WebHosting.co.uk Sold for $500k through Sedo

[GaryT]

Dave Evanson at Sedo just announced on his Twitter account that Sedo have sold WebHosting.co.uk for $500,000

http://www.siteopia.com/blog/webhosting-co-uk-sells-for-500000/5713/

What a great result for a .co.uk - the biggest in history?

GT

 

[tifosi]

http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/sold-domains/109646-webhosting-co-uk-500-000-a.html

 

[StudioVision]

What a great result for a .co.uk - the biggest in history?

Nope, not by a long shot:
http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/sold-domains/31094-cruises-co-uk-sold-1-1million.html

 

[GaryT]

Nope, not by a long shot:
http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/sold-domains/31094-cruises-co-uk-sold-1-1million.html

Didn't think it was but couldn't be sure where I had seen anything bigger

Thanks for the update

GT

 

[zehrila]

Impressive, given that Google recently took a hatchet on EMDs!

 

[wbwb is verified member.]

Nice sale.

Didn't think it was but couldn't be sure where I had seen anything bigger

Thanks for the update

GT

From memory (and having read posts in threads about the sale), Cruises.co.uk had a website ranking #1 for 'cruises' at the time it was sold. It could of course be that the buyer wasn't interested in this and would have paid the same price without it, which is in my opinion very unlikely but still possible.

I don't recall seeing any publicly reported .co.uk domain-only sales for a higher amount than this.

 

[bensdbensd is verified member.]

Was the seller a member here?

 

[wbwb is verified member.]

money.co.uk reportedly sold for $2 Million.

Ah yes, my mistake not remembering that!

Not that it's a definitive or official guide to public sales, but is anyone (perhaps just Admin) aware of a reason why the reported sale of Money.co.uk was never listed on DomainPrices.co.uk?

Considering the sale of was for a relatively large amount, I would have expected it to be there and from memory it wasn't. DomainPrices.co.uk seems to have disappeared at the moment so I can't check.

 

[mdrussell]

Impressive, given that Google recently took a hatchet on EMDs!

This will do just fine. It is a high quality domain, not 8-words-hyphened-together-for-an-EMD-boost

 

[mdrussell]

Was the seller a member here?

Owned by UK2Group.

 

[bulkcorn]

Amazing! Whao!