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Discussion in 'Domain Portfolio Sales' started by Whois-Search, Jan 13, 2020.

  1. Siusaidh

    Siusaidh Well-Known Member

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    Hmmm... not sure about that, Ben. I wonder what % of domains are caught by namecatchers and what % of domains are registered by hand via a Registrar?

    My guess is that namecatchers cream off the top 5% of names which may offer a profit on re-sale. Maybe as much as 10%, I don't know.

    The other 90-95% of domains are dependent on usefulness to the people who register them?

    I think the domains with value on any drop list will rarely be more than that 5%, so Nominet's income stream must be dependent on more than the drop catching process.

    That's just my guess as I haven't done any assessment and I don't know who has.
     
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  3. Siusaidh

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    If you think of the 900,000 or so .uk domains that have dropped in the past few weeks and not been re-registered, that suggests to me that the whole Nominet project to double up on .co.uk misfired to an extent. That's a lot of people who simply didn't want to register two domains instead of one.

    Of course, a lot of people still have, but not as many as they might have hoped. If they thought that free registrations were going to pamper and stimulate their market into expansion, that didn't really work. I'm guessing with the drops this January and in June (with a lesser wave in October) probably about 1,500,000 .uk domains will have been wiped off their total registrations.
     
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    Wtf o_O:D what a funny guy. It’ll be interesting to see if Nominet do respond to questioning, but my instinct tells me they won’t. They’re clearly not capable of enforcing their own AUP so what are they talking about.
     
  6. Hay

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    He may aswell have done this to us and nominet...

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  7. Fred Steven Cyprus

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    Actually, I think who ever caught bulgarian.uk is doing the opposite as to what you think, Rule Brtitannia ;-)
     
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  8. Whois-Search

    Whois-Search Well-Known Member

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    I see you have put a YouTube video on it now:

    https://www.bulgarian.uk


    I had traced the director of Safari Ventures Ltd as far as this guy in Bristol:

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/philpartridge

    He does SEO for Rhino Car Hire....

    https://www.rhinocarhire.com/Customer-Services/About-us/Meet-The-Team.aspx

    I had presumed it was a Kalin tag going by the other names they caught recently:

    thinking.uk 2021-01-23 SAFVENTURES
    raccoon.uk 2021-01-18 SAFVENTURES


    https://blog.domainlore.uk/It_is_becoming_clear/
     
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  9. Hay

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    @Whois-Search - Kalin is behind the following tag who caught some of the LLL's yesterday:

    Mantas Simkus t/a SIMKUS [Tag = SIMKUS]
    URL: http://www.bethebest.uk

    Some of those domains point to a DAN.com page for example: https://dan.com/buy-domain/cqu.uk?redirected=true&tld=uk

    However, you can now seen they have changed the profile so it does not say eDOMS or Tool.Domains any more but i have around 10 screen shots of different domains on that tag all pointing to the profile of Kalin and since i mentioned that tag and dan page on here its been changed.
     
  10. Fred Steven Cyprus

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    A few more i have not seen

    https://dan.com/domain-seller/edoms-com?&tld[]=uk&results=100&order_by=relevance

    86.uk Tool Domains Ltd t/a Find us at https://seo.domains
    aai.uk Page Rules LTD [Tag = PAGERULES]
    abn.uk Petar Ivanov [Tag = PIVANOV]
    acg.uk Simeon Chakalov [Tag = SCHAKALOV]
    acj.uk Ivelina Georgieva [Tag = IGEORGIEVA]
    afr.uk NORWAY NAME REGISTRATION LIMITED [Tag = NNRLTD]
    ahl.uk Ina Ilieva [Tag = IILIEVA]
    ais.uk Antoniya Pavlova [Tag = APAVLOVA]
    akd.uk Maria Dobcheva [Tag = MDOBCHEVA]
    akw.uk NET IN [Tag = NET-IN]
    apw.uk Tulang EOOD [Tag = TULANG]
    asy.uk ER - TE BG EOOD [Tag = ER-TE-BG]
    baf.uk Severina Paneva [Tag = SPANEVA]
    bbs.uk VALRON EOOD [Tag = VALRON]
    bnm.uk Hristina Kostova [Tag = HKOSTOVA]
    bpc.uk Tatyana Karataneva [Tag = MIXACTIVITY]
    dco.uk Digital Web Services Group LTD [Tag = DIGITALWEB]
    im.uk Internnic Limited [Tag = INTERNNIC]
     
  11. keys United Kingdom

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    15p is not a lot, but multiply by 10m and you get an extra £1,500,000 per year. Expect more of the same!
     
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  12. Whois-Search

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    2100 three letter .uk scores:

    BHAYDOM 743
    GLOBALNETNAMES
    + COMPUSOLVE 678
    WEBHOUND 213
    VAUGHAN 163
    123-REG 93
    SIMKUS 52
    STITCHBOB 39
    WEBBER 36
    STUKA-PH 26
    WSMITH 12
    ADOMAINS 5
    INTELDIGITAL 5
    EMMI 4
    CREGISP 4
    NOMAD 4
    OSTASHKO 4
    UKIS-UK 4
    CATCHDROP 3
    ROZAK 3
    WISTOW 2
    PDR-IN 2
    BOWLER 1
    NAMECHEAP-INC 1
    PAULIESMEDIA 1
    MARKETSEARCH 1
    DOMAINCATCHER 1
    STARWORKS 1
    CECOSOLUTIONS 1
     
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  13. Ben Thomas

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    £3477.24, some investment that mate.
     
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    For anyone remotely interested...

    Total Dropped: 4143
    Total Caught: 2423

    Caught Totals:
    3 Letters 2101
    Words 188
    Numbers 31
    Names 73
    GEO 30

    Which means the following...

    1. 1720 names are now still available to register.

    2. Dropcatchers only went for the 2101 three letters all with ZXQ

    3. Only 322 other names were hand registered

    Full caught list now on:
    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PhnFFA23w2mLuV1gi_DDaSfS487bjEcFg6GJZgtdajI/edit?usp=sharing

    Now what to do with the 1720 matching .co.uk ...
     
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  16. LCHappy United Kingdom

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    If I were you, I'd do the same as what you just did. Seemed to go down well.
     
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  17. Ben Thomas

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  18. lazarus

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    Run an ROR period for the people that bought the .uk ?
     
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  19. Whois-Search

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    @Whois-Search - You could always drop the .co.uk counterpart for the LLL's to free up your dashboard space thus giving those who caught the most priority :p;)