speed.co.uk

domainseller200 · Jul 16, 2009

Skinner said:
I don't know about everyone else, but I work within my available funds, this is why I am still buying and everyone else is selling because I've kept within my budgets.

As for low prices, of course I'm going to try and get a 5k name for 2k, I wouldnt want a 5k name for 7k would i ?. If i only have 3k in my funds and the seller wants 5k, what I am going to do, Sell a kidney to buy it ?

As for 2 faced people saying whatever behind closed doors, really bothered, wanna say something about me, grow a pair like you did, I respect you more for saying it to my face, as for others I'm telling my mummy

They would only be two faced if they were friendly on the forum to you.

I agree with both Dragon and DB, the amount of threads you seem to comment on with "ah just missed that" or "i was bidding on that for a partner" is unbelievable, I find it shockingly hard to beleive (like I said previous in one of the threads) that a "partner" was nervous to make himself known for a £20 domain ? !

This isn't a personal dig, just commenting on what I have witnessed on here.

To save your reputation on here from those who think you are full of bullshit, can you show us any decent name you have bought ?(maybe one from this thread : http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/general-board/54421-quiet-week.html#post197080) £5k in 10 days is an awful lot of money to spend on names in a week, when times are hard for people and when you list in your profile you have over 3000+ domains ?

Skinner · Jul 16, 2009

To be fair on the £20 post, everyone else was hitting that marker £20-30 area, and I expected a BIN like was done on all the other offers to be posted. If i was mistaken and that wasn't how that thread was working I apologise.

Noted, unless I win I'll keep my participation private

DomainSeller, I'd rather not post all the buys I was referring, some was small buys like dang, however 2 of them which are public knowledge (on domainlore) was UUA and C8, one of the sales which I was referring to also fell thru.

foz · Jul 16, 2009

So what is this, beat up on Skinner day?

What a lovely forum this is.....

domainseller200 · Jul 16, 2009

I aint beating up anyone, just stating facts from where I see it, just the same as you just did in your opinion - not a personal dig at skinner or anyone else at all.

SF · Jul 16, 2009

foz said:
So what is this, beat up on Skinner day?

What a lovely forum this is.....

@ foz
Most of us here trade, buy and sell.

Some talk talk talk, I dont have time to read peoples life stories lee owen is bad enuf when he used to create random posts and talk to himself for pages and pages on end..

@ skinner

No wonder you didnt want to show off" your recent purchases.. garbage in my eyes..

Anyway I am sure skinners industrial dream merchants ltd have got the picture

Skinner · Jul 16, 2009

DB, don't like my posts, refresh yourself with the forum software and chose ignore on my name, lee's name or anyone elses you don't like. If you are unsure how to do this, i'm sure admin or a moderator can help you. As for quality of my names, i'm not a so and so to insult someone elses names, if i was i'd be commenting on the 900 or whatever names you posted and 0.01% sold, but as i said one mans gold and all that.

I shall now consider myself ignored by you

and the rest of your dragons den team and consider this closed.

dragon · Jul 16, 2009

This thread has just got way out of hand now - I officially have nothing to do with the dragons den.

James · Jul 16, 2009

I was unaware of the auction. Had I known about the name, I probably wouldn't have bid more than £5k for it. I'm not convinced it's worth dramatically more than the sale price. These types of evocative names I find are actually riskier than spending (much) more on some product-orientated generics.

retired_member16 · Jul 16, 2009

I too, am unaware of Sedo and the need to check it once a week.

Skinner · Jul 16, 2009

James and Fire, if you visit DomainLore and look at the sedo auctions thing, that shows you currently running and recently finished. I find that quicker than visiting sedo

Alpha · Jul 17, 2009

damn I missed it

RampageJackson · Sep 23, 2009

Don't see any real value in outbidding what this domain went for. Generics & seo all the way for me, and I can't see any way to monetize someone searching for "speed".

retired_member6 · Sep 24, 2009

RampageJackson said:
Don't see any real value in outbidding what this domain went for. Generics & seo all the way for me, and I can't see any way to monetize someone searching for "speed".

