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[mindless]

This being the cctld section of namepros I am sure the answers I get here will be somewhat bias But here is my questions:

I found several niche generic domains with rather good overture. I was debating on getting the .net or the .co.uk version.

Revenue is important in this decision with it being a solid overture number with .com I know this would do great, but obviously not many people would choose to type mygoodgenericname.net, BUT my do people type megoodgenericname.co.uk????

Thoughts? Sorry, I am just wading into the international ext world but was wondering how well generics do for type-ins.

Thanks for any help!!!!!

 

[NickB]

I have listed some that I will be keeping for the long term...the rest I own will be dropped if no offers come in

DLTcloud (.co.uk)
CloudDLT (.co.uk)
AiDLT. (co.uk)
GlobalDex (.co.uk)
BlockchainRobot (.co.uk)
QuantumEncryption (.co.uk)
RemoreSurgery (.co.uk)
Bacteriology (.co.uk)
Achieves .(.co.uk)
Arching (.co.uk)

 

[Trade With Vlad]

URGET question/opinion: Hour after registering "humanhairextensions .uk", I've got at one marketplace offer for 475$. Should I sell it or keep it? humanhairextensions.com was sold for 22.000$

which marketplace?

 

[Trade With Vlad]

I got
realestatelisting/uk
gamingmouse/uk
buyowner/uk
btcwallet/uk
bettingcasinos/uk
bankrates/uk
bankfinancing/uk
wirelessearbuds/uk
kaufen/uk

 

[Corey]

Anyone can register a .uk domain. @ https://au.godaddy.com/help/about-uk-domains-5854


Cheers
Corey

 

[Dosebuy]

Got

LibraHub /co/uk
and
LibraHub /uk

 

[domainexpert77]

Recently grabbed

AutoInsurer.co.uk
Autoinsurer.uk

 

[Domain Crazy]

I bought a few .co.uks

Flappy.co.uk
Honoured.co.uk
Miny.co.uk
Mustache.co.uk
Reals.co.uk
Anaemic.co.uk
Apocalyptic.co.uk
Biting.co.uk
Cupped.co.uk
Mumbled.co.uk
Naomie.co.uk
Rollback.co.uk
Seized.co.uk
Slammed.co.uk

 

[wizard]

Honest question: Why are you guys buying still sub-domains, when the 2nd level is avail now? Don't you think it wise to start transitioning buyers/endusers over to .uk? And you are receiving offers for sub-domains, why not sell it now while still the chance??

ps. yes I realize all in the past has been built on .co.uk, .com.uk, .org.uk but endusers don't know till they know, and half the battle is up to us as investors to introduce a better solution, and even if we don't they'll catch on soon enough.

I will still keep buying them as they are selling

nominet has tried to move people over but its not worked still loads of time to sell prices are going up for me

You must not know the market well in the UK 99% of end users are still buying .co.uk and will carry on .uk is now released but it will take a long time to change its drummed into peoples heads co.uk

 

[HotKey]

No I get it, but as I said, its up to us to bring it, don't you think?

If we've got to rid of old inventory, it's understandable why we're weary of bringing better solutions to our customers, but other than that it tends to perplex me. .UK is bang on, no need for a sub-domain.

Thx for your explanation- appreciated. Your'e correct I don't know the UK market well if at all, but in my eyes (good) history builds trust, and that should be the only thing holding buyers back from a better solution. Easier said than done, I get it, we get used to old ways.

 

[wizard]

No I get it, but as I said, its up to us to bring it, don't you think?

If we've got to rid of old inventory, it's understandable why we're weary of bringing better solutions to our customers, but other than that it tends to perplex me. .UK is bang on, no need for a sub-domain.

Thx for your explanation- appreciated. Your'e correct I don't know the UK market well if at all, but in my eyes (good) history builds trust, and that should be the only thing holding buyers back from a better solution. Easier said than done, I get it, we get used to old ways.

Yes in time it will change but this won't happen for years i prefer .com but i like to dabble in both markets i even explained to a end user about .UK I had both co.uk and .UK and he wanted the co.uk only so just shows you and this has happened a few times since the launch of .UK

 

[Trade With Vlad]

smartappliance.uk

 

[wizard]

Anyone called rylan.uk let me know

Hi, any tips on where is the best place to sell? Or what sells in .co.uk?

Cheers

why would we tell you what sells that’s like telling you the secret sauce

 

[DavidH]

Hi, any tips on where is the best place to sell? Or what sells in .co.uk?

Cheers

Single powerful words sell the best and the best place to sell them is to end users!

 

[Robert27]

Happy New Year fellow domainers.

I thought I would put some domains on here for 2022. Good Iuck with the sales.

