Last of the 4 Letter Dot Com Domains
November 2007 marks a historic time in the domain name industry! ALL four letter (LLLL.com) domains have been registered! Read the full story here.
We all know that 2 and 3 letter dot com domains are a thing of the past. Even country code and novelty domain extensions are essentially ’sold out’ of 3 letter domains. While the sheer amount of combinations drastically increases with 4 letters within a name (456,976 in fact). We still know that these domains are quickly becoming an ‘endangered species.’ Hundreds are being claimed daily by domainers, big name registrars, traffic tasters, investors and end users.
LLLL vs. CCCC
To clarify in common domaining terms, there is quite a big difference between 4 letter domains and 4 character domains, which are referred to as LLLL.com and CCCC.com respectively. “Characters” can include hyphens or numbers.
QXYZ Woes
Letter quality plays a big part in the leftovers of the last of the 4 letter dot com domains. These four letters are what is stopping up the plug on the available pool of 4 letter domains. Q, X, Y & Z simply are not able to provide substantial meaning to any combination of acronyms. We hate to get them in Scrabble and we surely don’t want them in our domain names.
What is left?
Enter DYYO, the unofficial experts on the 4 letter dot com domain industry. They provide a full featured website including statistics on how many 4 letter dot com domains are registered each month, how many are remaining, searchable lists of available LLLL.com domains and recently expired LLLL.com domains.
I personally own two 4 letter domain names, though I prefer to invest my time and money in domains which are easy to develop and have good end-user potential. The number of LLLL.com domains will continue to decline and is never expected to go above 30,000 at this given time. If at some point there noticeably large spikes in registration, a large domain registrar or investor may decide to mass register the remaining LLLL.com domains at which point the price of them all will sharply increase.
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July 30th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Interesting article, I did not know anything about four letter domains. Steep learning curve in my life…
While I agree I do not want q, x, y, or z in my domain, let me have them in Scrabble and I will probably win the game!
Lexi
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August 10th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
Good article I’m learning about domain’s now only so it will be useful later
August 10th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Good information on 4 letter domains. May be you got to start a website similar to 3character.com .
August 20th, 2007 at 8:30 am
Want my advice? Stop wasting money on crappy domain names, get the longer ones that make more sense. And besides, i just want to see, how long can a person hold a domain name down if he doesn’t have a site developed on it, and at the rate, domains are being registered, a lot are going to expire and get re-registered and then expire again.
^Just my point of view.
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November 3rd, 2007 at 12:33 am
Today, all 4 letter domains become rare. We bought them all out & you won’t be able to hand register any from this point forward. Even the crappy ones are appearing on EBay & are selling over reg fees. Like we remember phone numbers, we can now surely remember a 4 letter .com! Even if it has q’s y’s x’s & z’s. The supply & demand has been capped. If a good one apprears in the aftermarket, it will get taken immediately. I’m sure DYYO’s list will help you in that department. I thought the same about crappy 3 letter domains last month. The fact of the matter is that there are a lot more domainers out there than we think & there are new ones joining this niche daily.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:32 am
i think 2008 will be last year for 4 letters domains.
December 2nd, 2007 at 3:28 pm
It has probably been 10+ years now since I bought my first domain name. I had bought several trying to make the big score. I think at the time business.com sold for $2 million dollars.
I would stay up all night. One of the domains I bought was WLST.com. I have since become a registrar (well reseller) to get my domain name registrations for a cheaper rate. I had pictured having a graphic of the word WALL STREET flying toward the screen and the middle letters falling down leaving the W L S T.
Finance names were big back then and I just knew the pot of gold was at the end of the tunnel. Well like I said I still own it. With domain names selling for $100 or so for decent ones, I sometimes feel foolish for holding on to as many names as I have.
This article gives me some hope that someone will want the magic four letter domain and offer the big one! After 25 years of domain renewas I might just break even!
August 5th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
those guys who can guess the last 4 letter domain names will win !
but you can write a simple code to generate all possible 4 letter names and choose the best of them !