.org.uk £10k!!!!

[cav]

Cannot believe carfinance.org.uk sold for £10,701 on Domainlore. Must be a .org.uk record.

 

[rob]

Had a website on it so not domain sale

 

[TinkyWinky]

Also a website that's showing between 13 and 17 on G.... so not too much work needed to get that to rise if you know what you're doing and have some financial websites already around you.

Still a good sale though imo.

TW

 

[domainseller200]

Nice to see a profit made by the seller, he bought it from me for £9k late last year

Good price for both involved imo

 

[newguy]

Out of interest, how did it cme to be known to multiple parties that it ranked well in google? By that I mean, the casual domainlore visitor will likely not have known this, so I assume that either it was two of three people will knowledge of the site and google placement, or the traffic/ranking details are listed on another site, alng with auction dates etc. I didn't see the info on this site...

 

[scooter]

Its a great sale for an org.uk

Granted it does have a site on it but it shows:
1. someone is willing to spend the time and effort to put a site on in the first place
2. its an org.uk extention.


A good day for org.uk's. They can only rise in value. Especially once the business sector switches on. They are great for ranking

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[scooter]

double post

 

[HariSeldon]

Its a great sale for an org.uk

A good day for org.uk's. They can only rise in value. Especially once the business sector switches on. They are great for ranking.

Shhhhh, don't let everyone on here know there's money to be made in .org.uk, all the bargains will dry up.

 

[jwm]

Nice to see a profit made by the seller, he bought it from me for £9k late last year

Good price for both involved imo

Frank, did you build the site originally or did the seller add that after buying from you?

 

[scooter]

Another healthy org.uk price (if it's completed)

sedo

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[newguy]

Another healthy org.uk price (if it's completed)

sedo

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That sold on here a while ago for about £40-£50 didn't it? . Nice profit!

 

[Frog]

It was me who sold this. Since there is a thread about it, I will give a little background info as this thread only really tells half the story.

I had 2 interested parties, so I told them I would list it for sale publicly and let them bid against each other. I had agreed with both that I would retain a percentage of ownership in return for providing certain services. Running it through domainlore was just a convenient way to run an auction since it was free. It obviously puts it in the public eye, but personally it does me no harm in people seeing another uk domain go for a high price so I was not bothered. I also thought one ore two people might blog about it, so if they do and link to it, the links certainly won't hurt

Cannot believe carfinance.org.uk sold for £10,701 on Domainlore. Must be a .org.uk record.

In a way I am a little disappointed with the price because 10,700 is not much more than interested parties were offering individually. You can't just look at the price though and say you can't believe it - its not just a .org.uk domain, it is a ranking website too.

Also a website that's showing between 13 and 17 on G.... so not too much work needed to get that to rise if you know what you're doing and have some financial websites already around you.

Its also page one on Bing, and page 1 on Bing/Google for a variety of other terms.

Out of interest, how did it cme to be known to multiple parties that it ranked well in google? By that I mean, the casual domainlore visitor will likely not have known this, so I assume that either it was two of three people will knowledge of the site and google placement, or the traffic/ranking details are listed on another site, alng with auction dates etc. I didn't see the info on this site...

The 2 parties bidding obviously already knew because they spoke to me before I even listed it. It wouldn't be hard for anyone else to know though - if you checked the domain there was a site on it, the next obvious step would be to to check where it ranked for the exact match term. I deliberately didn't list it anywhere else or provide any other information because those two people were my preferred bidders due to deals I have had with them in the past, and how this one was going to be structured.

Its a great sale for an org.uk

Granted it does have a site on it but it shows:
1. someone is willing to spend the time and effort to put a site on in the first place
2. its an org.uk extention.


A good day for org.uk's. They can only rise in value. Especially once the business sector switches on. They are great for ranking

.

You need to remember a lot of the value associated with this one was the fact it already had a site on it, and was ranking. It already had some ranking when I bought it originally or I wouldn't have paid as much as I did.

Nice to see a profit made by the seller, he bought it from me for £9k late last year

Good price for both involved imo

Hehe, with the time spent on it, I'm coming out of it pretty much cash neutral, but with a percent ownership of the site still. If I had the time I'd have kept this one but realistically I need to offload a couple of my little projects. I'm looking to compete in some very big niches currently, so need to trim down my portfolio, or outsource running them. A top 5 ranking SEO company will be coming up for sale very very soon if anyone is interested.

Shhhhh, don't let everyone on here know there's money to be made in .org.uk, all the bargains will dry up.

Even with my involvement in this one with a reasonable price tag, I have still been quite vocal of my dislike for .org.uk domains. As a pure seo play they certainly work, but they are a nightmare for branding. You are going to lose a lot of typeins to other domain extensions. Good for charities and seo affiliate plays, not a lot else. I do see some value in domains like the one we're discussing here, and stuff like insurance.org.uk, loans.org.uk, etc, big keywords that you couldn't really build a memorable brand around.

