Two letters domains

I got this domain: 7d.gg, the renovation price is 60USD each year, which makes me to reconsider keeping it or not. But to tell you the truth, it's pretty useful, I have some private sites as subdomains there.

In my case, one of the main reasons to keep a domain it's its monetary value, everything you own should be able to be sold, the only way to own things it's realizing that is yours only when you are able to let it go. But if you let it go and you don't get money or something in return your ability to acquire something you may need will be reduced.

And the other one reason to keep a domain it's because I like to collect domains, unique domains, like this iogirl.com, it's very unique, short; and dot com, which makes this domain hard to get. If I dropped this domain it's very likely someone would take it.

The dot com still has an incredible power in our conscious mind, it's like the ending of a very well known spell. I got this domain: princess.wedding and of course it's a very unique domain, great for business, if you ask me, princess.wedding domain is probably one of the best domains for a dot wedding TDL, and probably the best. My presentation site was available there instead of iogirl.com, what I wanted is the English equivalent to chicamagica.com (magical girl). It needed to be a dot com.

How to get a two letters domains?

Two letters domains dot com are in four zeros figures. And when it comes to domains as io, ai, the price is also thousands. The most popular a TLD, the most the mean cost of the domains.

This page helps you to know how many domains are registered for an specific TLD, which helps greatly to know how popular a domain is.

https://research.domaintools.com/statistics/tld-counts/

If you ask where to find a two letter domain you probably will be told to to look at sedo.com, afternic and dan.com for buying it from a reseller. Since its very likely that all two letters domains are already registred, since there are few of them, exactly 650, which is calculated by a permutation formula: 26!/(26-2)!

Notice that there is a very good change of getting a decent two letters domain with no number in an auction at hundreds (dollars)

But, what about numbers and letters?

This is the case of a letter that is combined with a number like 7d.gg. You got 520 extra possible combinations. And you will discover that you can had registry many of them! I made this research by myself, using whoisxmlapi.com/ and a bash script.

The more popular a domain it is, it's very likely that the registrar will consider it a premium domain.

The easy way to get a two character domain (letter plus number), is visiting micro.domains and filtering to 4 characters. However, this site is missing a lot of domains:

.is domains

In a sample from 499 from a total of 520,at least, 138 domains are free from registration at this current moment, which represent 30% of available domains.
They are very affordable price, approximately 40USD for registration and renovation. As you can expect, this is one of the least popular TDL from my research. Here you have the available list.

.gg domains

In the complete universe of 520, only 60 are available, which represent exactly 11.56% of domains available. This is the second least popular domain from my research, however, it's increasing greatly in popularity the .gg TLD.

In 2016, it was the number 260 in terms of popularity, in 2020, 254, but in the past 3 years this domains has increased a lot its registrations, now its the number 173. This is important since the other ccTLD are only decreasing their popularity.

This domain is becoming popular in the gaming community, you see, for instance, discord is using discord.gg.

I believe that is why people are betting on it, people are speculating so high on this domains, and we have to say speculating instead of investing because it's a high risk inversion, but inversion is not the correct word, it's more likely to going to a casino. The average price in the market is 200USD and people are asking so much for them, 3 figures. Lots of these domains are being list for sale. (in these article I refer to the two characters domains consisting of one letter with one number)

I believe this is a pretty bad investment at the current moment. People could get 4 to 6 dot com domains which is a far better investment than these.

Here you have the list of available domains:

.ws domains

From a sample of 411, they are 398 available domains, approximately 95%. This is due to high registration price. ($1005). Some domains registred: 1t.ws, 5g.ws, 6g.ws, 7g.ws, 8g.ws, 0c.ws, 3m.ws, 3d.ws

.fm domains

This is the most unpopular TDL from this article, due to its high registration price has lots of available domains, from a 100 sample, 81 are available for registration.

So, will I keep 7d.gg?

Well, I just noticed that of the Active domains, these were registered these years:
2023: 155 (29.8%)
2022: 119 (23%)
2021: 35 (6.7%)
2020: 40 (7.6%)
2019: 29 (5.5%)
2018: 18 (3.4%)
2017: 6 (1.15%)

Probably .gg will continue becoming more and more popular, and the domains will became scarce and maybe the registry will became premium too as ws domains did in 2016, for the moment I think is a good idea to keep it and use for any idea that comes up, and probably for community projects. Maybe a Link shortener, a pastebin, a note taking app, and task manager and a blog at same time, I dunno.

Here is the script I used:


#! /bin/bash
extension=gg
api=############
 for p in {0..9}{a..z}; do 
if	 ( curl https://www.whoisxmlapi.com/whoisserver/WhoisService\?apiKey=$api\&domainName=$p.$extension | tee -a /tmp/$extension | grep dataError ) ; then
		
		echo DOMAIN $p.$extension >> /tmp/$extension
	 a=$(expr $a + 1)
	 echo ======================================
	 echo $a Available for registration $p.$extension
	 echo ======================================
	 echo "*******************************************"
	 echo "*******************************************"
	 echo $p >> /tmp/available$extension
 else
		echo DOMAIN $p.$extension >> /tmp/$extension
	 echo NOT AVAILABLE $p.$extension
	 fi
	 b=$(expr $b + 1 )
	 echo try number $b
	  done
	  
 for p in {a..z}{0..9}; do 
	if  ( curl https://www.whoisxmlapi.com/whoisserver/WhoisService\?apiKey=$api\&domainName=$p.$extension | tee -a /tmp/$extension | grep dataError ) ; then
		echo DOMAIN $p.$extension >> /tmp/$extension
	 a=$(expr $a + 1)
	 echo ======================================
	 echo $a Available for registration $p.$extension
	 echo ======================================
	 echo "*******************************************"
	 echo "*******************************************"
	 echo $p >> /tmp/available$extension
 else
	 echo DOMAIN $p.$extension >> /tmp/$extension
	 echo NOT AVAILABLE $p.$extension
	fi
	 b=$(expr $b + 1 )
	 echo try number $b
	  done