Some fabulous GEOS for sale and GREAT PR !

[domainseller200]

http://yourdomainnames.co.uk/

This is also featured in the Sunday Times today

[Frog]

Some of those domains are brilliant... but its puzzling to see them waste space at the top listing nonsense like "yourplumber" and then burying excellent 1 word country/capital city domains in a paragraph in the footer.

£50k For yourplumber.co.uk? I definitely wouldn't pay £5k. I probably wouldn't pay £500...

£100k for Euro2012.co.uk is funny - I think I'd rather have Benidorm.co.uk for the same price! Maybe its just me, but the whole "actually be able to use a site for more than 12 months" thing is normally a consideration.

[Edwin]

Originally Posted by domainseller200

http://yourdomainnames.co.uk/

This is also featured in the Sunday Times today

Sadly there's a whole lot of nonsense in their press release as they've used Global Broad Match figures to come up with an entirely spurious figure of "150 million searches" across their portfolio of 45 travel domains which they then sprinkled all the way through the (poorly written) release.

It's a shame really, since anyone who understands the search figures is likely to shake their heads at the hype, whereas if they took a closer look they'd see that some of the domains are very good in their own right (i.e. without the hype). It's also a pity that they've padded the list with some absolute junk that's worth about 1% at best of what the better names might be worth.

In football terms, the list reads like "goal" "goal" "own goal" "goal" "own goal" etc. and overall it turns the whole exercise into a bit of a no-score draw.

[Bailey]

No such thing as 'bad press' So the saying goes - but I can imagine a sharp intake of breath from any domainer reading that article.

I see Edwin has put it better

[BG]

As like most people on here i monitor tag changes and various other activities. I remember when this company were trading under " Domain Names Direct " using the TAG " YOURWWW " (@theagency Limited) using the site > yourwww.co.uk

I wonder if they simply went through a name change and moved to Dubai? or sold their entire portfolio to " Brogen Macy International FZA ", interesting stuff, love the fact they advertised their names in The Times & Sunday Times though, good stuff.

Barry

[liam]

i contacted brogen macy over a couple of domains for rental but never got anything back they used to have holder page domains.brogenmacy.com (now directs to drivinginstructor.co.uk) if i remember benidorm.co.uk was £100pm seems cheap as now there asking 100k

Great portfolio though.

[pred]

some very good names, a lot of crap also

quite a few hyphens and double hyphens and 'your'
personally i think if going brandable then 'my' is where it's at instead of 'your'

plus, geo .co.uk are nice, but the best are relevant ie. in the uk, imo
theres hundreds of cctlds and tbh if i was doing a travel site for abroad i'd want the .com or i'd save cash and use a brandable like .me tbh

however there are, or should be people in the travel industry salivating at prospect of buying some of these and sunday times is a good choice for an ad

any idea what an ad cost them? and any chance someone can scan in their add, to see how big etc. and design?

i've thought of ads but thought tradeshow would be better, in literature or a stand to really target endusers

[doodlebug]

I love it, Los angles on Google was searched for 450k times and the co-op only got 210k searches, how many of Google searches were for actual holidays as appose to just wanting general knowledge on LA compared to how many searches the co-op had for actual holidays, think, I bet not far off 100% of co-ops searches were for actual holidays whereas Google was more like 5%

So 100% of 210k = 210k compared to 5% of 450k = 22.5k

If you see what i'm getting at ?

[wb]

Originally Posted by doodlebug

I love it, Los angles on Google was searched for 450k times and the co-op only got 210k searches, how many of Google searches were for actual holidays as appose to just wanting general knowledge on LA compared to how many searches the co-op had for actual holidays, think, I bet not far off 100% of co-ops searches were for actual holidays whereas Google was more like 5%

So 100% of 210k = 210k compared to 5% of 450k = 22.5k

If you see what i'm getting at ?

The fact that 'Co Op Travel' actually received over three times the number of local exact searches that 'Los Angeles' did makes it factually incorrect too (this is all if going by only the Google Keyword Tool of course).

[co op travel] = 74,000
[los angeles] = 22,000

Even so, good on them for taking out an advert in a newspaper which I imagine won't have been cheap!

[Frog]

Originally Posted by wb

Even so, good on them for taking out an advert in a newspaper which I imagine won't have been cheap!

I agree, but filling it with statements that are against ASA regulations doesn't help domainers long term.