Namesco drop + new tags

[Whois-SearchWhois-Search is verified member.]

Over 100,000 .uk dropping at the minute from Namesco:

http://twitter.com/whois_search/status/1210948712740077568

Anyone know who is behind these new tags?

Joe Green [Tag = JGREEN]
Lisa Thornley [Tag = LTHORNLEY]
Mark Walker [Tag = MWALKER]

 

[RobMRobM is verified member.]

One's been going since June, one since August, and one for a few years so none are brand new.
Of course the domain we were all chasing didn't drop - if only nominet were able to mark them to let us know but apparently even they don't know according to one customer relations officer.

 

[Hay]

Your going to see a lot of tags over the next few days as its like ROR all over again, looking at whats be caught there appears to be a lot more tags than usual, some older and some newish.. a couple others ive seen over past couple of days is:

Jill Slater [Tag = JSDOMAINS]
Rob Elliott t/a relliottinvestments-at-gmail-dot-com [Tag = ELLIOTT]

I think its mostly people catching for others as a Private catching service.

 

[SiusaidhSiusaidh is verified member.]

This is only the beginning. As you probably realise, next month is more of the same kind of thing. And then there's the mother of all name drops coming in June.

 

[Hay]

January is going to see around 1,000,000 domains from the 2nd ror wave over a few days some of which are very good.


Noms servers will be:

 

[3gmedia]

I'm mopping up some amazing names

 

[Whois-SearchWhois-Search is verified member.]

Thanks for pointing out the tags.

I couldn’t find them all on the voting rights which were published in June (so they are new members):
https://media.nominet.uk/wp-content.../Nominet-Voting-Rights-2019-NED-elections.pdf

Yes there seems to be a million .uk suspended at the moment....There is only 3.6 million of them: https://www.nominet.uk/news/reports-statistics/uk-register-statistics-2019/

So at least a third of .uk are going to drop by February?

Without sounding like I’m pointing out the obvious here...

If the end user (the .co.uk owner at Namesco etc) doesn’t want them even at £11.99...Who are you going to sell these ‘amazing’ names to ? Apart from maybe a £50 - £100 flip on one of the auction sites ?

All I can see is the same tags speculating on three letters and words (at reg fee). Meanwhile the .uk extension is going the same way as .wales (no real use or secondary market).

A good example is Whiskers.uk that dropped from Namesco. There is a firm of solicitors at https://whiskers.co.uk who didn’t want the .uk and let it drop. You can’t sell it to them (without the risk of a DRS) so who is going buy it now ? You can’t monetize the traffic to legal affiliates either. Maybe you could get lucky and sell it to Mars as a typo of https://www.whiskas.co.uk

 

[3gmedia]

I'm giving the .uk a chance, probably about 5 years, will just have to see where it goes.

 

[Hay]

If the end user (the .co.uk owner at Namesco etc) doesn’t want them even at £11.99...Who are you going to sell these ‘amazing’ names to ? Apart from maybe a £50 - £100 flip on one of the auction sites ?

Some .uk domains have sold for good numbers since ROR with sales well in access of 10k and 20k, now surly that's not to be ignored? Those domain owners had 5 years to take ownership of the equivalent .uk whom ignored it and thus as a result was released, caught and sold for good money.

 

[timter51]

Some .uk domains have sold for good numbers since ROR with sales well in access of 10k and 20k, now surly that's not to be ignored? Those domain owners had 5 years to take ownership of the equivalent .uk whom ignored it and thus as a result was released, caught and sold for good money.

Most buyers were domain investors stockpiling .uk hoping for the big flip in future. I think we're still along way from branding the whole a success or failure, I wouldn't read anything at all into the sales bonanza of last year..

 

[SiusaidhSiusaidh is verified member.]

It's obvious there is going to be a huge year-on-year dip in .uk registrations, with probably almost half of all .uk domain names not being renewed by the end of the summer. That's because most of the registrations are ludicrous.

Personally I think .uk domains can be really useful for particular brands and I figure there are around 50,000 that come up for renewal in any one year that are useful in that way. As for way over a million others that will be discarded, by the time Namesco, 123-reg, Fasthosts and Ionos have offloaded in the first half of this year, reality will be inescapable in the Nominet stats (you can't just keep on offering free registrations for ever).

That said, in the small % of .uk domains among the dropping million that do have use and modest value, there are some that I'd be delighted to acquire. Collectively, it is a kind of ROR all over again, and there will be days in January and early June when a shed load of catchers will be peppering the system in the hope of acquiring some windfall names.

I'm not sure how things will unfold with GoDaddy's registrations, as they operate a different model and the names can be intercepted before they drop. But with regard to the vast majority of .uk names, they are absolute garbage. It always astonishes me when I look at the drop lists: just what goes through people's minds when they register some of these names? A crappy domain is (in brand value) worse than no name at all. Because it just looks so amateur.

With .uk in particular, you need to isolate what's quality. There are quality names dropping, but I think we're in a phase where search has so supplanted type-ins that a downturn in overall registrations in the UK is inevitable. Hence maybe Nominet's keenness to diversify and re-brand in net security etc - because when it comes to domains it is a contracting market ahead, with .uk registrations in particular going over a cliff.

 

[webberwebber is verified member.]

Anyone know who is behind these new tags?
Joe Green [Tag = JGREEN]
Lisa Thornley [Tag = LTHORNLEY]
Mark Walker [Tag = MWALKER]

I'm sure you've seen this: http://blog.domainlore.uk/Cheaters_are_becoming_prolific/ (updated today)
Looking at last weekend, they did pretty well

 

[PoshTiger]

we all know you pool quota with your caching flaws

Utter bullshit, please embarrass yourself by pretending to speak for anyone else.

 

[SiusaidhSiusaidh is verified member.]

December:

This is only the beginning.

Yeah, I think I called that one right...