Brexit impact on domain sales? (NO politics, please!)

[Edwin]

Have you seen an impact on domain enquiries and/or sales as a result of the referendum and the brexit vote aftermath?

Please keep this thread entirely about your first-hand experience of the domain aftermarket, NOT about the wider politics of the situation.

I'll go first...

A) .com sales have been unaffected (fortunately!)
B) Two in-progress .co.uk sales that I'd been working on for a while fell through during the week following brexit - both were to "real" companies whose identity I knew i.e. not to anonymous enquirers, both seemed serious in the back-and-forth discussion, both explicitly cited brexit as the reason they were not going forward (more specifically, that all non-discretionary spending was being reined in for the foreseeable future)
C) No new .co.uk enquiries for over a month - not even vague nibbles - longest dry spell I can remember

 

[mat]

I would be interested to know if a price was a agreed with the companies before they cited brexit and fell through? How can you be sure that they didn't just use it as an excuse because they could not reach your price? I only base that on you stating "both seemed serious in the back-and-forth discussion" which indicates to me that it was hardly a guaranteed sale before brexit.

Surely it is way to early to look at Brexits impact on domain sales just a few weeks after the announcement?

 

[Edwin]

Yes. Pricing agreed in both cases, pro forma invoice already issued in one case.

 

[disruptive]

Here is my experience. I had one offer, price agreed (.co.uk), just to specify payment - did a runner. Non contactable. He's from US, nothing to do with Brexit. Had interest from UK party on a .co.uk this week - no issues with Brexit.

But if I were negotiating, I would try anything to get a domain/house/service cheaper and Brexit could be that excuse.

 

[atlas]

I've had a couple of Dutch companies looking to expand to the UK contact me post-Brexit. Still too early to say whether this will result in sales. Spoke with another domainer whose sales have picked up dramatically since Brexit.