Wanted: Domain Appraisal Mobile UI .co.uk + .co

[jml]

Hi all,

I've been looking at selling these at the right price.

Any ideas on a price for the pair?

Many thanks!

 

[accelerator]

My view is that you would struggle to sell these.

Who are you going to sell them to? How do the domains help them? How will they see a return on investment?

Niche generic tech names do not sell well in my opinion, and there are business reasons for that.

 

[accelerator]

Also, any company specialising in Mobile UI will usually use a brand name.

If you have mobileuk.co.uk you are forgettable and non-distinctive.

 

[accelerator]

Hi all,

I've been looking at selling these at the right price.

Any ideas on a price for the pair?

Many thanks!

What is the right price? I would say it is anything that gives you a profit, so I guess for either domain, anything being offered above £20. However, I think the chances of you ever being offered this are remote. However, I'd be happy to hear you managed to sell them, as well as being very surprised.

 

[jml]

Hi accelerator,

Thanks a lot for your thoughts.

My view when registering the domains was that having the niche keywords as a forwarding domain could be used to help drive traffic towards your main website. e.g. if I was a web developer, having webdeveloper.co.uk redirecting to my personal website would be a great boost. Is that a naive point of view for such a niche area?

Your honesty is appreciated - it's really helpful to get a bit of perspective on a name.

 

[accelerator]

My view when registering the domains was that having the niche keywords as a forwarding domain could be used to help drive traffic towards your main website. e.g. if I was a web developer, having webdeveloper.co.uk redirecting to my personal website would be a great boost. Is that a naive point of view for such a niche area?

From experience I have found that very niche generic tech names can be very hard to sell, and I don't bother with them any more. There are sound reasons for this, but it would take me a while to explain. Briefly, it's to do with the relative benefit of owning something like mobileui.co.uk. The relative benefit of owning the niche generic, to say a dev agency looking for its next half a million pound dev contract, is negligible. They will be focused on branding and demonstrating expertise, they will use a unique name to do that. mobileui.co.uk won't help them at all as it is non-distinctive. Years ago there was a direct SEO benefit from the generic, but that is long gone, and with it any real reason to want the domain.

It's not a high value domain in my opinion. One thing you can do with it is create a site with mobile UI resources, but that won't be a great money-spinner, although it will get interest.

Rgds