When Billy Rae Thomas was ready to “pop the question” to Sally – his girlfriend of two years – it wasn’t about diamond ring shopping.
Billy Rae and Sally belong to the ever-growing category of domainer couples, young professionals that make a significant portion of their income from managing, developing and selling domain names.
“I asked Sally, sweetie do you really want a $6,000 diamond ring or we could put that cash towards a good generic domain”, says Billy Rae – a burly 25 year old from Minnesota. “She just laughed and told me that she wanted an LLL.com instead, no crappy letters either!”
With LLL.com prices fluctuating along with the stock market, it’s now more affordable than ever to acquire quality letters under five figures. There are exceptions of course, but generally speaking the LLL.com aftermarket has dipped since its mid-2008 peak.
Blame it all on the bad economy.
Meanwhile Sally is excited about the LLL.com that she will be receiving – at a fraction of the price a diamond ring would cost. She plans to use it as her own personal portfolio.
“My girlfriends will get soooo jealous! And like, it’s not the size of the .com, it’s the quality of the letters!”, she adds with a mischievous giggle.
Billy Rae plans to buy the domain from Sedo.com – unless a great deal pops up at DNForum.
Haha, very timely, and a great idea! Nothing says romance like LLL and 10 years of renewals, and it saves you from having to go shopping for rings. 🙂
That’s a great suggestion, the 10 years of renewals of vows 😀 Father Domainicus would approve.
Haha, lucky chaps. My wife would have nothing of it, diamond ring, no exception.
Where can I get more of these kind of women?