770.com sells for $343,000

Now there have been two NNN.com sales over $300,000 this year. First it was 173.com which sold for $302,790 and now this last week 770.com sold for $343,000. You can see them listed in the year-to-date sales charts here. In an otherwise sluggish year for domain sales, it has been a great year for numerics, with the NNNNN.com buyout and the high-value sales of NNN.com's and rising prices for NNNN.com's. The market is starting to realize that numeric domains represent the future of the internet, as they are scarce, versatile, have universal applications, and are valued heavily in high-growth areas of the future, namely the asian market and mobile phone markets.

Another Interesting Mobile Numeric Site 4695697.com

This appears to be a nice mobile site for accessing various mobile radio stations. Great idea, and looks like it used to be worldradio.mobi and was "rebranded" as a numeric domain. The site owner also owns 4695697.mobi as well. Can't figure out why this particular number was chosen, but I'm curious.

NNNNNN.com (6-digits) countdown?

Ok, this is really getting out of hand! Anyways, if the NNNNNN.com's were to be bought out, it would probably take several years for this to happen, there are 1 million of these domains and they are much less likely to have uses as product numbers, postal codes, etc. as compared to NNNNN.com's which are only 100k and have many more uses, even a completely random NNNNN.com that is not a postal code will probably have at least 100k google results and represent several product numbers. I did a brief random check of 500 NNNNNN.com's and only 26 were taken, so there would be a long way to go.

Some Historical Sales of Numeric Domains

I have been assembling historical data on sales of numerics from dnjournal's archives. This list is not complete, but it is interesting to look through to see some notable sales. One caution, I would not use this list as a current price guide as it is only through 2006, and my understanding is that prices of numerics have increased significantly in 2007 and 2008.

983.com $3,100 12/3/2003

877.com $13,502 12/9/2003

38.com $20,000 3/2/2004

113.com $6,000 4/20/2004

998.com $17,000 5/18/2004

322.com $4,650 5/25/2004

460.com $2,600 7/6/2004

888.org $10,250 8/10/2004

178.com $3,500 8/24/2004

118888.com $7,526 11/2/2004

1949.com $4,000 11/9/2004

33.net $4,000 11/16/2004

144.com $5,655 12/28/2004

118.ch $3,073 12/28/2004

413.com $1,650 4/12/2005

58.com $26,000 5/24/2005

0753.com $3,433 7/5/2005

0572.com $2,450 7/5/2005

840.com $1,750 7/5/2005

33612.com $2,350 9/6/2005

816.com $3,350 9/6/2005

74.com $17,500 11/15/2005

696.com $5,000 11/22/2005

0311.com $3,750 12/6/2005

318.com $3,900 12/20/2005

45459.com $2,051 1/3/2006

96801.com $2,001 1/10/2006

500.com $40,000 6/6/2006

118247.com $12,850 6/13/2006

31.net $4,000 6/13/2006

511.net $1,204 6/13/2006

Hong Kong Exchange Announces 5-Digit Derivative Warrants

As reported here, the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) announced that derivative warrants with 5-digit stock codes would begin trading on Monday, April 7.

This is another area for potential high-value development of NNNNN.com's. Numbers 10000-29999 are reserved for derivative warrants. 10000-19999 are reserved for derivative warrants with underlying assets listed outside Hong Kong, basket warrants, and exotic warrants. Numbers 60000-69999 are reserved for CBBC (callable bull/bear contracts) to be listed on or after November 3, 2008. It looks like 00000-09999 are currently in use for various stock codes, and the other NNNNN's are reserved for future uses.

A couple weeks ago I posted about a French company, Proxiti, that had bought a lot of NNNNN.info's that represent French postal codes. The CEO of Proxiti apparently saw the post and wrote in to provide some background on what they are doing.

Hello,
I'm the CEO of Proxiti.

Thank you for your post, and comparing proxiti with the big Marchex.

For a complement of information : proxiti is ready to use a network of 6000 .info domains wich represents 97% of french postal codes.

.info is the unique tld wich can offer this territorial cover, and is more effective than others tld.
In France, people don't say 'news' but 'info' for talking about informations.

My business is not domain names selling : i want to build the first french information network, with real contents and i'm today searching VC's for that.
If you have one of them in your relatives, they can easily contact me.

TIP :
For Paris, you have 21 zip codes :
75001, 75002, .... 75020 + 75116

So their use of .info makes some sense, although I still don't know why Marchex redirects to the .net for all their zip code NNNNN.com's. Maybe the CEO of Marchex wants to write in? Anyways, I wish Proxiti success with their endeavor. Certainly shows growing interest in the use of postal code domains, and given that NNNNN.com's represent postal codes in many countries, including the United States, France, Germany, Sweden, Brazil, Mexico, Italy, Kuwait, and many other countries, the commercial potential for these domains as local Geo sites all around the world is very promising.