crz.com is not for sale

philiporchard · Feb 25, 2016

I'd not seen this before. Quite interesting to see all the offers listed!

https://crzdotcomisnotforsale.tumblr.com/

ian · Feb 25, 2016

Persistent little f**kers are they!

bensd · Feb 25, 2016

Interesting to see and AD member on there as well

UncleBob · Feb 25, 2016

OK, I will put my hands up here and plead ignorance - why would CRZ or any variation be of all that much value to anyone beyond being a 3L domain?

At a push I suppose it could be branded for "Cruise" sales, but still, so much demand for it?

Edwin · Feb 25, 2016

3L is enough - sadly, anyone with a 3L .com will be getting hundreds of such spam, especially if it's Chinese-friendly (no "a", "e", "i", "o", "u" and "v") because it costs nothing at all to blast emails at thousands of people...

UncleBob · Feb 25, 2016

Cheers Edwin - I just wasn't sure if I was missing something all the more awesome or epic about this particular 3L.

DaveP · Feb 25, 2016

UncleBob said:
OK, I will put my hands up here and plead ignorance - why would CRZ or any variation be of all that much value to anyone beyond being a 3L domain?

At a push I suppose it could be branded for "Cruise" sales, but still, so much demand for it?

It's an LLL CHIP (Chinese Premium) domain. These are selling for at the minimum mid $xx,xxx now, the better ones with the best letters in the high $xx,xxx to 6 figure range. The Chinese have been investing heavily in numeric and short premium letter domains over the last 12-18 months or so.

UncleBob · Feb 25, 2016

DaveP said:
It's an LLL CHIP (Chinese Premium) domain. These are selling for at the minimum mid $xx,xxx now, the better ones with the best letters in the high $xx,xxx to 6 figure range. The Chinese have been investing heavily in numeric and short premium letter domains over the last 12-18 months or so.

happy days indeed for those sat with some that do want to sell!

DaveP · Feb 25, 2016

UncleBob said:
happy days indeed for those sat with some that do want to sell!

Even 4 letter CHIP's (domains without A, E, I, O, U or V) are selling for least $2-3k now. Better check you haven't got any nested away somewhere as even up to just a few years ago these domains were considered spare change (selling for like $30 each!). Crazy times.

Edwin · Feb 25, 2016

DaveP said:
Even 4 letter CHIP's (domains without A, E, I, O, U or V) are selling for least $2-3k now. Better check you haven't got any nested away somewhere as even up to just a few years ago these domains were considered spare change (selling for like $30 each!). Crazy times.

And that's why the spam levels are off the chart - because each spammer is hoping to find that gold nugget in the form of a clueless domain owner who still thinks it's worth $30 (or at least that sort of magnitude).

It's a classic "tragedy of the commons": the more spammers spam the domain owners, the more evident it is that the domain's worth the big bucks. But since the costs of spam are near-zero and the potential payoff is high, they keep doing it anyway...