£1,998,828

[martin-s]

Is today (or more likely tomorrow) the day DL breaks the £2m barrier?

6,349 trusted members. £1,998,828 in actual sales. since 2009.

Congrats to Denys. We're lucky to have the site.

 

[ian]

Yup, I think we are almost there depending on how many transfers are outstanding. Well done Denys, that is an impressive milestone.

 

[TallBloke]

10th April 2016 stats were: 5,801 trusted members. £1,719,046 (from archive.org).

So, very approx but around £280,000 of sales over the last year and a bit.

It's never really registered with me before the number of members of the site - a lot higher than I might've imagined.

 

[Lovekraft]

Looks like Edwin is gonna be the one that takes it there with area.co.uk

Domainlore has proved invaluable for me for both buying and selling.

 

[martin-s]

It's a good PR opportunity for the .uk namespace. Is anyone geared up to making the most of that? DL? Acorn? Nominet? Edwin? Others?

 

[grantw]

Is that the sum of all closed/completed sales or just finished auctions with final bid value?
I'm guessing the latter.

Currently I have no data to back this up, but from this report it shows signs that there could be a lot of domain transfers were not completed:
http://seemly.co.uk/domains/prices?source=domainlore&rows=100&status=incomplete

2017 from April highlights a lot of sales seem to go incomplete. That was when I started to verify data stored.

Maybe I should attempt to update all Domainlore records to flag whether a domain transfer was complete or not.
It's not something that I had really valued as important for the DB, but it could prove interesting.

I could also append a row to the bottom of the table to display price column total.
Though this wouldn't be entirely accurate as I store USD, EUR and GBP prices, it would be fine for Domainlore as it deals solely in GBP.

If you hover over 'actual' it says:

"Unlike other auction houses, we report only actual (i.e. fully completed) sales. Sale is considered actual at a point of sale but could later reverse if ownership is not changed in 21 days"

 

[Lovekraft]

If you hover over 'actual' it says:

"Unlike other auction houses, we report only actual (i.e. fully completed) sales. Sale is considered actual at a point of sale but could later reverse if ownership is not changed in 21 days"

So after 21 days and if the sale doesn't complete does the figure automatically go down?

 

[grantw]

So after 21 days and if the sale doesn't complete does the figure automatically go down?

Apparently, I've never watched the figure to see if it does though.

 

[deluxedomains]

Is that the sum of all closed/completed sales or just finished auctions with final bid value?
I'm guessing the latter.

Currently I have no data to back this up, but from this report it shows signs that there could be a lot of domain transfers were not completed:
http://seemly.co.uk/domains/prices?source=domainlore&rows=100&status=incomplete

2017 from April highlights a lot of sales seem to go incomplete. That was when I started to verify data stored.

Maybe I should attempt to update all Domainlore records to flag whether a domain transfer was complete or not.
It's not something that I had really valued as important for the DB, but it could prove interesting.

I could also append a row to the bottom of the table to display price column total.
Though this wouldn't be entirely accurate as I store USD, EUR and GBP prices, it would be fine for Domainlore as it deals solely in GBP.

 

[martin-s]

Congrats to @Edwin for selling the name that pushed it over the edge. Not sure I can really see the commercial edge to it if I'm honest, but it might help make the PR pitch that it was Edwin and a nice name?

https://domainlore.uk/area.co.uk

 

[Edwin]

No PR from me. I never publicise our sales.

If the buyer decides to, it's their choice.

I would ask others not to bring my name into it - it is the purest coincidence and irrelevant that it happened to be one of our names that broached the milestone, and I will not comment on the sale. Plus frankly it's none of your business. Thanks.

 

[Lucky Luke]

Ummm,

Plus frankly it's none of your business.

Seems a bit unnecessary

 

[Edwin]

Ummm,

Seems a bit unnecessary

Sorry, just trying to nip this in the bud. I have absolutely 0.00% interest in being mentioned in any "PR". You're right, though, I could have been less blunt.

The fact that the name has sold is public knowledge as it shows up on DL as such. I am talking about ME i.e. "my name", not "the name".

 

[martin-s]

Well, there's a man who doesn't like the limelight! Apologies Edwin, no offence intended.

 

[Edwin]

Well, there's a man who doesn't like the limelight! Apologies Edwin, no offence intended.

No problem. None taken.

 

[WineLoverLondon]

No PR from me. I never publicise our sales.

If the buyer decides to, it's their choice.

I would ask others not to bring my name into it - it is the purest coincidence and irrelevant that it happened to be one of our names that broached the milestone, and I will not comment on the sale. Plus frankly it's none of your business. Thanks.

you chanced your picture v cool

 

[Edwin]

you chanced your picture v cool

I realised the old one was 9 years old. So it was almost certainly overdue!

 

[dee]

I know im a noob here, but in all the talk of PR etc , anyyone know if he's even fussed about publicity ? Denys I mean.

 

[martin-s]

I was more thinking about the .uk namespace rather than DL itself