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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.
@DomainNameBroker.com Your statements are too aggressive and there are many opportunities to make money in these extensions. I expect .uk sales pick up once people started using .uk like most of the Indian users switched to .in from .co.inDomainNameBroker.com is full of valuable insight.
That's a bargain if you aim to create a business out of it. As a blanket statement to say "Individuals who purchased recently released .uk domain names from auction have overpaid." is bs.
I'm really not surprised. The .UK namespace appears to have a handful of people that are heavily invested in the bulk of the 'good' domains. (Giraffe, Domains.co.uk). This .UK release has given a tiny taste of what it would be like if the .UK domain market was a bit more fluid. A tiny taste because, after all, there were only ~40k domains registered in the RoR drops.Didn't see much going on before the 'unclaimed rights' went to market recently.
Do you mean the Sedo Auction?
Listed a few below so people can have a look for themselves, courtesy of Namebio.
Domain Price Date Venue
accountancy.uk 5,548 USD 2019-07-18 Sedo
court.uk 4,568 USD 2019-07-18 Sedo
setup.uk 4,131 USD 2019-07-18 Sedo
hostels.uk 3,513 USD 2019-07-18 Sedo
webserver.uk 3,135 USD 2019-07-18 Sedo
perfect.uk 2,258 USD 2019-07-18 Sedo
smartphone.uk 2,007 USD 2019-07-18 Sedo
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I believe that shopping.uk was £45k. I can confirm that the purchaser of that name certainly doesn't feel like they overpaid, they're extremely pleased with the purchase by the sounds of things. Great name.The auctions for .uk at Domainlore.uk sold for ....
Plus many more names sold recently.... Not all sold names are reported on Namebio .... #JustSaying
- Shopping.uk closed at £35k
- insure.uk £10,200
- Room.uk £5099
- Rooms.uk £5505
- SelfStorage.uk £5,352
- whisky.uk £10,750
- CommercialProperty.uk £5,244
Now there is one trouble spot for .uk that nobody has mentioned yet.
Just like .eu there would be trouble if the union broke apart.
Most countries don't have to worry about that because they are a single entity but if the uk breaks apart for any reason then an investor owning thousands of these would have a problem.
I believe that shopping.uk was £45k. I can confirm that the purchaser of that name certainly doesn't feel like they overpaid, they're extremely pleased with the purchase by the sounds of things. Great name.
Which rags are you reading?but with the moron they just put into power
Which rags are you reading?
We don't need a Union, let the Scots run free like Nicola Sturgeon and 44.7% Scots (probably more now) want.The equivalent to our National Enquirer
https://www.mirror.co.uk/
Seriously though Boris Johnson does not sound like he is too stable either.
The UK is a union of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
That being the key, a union so hopefully that will continue regardless of the leader that is elected.
Most people I know think that Boris is great and can't wait for him to deliver brexit.
So you tell me, whether it's a good idea to load up and pay high prices for .ca .co.uk or .uk
Is there a .ca .co.uk or .uk that has sold for even a high fraction of its equivalent .com ? Or is it more that .ca .co.uk have been steadily DECLINING in value which would imply that after an initial runup from investors piling into .uk that .uk will too follow suit, with declines.
In what way do you mean .co.uk hasn't done that well? It's certainly been adopted as much as if not more than .com here in England. Its a strong market on a local scale which is exactly what they are for.Last year I sold a .com for high five figures to a Canadian outfit that had recently acquired the exact equivalent in .ca for registration fee. Didn't matter, they paid up.
And now we have a SECOND country extension .uk for yet another country where even the original .co.uk hasn't done that well over time to begin with.
So you tell me, whether it's a good idea to load up and pay high prices for .ca .co.uk or .uk
Is there a .ca .co.uk or .uk that has sold for even a high fraction of its equivalent .com ? Or is it more that .ca .co.uk have been steadily DECLINING in value which would imply that after an initial runup from investors piling into .uk that .uk will too follow suit, with declines.
Well, for all domains in questions the following is true:
1) corresponding .co.uk exists
2) the owner of .co.uk did not bother to acquire .uk even though he had a priority right to
Now, I am wondering how many endusers in .uk will develop the .uk if they do not own .co.uk as a pair, and also pay premium price for .uk? At least initially they will just deliver free traffic to competing .co.uk
UK or not, but if a domain investor in registering something with just one potential buyer in mind (.co.uk owner for example) - then the domain investor is not doing the right thing. Imho.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.
UK or not, but if a domain investor in registering something with just one potential buyer in mind (.co.uk owner for example) - then the domain investor is not doing the right thing. Imho.
The .EU ccTLD needs all the registrations that it can get and losing about 250K UK .eu registrations in November 2019 would not be good. There are indications of some registrars offering proxy services to registrants. Even the German .eu figure has been declining for some years now. At one time, it was over a million domain names. The number of .UK registrations was 3.61 million at the end of June. In five years it is larger than the .EU ccTLD. Admittedly, the .UK figures have been helped by registrar bulk registrations and the effect of those registrations will only be seen at renewal time next year.they just announced
that the British can keep the .eu
even when they might leave the eu