1 offer £227,500 recently declined

[meslam123]

1 offer (£227,500) recently declined by Denys for Radio.co.uk+uk, hard decision to make

source
http://buydomainnames.co.uk/domain/radio.co.uk

 

[TRUK]

There is something wrong here. If you were the bidder you are a fool to offer £227K for that name. Or the before-mentioned person should have grab that money and run like a dog since he sold similar name for £27K.

 

[TRUK]

Or if you want to buy a super-generic once in a life time name for £227K I would sell psychology.co.uk + uk to you.

 

[deluxedomains]

There is something wrong here. If you were the bidder you are a fool to offer £227K for that name. Or the before-mentioned person should have grab that money and run like a dog since he sold similar name for £27K.

In your opinion......

 

[TRUK]

Of course in my opinion! Let's see what is your opinion? Probably you had no idea of domain names when I started domaining. Why don't you write something smart instead of "3 word" worthless response.

I really am happy that I stopped using this forum after it changed hand. I still see that except a few members (Edwin etc) so many people munches the same grass at the same location.

 

[Murray]

Good on him is he can decline offers of that size and not sweat it

 

[meslam123]

There is something wrong here. If you were the bidder you are a fool to offer £227K for that name. Or the before-mentioned person should have grab that money and run like a dog since he sold similar name for £27K.

i don't agree with you just check .com sales history and you will know that this high offers is small fraction from .com sales however i don't mean by that to compare .uk domains with .com domains but i just want you to begin understand values of premium domains

 

[Skinner]

The problem most of us mere mortal domainers don't understand is some domainers hold a good amount of high quality names with a constant string of offers, often they don't the need the money, so they can keep saying NO NO NO NO until the right offer comes in. If they need fast cash they can sacrifice a little family silver and keep saying no on the Platinum and gold.

I was talking to one of the old boys, and he was saying he won't even open offer emails from hotmail/gmail/etc, he wants to be able to research the person and when he does open if they don't make an offer of at least 50% of what he thinks its worth to the 1 in a million dream buyer he doesn't even reply until they up the offer. He had like 100 rules which are all designed to put you off, he doesn't want to sell to you, so you work for it, or you meet his price.

At least with Denys you can negotiate and work on a deal, rather deal with him and STJ / UKIP for example.

 

[DaveP]

Radio is a dying industry isn't it. This domain name will be nearly worthless in 5-10 years in my opinion. Plenty of studies, such as the one by Musonomics, to back up my claim here.

Very surprised this offer was turned down IMO. Then again Denys is a whole different level of domainer, much respect for him and what he has achieved since he came relatively late in 2005.

 

[meslam123]

its just Speculations but it maybe true, also if the bidder excessed his or her maximum budget for project don't expect another increase as it's not usual in my opinion

 

[mat]

Radio is a dying industry isn't it. This domain name will be nearly worthless in 5-10 years in my opinion.

Not saying you are wrong, as have not really looked into it, but surely internet radio is here to stay? For me "Radio" as an online brand would work so well, bringing the traditional sense of the word online. I use online radios every day while working at home, enjoy it more than my own music or playlists.

 

[dee]

Tend to agree with @mat Radio as a term has become generic for music streaming really. Even streaming companies like spotify use in their apps for genre specific streams. Cracking domain, although not sure even if i had the money i'd pay that much for it. How you going to recoup that ? Not from streaming unless you suddenly get a HUGE amount of listeners. Its a co.uk so global audience less likely.

 

[Coolbreeze]

Only sounds like a crazy decision when you need the funds BUT with trends heading towards Mobile Apps I don't see the value of this domain rising, Internet Radio is very popular I listen to LBC all the time via the APP, I can't see the future for radio flourishing in the browser space so I concur with TRUK I would have taken the money and sprinted. But hey maybe he receives 6 figure offers every week who knows he certainly has balls of steel.

 

[dee]

How did OP find out about offer by the way ? Is it public knowledge somewhere ?

EDIT..... Never mind. Just found the text on original link. Sorry.

 

[Coolbreeze]

How did OP find out about offer by the way ? Is it public knowledge somewhere ?

Its on the Page Dee visit the Link

 

[dee]

Wowzer ! I just checked out Denys website properly and some of the names he has. I thought he gets some good catches, but what a fantastic collection. Good on him .

 

[Coolbreeze]

Considering Massage.co.uk £27,000 was the highest sale on his website £227,000 seems like a very Grand offer for Radio. Liverpool for £325,000?

Tom Werner's Club Must be the target for that one.

 

[Edwin]

A very strong name and a very strong offer. Irresistible force meets immovable object...

 

[DaveP]

Not saying you are wrong, as have not really looked into it, but surely internet radio is here to stay? For me "Radio" as an online brand would work so well, bringing the traditional sense of the word online. I use online radios every day while working at home, enjoy it more than my own music or playlists.

Are there enough UK based internet radio stations that require a premium domain name like this? BBC have the most, and of course don't require such a name.

http://www.internetradiouk.com/

 

[TRUK]

I started my first domain name journey at 1994. We had only a friend's dial-up connection to one of the university in our country. I had no money, nothing. So I have my full respect to STJ, who saw the potential and executed that, whose portfolio by the way surpasses anyone in the industry. However no respect for the before-mentioned individual who was and still is abusing the mighty and stinky mummynet's dropcatching system. Problem was with the nominet and he knew (know) how to exploit it. I remember after getting 3 good names he was also getting the last good name around 12 PM. Again, problem is the nominet, with its dropcatching algo, with its hefty price increase, with its bad strategy of introducing .uk etc.

Anyways that was the old days so it does not matter now. Again, who wver made a £227K offer for a radio.co.uk is a double-refined fool IMO.