Three letter .coms are one of the most popular and valuable niches in the domain investment world. Always one of my favorite and the first real good domains I picked up in 1998/1999.
In 2005 3Character.com was born out of the Namepros chatroom which at the time was real discussion and not the spamming of domain names for sale already listed in the marketplace.
Back in 2018 Rick Schwartz talked about how they were being sold too cheap.
One thing I noticed this year but did not research, was fewer reported LLL.com domain sales.
Now that 2020 has concluded for sales reporting, I went to Namebio. The number of reported LLL. com sales has been going down for years.
2020 was by far the lowest numbers reported by Namebio. There is one we know of not in the numbers and that was sold by Shane and Travis. NIQ.com, the exact number was not given so Michael could not list.
| Year | # of sales | Dollar Volume | Average Sales Price |
| 2020 | 40 | $2.7m | $66.6K |
| 2019 | 76 | $4.7m | $61.6K |
| 2018 | 94 | $10.1m | $107.7K |
| 2017 | 147 | $11.4m | $77.7K |
| 2016 | 174 | $7.1m | $41K |
| 2015 | 349 | $13.2m | $38K |
Only 17,576 of these so as more end up in end user hands it only makes sense to see the reported numbers become more and more scarce.
“Only 17,576 of these so as more end up in end user hands”
Very few are being sold to endusers, a big chunk is owned by domainers and are basically unsellable domains beyond flipping to someone else.
Volumes continue to fall because domainers to hang onto domains rather than sell at a loss, the same thing is seen in the EMD market.
There are no unsellable LLL.com You’re stupidity is at an amazing level. You are a complete troll moron.
Don’t misquote me, I said
“a big chunk is owned by domainers and are basically unsellable domains beyond flipping to someone else”
50% of LLL.com and the majority of LLL.com domains owned by domainers have zero enduser demand. They are bad letter combinations and only valuable because they are LLL.com, not because any business wants them.
This is not pool of names that is evaporating, demand is still falling away following the Chinese bust.
I’m aware of many LLL end-user sales. Most are under NDA (I just wish Nat would share!). End-user sales are not falling – public reported wholesale sales are falling, however (although I’ve purchased several this year in private, unreported transactions). I know first hand that enduser sales are alive and well.
Paul (AKA Snoopy) always thinks the sky is falling. 🙂