BBC News article - Sedo comments on toys.com $5m sale

sedo · Mar 4, 2009

You may be interested to read the following article where Nora Nanayakkara comments on the highest domain sale this year of Toys.com for $5m

BBC NEWS | Technology | ToysRUs pays $5m for toys domain

Sedo’s media relations is just one of the ways in which we work to bring in potential end-user buyers by educating the public on the value of direct navigation traffic .

bensd · Mar 4, 2009

This statement is quite alarming:

UK domain name seller Sedo said it had seen prices halved for .co.uk domain names since the economic downturn started to take hold

tifosi · Mar 4, 2009

Indeed, somewhat irresponsible without figures to back it up, especially when sedo are only a proportion of sales.

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sedo · Mar 4, 2009

Hi everyone,

This report puts it into more context (see part seven) with sales in 2008 nearly double that of 2007. The media do like to link, and over egg, any apparent crises.

http://www.sedo.co.uk/press/domainmarketstudy2008.pdf

Thanks
Joanna

rob · Mar 4, 2009

Ask the BBC to correct the article, from prior experience they do so if you ask with a basis

accelerator · Mar 5, 2009

Good to see the article. I think they did the right thing buying this for their business. The toys.com domain isn't resolving for me yet though.

Rgds

rob · Mar 5, 2009

I just had a conversation with a non-domain related person who had read the article and asked if I was concerned

Interested to know the source of the data of .co.uk halving and if a correction will be requested?

GreyWing · Mar 5, 2009

Does this mean Domcollect will be halving its prices?

Yep I think certain stories can be taken out of context and probably just another of someone writing an article without doing the correct research.

bb99 · Mar 5, 2009

GreyWing said:
Yep I think certain stories can be taken out of context and probably just another of someone writing an article without doing the correct research.

Surely not on the BBC??? The great bastion of British journalism