Where are we heading with NNNNN.coms

I don’t know where are we heading with NNNNN.coms

I see many 5N.coms dropping everyday though they are being caught instantly.
I see many sellers selling 5N.coms for $10 each which have almost a year before they expire.

Could someone throw some light on it

• I’ve done pretty well with my NNNNN.com’s in terms of traffic and sales. Given that they haven’t risen as much as I expected, I have sold a number of them and put my better ones (about 500) on multi-year registration. Given the overall economy and domain market, I wouldn’t expect any short-term movement of any significance, unless there is a big breakthrough in numeric domains (mobile searching using numerics, Chinese market rapidly expanding, etc.), which could happen any time.
• Answer will be shown ~45 days after mid-Feb which is when the buyout took place. If there are many drops then that is a sign that many people have given up in this sector. By looking at for sale postings in forums, it looks like many people have given up already and are trying to regain a few pennies from their initial investment before their names expire.

  Vultures will be flying ahead in March-April.

• I dropped half of mine and kept half. Kept the ones that got the most traffic, or that had some meaning to me. Numbers are universal so its worth keeping some.