed this but added that Martians have a preference for .ws domains

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