Where do you see 3L.com prices going ?

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There has been discussion on Namepros and on social media about where the prices of 3L.com are going.

One of the best performing and most liquid of all the domain name categories. So far in 2017, Namebio has recorded 34 three letter .com sales.

2 sales have eclipsed six figures, DiL.com sold by BQDN and OCS.com which sold on Sedo.

8 sales have been $18,000 or under.

Where do you see the benchmark price of three letter .coms going in 2017 ?

Data provided by Namebio

 

Where do you see 3L.com prices going ?

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About Raymond Hackney

Raymond is a writer, domain trader and consultant based in Pennsylvania. Raymond is the founder of 3Character.com and TLDInvestors.com.

Comments

  4. Richard says

    The extreme spread between 3L .com Chips and those with V and vowels never made any sense in the first place. Last year some Chips were traded at $75,000 – $85,000 while the non chips were traded at $20,000. Today the Chips are traded at $35,000 – $45,000 and the non chips at $15,000 – $20,000. So without the Chinese money the premium just returned to a normal level imo. On top of that you have a lot of Chinese investors who loaded up on Chips last year at prices from 60-80k that are now pressuring the market. Some need to sell it seems. As you never had that excessive speculation in non chips ,the prices stayed closer to what end users are actually willing to pay for a 3L domain.

  5. xecutech says

    Also 3 character domains with letter number combinations are starting to do well. HG7.com went for $60k and I have had several offers for V2X.com in the past few months.

  6. Josh says

    Just sold a 3L with a V for “chip” money 2 weeks ago, have offers on two others approaching $30k as of this week.
    They are on the rise again and selling for less is foolish.
    Markets continue to rise online and off, most highs do then see lows but the highs generally come back and stronger.

    If that wasn’t the case we would have to get used to a real depression. Followed by a bail out and rinse repeat…

  8. Mark Thorpe says

    Stay where they are at or trend lower. Too much turnover. IMO.

    It’s just like a stock market cycle, everything has it’s peak.
    The rich get richer and small guy gets burned.

    The real domain brokers and Investors will survive, the rest will not.

    Back to domain name basics in 2017.

  9. Domo Sapiens says

    Too vague of a question to get a good answer…
    There is lll.com’s and there is lll.com’s

    You can’t just group all of them in one category

    If you are talking about domains sales to Uneducated Chinese domainers yes it’s going down…

    If you are talking about Premium (acronyms) 3 letters .com domains my thinking is that either they are/will be stable or will be going higher (for instance I wouldn’t consider any of the domains posted above as Premium not even close, they are more of ‘trading cards’ among domainers)…

    “the one sure thing about lll .com domains is that they are Highly Unpredictable”
    N. Cohen (the man with real data)

    • Josh says

      Very true Nat, there are LLL then LLL, chinese/western, words, uses, rarity (repeats), traffic, no traffic, potential for usefulness etc…

      In the last 2 months I have sold two with a vowel and a dot net (for as much) to boot for premium prices. To me the shift is vowels are ok again as long as they show use.

      Too generic a question, spot on.

    • Domain says

      I think In the article Raymond said the benchmark price. We all tend to look at what’s the lowest any three letter will go to.

      Nat certainly has a great feel with all the volume he trades.

  10. Josh says

    Look at this sales report from just today and tell me why LLL dot com arn’t cheap great buys.

    Domain Price Date Venue
    ich.de 10,666 USD 2017-02-23 Sedo
    zzb.net 10,550 USD 2017-02-23 Sedo
    lpg.net 10,455 USD 2017-02-23 Sedo
    dbkw.com 10,349 USD 2017-02-23 Sedo
    uk.ai 9,999 USD 2017-02-23 Sedo
    mddm.com 9,990 USD 2017-02-23 Sedo
    mall.ai 9,900 USD 2017-02-23 Sedo
    rhmf.com 9,900 USD 2017-02-23 Sedo
    ytyt.com 8,500 USD 2017-02-23 NameJet

  11. Josh says

    Sorry for being confusing you with Nat, Roberto, so what is it you mean by manipulation?

    I do not think it is possible in this area in a large scale. I just flat out think short acronyms in the greatest extension on the planet will continue to be desired. How many LLL dot com are there 17XXX? The web is a crucial tool and will remain so for decades imo, LLL dot com will appreciate and anyone selling on the cheap side is foolish, imo. As with any market we will see highs and lows but when I look back even 10-12 years and see $1000-$4000 LLL dot com going for $20K-$90K today you cannot debate the fact the demand exists, there is a use and as long as we have the interweb there will always be. It will only get stronger and force prices up.

    • Domo Sapiens says

      There were several blog reports/rumors (last 2 years) about savvy Asian speculators/manipulators moving the domain market (pump and dump) what it stroke a chord with me were G Hong’ comments on dnjournal in this regard…
      (State of the Industry, Hong’s comment #2 )

    • James Booth says

      I completely agree with this. Right now a large percentage of domains are in Chinese hands but most of these are the type of names that have little relevance to the Western markets. End users will always exist and there will always be a demand for LLL.coms. My specialty is LLL.com and we mainly sell to investors with a few end user sales. Out of all the names we have sold to investors several are now in end user hands for 6 figure amounts. The main issue right now with CHIPS is that the Chinese own so many and they are impatient to wait for end users. The Chinese investors like to be able to control the market which is hard to do on LLL.com as 50%+ are owned by the West. Their new strategy is buying CC.com as there are only 500 and it’s a small enough market they can try and control. The same happened with NN.com and NNN.com. If you buy the right LLL with decent stats and large end users then your on to a winner, just do due diligence and make sure you are making a good investment. The reason TRF.com sold for $32k is because it has a negative meaning in Chinese so therefor not really a premium for them. The Chinese are still buying LLL but they will only buy names with good meanings. CXZ.com translates domains into Chinese if you want to check the meanings.

      • May says

        A single premium letters LLL.com domain (TRF.com) gets sold for less than expected and suddenly everyone starts writing about an LLL.com crash, market manipulation at its best.
        It’s bizarre how you talk about being a professional when it comes to LLL.coms, yet you and your brother are the one’s responsible for much of the hype surrounding the LLL.com space.
        You reported Yea.com sold at NamesCon for $46,000 and brag about it all over the domaining community and still keep bumping your sale thread for Yea.com on Namepros top auctions.
        I was actually watching the auction for TRF.com and it was funny how you and your brother were bidding against each other for that domain, oh and please do enlighten us with the negative meaning of TRF.
        Day-traders and manipulators need to stick to the stock market and leave domains alone.

        • James Booth says

          I did not report Yea.com being sold at Namescon. It ended unsold actually which is why I posted it for sale. I have not once bragged about the sale of Yea.com. I have also not stated that the market has crashed. I simply pointed out that the reason TRF sold for $32k was because it has little value to China. Me and my brother are completely separate when it comes to domains. I have my business, he has his. TRF is still a great name for the west. We have bid against each other on several names. I don’t see how that has to do with anything. I am not responsible for any hype, I just buy, sell and broker names with the majority being LLL.com as there is an active market for them.

          • James Booth says

            Here are the Chinese translations for TRF.com : 谭人凤 ,逃人法 ,唐若甫 ,覃日飞 ,唐人坊 ,童润夫 which to English is : Tan Renfeng, escape law, Tang Ruofu, Tan Rifei, Tang Fangfang, Tong Runfu.

  12. Josh says

    Ignore the hate James, people do not like to see others succeed, sadly it is what happens.

    You know you worked hard, hustled hard and made the right moves. The people in the business who have done well know what it takes and we all know you deserve a tip of the hat for your achievements.

    Josh