DefiUk.co.uk
UKnfts.co.uk
King Nft.co.uk
WTFmvnews.co.uk
XRmediaUK.co.uk
BestAvatar.co.uk
MVbusiness.co.uk
Web3gaming.co.uk
Smartcontractsnft.co.uk
DefisolutionsUK.co.uk
Jobs Nfts.co.uk
XRstartup.co.uk

Cheers
Bob

 

[Millionaire]

I have meta/club .co.uk

 

[MadAboutDomains]

.UK looks much better aesthetically than .CO.UK , I hope it gets widely adopted soon.

I'm seeing more and more of them being used.

 

[Domsoft]

NFTart.co.uk
NFTart.uk
NFTgames.co.uk
NFTgame.co.uk
NFTgaming.co.uk
NFTgaming.uk
Nonfungible.co.uk

 

[MadAboutDomains]

I'd be all over them for that price.

Someone actually said that to me.

 

[BaileyUK]

The problem for the .co.uk market isn't that demand isn't there. It's more to do with prices being heavily suppressed due to the number of domains being sold at heavily discounted prices. The problem really stems from the early 2000's . There was a fairly large contingent of affluent buyers that had decided to invest in only the UK market. Literally swooping up 100,000's of domains. Almost everything was in the hands of domainers and in the main they weren't prepared to sell anything £ x,xxx or below. This gave them a massive sense of wealth and control. Smaller investors like me followed suit on pricing. Unfortunately it took far to long for all of us to realise the UK market was NOT a mirror of the .COM. That sort of massive demand was never there in the first place. So then we had a fairly stagnated market.. Sellers staying hard on prices - and any Perceived bargain being picked up by the same domainers. Very little was going to end-users.

Now the Crunch
With all this Inventory in relatively such a small base of hands It took quite a few years for the penny to drop and a few sellers started to drop prices. It didn't make much difference at first. End Users still considered the resale market way over priced. The Stalwarts were still holding firm saying the market is there just waiting to Explode. How wrong they were.

So finally the UK market started to crumble. Even those domainers that were previously buying on the resale market found they couldn't get anywhere near what they had laid out 5 to 10 years earlier. Prices dropped even further. 90% price drops in high end names wasn't unusual.

The market wasn't in freefall as such. It just wasn't there from the beginning.. So here we are today and we generally have the same perspective. Why buy the UK's if you can't sell them, No matter how good the price looks. End users are being more creative in their chosen names and if their going to lay out top dollar. might as well get myself a half decent dot com.

Yep I blame UK Domainers and anyone that kept talking up a market that never really showed any growth EXCEPT between themselves. Of course individuals can quote sales of four and five figures (I can do the same) but these do not alone set the market conditions as is

 

[wizard]

The problem for the .co.uk market isn't that demand isn't there. It's more to do with prices being heavily suppressed due to the number of domains being sold at heavily discounted prices. The problem really stems from the early 2000's . There was a fairly large contingent of affluent buyers that had decided to invest in only the UK market. Literally swooping up 100,000's of domains. Almost everything was in the hands of domainers and in the main they weren't prepared to sell anything £ x,xxx or below. This gave them a massive sense of wealth and control. Smaller investors like me followed suit on pricing. Unfortunately it took far to long for all of us to realise the UK market was NOT a mirror of the .COM. That sort of massive demand was never there in the first place. So then we had a fairly stagnated market.. Sellers staying hard on prices - and any Perceived bargain being picked up by the same domainers. Very little was going to end-users.

Now the Crunch
With all this Inventory in relatively such a small base of hands It took quite a few years for the penny to drop and a few sellers started to drop prices. It didn't make much difference at first. End Users still considered the resale market way over priced. The Stalwarts were still holding firm saying the market is there just waiting to Explode. How wrong they were.

So finally the UK market started to crumble. Even those domainers that were previously buying on the resale market found they couldn't get anywhere near what they had laid out 5 to 10 years earlier. Prices dropped even further. 90% price drops in high end names wasn't unusual.

The market wasn't in freefall as such. It just wasn't there from the beginning.. So here we are today and we generally have the same perspective. Why buy the UK's if you can't sell them, No matter how good the price looks. End users are being more creative in their chosen names and if their going to lay out top dollar. might as well get myself a half decent dot com.

Yep I blame UK Domainers and anyone that kept talking up a market that never really showed any growth EXCEPT between themselves. Of course individuals can quote sales of four and five figures (I can do the same) but these do not alone set the market conditions as is

The UK market is great in fact its the best it has been the issue is people will moan if they are not selling domain names all depends what you have yes I agree .UK is not doing well but co.uk is great and we should get some great sales this year.

