why don't traditional uk auction houses se'll domain names? and or uk pawn brokers lend or liquidate domain names?
Well, because the value is determined by the buyer. That's like saying, why don't pawnbrokers and auction houses sell/buy/leverage stock portfolios. It's too risky and as an intangible asset, unlike tangible assets, it run the risk that one day, it will disappear and that nobody can determine its value with certainty. Unlike, for example, an antique clock or such.
We lend money against domain names & websites (oxygen dot uk) but the quality has to be there. .co.uk/.uk are harder to borrow against due to the market being illiquid. Other places that lend money are domain capital
i tried your company recently but apparently my portfolio has no value domains I have owned that went on to be bought by companies after I let them expire etc sports .legal crowd. finance sports. finance pawn. express etc these domains I have owned before the current owners domains I currentmy own that are in auction Abbey. services vlog. finance vlog. marketing transport. watch pawn vehicles .com lilac goat .com - although renewed it current domains I own account. watch a1. chat Anne. gold campervan. parts campervan. show celeb. singles debt. city divorce. claims defunct. news Fay. gold gtld. broker grocery takeaway. com grocery drivethru. com Heidi. gold Jan. gold Jill. gold Jenny. gold Julie. gold Mick. gold nomad. loans nomad. credit narrowboat. xyz narrowboats. xyz narrowboat. life n ft reseller. xyz plasterer. xyz plasterers. xyz privacybarrister. com privacysolicitor. com privacysolicitors. com room. credit room. loans sexismsolicitor. com sexismsolicitors. com sally. gold Tracey. gold (estibot value $5900) unemployment. loans unrestricted. loans van. watch vloglawyer. com yard. watch and that's just a sample of my portfolio these are some of the domains that oxygen. uk had the opportunity to either buy or lend against but decided their was no value in these domains
Warning sign: Ignore estibot, or any other automated valuation tool. Be honestly objective: Some of them sound OK when you read them out loud, but people that aren't domainers won't trust it. If money was no object, you didn't own them already, and you saw any of these for sale for more than registration fee, which ones would you honestly buy? Realistically, from your list, you need to ignore any domains that aren't .com. They're just not desirable or marketable (for the most part). That leaves us with: LilacGoat.com GroceryTakeaway.com GroceryDriveThru.com PrivacyBarrister.com PrivacySolicitor.com PrivacySolicitors.com SexismSolicitor.com SexismSolicitors.com VlogLawyer.com The legal related domains are far too niche. Excluding VlogLawyer. I have no idea what that would consist of. The grocery domains are too long, when a brandable is probably more desirable. Which leaves us with LilacGoat, which can be nothing other than a brandable that you might get lucky with one day. I personally don't rate any of them.
Unfortunately we don't lend against these extensions. They are too volatile (low cost initial renewals that rise dramatically) and do not have a proven track record. As @seemly mentions above the .com quality is not high enough.
It is very difficult to sell a .co.uk/.uk domain quickly for a reasonable price. Even super prime domains don't move quickly so it is not a very liquid market. If you look at flip.uk or domainlore not many domains sell for above £xxx.
I used to buy two keyword .co.uk and .uk domains a few years ago when you could buy a .co.uk for 2 years for £5 e.g. I used to own givefood. co.uk and givefood. uk and had a concept for them and owned them for about 3 years or so and let them expire as I started to buy new gtlds etc but couldn't be happier that the current owner of the give food. uk uses it as a redirect in to the org. uk which is a food bank site etc but that is why I buy my domains e.g. I have a concept tech idea and buy the domain of the idea and the domain purchase gives the date I had the idea etc which is why I bought homeless. events And poverty. watch As I have concepts for both domains as I do with my freecarparks. com etc as I am an ideas guy
can you guess which 4 domains gets the most parking visits from my domains in the above list eg from my entire domain name portfolio (the above list in my post in this thread is just a sample of the domains in my portfolio 1st) but the domains that get the most parking visits of all my domains are in the above list but 4 of the domains are in that list domains that get the most parking visits are? 1 ? 2 ? 3 (room. tips) (not in above list but it gets 3rd most parking visits eg 472 parking visits this year in my domain name portfolio 4? 5?
I've read, re-read, then tried reading it again, but that second paragraph confuses the hell out of me. But i'll bite (partially). Where is the traffic coming from? It's very unlikely to be type-in traffic. If it's through domain listing platforms, it could very well be bots. If it's through historic link profile, then this will define the value of any of the listed domains. Other than the above list items i'm not that interested in guessing, as unless the link profile is reasonable/good, the domain value is minimal at best.
