Q1 Market Study - Sedo.

foz · Jun 4, 2009

Secondary Domain Market Study for Q1 2009.

A downward trend in the average .co.uk sale price.

2007 - £3,461
2008 - £1,661
2009 - £1,004

websaway · Jun 4, 2009

Interesting. A more active market will see averages reduce.

retired_member6 · Jul 17, 2009

What is it about .de that can't be translated into .co.uk activity? Just education?

Edwin · Jul 17, 2009

I don't think they throw out "outlier" values in compiling their report, so one big sale (none in Q1) can raise the average substantially. And as already pointed out, if the total number of names sold rises, the average will tend to fall.

tifosi · Jul 17, 2009

As I mentioned here: http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/business-discussions/55158-upturn-stats.html a very unreliable & irrelevant report. Too condensed. A bit of a lunchtime project report.

S

rob · Jul 17, 2009

LeeOwen said:
What is it about .de that can't be translated into .co.uk activity? Just education?

Sedo is a german company so it is their local market.

As Stephen says, it is overly simplified and lacking real figures so not that useful.

Lots of pretty graphs though so would look good on a snoozefestpowerpointforexecswithposhpenzzzz etc.

Admin · Jul 17, 2009

I did some analysis of their May sales here

Average sales value was £819

Admin

foz · Jul 18, 2009

A median value would be best. The higher sales do spike an average calculation.

If high value sales are not occurring, that would still be an indication of a depressed market.

Sedo's report would take into account non-disclosed sales?

tifosi · Jul 18, 2009

admin said:
I did some analysis of their May sales here

Average sales value was £819

Admin

Thanks. Would also be improved with a graph for percentile sales. That way it's easy to see the number of sales in a percentile relative to the top/bottom ends. It gives a better indication of the frequency of sales at certain value points and whether top/bottom end sales are skewing the median.

Guess my old stats A'level is still having an effect. There's nothing worse than reading a media report showing a 'trend' thats only there because they've used axis that skew the data to show something that's not there.

S