That's because you're not as clued up as you might think you are. And it is a generic.

rob · Sep 24, 2009

RampageJackson said:
Don't see any real value in outbidding what this domain went for. Generics & seo all the way for me, and I can't see any way to monetize someone searching for "speed".

This thread and sale is two months old

RampageJackson · Sep 24, 2009

LeeOwen said:
That's because you're not as clued up as you might think you are. And it is a generic.

To me, a true generic is something with commercial intent around the keyword. Sure its brandable, but ranking for "speed" is useless, what is someone searching for that looking for? To say I'm not clued up is just stupid, you have no idea what I know or don't know. Personally, I wouldn't have paid £1000 for that domain (other than to buy and flip it).

retired_member6 · Sep 24, 2009

RampageJackson said:
To me, a true generic is something with commercial intent around the keyword. Sure its brandable, but ranking for "speed" is useless, what is someone searching for that looking for? To say I'm not clued up is just stupid, you have no idea what I know or don't know. Personally, I wouldn't have paid £1000 for that domain (other than to buy and flip it).

From the knowledge I have, I can say you're not so clued up, everyone does things differently but from the way you're coming across, you're missing a big aspect of domains, no, huge. People pay a lot for branding, and no ranking for speed isn't useless if it's to do with cars or broadband.

RampageJackson · Sep 24, 2009

I don't think I'm missing a big aspect of buying domains, I think I just have a different approach to you. You're obviously buying/selling domains, I'm only buying & developing. There is massive ROI in buying a domain like (example, not my domain) BuyLaptops.net, and develop a site around it since when it ranks anyone searching for that has clear commercial intent. Give me a good 2 word domain like that over something like speed.co.uk any day.

In my opinion, ranking for "speed" is useless even if you are in the cars/broadband game. Sure the domain is brandable/memorable, but what benefit is there from ranking for "speed". I don't see anyone who wants broadband or a new car going on Google and searching for "speed", do you?

retired_member6 · Sep 24, 2009

RampageJackson said:
I don't think I'm missing a big aspect of buying domains, I think I just have a different approach to you. You're obviously buying/selling domains, I'm only buying & developing. There is massive ROI in buying a domain like (example, not my domain) BuyLaptops.net, and develop a site around it since when it ranks anyone searching for that has clear commercial intent. Give me a good 2 word domain like that over something like speed.co.uk any day.

In my opinion, ranking for "speed" is useless even if you are in the cars/broadband game. Sure the domain is brandable/memorable, but what benefit is there from ranking for "speed". I don't see anyone who wants broadband or a new car going on Google and searching for "speed", do you?

You see I wouldnt even touch buylaptops.co.uk, loads of them dropped lately. The fact is it's a word, well used, well known, easy to remember, relative and searched.

[broadband speed test] 1 - 3 $0.55 301,000
246,000
Aug Add Exact
[speed test] 1 - 3 $0.53 301,000
1,830,000
Aug Add Exact
[speedtest] 1 - 3 $0.98 165,000
1,830,000
Mar Add Exact
[internet speed test] 1 - 3 $0.44 74,000
450,000
Aug Add Exact
[broadband speed] 1 - 3 $1.52 40,500
74,000
Jan Add Exact
[speed] 1 - 3 $1.20 27,100
823,000

RampageJackson · Sep 24, 2009

But those are related searches, you're going to rank no better for those on speed.co.uk than someone else would with comparebroadbandspeeds.co.uk or some other junk domain.

The word "speed" is so broad, that regardless of what you put on the site, most of the people who do type in "speed" into Google are looking for something totally different. Are they looking for cars? modems? illegal drugs?

retired_member6 · Sep 24, 2009

RampageJackson said:
But those are related searches, you're going to rank no better for those on speed.co.uk than someone else would with comparebroadbandspeeds.co.uk or some other junk domain.

The word "speed" is so broad, that regardless of what you put on the site, most of the people who do type in "speed" into Google are looking for something totally different. Are they looking for cars? modems? illegal drugs?

Pointless conversation, you develop with different methods in mind, speed is worth at least £10k.