UK domains - leasing ?

woopwoop · 09-04-2009, 04:06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Shogun

I didn't say Morecambe was or wasn't - I said I have no idea how many live there. I know its not a london.co.uk or manchester.co.uk but being North of the border I honestly have no idea what size of place it is, which would directly influence the value.

edit- ok I've just searched wiki, apparently it has 45k people living there. If I lived in Morecambe I'd maybe consider it a £1k domain but that would be pushing it.

If you offered me londonstudent.co.uk and studentbooks.com for £1000 each I wouldn't take them. For me 99% of my sites are seo plays, if I ran a student book shop then maybe that domain is worth more but to an average seo guy its not even close. Personally I've bought way better domains for under £1000. I bought livefootball.net for about £1k, quickly and easily developed it and ranked it and recently turned down a mid 5 figure $ offer for the site. I honestly don't think I could easily do the same with the domains you are valuing in the same range. Live Football has search volume and is easy to monetize. Once you rank for "london student" what are you going to do with that traffic? What were those people searching for exactly?

Good luck with the domains, but it honestly sounds like you missed the boat by turning down offers that should have been accepted, imo.

Thanks for your comments I will keep them in mind.

charlie · 09-04-2009, 05:34:02 PM

Making lots of sense there Shogun.

Rich · 09-04-2009, 06:44:55 PM

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Originally Posted by GreyWing

Nobody is going to bother developing a name from scratch only to hand it back at the end of the lease. So if you offer a final buy now price, You have a much better chance of leasing them out.

The solution to that is to have some sort of guaranteed renewal set up which will effectively allow them to keep leasing the domain for as long as they require or a long term lease (say 99 years) with option to break after say 3 years

golddiggerguy · 11-04-2009, 11:43:30 PM

My idea was it was an extra site/domain to drive more traffic towards a clients business i.e.

Phone calls
email enquires
visits to a show room
hits to thier ecommerce shop

Since we own the domain still, the offer is that we carry on SEO'ing it, tweaking it to thier specific area.

Relaxants.co.uk

Could home in on maybe "muscle relaxant drugs" for the client so as well as the domain you offer SEO service built in. It's in your interest for it to rank high too as this adds sale value.

What do you think about that take on domain leasing / site leasing?

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golddiggerguy Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Hullywood Posts: 2,363 No Classified Ratings Domain Trader Rating: (100% / 33)	My idea was it was an extra site/domain to drive more traffic towards a clients business i.e. Phone calls email enquires visits to a show room hits to thier ecommerce shop Since we own the domain still, the offer is that we carry on SEO'ing it, tweaking it to thier specific area. Relaxants.co.uk Could home in on maybe "muscle relaxant drugs" for the client so as well as the domain you offer SEO service built in. It's in your interest for it to rank high too as this adds sale value. What do you think about that take on domain leasing / site leasing? __________________ Sexylicious - Humber.FM - Humber.TV Info & Plugs - Twitter - Blogging Along - Buy Jokes - Business in Hull? Submit

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09-04-2009, 05:34:02 PM	#12 (permalink)
charlie Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: No fixed abode Posts: 2,399 No Classified Ratings Domain Trader Rating: (100% / 29)	Making lots of sense there Shogun.