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Wordnumber numeric domains: landrush not over yet

There's a poll and short discussion at Namepros about the gaining significance of numeric domains. The domainer who started the thread, 'evirtual1,' interestingly, owns 4636.info, which he/she writes is associated with its wordnumber - '4636.info = info.info on a phonepad'. Certainly 'evirtual1' knows there's more to the rise in the news, auctions and blogging of numeric domains than just short ones (e.g. NNN.com). Wordnumbers, numeric urls that spell words on a phone keypad, are also gaining traction as companies such as Target are buying up ccTLDs of their wordnumber. Target owns a bunch of tlds of 827438 (they couldn't, though, get 827438.com, owned by WordDial). Several search engines such as Google and ChaCha forward their dotcom wordnumbers, 466453.com and 242242.com, respectively, to their sites. The list goes on and on. The point is that while all this attention is on NNN.com's selling for 5 and 6 figures, there are less fish in the wordnumber pond and good domaining opportunities abound. For instance, TDBanknorth, a leading U.S. bank, is changing its name soon to TDBank, and its wordnumber is unregged. That list goes on and on too! There aren't and will never be opportunities to grab short numeric domains at affordable prices, yet as long as new companies keep popping up on the internet, there will always be wordnumbers fresh from your registrar of choice at rock-bottom prices.

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