Just a thought: potential .uk buyers?

[Edwin]

Just wanted to share an idle thought that occurred to me over lunch...

I wonder if *.uk.com domain owners might make good potential .uk buyers?

Admittedly, they may not really understand the "value" of domains given their original choice of extension, but it's arguably an even more obvious upgrade than going from a .co.uk to a .uk would be.

Anyway, thought I'd throw that out there, see what everyone thinks

 

[martin-s]

Yep, definitely. At least some of them must realise the error of their ways by now!

 

[Retired_Member38]

I think they won't really understand the value of domains in the first place, so selling them anything else is going to be a hard sell.

It could perhaps work if you could scrape a list of .uk.com and then use some other metrics to separate out a list of them who potentially made a shit decision to start with, but made a success of it in spite of that. They might be interested in upgrading to a 'real' domain.

I don't have any great suggestions as to how you could automate the filtering process though. Number of links will just give you a bunch of sites that spammed and are probably penalised. Alexa isn't reliable at all, and checking if they rank for their main phrase isn't great as its no indication of that being where their money actually comes from. So how do you sort the list?

 

[PanzerWagon]

I think they won't really understand the value of domains in the first place, so selling them anything else is going to be a hard sell.

It could perhaps work if you could scrape a list of .uk.com and then use some other metrics to separate out a list of them who potentially made a shit decision to start with, but made a success of it in spite of that. They might be interested in upgrading to a 'real' domain.

I don't have any great suggestions as to how you could automate the filtering process though. Number of links will just give you a bunch of sites that spammed and are probably penalised. Alexa isn't reliable at all, and checking if they rank for their main phrase isn't great as its no indication of that being where their money actually comes from. So how do you sort the list?

Adwords spend?

Searchmetrics / SEM rush visibility score?

I know of one .uk.com that turns over close to 7 figures so they are out there but going to be few and far between.

 

[Retired_Member38]

Adwords spend?

Searchmetrics / SEM rush visibility score?

I know of one .uk.com that turns over close to 7 figures so they are out there but going to be few and far between.

The other issue there is how do you actually get these domains to sell to them? They're already going to be taken.

Unless of course you just happen to get lucky and qualify for one via .co.uk ownership that has a great site on the .uk.com equivalent.

 

[PanzerWagon]

The other issue there is how do you actually get these domains to sell to them? They're already going to be taken.

Unless of course you just happen to get lucky and qualify for one via .co.uk ownership that has a great site on the .uk.com equivalent.

Yeah good point. I just looked at the .co.uk of the .uk.com I know shifts a fair bit of product. And the .uk.com owns the .co.uk which has probably been penalised as they just have a simple message on there saying we have moved :lol: