Landrush phase for .uk short domains now open

vikrantjain22 · Sep 8, 2011

nl_co_uk closed at 7,100
ny_co_uk closed at 4,500
r_co_uk closed at 40,000

Darren · Sep 8, 2011

NY seems a good price. Well done Maccke

dta · Sep 8, 2011

good price for ny - one of the top 4 geo 2 letters in my view

vikrantjain22 · Sep 8, 2011

md_co_uk closed at 15,000
pr_co_uk closed at 55,000
p_co_uk closed at 40,000

redbird · Sep 8, 2011

I'd say ny is a bargain compared to what some of the others are going for.

wb · Sep 8, 2011

NY.co.uk does look like a good deal.

MT.co.uk sold at £4,900.

domainseller200 · Sep 8, 2011

wb said:
NY.co.uk does look like a good deal.

MT.co.uk sold at £4,900.

were you the buyer Matt ?

wb · Sep 8, 2011

domainseller200 said:
were you the buyer Matt ?

Nope! Went over what I was prepared to pay for a non-commercial (to me) domain.

foz · Sep 9, 2011

Out of the first round 49/165 registered (paid for). Who has their fingers crossed for non payers?

Ashton · Sep 9, 2011

Only grabbed 2 so far, was going for 4 so would be good if there was a non payer.

scottsmith · Sep 9, 2011

What happens if any of the domains don't get paid for? Did all the .org.uk's complete?

Scott

foz · Sep 9, 2011

scottsmith said:
What happens if any of the domains don't get paid for? Did all the .org.uk's complete?

Scott

They go back to auction.

GreyWing · Sep 9, 2011

Where is the transparency here then, if there is a bunch of users bidding people up with no intention of paying. Then some of those who did complete might be wondering if they were bid up by people with no intention of paying.

If I bought some of these I might be a bit pee'd off right now, or at least suspicious. Foz's figures are quite high for an auction, especially a closed auction.

grantw · Sep 9, 2011

It took 3 days from me paying for my .co.uk for Nominet to put my reg details on it so some of the first batch may not show up until next week.

Grant

GreyWing · Sep 9, 2011

grantw said:
It took 3 days from me paying for my .co.uk for Nominet to put my reg details on it so some of the first batch may not show up until next week.

Grant

Fingers crossed for you on the other one Grant

grantw · Sep 9, 2011

GreyWing said:
Fingers crossed for you on the other one Grant

Yeh, I'm checking the whois 50 times a day waiting to see which b*stard got it lol

Grant

vikrantjain22 · Sep 9, 2011

grantw said:
It took 3 days from me paying for my .co.uk for Nominet to put my reg details on it so some of the first batch may not show up until next week.

Grant

same for me, they took 3 days to update the whois

foz · Sep 9, 2011

GreyWing said:
Where is the transparency here then, if there is a bunch of users bidding people up with no intention of paying. Then some of those who did complete might be wondering if they were bid up by people with no intention of paying.

If I bought some of these I might be a bit pee'd off right now, or at least suspicious. Foz's figures are quite high for an auction, especially a closed auction.

It still represents good buying at these levels. The vetting system of £10 per application and the shear volume of interest per lot tells me that the system is on the level. Circumstances for non payment could be, personal or financial overcommitment, lines of credit withdrawn and so on. In tens days the picture will be clearer.

dta · Sep 9, 2011

also don't forget that a number of the auctions overran and the terms are 7 days from invoicing so there's still technically some time available to pay.

GreyWing · Sep 9, 2011

foz said:
It still represents good buying at these levels. The vetting system of £10 per application and the shear volume of interest per lot tells me that the system is on the level. Circumstances for non payment could be, personal or financial over commitment, lines of credit withdrawn and son on. In tens days the picture will be clearer.

I just thought it would be more transparent if people knew or had user names of some sort to who they were bidding against.

I know it's nobody at Nominet that is bidding, so not saying that. But things like the g.co.uk who on earth bid that up to 70k+ and if that had have fallen through, what action would Nominet have taken through if (Probably Google) had dumped it on them. I presume just like Sedo they wouldn't have done anything.

For £10 someone may have just cost Google 30k even though they may not have had any intention of paying for it if they had won. Those kind of things site a bit uneasy with me.