Frank, did you build the site originally or did the seller add that after buying from you?

There was a site on it, I think it was ranking around position 25. We swapped the site out for a WP install, used static pages for the site and added a blog.

Another healthy org.uk price (if it's completed)

sedo

brazilianpussy.org.uk is available! Just $19.98

I would definitely rather go with that at reg fee, but that's just my choice

 

[scooter]

No, it was a hand reg. I think you are referring to hairy fanny.

It was for sale here a while ago


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[newguy]

No, it was a hand reg. I think you are referring to hairy fanny.

It was for sale here a while ago


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I'm sorry, hairy fanny/pussy muddled my brain (lol). You did have hairypussy.org.uk up for sale for £15 here though didn't you? Good job nobody bought it. Great sale for you if it goes through . Congrats.

 

[domainseller200]

Frank, did you build the site originally or did the seller add that after buying from you?

Hi Jim

I built a site on the domain and got it ranked to number 19 on google. The buyer then bought the domain / site and changed the original site, but retained the meta information,content and title tags etc (to not undo the work that was making it rank at 19)

12-18 months ago, the car finance industry was booming and I was getting 100's of leads a month (still get 100 odd a month now from another site) and I was getting paid £37 for every lead - before welcome car finance went under !

When a big player comes back into the market in a few years time (not crappy approved car finance) then this name will seem like an absolute bargain even if they are only paying £20 a lead.

It is just a hunch, but I think this has been bought by someone who is already involved in the car finance industry and can see the full long term potential.

The only reason I sold at the time was due to being involved with so many other projects and I personally can't see car finance being a very lucrative market for a long time to come - besides I do have others I can develop which are equally and if not better names.

Great sale price for the seller, but an even better buy if the person who has bought it can service the leads it generates.

 

[newguy]

Thanks very much for providing further information, Frog. I somehow seemed to miss your reply at the time.

 

[HariSeldon]

Thanks very much for providing further information, Frog. I somehow seemed to miss your reply at the time.

I've only just seen this reply too, seems a bit of a coincidence we both missed it.

Update I've just realised why I missed it, the email alert "Frog has just replied to a thread you have subscribed to" only came through a few hours ago, I'll let Admin know in case it's a symptom of a bigger problem.

 

[Retired_member41]

Hi domainseller2000

I have a journalist friend that may be writing a story about this domain, would you be quite happy to sign with a notary that you sold this domain for £9k late last year. Your expenses to the solicitors office will be paid, and you will get a write up if you wish about current domains you are selling.

Same applies to the seller this time if they wish, and when the whois data changes, which it hasn't yet, the new buyer will be interviewed also.

Should make a good read.

 

[HariSeldon]

Even with my involvement in this one with a reasonable price tag, I have still been quite vocal of my dislike for .org.uk domains. As a pure seo play they certainly work, but they are a nightmare for branding. You are going to lose a lot of typeins to other domain extensions. Good for charities and seo affiliate plays, not a lot else. I do see some value in domains like the one we're discussing here, and stuff like insurance.org.uk, loans.org.uk, etc, big keywords that you couldn't really build a memorable brand around.

Genuinely not aimed at you Frog but a general observation is that the "loss of typeins" argument that I see a lot on AD is overdone in my opinion.

My experience of high traffic commercial sites is that Direct Traffic accounts for about 15% so maybe a third of that (5% of traffic) might be a type in and my gut feeling is that the actual figure is less than that.

But let's stick with 5% and then consider how many of those 5% are typing in a correct domain but incorrect extension, maybe 10%? On those admittedly finger-in-the-air assumptions you're talking 0.5% of visitors might go to the wrong site. And even then what will many of them do when they realise the site they are on isn't the one they thought it was?

So yes you may lose a tiny percentage of traffic to another extension but in the big scheme of things if your preferred extension isn't available then it's really a non-issue. The simple fact is that the vast majority of traffic is not from type-in traffic.

Also consider that the great unwashed who insist on typing in domains are being continually aided and abetted by improvements in browsers so it is getting harder and harder to type in the wrong extension.

Anyway, while my .org.uk sales are nowhere near the 10k one here I'm quite happy with picking up the £95 to £600 'scraps' sales.

Again, congratulations on a great sale even if you'd have like more (wouldn't we all!)

 

[diablo]

Genuinely not aimed at you Frog but a general observation is that the "loss of typeins" argument that I see a lot on AD is overdone in my opinion.

I agree it might be overdone, but the vast majority of people won't have even heard of .org.uk. That's the reality.

Frog is spot on re branding though. It is very difficult to build a serious website around a .org.uk (except for charities, organisations, etc). When used commercially it always loks amateurish and if the site design is poor fly by night too.

A website with valuable traffic though will always sell.