twitter.co.uk

[disruptive]

Asking for a high sum, due to the success of twitter.com, would be seen negatively IMHO. Rather like blackmail. £30K is a reasonable sum based on its generic value, with a bit of extra value thrown in for all parties. Asking for more implies that the value of twitter.co.uk has increased due to the use of twitter.com, and yes this works with property, however when a specific company rather than a growing industry greatly adds value to the .co.uk domain, I worry. That said we all want the capital gains on our domains, however domain law is rather nebulous.

 

[wb]

No offence, but that is a very stretched comparison. Perhaps hallmark.com buying the .co.uk for £29,375 is a little more relevant.

See my reply to Invincible below regarding the Facebook example.

Since Hallmark.com actually use the .co.uk for their UK website, I don't think that's an ideal example to use either though.

So you know that Twitter would have actually have paid more than £30k (or whatever they paid, if they paid less than this, do you?

Simply giving my opinion, never said I knew for certain did I? As with many things in life, it's a risk. One which I personally would have taken.

I don't agree that it is similar. They were using a .com (which when you're International or even just US, is King) and it made sense for them to use a less verbose .com, hence their acquisition of facebook.com.

By similar situation, I was relating to the comments made by those saying it's holding Twitter to random. It's a similar example from a domain owners point of view in that 'Facebook.com' would have been worth nowhere near as much had it not been for the success of 'TheFacebook.com'.

The five additional letter difference wasn't significant enough for them to get their cheque book out and write a blank cheque in the first place.

I take it you know for a fact that they didn't try and get their cash out originally but were turned down?

We're all entitled to our own opinion, and I respect anyone who shares theirs. However, in this case it's not going to change my mind that I think it would have sold for more and I suspect there will be an equal amount of people sharing both our views.