Buying a co.uk - do you mention the .uk?

[Edwin]

There is another tangential situation that may be worth considering, and that is, if you personally really believe that .uk is going to be the out-and-out "winner" long-term, then there may be opportunity in persuading .co.uk owners who don't share that view to part with just the .uk of their domain.

Obviously, just like any kind of prospecting for potential domain purchase leads, you may have to approach a number of firms to find one willing to make that kind of a deal, but if you guess right it could still have a nice payoff down the road.

 

[Stephen]

Walk away....

How does exploiting someone's ignorance square with your aim "to help produce a better, more trusted aftermarket, for UK domain sales?"

The risk to me would be in not getting the .uk so yes I would raise it every time. If the price then increased and exceeded what I wanted to pay, I would walk away.

Point taken, we all have our own moral code on how much information we supply to buyers, in different situations.

In the case in question, it is for a trading company and not a simple domain investment and so choice is more limited and requirements more specific and the seller has already upped the price, so in this case it is harder to walk away as you suggest but I think I will walk away and switch to another tld.

 

[archibel]

OK I've done a little test by purchasing a 'buy it now' domain on SEDO and adding the message below to the transfer agent.

If I get a reply, I will post it here.

Please take into account the new rights relating to .co.uk sales.

At the exact moment of this purchase, accidentbook.co.uk holds the registration rights to accidentbook.uk, but the right has not been exercised.

I am purchasing accidentbook.co.uk AND the right to register accidentbook.uk from Nominet at some point within the next 5 years.

Please DO NOT RELEASE PAYMENT to the seller until you have accidentbook.co.uk transferred AND have confirmed by a Nominet WHOIS lookup, the rights to accidentbook.co.uk have not been exercised by the seller between now and the date the domain is transferred to you.

Regards
Glenn

This 'buy it now' purchase went through with .uk rights intact. But I realize this was the discretion of the seller rather than anything SEDO did...they didn't even acknowledge my question.

I can only think uk is such an insignificant element of sedo revenues, they just don't care. It's inconceivable they didn't see this coming.

Well done Domainlore for taking an early lead on this...in my mind sedo is no longer a safe place for .co.uk/.uk transactions.

 

[diablo]

Well done Domainlore for taking an early lead on this...in my mind sedo is no longer a safe place for .co.uk/.uk transactions.

Domainlore has added this update as of today:

DomainLore is now smarter to recognise various .uk/co.uk sale possibilities and displays status messages on every relevant auction page, including potential warnings.

It is now also possible to start .uk auctions for registered domains.

It is not possible for the owner of paired domains to list for sale just one.

 

[Retired_Member42]

Domainlore has added this update as of today:

DomainLore is now smarter to recognise various .uk/co.uk sale possibilities and displays status messages on every relevant auction page, including potential warnings.

It is now also possible to start .uk auctions for registered domains.

It is not possible for the owner of paired domains to list for sale just one.

Must be based on whois. Surely you'd just change the registrant on one of them if you wanted to only sell the .co.uk or .uk?