Numerics News

A great Wall Street Journal article about numeric domains, written by Carl Bialik. Even mentions an NNNNN.com! Here is an excerpt:

There are other advantages to building a brand identity on a number. Flavio Masson, owner of the Web-design firm 10012.com, named it after the ZIP Code of his original Manhattan headquarters (since moved to nearby SoHo, ZIP 10013). He's a Brazilian citizen, and his company's name, 10012 LLC, tops the alphabetical list of more than 800 businesses in the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce's member directory.
There are other factors making numeric domain names more intriguing to businesses lately. Radio stations could make use of names that match their frequency. Marchex Inc. has snapped up domains for more than 96% of ZIP Codes nationwide, such as 90210.com, for a network of local Web sites. The increase in Web navigation from cellphones adds to the trend, because on a numeric keypad, it's easier to type out a two-digit domain than a long word.

Also, an NNNNN.com that starts with 0 and is not a zip code is currently at $90 USD on Sedo.

Sedo Numerics Auction Underway

Several NNNNN.com's are on auction in the numeric domains auction starting today:

02647.com
04112.com
10029.com
10044.com
10153.com
12231.com
20032.com
33234.com
60689.com
90704.com
92626.com
92627.com
92658.com
92801.com
94023.com
94107.com
94158.com
94528.com
94701.com
95116.com
95378.com
96806.com
97313.com
98170.com

NNNN.com sales in last 8 months

I have compiled all the reported NNNN.com sales from the Namepros sales report thread, and have done some basic analysis of the data. There were 75 reported sales for a total value of $253,710 or an average of $3,383 per domain. If you take out potential outlier/end-user sales, arbitrarily defined as sales over $1,000, the average sale is $523. Again excluding "outliers", average sale price for domains starting with a "0" was $480, average sale price for domains starting with a "4" was $462, average sale price for the rest of the NNNN.com's was $552. Here is the full list:

0057.com $595 10/4/08
0215.com $430 10/19/08
0216.com $420 10/19/08
0227.com $450 10/29/08
0332.com $250 5/27/08
0360.com $1,327 10/9/08
0465.com $331 6/8/08
0491.com $510 10/3/08
0600.com $813 8/17/08
0725.com $370 11/1/08
0727.com $600 2/24/08
0742.com $510 10/3/08
0937.com $2,100 10/28/08
1018.com $5,050 4/2/08
1159.com $2,034 7/3/08
1272.com $1,020 6/22/08
1280.com $1,600 7/30/08
1326.com $1,218 8/8/09
1573.com $1,625 5/31/08
1637.com $1,037 7/30/08
2411.com $7,411 10/7/08
2459.com $690 10/27/08
2494.com $1,000 10/16/08
2506.com $483 9/27/08
2523.com $560 10/28/08
2555.com $5,600 10/20/08
2845.com $5,000 10/7/08
2930.com $389 6/25/08
2930.com $540 7/30/08
2960.com $511 3/6/08
3073.com $450 10/29/08
3119.com $610 5/22/08
3136.com $511 5/31/08
3210.com $3,776 10/28/08
3239.com $550 5/5/08
3591.com $792 7/31/08
3669.com $5,600 10/23/08
3842.com $360 10/30/08
3929.com $826 10/25/08
4010.com $5,000 7/9/08
4110.com $1,161 10/29/08
4371.com $420 4/19/08
4609.com $375 10/21/08
4706.com $700 11/17/08
4707.com $481 4/5/08
4762.com $360 10/25/08
4825.com $430 6/1/08
4916.com $380 4/30/08
4987.com $550 7/11/08
5062.com $430 11/23/08
5319.com $532 6/26/08
5543.com $550 10/8/08
6125.com $4,500 10/14/08
6758.com $650 11/4/08
6904.com $650 11/19/08
7147.com $592 3/21/08
7465.com $333 7/31/08
7660.com $523 7/24/08
7777.com $55,556 8/20/08
7802.com $685 4/22/08
7831.com $551 7/22/08
7834.com $570 5/22/08
7834.com $600 9/15/08
7840.com $485 4/22/08
7888.com $4,300 6/8/08
8008.com $58,889 8/20/08
8426.com $411 7/21/08
8808.com $51,111 8/20/08
9137.com $557 8/8/13
9145.com $460 7/16/08
9204.com $510 11/8/08
9436.com $336 8/6/08
9454.com $997 11/12/08
9772.com $526 8/8/08
9876.com $600 7/30/08

Great NNNN.com Sales at Sedo

Two more very strong NNNN.com sales were recently reported at Sedo. 9454.com sold for $997 and 4110.com sold for $1,161.

Marchex has a Strong Third Quarter

Marchex reported revenue of $37.2 million for the third quarter of 2008, compared to $33.5 million for the same period of 2007, and $1.3 million of net income for common shareholders as compared to a net loss for common shareholders of $1.5 million for the same quarter last year. Marchex is the leading holder and developed of NNNNN.com domains, it owns about 40,000 5-digit numeric .com domains representing US zip codes, and the .net variety of each of most of these domains.

More strong Numeric sales

3694.com sold at Sedo for $560 on 11/3/08.
6758.com sold at Sedo for $650 on 11/4/08.
01110.com sold at Sedo for 100 EUR ($130.47 USD) on 11/4/08.
4632339.com (spells GoDaddy.com on a standard numeric keypad) sold at Sedo for $75 on 11/4/08.
816.org sold at Sedo for 331 EUR ($431.86) on 11/4/08.

Exit Polls Mixed, May Show Tight Race

Drudge says Obama big, up 15+ in PA. But Gawker shows tight results. Obama +4 in PA, +2 in VA, -2 in NC, +1 in Florida, +1 in Ohio.