 

[BaileyUK]

The UK market is great in fact its the best it has been the issue is people will moan if they are not selling domain names all depends what you have yes I agree .UK is not doing well but co.uk is great and we should get some great sales this year.

I think if you try to bring a sense of reality to any market, Of course, someone will say it's because they aren't selling.

I personally didn't have a problem selling most of my .co.uk's purely because I realised the market wasn't there for 4 figure and plus sales. There's always going to be exceptions, I dropped my prices to mid 3 figures or slightly above and cleared virtually everything (mostly I imagine to fellow domainers) Occasionally I was selling 3 or 4 a day. This is all good, No complaints from me. I still hold around 40 co.uk's today.

After 25 years in the UK market. I feel I'm fairly experienced in what sells and what UK businesses are prepared to pay and I can categorically say It never reached the expectations of the early investors Who thought they were part of the dotcom boom., with prices to match.

Those who arrived at a level-head have probably done fairly well, Buying low and selling reasonably priced. But these are NOT in the main 'Domain Name Journal' type figures as you can well agree. Now if you go back 15 years (or more) it was a slightly different story.

I can time-line it far more accurately but I don't think the History of the Co.Uk really needs it

 

[BaileyUK]

To give all non-brits a sense of usage, Most Brits almost formally separate their internet and bricks-and-mortar presence. That is to say they tend to view these as two entities, two separate arms if you will and therefore they view the use of the .com and co.uk as separate modes of identity for different access and outcomes.

To make this clearer, take the .com, For the American market it is naturally the be all of internet presence. For any Country market with it's own cctld The .com depicts a Full-on internet identity, A global stand alone business presence that may or may not have a physical presence on the high street. I'm leaving aside the rather disappointing us of the dot .US

Whereas the co.uk is seen as part of the overall identity of that bricks-and-mortar business, As critical and crucial as say a telephone-line or a physical postal address. It represents far more than just the internet, it's part of their reputation, part of their whole make-up This may be a only small web presence.

So to summarise. Dot COM to the UK means a full-on internet business. .CO. UK means just normal day-to-day business. I'm fairly sure most European nations view things the same. So as part of that loop here's another little obscure trend for us brits. So the CO.UK is imperative and the .COM purely desirable. BUT and it's a big BUTT, We don't value the business name or wording quite so much, in other words the URL can be long or not so meaningful in the co.uk. So long as it fits the business and it's identity that's good enough. After all the internet is NOT their business, just part of it.

We are fully on board with the premium end of both markets. We generally just don't rate our own premium words as a stand alone business identities. If its going to be mind-shifting then it has to be a .COM end of

 

[canswift]

Watch the spelling...

As I understand the domain market at present, .de and co.uk are two of the strongest country domains. However, when looking at possible domain registrations, be aware of the difference in the spelling between some English words and the North American spelling of the same word.

LaborLaw.co.uk would probably get little or no type-in traffic and probably zero UK end-user interest, as the word in the UK is spelled "Labour". Same with "Colour", "Theatre", etc

 

[jops]

If I remember rightly, they started doing it in May but I could well be wrong.

If you log into your Nominet account you will find it under 'Your Domains' -> 'Registrant Transfer'

 

[slader23]

Regardless of Brexit, England...and more importantly London will remain the economic capital of Europe. What you must realize is that the only way .co.uk losses value is if there is a lasting change in the confidence towards the pound sterling. Although there was a very brief reaction in the markets due to Brexit, I strongly believe that capital inflows into the UK will remain consistent in the long run. Also it's quite sensationalist to believe that Brexit will kill the .co.uk cctld. Even if the UK loses Scotland for example...its still a kingdom. In addition to this there are numerous political and economical complexities that would make it difficult for most countries within the Kingdom to become completely autonomous. Also I think it is illogical to assume that the UK would make detrimental policy changes to their own economy, like any competitive developed country increased yearly foreign investment is a key aspect of maintaining geopolitical dominance and the tax policies that will follow Brexit should reflect that. These changes will represent the kingdoms plan for the future, and indirectly for youth the of the nation. Will the EU make it harder to do business in the UK? No I don't think so because that would be the like asking the milkman to stop delivering milk to your doorstep every morning. There definitely will be some kind of dialogue and debate towards increased taxation and duties but it doesn't make sense to assume that those taxes will be enough to force multinational European companies to begin diminishing their business relations with the UK, not only is the market far too developed for significant change to happen in the short run or even in the medium term (5-8 years)...its just doesn't seem to be in the best interest of current AND future business owners within Europe. The EU will have to adapt because straining the UK, economically speaking...is like straining the heart of Europe.

PS...don't take this too seriously...I am a ranting Canadian economics student.