Wanted: Domain Appraisal Quit.co.uk

[namealot]

Many contributing factors how the search engines take on proposed cctld, Time before there available, how long and if before the public accept them, Current or future potential 1, 3, 5 years on, the potential Uk winner do they have sufficient funds, need or want to develop, would they ever sell it ?,

Who has potential to steal the most traffic, your or there budgets, promotion, marketing strategies, desire of potential buyers to break uk market, ability to establish and dominate, negatives or positive PR of going against a “charity”, are there other charities etc that you can gift the name to in return for exclusive advertising sponsorship etc rights. This particular field could you find buyers that doesn’t want people to give up (many doors are closing for advertising) having dealt with and know a people at BAT and wouldn’t put anything past them?

It’s a good name the more you can counter any negatives of the “uk” the higher the price some names for sure “uk” will effect others business as usual, Personally would look outside uk for buyer who wants to break into the uk and would look xx,xxx as a starting point?

 

[pugyrob]

Problem is that it is a name that lends itself to a brand and to invest in that to find someone with the .uk holding you to ransom or stealing leaked traffic makes it a no go area i think. for that reason i wouldnt bid on it beyond 700-1k. with no .uk pending i think it could go up to ££,£££ personally

love nominets affect on the domain industry with all these "proposals"

 

[namealot]

More I think of it more I like the idea of trying the tobacco people tell them it could be used to “quit” the idea of plain package on cigarettes bat spent 90 million in Australia in an attemp to stop the law on top of there flooding the market with cut price cartons Sell it as an idea to show they are trying to help people give up they could even put a half hearted give up site plastered with the brand all over it that would certainly get them shed loads of publicity they’d either love or hate it you don’t really have anything to loose by contacting them?

 

[Retired_Member38]

More I think of it more I like the idea of trying the tobacco people tell them it could be used to “quit” the idea of plain package on cigarettes bat spent 90 million in Australia in an attemp to stop the law on top of there flooding the market with cut price cartons Sell it as an idea to show they are trying to help people give up they could even put a half hearted give up site plastered with the brand all over it that would certainly get them shed loads of publicity they’d either love or hate it you don’t really have anything to loose by contacting them?

I really don't see anyone involved in the tobacco industry wanting to use "Quit" in their promotional material...

 

[namealot]

I really don't see anyone involved in the tobacco industry wanting to use "Quit" in their promotional material...

Do sports and smoking go together… If someones thinking of quitting do you want them to find somewhere or see your brand? Is there a commercial reason for them not too sponsor a site for quitting given the low success rate (They may well not be allowed to that you’d have to find out) They have the budget they have dwindling avenues there allowed to advertise in we are talking a low ethics industry and they say no what have lost very little for the sake of an email or phone call you’d not contact the ones with the deepest pockets interesting...

How much publicity do you think they’d get if they did would it be negative or as they say there’s no such thing as bad publicity…?

 

[tifosi]

Maybe they'd buy it just to stop others getting it... and then file it in a big raiders of the lost ark warehouse!

 

[namealot]

Maybe they'd buy it just to stop others getting it... and then file it in a big raiders of the lost ark warehouse!

Yes same place they keep the ark for smuggling billions of cigarettes globally. Best atm “Hudson Tobacco London”. Regged in the uk although has registered no business since established in 1985. Its sold billions of cigarettes globally best brands Jet and Hero,

 

[Retired_Member38]

So evidently £2500 was the answer - http://www.sedo.co.uk/auction/auction_history.php?auction_id=153274&partnerid=19833

 

[Murray]

So evidently £2500 was the answer - http://www.sedo.co.uk/auction/auction_history.php?auction_id=153274&partnerid=19833

Your

Id say its worth < £500

Was pretty off

£2,500 not a terrible price, has the potential to sell for a lot more in the future.. but who knows, bird in the hand and all that.

