Numeric domains on Sedo in November

So it turns out that Sedo plans its first numeric domain auction beginning on November 27. It'll include all sorts of numeric types including zip codes but won't be a great place to buy dotcom wordnumbers. Sedo has imposed several restrictions for the auction that appear to exclude domains that are longer than 5 digits. When will they learn? The auction will close on December 4.

Uniquely and much more interesting and also an unrelated event, an auction at Sedo of the domain 4632339.com, which spells Godaddy, ended on November 5 for the final bid (with only 1 bidder) of $75. Yep, not $7,500 or $750, but a measly seventy-five bucks. What next? 466453.com will go for $120? And 6977223.com (Myspace) go for $95? I sincerely doubt we'll see more sales at these low altitudes. Wordnumber investors know that this sale price is on some hardcore Halloween drugs.

The Offer Description that accompanied the Sedo listing: (note that the Sedo seller wasn't author of the description but appropriated it only citing the source)

4632339.com = GODADDY.COM (Numeric)

What is a numeric domain?

That venerable organization, UNCTAD, (who dat?, ed.) an offshoot of the UN claims that "Mobile phone users in developing nations now make up 58% of handset subscribers worldwide". And according to the ITU , mobile phone penetration rates are expected to reach 50 percent by early this year with the three billion subscription mark already passed some months ago.

Unsurprisingly, most of that growth is coming from emerging markets like Africa, which has come up with a growth rate of 50 percent in the last few years. The stars of the show, equally predictably, have been the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) adding one billion new users between them last year.

Undoubtedly, the vast majority of the mobile phones being purchased are NOT of the Smart phone and qwerty keyboard variety. They are of the standard key pad alpha-numeric configuration used on billions of cell phones world wide.

As our unofficial anecdotal learning curve suggests, many new cell phone users will type-in random numbers into their browsers to test the wireless internet waters. These meanderings eventually lead subscribers to properly formatted internet sites designed to deliver information and services. As their efforts improve access over time, they will come to realize that inputting 42637.com leads to "games", 2428.com leads to "chat", 6397.com leads to "news", 32232665.com leads to Facebook etc. Companies delivering mobile content such as Worddial continue to see growing traffic from these developing countries.

Source: http://www.numericdomains.com/numeri cdomains/mobile_phones/