Hi everyone,
Quite a long post but I am new to domaining, I wanted to explore because it sounded like something to keep me occupied in my spare time and with the costs of everything going up maybe it could provide a few extra pounds for nice things. Whilst I have been reading and researching as much as I possibly could, I feel as though I am coming to the conclusion that domaining in the UK or should I say for .co.uk is something of a non starter these days and I wanted to get some other peoples opinions on this.
I liked the idea of looking at expired domains, looking for the hidden treasure, and using dropped.uk and their drop lists I found it addictive looking through lists of .co.uk domains to try and find ones that may be of interest.
As with anything new, I wanted to get stuck right in so I signed up with 123-reg and registered a few domains. Probably a little hastily!
1. My first was one that I just liked the sound of. And still do like the sound of so I might keep it and develop it in to something one day!
2. I went with a one word domain, all be it a fairly long word that is fairly specific and is not a highly serached word!
3. A two word domain that sounded like it had real potential
4. A two word domain which had a high search keyword but maybe the words did not really fit together quite right
5. and lastly an AI domain as that seems to be the thing this year!
As a naive first timer, I am strating to think that the ones I got are not really worth much. I was never expecting to start selling domains for £1,000's but I thought that I could get some expired ones and sell them for £100. But I guess they have probably expired for a reason!
So now that I have my experimental domains I had to sell them. I have them listed on the normal platforms, sedo, dan etc but with so many domains out there how do they even get seen! I thought, that as I am not worried about selling for big bucks to an end user and I am definitly not a salesman why not try selling them at an auction site such as domainlore.
What I like about domainlore is that there are only a handful of auctions at any one time, it made me think that it is easier for my domains to be seen. But after researching more on .co.uk auction sites and previous sales there just doesnt seem to be the desire for .co.uk domains. Domainlore auctions get some bids but we are not talking hundreds and hundreds. Flip.uk... most of thier auctions seem to have 0 bids!
So if it is difficult to sell .co.uk domains why is it also so difficult to get good ones! I used dropped.uk catching service for a couple to see how that worked but it failed to catch so there must be some sort of demand for .co.uk domains.
My last point, which adds to my original question of is domaining .co.uk a non starter, is of all the research I have done, all the posts and articles I have read a lot of them are out of date and have been written some time ago. The forums on here are quiet, apart from the auction pages so is there demand for .co.uk domains? Clearly yes to a certain extent because people are still buying the good ones. But is it too quiet and too late to start dabbling in it?
You probably didnt really need to know all of that but I wanted to start the conversation because I know I wont be the only one who wants to give it a go.
Quite a long post but I am new to domaining, I wanted to explore because it sounded like something to keep me occupied in my spare time and with the costs of everything going up maybe it could provide a few extra pounds for nice things. Whilst I have been reading and researching as much as I possibly could, I feel as though I am coming to the conclusion that domaining in the UK or should I say for .co.uk is something of a non starter these days and I wanted to get some other peoples opinions on this.
I liked the idea of looking at expired domains, looking for the hidden treasure, and using dropped.uk and their drop lists I found it addictive looking through lists of .co.uk domains to try and find ones that may be of interest.
As with anything new, I wanted to get stuck right in so I signed up with 123-reg and registered a few domains. Probably a little hastily!
1. My first was one that I just liked the sound of. And still do like the sound of so I might keep it and develop it in to something one day!
2. I went with a one word domain, all be it a fairly long word that is fairly specific and is not a highly serached word!
3. A two word domain that sounded like it had real potential
4. A two word domain which had a high search keyword but maybe the words did not really fit together quite right
5. and lastly an AI domain as that seems to be the thing this year!
As a naive first timer, I am strating to think that the ones I got are not really worth much. I was never expecting to start selling domains for £1,000's but I thought that I could get some expired ones and sell them for £100. But I guess they have probably expired for a reason!
So now that I have my experimental domains I had to sell them. I have them listed on the normal platforms, sedo, dan etc but with so many domains out there how do they even get seen! I thought, that as I am not worried about selling for big bucks to an end user and I am definitly not a salesman why not try selling them at an auction site such as domainlore.
What I like about domainlore is that there are only a handful of auctions at any one time, it made me think that it is easier for my domains to be seen. But after researching more on .co.uk auction sites and previous sales there just doesnt seem to be the desire for .co.uk domains. Domainlore auctions get some bids but we are not talking hundreds and hundreds. Flip.uk... most of thier auctions seem to have 0 bids!
So if it is difficult to sell .co.uk domains why is it also so difficult to get good ones! I used dropped.uk catching service for a couple to see how that worked but it failed to catch so there must be some sort of demand for .co.uk domains.
My last point, which adds to my original question of is domaining .co.uk a non starter, is of all the research I have done, all the posts and articles I have read a lot of them are out of date and have been written some time ago. The forums on here are quiet, apart from the auction pages so is there demand for .co.uk domains? Clearly yes to a certain extent because people are still buying the good ones. But is it too quiet and too late to start dabbling in it?
You probably didnt really need to know all of that but I wanted to start the conversation because I know I wont be the only one who wants to give it a go.
