.uk Domain Prices have fallen 18% in 1 year?

[atlas]

Cyber.co.uk - sold on DomainLore 14 Nov 2012 for £1317.

Cyber.co.uk - sold on DomainLore 19 Nov 2013 for £1083.

17.77% decrease in value in 1 year.

"Domains go up faster in value than any commodity or asset ever known to mankind"
Rick Schwartz

 

[Rob_F]

You can't formulate a picture based on a single domain though, Jeff – especially when that domain contains a term that was very popular back in the 90's and has continued to fall in popularity ever since.

I'm surprised it sold for as much as it did. In this instance, it's a bit like catching a falling knife.

- Rob

 

[namealot]

Same as any business its about buying and selling at the right time, Which seams to elude so many who are under the illusion there ever increasing. Not everything gets better with age?

 

[Retired_Member42]

I agree. The low price on this sale is due to the word itself, not the domain market. Who uses the word Cyber anymore? I hear Cyber and I think of the 90's.

 

[wonder_lander]

I also thnk the end time didn't help

 

[bluerock]

The fact the seller was based in China put me off.

 

[julian]

I think it was Bill Gates who originally said "Domains will go up faster in value than any commodity or asset ever known to mankind"

Anyway, cyber is a domain I thought about buying over and over for the last few years but something inside held me back..

I think it's a good domain, one of those that could be 5k, it may have missed the boat and probably had more value 5 years ago.

It still has some uses and at this price was an ok buy.

 

[max_rk]

To judge market mood from one domain would be madness. Even if you take year worth of domain sales and compare to other year, the result may not give you accurate picture. It depends who was buying, what has been bought , how many , so on so on. Some of the top ticket domains that changed hands will not change hands for many years. How many of Toys.com's or Jobs.com's trading every year!

Comparison logic is being applied to gage domain market but no way it is accurate or results interpreted accurately.

I believe domain name market is even more complex than UK housing market. Same as on housing market the numbers can be distorted by by many things.

Any domain name price index, in is only rough guess.

Max Karpis