People's pursuit of good numbers permeates every aspect of our lives: QQ premium numbers, premium mobile numbers, premium numeric domain name investment, and so on. Today I learned in WeChat Moments that a premium triple-repeating numeric domain name 888.vip owned by investor 张尧 was successfully sold for a seven-figure price.
From whois, we can see that the domain name 888.vip was presumably acquired by 张尧 at a premium in 2016, and it has remained in his hands since then. Selling for seven figures after holding it for two years, the profit is quite astonishing. However, the domain name has now had privacy protection enabled, so the buyer's true identity cannot be learned.
As a repeated-digit numeric domain name, 888.vip has very attractive characteristics. The number 8 is homophonically associated with “fa” (发, prosperity), making it a lucky number type that many people like, and the .vip suffix inherently has a “VIP” attribute, so it is a good choice for building membership-based e-commerce platforms and high-end club websites.
On the other hand, numeric domain names have no clear industry orientation in website building, and can be used in fields such as e-commerce, navigation, gaming, blockchain, and digital currency. Blockchain and digital currency are hot right now, and the numeric domain name 888.vip is so easy to remember and likable that it can absolutely be used to build a virtual currency trading platform.
I still remember that not long ago, another all-8 quadruple-repeating numeric domain name, 8888.vip, was auctioned for a mid-six-figure price. For this kind of repeated-digit domain name, the shorter the characters, the more valuable it usually is. 888.vip being sold for a seven-figure price once again proves to us the investment potential of premium numeric domain names.
New top-level suffixes have also been a very popular investment field in recent years, although many people still maintain a “neither bullish nor bearish” stance toward them. It is undeniable that new top-level domain names also have premium resources worth investing in. As long as you have vision and boldness, you can still gain something from them, but the main thing is to start from value.