 

[namealot]

So evidently £2500 was the answer - http://www.sedo.co.uk/auction/auction_history.php?auction_id=153274&partnerid=19833

Is the buyer the end user or domainer? Selling through any auction tends to mean you get less, Domains like many things effort = return.. Not alot of effort goes into selling on sedo

 

[alistair80]

mid xxxx easy...THE best name for quit smoking in the UK!

 

[Retired_Member38]

mid xxxx easy...THE best name for quit smoking in the UK!

Did you not read the thread before replying

Clearly it wasn't worth mid xxxx easy - it was worth £2500.

 

[aZooZa]

Did you not read the thread before replying

Clearly it wasn't worth mid xxxx easy - it was worth £2500.

You are daft. How do you deduce that it was worth £2,500? Just because it didn't meet its reserve with four bidders on Sedo? Is that your yardstick?

 

[Retired_Member38]

You are daft. How do you deduce that it was worth £2,500? Just because it didn't meet its reserve with four bidders on Sedo? Is that your yardstick?

What better measure of value is there than the exact £ number that people were willing to pay for it at this moment in time? Its a million times more accurate than some random number chosen by someone on a forum who wasn't willing to use their own cash to pay for it.

Is anyone posting here saying its worth mid 4 figures going to message the owner now and offer to pay that for it? If not then your valuation is worthless in comparison to the guy who committed to paying £2500 for it.

 

[aZooZa]

So you're suggesting that in the limited window of time whilst the auction was live, four bidders represented the entire possible audience of potential buyers?

 

[Retired_Member38]

4 bidders, how many thousands of people knew that it was for sale? It was mentioned in a Sedo promotional email, you posted it on at least one other forum outside of Acorn, etc.

The number of bidders is irrelevant - anyone else could have bid if they felt it was worth more than £2500. Looks like nobody did.

I realise a Sedo auction likely won't get you a perfect end user price. But it was a good indication of what resellers/domainers valued it at - which was significantly less than some were predicting here.

If anyone saying mid 4 or low 5 figures legitimately believed that... why didn't they bid £2550?

 

[aZooZa]

4 bidders, how many thousands of people knew that it was for sale? It was mentioned in a Sedo promotional email, you posted it on at least one other forum outside of Acorn, etc.

The number of bidders is irrelevant - anyone else could have bid if they felt it was worth more than £2500. Looks like nobody did.

I realise a Sedo auction likely won't get you a perfect end user price. But it was a good indication of what resellers/domainers valued it at - which was significantly less than some were predicting here.

If anyone saying mid 4 or low 5 figures legitimately believed that... why didn't they bid £2550?

1. Who cares what resellers/domainers 'valued' it at? That's no indication of potential sales value.

2. They probably didn't bid as it's out of their price range.

Don't make the mistake of taking me for an idiot.

 

[Retired_Member38]

If someone either couldn't afford it or didn't want to buy it then their opinion on its worth is pretty much irrelevant when compared to the guys opinion who typed in £2500 into Sedo with his credit card in his hand.

In the absence of someone else saying "I'd have paid more for that but didn't realise it was for sale" then the price it was bid to in an open and public auction, that had been publicised in multiple places, is surely the best indication of value we have to go on.

I'm not saying its perfect... but its a far better indicator than my guess (completely wrong at £500) or anyone else's guess here saying 5 figures.

 

[aZooZa]

I'm not going to get into a gainsaying match with you. You were way off the mark in the first place anyway, so hardly an expert in the field - in fact; at £500, you showed your naïveté.

 

[Murray]

4 bidders, how many thousands of people knew that it was for sale? It was mentioned in a Sedo promotional email, you posted it on at least one other forum outside of Acorn, etc.

If scoop co uk was put on sedo auction how much do you think it would go for?

Denys sold it recently for £14,500 to an end user who contacted him.

I know you could say this about any domain, but it's all about the right buyer at the right time. The higher the quality of domain the easier it is to imagine though.

Just because the top bid was £2,500 under the limited circumstances doesn't mean too much, definitely doesn't mean that's all it's worth (not that I think 2.5 is too badder offer).