Gold Domain Names

[Edwin]

Good luck with that! A high-profile sale of such a top-class name would be a great shot in the arm for the UK domain industry. Are you planning to get some of the scrap gold companies in on the action somehow?

 

[namealot]

Yes good luck... would be nice to see a good sale price for a .co.uk ….(Get some of the buyers away from .com’s or .de's for a change…. ?) Could I ask what made you choose this particular auction/firm over other ones…?

 

[BG]

Gold.co.uk for sale

Thank you guys.

@Edwin - Their were already a few companies that had expressed an interest already prior to the auction - I've passed these companies over to Rick & Toby's team for them to follow up, plus we're hitting companies in Hatton Garden, a handful of companies in Birmingham, and a couple of biggies in the states. It's all fun and games.

I'll be flying out to Dublin to attend and see a few old faces. If anyone else is going let me know as its always good to meet fellow acorners.

@ Namealot - I feel the guys from the states usually pull in bigger sales due to attracting the right people. I guess the proof will be in the pudding...

 

[Edwin]

It's probably a significant enough name to warrant a press release on its own. Some of the UK media might well pick it up. The expense is negligible (or none apart from writing if you use a free service to distribute it) and you never know who might see it. Need to get it out in the next day or so though...

 

[julian]

nice name, good luck - I don't think you'll get a single bid on it though.

 

[sexcodotuk]

It seems that you are all caught up with a market which the bottom fallen out some time ago. Gold.co.uk is probably worth around £20,000 at best, same as any other generic domains. The new domain system is coming in to place in around a year making co.uk's a think of the past.

 

[julian]

and what system is that?

(sorry Barry thread hijack underway but had to ask)

It seems that you are all caught up with a market which the bottom fallen out some time ago. Gold.co.uk is probably worth around £20,000 at best, same as any other generic domains. The new domain system is coming in to place in around a year making co.uk's a think of the past.

 

[retired_member16]

It seems that you are all caught up with a market which the bottom fallen out some time ago. Gold.co.uk is probably worth around £20,000 at best, same as any other generic domains. The new domain system is coming in to place in around a year making co.uk's a think of the past.

Is that why you tried to buy another of Barrys domains not long ago?

http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/premium-domain-names/73950-auditors-co-uk.html#post267888

 

[retired_member32]

It's nice to have you back lee,have you been to charm school

 

[philiporchard]

It seems that you are all caught up with a market which the bottom fallen out some time ago. Gold.co.uk is probably worth around £20,000 at best, same as any other generic domains. The new domain system is coming in to place in around a year making co.uk's a think of the past.

If you could pick up the best generic domains for 20k, then I'd be on a spending spree. I've tried buying some of the best, and 20k doesn't scratch the surface... try offering 20k for some of the best geos, or try offering 20k for CarInsurance couk and see what Dr Harnak says. I don't know who bought flowers.co.uk, but it wasn't for 20k!

 

[Aaron Clifford]

It seems that you are all caught up with a market which the bottom fallen out some time ago. Gold.co.uk is probably worth around £20,000 at best, same as any other generic domains. The new domain system is coming in to place in around a year making co.uk's a think of the past.

What market? The gold market's bottom hasn't fallen out, and to a pretty wealthy gold company (there are a few fair) it's a very valuable name. If you referring to the domains "bottom" then refer to the first sentence again.

Good Luck with the auction.

 

[koo]

It seems that you are all caught up with a market which the bottom fallen out some time ago. Gold.co.uk is probably worth around £20,000 at best, same as any other generic domains. The new domain system is coming in to place in around a year making co.uk's a think of the past.

A domain is worth what a buyer is prepared to pay for it, the value of the domain can only rise when there is competition for a domain, a high value domain will have a high return on investment.

So whoever has an interest in gold.co.uk are either going to be a wealthy individual who wants the domain for kudos, or a company that's main line of business is involved with gold. A website that can almost guarantee a number 1 UK position on search engines for very little investment that will have the possibility of generating millions of pounds worth of sales is naturally going to be worth more than £20k.

And what is this new domain system you speak? That's like inferring the postcode system is going to be scrapped.

 

[Ashton]

The gold market is thriving at the moment, hell a day doesn't pass without at least one sighting. These gold companies are flush with cash and are all competing viciously, if they believe gold.co.uk will increase their strength in the market they will kill for it.

As for the change you speak of, I am assuming you mean the 'everyone gets there own tld' change. Except for the fact it can cost way over $400,000 to make one, that google probably wont rank them that highly initially and .co.uk's .com's etc will continue to hold market strength.

Lets start a new thread for this debate ?

Gold.co.uk is a great domain, its the uk equivalent for gold companies as baby.com was to johnson best of luck.

 

[Admin]

I have moved all your posts to a generic discussion forum, please do not post your thoughts and appraisals of a domains worth in the Sales sections.

Please also note we do not allow appraisal threads to be started by someone who does not own that domain.

Many thanks

Admin

 

[retired_member32]

i enquired about flowers

they wanted something like £300k

 

[mat]

Maybe sexcodotuk is after the name and wants to make sure knowone else bids

 

[mat]

Meet the original owner of gold.co.uk

He found the domain name around 1850 in a Californian river. People laughed at him because they were all searching for the gold.com's and .net's!

 

[stevef1fan]

Can't wait to see what this one makes. All the best with it.

I'd gladly give you my 20 grand ....the general underlying commodity trends say it all really..

 

[Brassneck]

.the general underlying commodity trends say it all really..

Although if you go back to the mid-70s Gold hit its historical high $2000, before trading in the low hundreds range for the next 20 years. See http://goldprice.org/inflation-adjusted-gold-price.html. The fast increasing price is a very recent trend since the financial crisis.

Having said that, great domain so let's hope it gets a great price and lots of publicity.

Stephen.

 

[stevef1fan]

Yes, I agree Stephen. And these things have a habit of correcting themselves, as I've learnt to my cost !

I think I was just pointing out that 20k is ridiculous, given that gold is so hot at the moment.

Selling that name at this point in time looks very nice indeed