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Individuals who purchased recently released .uk domain names from auction have overpaid. They will either lose money or brake even, the probability of turning a profit is at around zero.
The problem is that many domainers approach extensions outside .COM using .COM valuation rules and expectations. This can result in a very limited view of the dynamics in these extensions. What makes .UK different is that its natural competition is from within the .UK ccTLD rather than outside (.COM etc).We are domain investors and we know domains and extensions, so we automatically assume other people and business pay attention to this.
That's where the argument over switching costs arises. A .co.uk owner has a site and an e-mail address(es). If they have a business site then they've probably invested in business cards, logos etc. They may have built a brand and their customers know that brand. Switching to the shorter form will have hidden costs.The sad reality is that probably most people and businesses in the UK are probably not even putting this together. They have a website and a domain and they give it no other thought.
If it is a generic name, that argument may be OK. However, Nominet has its own dispute resolution process. ( https://www.nominet.uk/domain-support/uk-domain-disputes/ )In a few years when .uk becomes more prevalent they will see the light and wonder if their .co.uk is available as a shorter .uk. They will be surprised to see a domain investor own it and at that time the haggling will begin.
The values of .co.uk and .ca have actually declined. That is what I mean by not doing well.
I pulled out of investing into the .uk in the "last minute" I rather stop sticking my nose into a market I don't know much about. I also personally believe there is not much space for profit, unless you brought at reg fee and sell to another domainer. How come so many .co.uk owners never claimed all the decent .uk domains? There must be a reason.
How come so many .co.uk owners never claimed all the decent .uk domains?
The confusion and changing regulations damaged it. It was going to be priced at a multiple of .co.uk domain names. Then the admin contact thing and acceptance of postboxes as valid addresses caused more problems. I ran a survey on all 01 July 2019 .UK domain names to see how they are being used. I should have some stats over the weekend. There were only 2M active .UK domain names and the rest had no nameservers and were not in the zone..co.uk market has been depressed since the consultation over the .uk extension over 5 years ago. I never supported the introduction of .uk and don't think it was handled well by Nominet.
The resale market for .uk is tiny. The purchase prices at auction were quite high.
They seem to be useless. Where do they sell?What about the chinese number game also?
Lol idk thats why i askedThey seem to be useless. Where do they sell?
I have a bunch and on 4.cn as well. I think you definately need to be a Chinese speaker to crack those numbers. Lucky numbers alone don't seem to work.Lol idk thats why i asked
All i know is they dont like 0 &4 and double and triple numbers are the bombI have a bunch and on 4.cn as well. I think you definately need to be a Chinese speaker to crack those numbers. Lucky numbers alone don't seem to work.
The .UK as it was in the survey of 01 July 2019 .UK domain names (2,105,158)
Content: 2.02%
No content: 42.45%
Templated content: 10.52% (PPC, sales, affiliates)
Redirects: 13.68%
No Site Response: 31.32%
There are 23 different categories of usage in this survey so I've simplified it a bit. Most of the matched domain name redirects are rediirecting to .co.uk as one would expect.
Regards...jmcc
The top 10 matched (same domain name stub in other TLDs) redirects 8.89% are:Are you sure all of those are redirecting to .co.uk? I ask this because a person or script analyzing .UK domains may well have forgotten not to include the websites that are forcing redirects to the WWW subdomain. 13% seems pretty high to me.
The .UK domain names are quite diverse and though there are generic domain names in the set, many are not generic. This is a survey of all 2,105,428 .UK domain names and their websites. There were 3,605,478 .UK domain names registered but 1,500,050 were not in the zonefile as they had no nameservers.Most of the names in question are not "brands" but simply keywords, and it's unlikely someone with webserver.co.uk is also going to need to spend a premium on webserver.uk, since Webserver is not a company name.
That would require surveying the non .UK domain names and their websites. That's approximately 9.24 million domain names.I would be interested to see examples of businesses that redirect their .uk domains to .co.uk.
I would be interested to see examples of businesses that redirect their .uk domains to .co.uk.