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Future Media Architects, Inc. (FMA) owned by domainer Thunayan K AL-Ghanim (aka “Elequa”) is dropping thousands of 3 letter .info. FMA owns domain names such as media.com, multimedia.com, fm.com mp3.tv, dj.net and i.net.
I read a comment by Mark about thousands of 3-letter .info dropping and I immediately thought of FMA that at one point owned about 3872 3-letter .info domains.
I checked and found out that he has already dropped 2000 .info domains and is in the process (domains are in pending delete status) another 700+. Once these are dropped he will be down to 1135 3-letter .info domains having dropped 2737 domains.
He is dropping lower quality 3-letter domains such as: rdx.info, yuq.info, yxi.info, lgv.info
joj.info and zqq.info.
He is keeping domains such as ppp.info, omg.info, ago.info, fas.info, ssc.info, far.info,
epo.info and of course fma.info.
Most of these domains were registered in 2004 when FMA registered about 2500 .info domains and about 4600 .biz domains. He just bought all available .info and .biz domains at the time. According to Dnjournal he owned more than 1,000 three-letter .coms and more than 2,000 each in .net and .org. I believe he still does.
FMA is known to be one of the rare domainers that is not selling any of his domains. He has refused every time to sell from what i know. And because he is not selling, he is dropping what he doesn’t need regardless of the value that these may have. It seems that the reseller market put a value of about $60 to the worst 3 letter .info.
I myself am dropping domains that have a value of less than $150 because it doesn’t makes sense for me to sell them. It will cost me a lot more than $150 to find the buyer, process the sale, pay bank fees, prepare tax papers etc. Only a bulk deal would be helpful in selling similar priced domains.
I have noticed he is dropping a few .biz as well but don’t have exact numbers.
It seems that with all the new gtld strings 3 letter domains supply has surpassed demand. Even registries that reserve the best domains don’t even bother with 3-letter domains as each of the gTLDs has 17,576 of them. Of course I believe that 3-letter .com and .org will hold their value, if not increase it. But the others will lose value. We will probably lose the high end sales. Of course I am not talking about 3 letter words like toy or bet. These will hold their value that comes from the fact that these are short words.
Sales were hard before the new gtlds. I myself am selling a lot more 1 and 2 words domains than I am selling 3 letter domains.
BTW all dropped FMA domains have been registered! Either at Go Daddy or using APIs. Not a single one is available.
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Hard to find end users in 3L .info’s it is a waiting game for them to come to you, and with bad letters it just makes it that much worse. These are names that get traded and sold between guys at namepros.
Interesting news. I wonder what people would do with those recently bought LLL .info’s which were dropped by FMA because the quality of those letters is too low. Also keeping the reseller price in mind is worthless buying it IMO.
I noticed they were also dropping their legacy premium .tv domains, legacy premium means they were paying hefty annual fees for the domains for years, stuff like liquid.tv, they still own liquidtv.com.
I wonder if they buy domains? I noticed I own a couple of .com’s and they own the .net’s…
Hmmm I do too!
I guess I should have said they are dropping some of their legacy .tv domains, I doubt they will drop stuff like mp3.tv and go.tv etc.
They have a nice collection of domains…
This guy is a true domain collector.
But there is no upside to owning tons of LLL.info like those even if you have the means to sustain that kind of portfolio.
FMA.com founder is Thunayan K. Al-Ghanim, he has been featured in many of Ron Jackson’s DNjournal.com website, here one article from 2003: http://www.dnjournal.com/columns/coverstory2.htm
He was (or is) one of the speakers @ NamesCon, and he was the “man to be with”. Here is Al-Ghanim featured speaker @ NameCon 2015 in Las Vegas: http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/lowdown/2015/dailyposts/20150120.htm
Hopefuly the links are not banned, those are only articles from DNjournal for the ones who doesn’t know FMA.com owner. Good luck.
Renewal fees for their .tv’s were $50/yr
“It seems that with all the new gtld strings 3 letter domains supply has surpassed demand. Even registries that reserve the best domains don’t even bother with 3-letter domains as each of the gTLDs has 17,576 of them. Of course I believe that 3-letter .com and .org will hold their value, if not increase it. But the others will lose value. ”
Very much agreed. While LLL.info still has some resale value, LLL.mobi is almost dead.
>>It seems that the reseller market put a value of about $60 to the worst 3 letter .info.
… i see lots of 3 letter .link names for $9.88 at Uniregistry.com