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    .org.uk and .uk

    Indeed but not to anywhere near the same extent. Someone may love a property and pay an 20% extra for it, but ask a multiple of auction/market value and they will quickly go elsewhere But sellers often set a blanket minimum price, knowing that every once in a while they'll hit the jackpot...
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    .org.uk and .uk

    The problem with the domain market is actually that it is not more like the property market. There is no point in property seller asking a price well above current market value, because buyer will find an alternative. But the domain buyer often desires one name far above all others. Seller...
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    Second level .uk poll.

    There is a register of charities, if that's what you mean.
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    .UK Announced

    I’ll let you think that. Didn’t intend to take up so much space - doesn't achieve anything.
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    .UK Announced

    Unlike the domainer, the computer programmer has created something that would not otherwise have been available. Often the buyer does have reasonable alternatives - but regardless buying a domain can be an ardous process because many domains do not have asking prices. Or the seller just picks...
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    .UK Announced

    Rarely is the top bidder for a piece of land willing to pay twice as much as the next bidder - so there is no point in the seller holding out for a two times or more fair value price. But that scenario is common in the domain market. Perhaps controlling the domain market would be more trouble...
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    .UK Announced

    Computer games companies make something new that would not otherwise have been there, so their entitlements should be different. Land is a very different thing. It usually sells for around market value. Sellers do not hoard land and hold out for prices that are often unrealistic - there is no...
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    .UK Announced

    He doesn't know which are the ones that won't sell. He just prices them all at a multiple of fair value and accepts that most will never sell. Indeed it's very difficult to know what the second highest bid for a domain might be. But if less than 1% of stock is being sold each year, it's a...
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    .UK Announced

    Because it is more profitable to sell a small number of domains at a multiple of fair value and leave the rest unsold, than it is to sell all at fair value. Fair value I define as a dollar more than whatever the second highest bidder will pay. The domain market is extraordinary - in very few...
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    .UK Announced

    Yes Schilling does have too many and they are outrageously priced. The vast majority will never sell and that says all you need to know about the fairness of the pricing.
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    .UK Announced

    Or perhaps they will spend more time in court if they destroy .co.uk businesses than if a few bogus trademark owners miss out. Many of the new gTLDs look set to launch without awarding generic domains to trademark holders. The likes of sony already own the .co.uk, so will get the .uk...
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    .UK Announced

    I've only just appreciated how many generic word trademarks are out there. The proposal is farcical as it stands. The money.co.uk people appear to lack a trademark, but there are 10 'money' trademarks, including one for the Virgin Islands cheats. Most haven't anything to do with money, they...
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    .UK Announced

    This mob could just as easily have an eye on new TLDs in general, but will probably pilfer many of the top .uk's if permitted. It is the top generics where most of the TM cheating will take place, so for these domains at least, Nominet is going to have to give the highest priority to existing...
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    Second level .uk poll.

    I thought it was difficult to take undue advantage of charitable status – trustees must approve wages etc. Doesn’t seem particularly fair on the speculator either, but it’s the .co.uk owner who has already developed on the basis that he holds the number one address, who would be hardest done by.
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    Second level .uk poll.

    Because the .org.uk owner has already been doing fine with a second-most-popular domain. The blow to the brand of the .co.uk owner is potentially much more devastating. But by all means if the .co.uk is owned by a speculator and the .org.uk by a charity, give it to the charity.
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