shopping.uk

dougs · Jul 12, 2019

Nigel said:
been out today - wow star name Doug - and secured in daylight hours

I don't do middle of the nights. I bought it whilst actually in an Indian restaurant in Brum...expensive curry

JMI · Jul 12, 2019

So you weren't bothered about going after shopping.co.uk? I would have thought it had been in the same ball park..

dougs · Jul 12, 2019

JMI said:
So you weren't bothered about going after shopping.co.uk? I would have thought it had been in the same ball park..

I believe .uk's are the future so why waste the cash. I will buy the .co.uk for completeness if it was at a discount. But remember we also using this as a branding exercise internally to staff and externally to suppliers.

Whois-Search · Jul 13, 2019

Didn’t Mr Conway sell Shopping.net + .co.uk to ValueClick in 2006:

https://www.channeladvisor.co.uk/bl...uys-thorn-in-shopping-coms-side-shopping-net/

$13.3 million in cash:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1080034/000129993306007831/exhibit1.htm

dougs · Jul 13, 2019

He did indeed

Valuclick shareprice increased by $70 million the following day if I remember rightly. Some deals are not for the reason you think.......

Kaleido · Jul 15, 2019

dougs said:
We own and run www.redbrain.com that does a huge amount of traffic per day in shopping globally so very simple for us to reposition some of our traffic to this url. Great for internal branding making the staff realise what they are part of and great for external branding so the major UK suppliers who we currently do not work with realise how serious we are. So some direct value and lots of indirect value.

This is brilliant. A cracking name being used straight out of the box by someone who understands the branding/marketing benefits and believes in the potential of .uk

Best of luck to you, chief.