940.com On Auction at Sedo

Current price is $6,669 with about 15 hours left.

Other numerics are on auction as well:

051.com is also ending around the same time and is currently at 4,200 EUR.
1573.com, a very nice NNNN.com, is currently at $500 with 2+ days left.
And a hyphenated N-N.asia (!?) 1-9.asia is at $110 with 4+ days left, who would have thought...

Numerics in Top Global Sites

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New Zip Codes (Check your NNNNN.com's)

Attention NNNNN.com holders. Your previous random numbers may be nice US zip code NNNNN.com. The Postal Service recently announced several new zip codes. Check the list, the ones listed as "new zip codes" are in bold, the others are part of realignments.

New ZIP Code City        State Area           District
02132 Boston             MA    Northeast      Boston      
28759 Fletcher           NC    Capital Metro  Mid Carolinas
30009 Alpharetta         GA    Southeast      Atlanta     
32003 Green Cove Springs FL    Southeast      North FL    
32502 Pensacola          FL    Southeast      North FL    
54937 Fond Du Lac        WI    Great Lakes    Lakeland    
60101 Bensenville        IL    Great Lakes    Northern IL 
60189 Wheaton            IL    Great Lakes    Northern IL 
60654 Chicago            IL    Great Lakes    Chicago     
60642 Chicago            IL    Great Lakes    Chicago      
61705 Bloomington        IL    Great Lakes    Central IL  
72715 Bentonville        AR    Southwest      Arkansas    
77406 Richmond           TX    Southwest      Houston     
77407 Richmond           TX    Southwest      Houston     
77498 Richmond           TX    Southwest      Houston     
77498 Sugar Land         TX    Southwest      Houston      
77523 Baytown            TX    Southwest      Houston      
78542 Edinburg           TX    Southwest      Rio Grande   
78542 Edinburg           TX    Southwest      Rio Grande  
80422 Golden             CO    Western        CO/WY       
80905 Colorado Springs   CO    Western        CO/WY       
80905 Colorado Springs   CO    Western        CO/WY       
81403 Montrose           CO    Western        CO/WY        
81507 Grand Junction     CO    Western        CO/WY        
84081 West Jordan        UT    Western        Salt Lake City
84081 West Jordan        UT    Western        Salt Lake City
84721 Cedar City         UT    Western        Salt Lake City
85622 Green Valley       AZ    Western        Arizona     
85756 Tucson             AZ    Western        Arizona      
86315 Prescott Valley    AZ    Western        Arizona      
97471 Roseburg           OR    Western        Portland    

30900.com

Another example of development potential in NNNNN.com's that represent foreign postal codes. 30900 is apparently the postal code for Zichron Yaakov, a growing city in Israel that's on the Mediterranean. The website is a nicely developed real estate site for BarEl properties, and comes up first when you type 30900 into google.

Some Recent Sales

NNNNN.com

59100.com
$99
2008-05-22
namejet.com

92629.com
$350
2008-05-14
Sedo.com

14950.com
$14
2008-05-21
Reported on NamePros

33800.com
$130
2008-04-10
namejet.com

60642.com
$189
2008-05-03
sedo.com

66668.com
$77
2008-05-01
namejet.com

NNNNNN.com

800000.com
$255
2008-05-07
namejet.com

NNNN.com

3239.com
$550
2008-05-05
afternic.com

4371.com
$420
2008-04-19
namejet.com

4707.com
$481
2008-04-05
namejet.com

7802.com
$685
2008-04-22
namejet.com

7840.com
$485
2008-04-22
namejet.com

Marchex Beats Expectations

Marchex, the largest holder of NNNNN.com's which has a network of US zip code domains as part of its local search network, posted strong 1st quarter results, beating analyst expectations. You can read about it here. As an NNNNN.com holder, this particular part of the story is very encouraging:

Revenue rose to $37 million from $34.2 million, with $22.3 million in revenue from its local advertising services and $14.7 million from its local search network.

This is why Marchex continues to buy up NNNNN.com zip code domains from the remaining few holders that are out there. And, it is why a company like Proxiti, a French company that is developing a network of NNNNN.info domains representing French postal codes, is trying to replicate Marchex's success. It will be interesting to see if other countries that have 5-digit postal codes, including Kuwait, Italy, Brazil, Germany, Sweden, Spain, and more, will produce similar ventures.

999.co.il

Here's another numeric website, an Israeli portal for real estate information, apartment and home rentals, etc. Interestingly, the operators of the site apparently own 1.co.il as well, but redirect it to the "999.co.il" site. Why do they do that? I don't know, but my hunch is that it may actually be the case that more digits are easier to remember/catchier, if they are the right digits.