Here is a round up of the most interesting domaining news storys from the last week or two…………….
The million dollar UK domain name. Perhaps the biggest news item of recent weeks is that the sale of Cruises.co.uk broke the record for the most expensive UK domain name. The buyer, who also owns cruise.co.uk, paid in the region of $1 million, which is about £560,000.
Next - here is a question. Anyone heard that there might be a recession? Well there has been a lot of speculation about how a possible recession might affect domain names. At the time of writing it seems like the majority of economic commentators think there is a good chance that we will slip into a prolonged recession. So if it does happen what might be the possible impacts on our domaining activities. Paul Sloan writing in the US business journal Fortune Magazine says that domain names may be recession proof. I dont think he is right and neither does Mark Jeftovic, from easyDNS.com. His appraisal of the possible impacts is well worth reading.
King Domainer Rick Schwartz had a cool interview in Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald
Social networking site MySpace recently won what might become a landmark decision after it won a case against the owner of MySpace.co.uk. Importantly, the owner obtained the domain many years before the site MySpace was created.Scott from the entrepreneurs blog Self Made Minds is an active domainer with some great names in his portfolio. He recently blogged about an domain name appraisal he received from domain name sales site SEDO.co.uk and reproduces the appraisal, which makes interesting reading. It is interesting to see what a Sedo appraisal takes into account. Scott is kind enough to share his domaining strategies on his blog. Here he taks about turning down an offer of $57,000 for a few of his domain names. Finally, domainers who use eBay for buying and selling domains will be interested to read how eBay now stops sellers leaving negative feedback for buyers. Whether this is a good idea that will improve the user experience or just lead to a increase in non - paying bidders remains to be seen.
