Landrush phase for .uk short domains now open

DarrenTSO · Jul 25, 2011

Paid mine on Friday, domain was registered today

octopus · Jul 25, 2011

Paid mine on Friday, domain was registered today

Same here, fair play to nominet for confirming payment details via email.

I guess the same sale/transfer conditions apply for these i.e 60 days? I will be selling a few of the names I purchase and probably will develop others.

bensd · Jul 27, 2011

armistice said:
Guess they are all finished now as nominet just emailed:

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Thank you for taking part in the .me.uk short domain name auction process and congratulations on your winning bid(s). We are now generating invoices to send to the winning bidders and will email these to you in the next 24 hours. Please note that you then have 7 days from the date of the invoice(s) to pay.
You can pay by credit or debit card by calling our secure payment line – 01865 332348 – quoting your invoice number(s)
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Wonder if any auctions will get rerun when the buyer bottles out of payment after getting carried away in the bidding.

Noticed a few of the domains I didn't win still haven't been registered, do we know how strict nominet are going to be about the 7 day limit?

dotNetFreak · Jul 27, 2011

bensd said:
Noticed a few of the domains I didn't win still haven't been registered, do we know how strict nominet are going to be about the 7 day limit?

Hopefully very, and that no exceptions are made to the rule. I guess people have until probably Monday to pay depending on when they were sent their invoice?

Rich · Jul 27, 2011

Off with a bang this morning

g.org.uk already on £1600

dta · Jul 27, 2011

Rich said:
Off with a bang this morning

g.org.uk already on £1600

what are the odds that goes over 5k before lunch?

retired_member33 · Jul 27, 2011

dotNetFreak said:
Hopefully very, and that no exceptions are made to the rule. I guess people have until probably Monday to pay depending on when they were sent their invoice?

It doesn't make any sense, why... We all received the email on a Friday stating that we should pay within 7 days.

So, lets say I have a proper company in Germany and want to make the payment via Bank wire...

I get an email on Friday, get the invoice to my accounts departments on Monday, takes one day of processing... An international bank wire takes 4 days..

Anyway, I might be miscalculating things plus that the .me.uk domains should only be registered to individuals but I still think Nominet should have used a 10 day or more payment window.

I hope they do it on the .org and .co domain auctions.

I made my payment and am the owner of l.me.uk

inbound · Jul 27, 2011

I hope that people don't get carried away, these are .org.uk domains that (apart from a few exceptions) are not popular search terms - let's hope the prices are sensible and people looking to use the domains they are after can secure them.

Alien · Jul 27, 2011

Just bidding on my one XX.org.uk. Be nice to get it for personal use.

Edwin · Jul 27, 2011

The final tally of .co.uk, .org.uk and .me.uk is probably going to crack £xx,xxx,xxx at this rate. Would make for a fabulous press release that really drives home the value of investing in domain names once the dust has settled.

My prediction:
92% .co.uk
7% .org.uk
1% .me.uk

(ratio of the total value of the landrush auctions for each of the 3 extensions)

retired_member33 · Jul 27, 2011

Alien said:
Just bidding on my one XX.org.uk. Be nice to get it for personal use.

Thats why I joined the .me.uk one.. already got myname.co.uk and other extensions but figured it would be cool to have the first letter of my name as a domain as well.

dta · Jul 27, 2011

the way this is going so far can see a few continuing tmrw unless folks start increasing by more then 10 at a time...

grantw · Jul 27, 2011

dta said:
the way this is going so far can see a few continuing tmrw unless folks start increasing by more then 10 at a time...

Yeh, I so need to go to the post office too!!!

Grant

getmein · Jul 27, 2011

Anyone tried bidding on a smartphone?

retired_member33 · Jul 27, 2011

Edwin said:
The final tally of .co.uk, .org.uk and .me.uk is probably going to crack £xx,xxx,xxx at this rate. Would make for a fabulous press release that really drives home the value of investing in domain names once the dust has settled.

My prediction:
92% .co.uk
7% .org.uk
1% .me.uk

(ratio of the total value of the landrush auctions for each of the 3 extensions)

Would it make a fabulous press release? The fact that Nominet is only releasing the domains now where others like .de/.nl have already shared their shortnames. For me a press release would only confirm the idea I got when dealing with Nominet that they are still living in the 20th century.

I could be wrong of course

Edwin · Jul 27, 2011

ProDomains said:
Would it make a fabulous press release? The fact that Nominet is only releasing the domains now where others like .de/.nl have already shared their shortnames. For me a press release would only confirm the idea I got when dealing with Nominet that they are still living in the 20th century.

I could be wrong of course

We are not the audience.

For the average "man in the street" hearing that tens of millions of pounds were spent on some domain names by what will end up being hundreds if not thousands of different entities (rather than a tiny handful of people) might just be the "nudge in the right direction" that was needed to pique their interest in the subject, or at least not to scoff outright at the thought of paying > regfee for a domain in future.