Towards the end of 2007 all four letter .com domain names were registered. Four letter dot com domain names (sometimes written as LLLL.com) are now selling at a minimum price of $40.00 and a great many sell for much, much more. I would expect these prices to increase modestly, but steadily, over the course of this year. 

So, how long will it be before all LLLL.co.uk domains are registered?

That question is hard to answer but there are a number of market drivers that mean, to me, that four letter .co.uk domain names may sell out relatively quickly. Importantly, domainers who missed the opportunity to make profits with LLLL.com domains are chasing other opportunities such as LLLL.net and LLLL.org domains and it looks like they are next to sell out. After that it could be LLLL.co.uk s turn.

There are also plenty of brandable four letter .co.uk domains left and they are steadily being bought up as the available pool of decent domain names generally gets ever smaller.

Clearly, four letter domains with less popular letters such as Q,V,X,Y and Z are likely to be the last to be sold. However, many domains names with such letters are already developed into fully fledged websites.

Here are a few developed sites I found where at least one of the four letters is Q,V,X,Y or Z:-

QXYZ.co.uk  is an international technology firm

ZXZX.co.uk is a programmers personal website

VWD.co.uk (only 3 letters, though) is a lottery syndicate website

TOXI.co.uk is a developers portfolio website

VISN.co.uk is the website of Vision Internet

These were found with just a brief random search around the net, and I would have found far more if I’d searched for longer. 

Could it be that within say 12 to 18 months all .co.uk domains will be registered? In my own personal view I think we could see them all registered within 18 months although many domainers disagree. Then we will see prices moving slowly upwards, although it is unlikely that these rises will be massive.

So what do you think. Do you think UK LLLL.co.uk domains will be fully registered soon? Do you think they will never sell out? Are you buying four letter .uk short domains? Tell us what you think, below.