Latest on Quad Premium Domain Name Chips Trend

Having looked through many drop markets and various domain blogs and forums; such as name.com, dropcatch.com, domaininvestors.com, dnforum.com and on ofcourse namepros.com where thousands of domain investors flocks, for nothing else than searching for the latest news and direction on domain name industry.

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 While doing that, I found several issues that boiled down to the ongoing trend on what is known as “Quads Domain Name Chips” I realized that after the buyout of all quad chip .com, and .net, .top and etc. Having done that, I  realised lot of people buying and selling of quad and two characters domains on .biz extension; such as NL.biz or LN.biz and NN.biz, among them is the sale of 66.Biz for $69k. I believe that with these sales, there likely to be more investors buying and selling .biz domains in the market.

There is also ongoing sales of pattern domains, such as 5N.co extension ie. 77888.co or vice versa 88877.co or as you like to combine your domains.  However, rarity is fully catching up with five numeric .co domains.  The buyers are still same Chinese investors and on that note, it is advised to put into consideration what makes the Chinese premium domains before investing on the Chinese domain’s niche.

The trend is also going vast on LLNN or NNLL and on five letters – LLLL domain names, be it .com, .net, .top, .cc, .cn, .biz and .co. There is another new pattern trend (may be not new, but just realised it) going on - such as repeated single letter pattern domains, such as buying a long same premium letters of say about four (4) to ten (10) repeated letters; something like qqqqqqqqqq.com etc.

Same thing is going on repeated same figure/numeric such as 7777777777.com. Right now, five numeric domains are going for good cash. There is this news where ex-Marchex is selling out their five numeric .com domains; two of them were acquired by domainpros.com – 21889.com and 36689.com for $1,000,000.

Comparisons of Short domains

Short domains, especially the numeric and quad chips are now favorably compared to many valuable metals such as gold, copper and diamond etc, because it is very easy to exchange your virtual properties to cash when there is the need to do so.

What Are Chinese Chips Domains

Lastly, I once again wish to remind you of what makes Premium Domain Chips or Quad Chips. Quad chips are short combination of four letter domains. In the case of Chinese - quads chips are four letters, such as the combinations of consonants that excludes vowels A, E, I, O, U and V it can be something like CCCC, CVCV, or CCVV are considered as liquid.  

Western Premium Quads are combination of alphabets that excludes these 8 non premium letters as thus  J, K, Q, V, W, X, Y and Z and domains without them are considered to be more liquid than those domains that includes these 8 non premium alphabets.  

But however, in the recent time, according to the trend of the liquidity of quads in the market, it seems end users and investors are coming to the market to get what is available, unlike when there was enough for selections.

What Are Chinese Investors Buying

Type of domains the Chinese investors are buying exclude the Vowels A, E, I, O, U and letter V and in case of numeric, they don’t like double zeros - 00 and 4. Double Zeros and 4 means bad luck and they are trying as much as possible to avoid those characters. Single zero is accepted if it comes as last figure.

However, with my latest research, I realized that buyers also buy the VCVC and VVCC or CCVV

But the prices varies from those categorized as Chips – that is, quads without any vowel. And in case of numeric, should be without 4 and double zeros.

Legend to this article: 

C - Consonant,

V - Vowel

N –Number,

L - Letter

Domain Chips – In this context, means domains without any vowel in the body of the domain. Or in the case of numeric combinations; are domains without figure 4 and zero.

For reference :

Please read more here 

www.domainsherpa.com/domain-name-dictionary/premium-letters/

Read the Chinese Simplified version here