{"id":4407,"date":"2015-02-05T11:57:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T16:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=4407"},"modified":"2015-02-05T12:03:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T17:03:03","slug":"perfect-numbers-revisited-part-deux-360-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/perfect-numbers-revisited-part-deux-360-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect numbers revisited Part Deux: 360 and 100"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve followed the seemingly cryptic<\/em> obsession of the Chinese for Arabic numerals for years.<\/p>\n

Around 2002, at a time that I was investing in short LLN and LNN .com domains that were available to register en masse, a very smart domainer lady shared with me the information that seems to be less of a secret nowadays: the sound of numbers in Chinese converts into words that can be combined into short, meaningful phrases.<\/p>\n

Of course, that’s not the only reason why the Chinese are currently buying numeric domains.<\/p>\n

Numbers require only the top row of the keyboard to be utilized, unlike the alphabets of the Latin or Chinese language. And for the really lazy, three or more keystrokes of the same number is an added bonus.<\/p>\n

Having sold both 360.org<\/strong><\/a> and 100.org<\/strong><\/a> to end-users for record amounts as far as the TLD is concerned, it’s time to revisit these perfect numbers<\/strong> as defined through the respective .com sales.<\/p>\n

Last year, 100.com was sold for $950,000 dollars<\/strong><\/a> to YY Inc. – a figure that was dwarfed by the apparent sale of 360.com for $17 million dollars<\/strong><\/a> to Chinese giant Qihoo.<\/p>\n

What makes one number seemingly better<\/em> than the other, resulting in a bigger sale?<\/p>\n

The truth is that the number “100” produces 10x times the results for “360” in Google, so that fact alone explains the paradox<\/em> of the domain market: it’s very fluid.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unlike the real estate market where such extreme fluctuations<\/strong> in value do not occur, the domain market’s conditions are more or less dictated by a combination of factors that include:<\/p>\n