Nov
21

Recycle.co.uk sells for £150,000

Ray on November 21st, 2007

In this latest round up of UK related domain sales reported to DNJournal.com this week,  Recycle.co.uk becomes the highest ever reported sale of a .uk domain name. This is further proof of the strength of the UK’s ccTLD.
There were a number of really nice sales reported by DNJournal. Last week it was reported that MopedInsurance.co.uk sold [...]

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Nov
12

Domain related articles from the last few days

Ray on November 12th, 2007

Here is my round up of important domain name news from the last few days or so.
To start off I really enjoyed DNJournal.com’s great article on the life of domainer and NewYork.com owner Leyland Hardy. It makes great reading.
I was pleased to see a report from DomainNews.com about a recent survey of UK marketing professionals about their use of the .co.uk [...]

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Nov
5

Finding domain name sales data

Ray on November 5th, 2007

Many domainers closely follow domain name sales data to understand more about domain name values. Previous sales data can only be a rough guide to the possible value of any particular domain name and should not be used as the sole determinant of a domains value. Nevertheless, general sale prices for domains that are similar to one [...]

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Oct
21

Generic and brandable domains 101

Ray on October 21st, 2007

I think a lot of newer domainers really struggle to understand the different factors which drive demand and prices for generic and brandable domains. I offer this post as my very brief attempt to address what is often a costly problem for newer domainers.

Short memorable names with the .com extension are particularly sought [...]

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Oct
3

UK domain sales reported on DNJournal this week

Ray on October 3rd, 2007

DNJournal.com has a weekly report on the top reported domain name sales each week. Generally, only a small proportion are UK related and I have listed below the UK related sales reported to DNJournal and included in their report on Tuesday 02 October.
ScottishSalmon.com was sold for around £1,500 ($3,088) on Afternic and JobsUK.net sold for [...]

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