Money.co.uk - $2.4m

[TinkyWinky]

Blimey now that's a top price.... £1.2m pounds (sorry I got muddled up on the thread title...!)

On the flip side, it is finance and it is a great site. Check out the in-depth site behind the homepage.


http://digg.com/tech_news/Record_Sale_Price_of_2_400_000_for_CO_UK_domain_name

 

[rob]

a STJ name I believe, so has changed hands. Figure reported on digg... any other sources ?

If public and confirmed then first £1mil .uk which is nice.

Congrats to buyer and seller, a fair price for a great name!

 

[chs]

I can't find a source of the sale price either... sure would be a great milestone if it's true.

 

[ratboy]

Bugger all solid backlinks...

 

[retired_member9]

domain or WEBSITE?

 

[paulc]

Be interested to know if the site made a big difference in the sale price.

 

[paul]

From what I hear, Dot Zinc spend about that much a month on Adwords

 

[TinkyWinky]

That must have been domain price - it showed a different site about 2 days ago with just a few articles and some errant Ov tags...

 

[rob]

So one presumes that the domain name generated very little income. I wonder what the price would have been if the domain name had been as good as this one (money.co.uk has to be one of the top ten vanity ones I can contemplate) and generated a substantial annual PPC revenue of, hypothetically, £250,000? This sort of figure is easily is obtainable in the UK PPC finance sector.

I would agree that the main slant would be towards the vanity aspect of the name. It does seem a no brainer to invest a few quid to cook up a network of sites and add zeros to domain > site> network values!

Out of interest, what is Mr Invincible's top ten vanity names?

 

[James]

Yes, the price was for the domain name alone, and nothing to do with a website, search ranking, or existing traffic. Typeins would have been around 100 daily. Of course I'm sure they are higher right now (and even higher once this story hits a few newspapers). It looks like an excellent site.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but now I'm getting even more endearing $100 offers for one of my domains

 

[paymatters]

I'm sure the name will help the owner catupult upwards in the direction of money supermarket and money expert which are worth considerably more than what was paid?

 

[dougs]

great buy

Wow a great buy

so cruises and money now

My poor fly.co.uk and recyce.co.uk now look cheap

Doug

 

[accelerator]

The domain price does not surprise me, it's a great investment for the new owners IMO.

Rgds

 

[dougs]

Dot Zinc are still owners

confused???

Doug

 

[deconstruction]

was owned by STJ before.

 

[julian]

it was a good sale but I actually maybe a bit cheap considering the scope but maybe not?

nice one though.

 

[landlord]

Not for me

Great business identifier but has poor commercial value......indeed who would have thought google or wii would have been great identifiers

 

[retired_member11]

Dot Zinc - is it a Tesco company?

 

[maverick123]

A true gem .....very much deserves this nice price......money got huge money

 

[CollyMellon]

Still too much for .co.uk domain..