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Self Made Minds » Blog Archive » Progress made with some investments — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:33:49 +0000

[...] Investing in LLL.com domains [...]

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:13:50 +0000

Yes that happens but there are industries setup to catch such domains and they then go to th highest bidder so you still end up paying $x,xxx’s for an LLL.com that expires Gary.

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:37:16 +0000

Wow, I never really thought of comparing an LLL.com domain with real estate but it does make sense.

I wish that I could afford one, it’d be a great investment.

Also, has an LLL domain ever been available? Like someone forgot to pay.

By: zesty

zesty — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:01:26 +0000

LLL.com domains have been one of the best investments of any type over the last 7 years, and they continue to increase rapidly in value as more and more of the limited supply (17576 possible combos) fall into end-user hands. Many thousands of dollars can seem like a large investment for an LLL.com, but the strong percent returns are consistent and staggering with no ceiling for returns. Further, I have yet to meet anyone who’s ever lost money with an LLL.com domain.

By: Paul.

Paul. — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:25:28 +0000

I would love to get into domains, but it seems like it’s too late in the game for a newb. These days, I can hardly register a longtailed domain.

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:23:05 +0000

Garry, perhaps you could go for short addresses on various country-code top-level domains. You can probably get three-letter domains on .au, .ws and all the rest, or find some amusing little word that includes the country code, like like fla.ws.

While short .com’s are prized now, in future there will be more participants on the Internet so short addresses on other top-level domains will become more valuable.

Think of it like buying up real estate in a small town, so you can profit when that small town becomes a large one.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:30:42 +0000

Hi Pat, yes we are subject to CGT here as well, any tax means a profit though! This is a personal investment with a friend though and not part of my businesses.

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:54:50 +0000

Have you planned for capital gains tax on the domain, or are you just assuming (probably correctly) that the tax authorities won’t check up on a domain name sale?

In Australia, there are various exceptions and rules about capital gains tax for businesses, especially small businesses, and more rules for trading stock. It would be interesting to see how your (Scott’s, Abdul’s, and others’) domain name properties would fit into existing laws.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:32:25 +0000

Hi Alan, fair point but many domains including LLL’s trade openly on forums and such with actual sales documented, if the domain was researched I am sure the forum I bought it from would also turn up. The value of the domain now isn’t really the issue for me and in a few years time today’s value wouldn’t be something I felt I had to try and hide. An end user would always be more motivated to buy than I was to sell, in 1993 the domain cost $15 but that didn’t effect how much I had to pay for it last week, the scarcity of LLL’s should make them increase in value in their own right regardless of use or history.

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:11:55 +0000

Hi Scott, SMM has bee a great resource over the past couple months and I really appreciate your guys’ transparency in regards to very specific things that helped and hindered your web ventures. But, how do you foresee this post affecting the future sale of your newly acquired lll.com?
As a prospective future purchaser I would research the history of the domain and inevitably stumble across this thread and see how much originally you paid. Myself, I would use that against you as a way to keep the profit margin much smaller than it *could* be. I would prefer obscurity with these kinds of transactions… But I hope I’m wrong and you guys make a killing when Virginia Data Ferrets goes public and wants to pony up for it!