Wanted: Domain Appraisal earth.co.uk

malf · Sep 9, 2005

Hi

I'm considering selling the domain earth.co.uk

Your thoughts on what this might be worth would be really useful.

thanks

FC Domains · Sep 9, 2005

It's difficult to see a specific application, but it is an extraordinarily memorable name.

I would expect it to sell at about £5K.

rob · Sep 9, 2005

I would agree with this, use is hard to pin down however cartography seems to be the most obvious answer.

It could be worth trying to sell it to possible end users to get the highest price.

Cheers,
Rob.

Admin · Sep 9, 2005

Offer it to Google for their "Google Earth" application, they might be able to spare a few quid ;-)

http://earth.google.com/

rob · Sep 9, 2005

Setting up parking to log stats would be a good idea, there must be a few people typing in google.earth.co.uk

lesurf · Sep 10, 2005

I think you will probably have someone with an offer knocking on your door soon.....

earthmortgages.co.uk

Seem to have big budgets for advertising as they have been on TV a great deal recently.

dp · Nov 6, 2005

lesurf said:
I think you will probably have someone with an offer knocking on your door soon.....

earthmortgages.co.uk

Seem to have big budgets for advertising as they have been on TV a great deal recently.

Looks like you were right

charlie · Nov 6, 2005

anyone have any ideas what it went for?

Admin · Nov 9, 2005

see domainprices.co.uk £4,500

Edwin · Nov 10, 2005

That's an incredible bargain!

rob · Nov 10, 2005

Edwin said:
That's an incredible bargain!

I would agree, end user price was something i would have thought would have been paid resale :s

Still, £5 > £4.5k =

retired_member27 · Nov 10, 2005

Edwin said:
That's an incredible bargain!

I disagree, £4.5k is about right, if you think it's worth a lot more then you are probably still living in the dot com boom days of the late 90's.

Remember, sold.co.uk went for £1000 and value.co.uk for £1566 recently, although I must admit I am surprised at the prices that some domains do sell for i.e. dreams.co.uk (£25,000) and republic.co.uk (£23,500) but I think thats mainly due to companies having more money than sense.

IMO the majority of companies are now online so the chance to sell a domain for a huge sum is getting less and less, plus the coming .eu will simply flood the market with yet more domains.

Virtually all the domains that I sell nowadays are to resellers whilst in 2000-2003 it was mostly companies.

At the end of the day, any domain will sell if at the right price, if you are not prepared to accept that price then you will end up owning that domain forever. I just think people have got to be more realistic with the pricing of their domains, thats all.

keys · Nov 10, 2005

apd said:
At the end of the day, any domain will sell if at the right price, if you are not prepared to accept that price then you will end up owning that domain forever. I just think people have got to be more realistic with the pricing of their domains, thats all.

This is true, but it can be hard to accept.

If you have a few domains to sell then it's possibly worth waiting in the hope of higher prices, and if values fall you don't stand to "lose" much.

For resellers with hundreds, or thousands, of domains then it's a different matter. Sales of uk domains in the five figure bracket are rare, and these sales do not justify or support high prices for the market in general.

rob · Nov 10, 2005

apd said:
Remember, sold.co.uk went for £1000 and value.co.uk for £1566 recently

Two more great bargains!

I doubt if you could get those from the new owners for triple those prices if you offered, or, as it turns out, five times for one of them!

James · Nov 18, 2005

sold.co.uk £1000 ?!
value.co.uk £1566 ?!

These are astonishing prices quite frankly, and almost show total ignorance of the upswing in the UK domain market. I'm amazed.

lesurf · Nov 18, 2005

Yes, I think sold.co.uk in particular was undervalued, so much so I registered vendido.es which means the same in Spanish ;-) I can't imagine a site called sold.co.uk not making £1,000 in a year revenue whatever you did with it. Maybe the owner just needed the cash..

keys · Nov 18, 2005

J8James said:
sold.co.uk £1000 ?!
value.co.uk £1566 ?!

These are astonishing prices quite frankly, and almost show total ignorance of the upswing in the UK domain market. I'm amazed.

These are the few publicy disclosed sales. Other such sales are not that rare, for the fortunate people in the right place at the right time.

A very desirable betting domain changed hands recently, at a most favourable price for the buyer. I know of others but I am not at liberty to disclose details.

Clearly there are registrants who see domains they registered years ago as being worth little more than reg fee, and in some cases not even that much. Otherwise they would keep track of them and pay the renewals. It is astonishing that names like investors.co.uk (dropped yesterday) are still being deleted.

It is clear from a little detective work that several registrants are losing their domains because they have not advised Nominet of address changes. It would be relatively easy to assist these registrants but there is no reason for Nominet to do it, and the source of the information forbids us from contacting the registrants.

We have all seen inflated prices for average names. I know of a few cases where registrants have turned down offers of several hundred pounds, expecting to get more by waiting. Then come renewal time they didn't pay, so we picked up the names and completed the sales.