is the .co.uk price going down?

[Paullas]

just looking at domain prices for this year, the average domain name sold on sedo was under £500. If you look at the sales for last year the average was over £1k.

Do you think the value of the .co.uk is going down because everyone is selling the cheap thus killing the market?

comments / views welcome

 

[rob]

Lower transfer fees have opened out the lower end of the market, plus alot more domainers about

 

[paulc]

I would say there are more domainers on the market as each year goes on, therefore more sales of domains, and more crap domains brining the average down.

If you look at the price of quality domains then they are fetching some nice sums of money - like your last sale.

If you took out the crap that sells around £500, then the average would be more than the previous year.

Do you have stats for the amount of .co.uk sales last year against this year?

 

[Paullas]

no what i mean is sedo do a press release saying they handled the biggest .co.uk sale ( which they didnt, and i am awaiting for a reply from them asking why have they said this) and all .co.uk sales on sedo are down 50% from last years.

So sedo looks like they are struggling in the .co.uk market space (IMHO)

 

[ScottJ]

Perhaps more of the better deals are being done directly without the likes of Sedo who don't exactly go out and broker a deal anyway, therefore it woudln't suprise me if Sedo were left with more of the dross to sell as time passes

 

[fred]

On a more general note (not just Sedo) the more quality domains that are sold to end users and/or developed, the less potential big sales there are.

 

[keys]

I wouldn't rely on figures from Sedo any more than I would from Gordon Brown. Stats can be very distorted, so take them with a pinch of salt.

There must be a greater volume of smaller sales, which will bring the average down. More reported low value sales will encourage buyers to barter, and the growing number of regular sellers is effectively increasing supply.

 

[retired_member11]

no what i mean is sedo do a press release saying they handled the biggest .co.uk sale ( which they didnt, and i am awaiting for a reply from them asking why have they said this) and all .co.uk sales on sedo are down 50% from last years.

So sedo looks like they are struggling in the .co.uk market space (IMHO)

I read that press release (the Bianca one) and it doesn't say that Sedo handled the recycle sale. What part of it reads as you suggest?

Averages - mean, mode, median - mean whatever someone wants them to mean. Quality names will sell for higher and higher prices. Crap names will always be crap names and will achieve reg fee/ crap prices, unless there is something 'odd' about a 'crap' sale, i.e. money laundering et.c., et.c.

 

[retired_member11]

I wouldn't rely on figures from Sedo any more than I would from Gordon Brown. Stats can be very distorted, so take them with a pinch of salt.

There must be a greater volume of smaller sales, which will bring the average down. More reported low value sales will encourage buyers to barter, and the growing number of regular sellers is effectively increasing supply.

Yes but each name is unique, uniquely crap that is, unless of course it is quality, but then it wouldn't be crap. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, right?

 

[paul]

I used to sell quite a few names through sedo because my domains were parked with them, no other reason. Since I have moved to namedrive I have only sold one name through sedo which sold for £500

I now sell just as many names but they never get reported because they are through Namedrive. I think all that has happened is that a number of people with higher value names now park with other companies so we don't see a lot of the bigger sales.

 

[philiporchard]

I reckon a large percentage of the big sales are being transacted directly.

I've probably spent 20k on domains this year. Just £300 on Sedo when I bought rebekah.co.uk just the other day...