WTF 2k just to do this

doodlebug · Jun 25, 2012

On domainprices.co.uk it has listed this domain outofthisworld.co.uk as selling for £2000, please don't tell me someone paid £2000 just to do this outofthisworld.co.uk

Jamie101 · Jun 25, 2012

Haha, looks like they did.

Quite cool the way it then works on my phone

cc976a · Jun 25, 2012

What's it for?

Just did on my phone and stopped at the smiling planet with the house

Is it a viral marketing thing? What's it promoting?

DomainM · Jun 25, 2012

It's to promote the http://oakmillchase.co.uk/ website. I like the creativity but it may need some usability tweaks.

doodlebug · Jun 25, 2012

cc976a said:
What's it for?

Just did on my phone and stopped at the smiling planet with the house

Is it a viral marketing thing? What's it promoting?

After you get a rocket and paint it and then blow up an asteroid it then gives you a picture of a solar system and where the planets should be there are some little ads for property companies which you can hardly read

foz · Jun 25, 2012

cc976a said:
Is it a viral marketing thing? What's it promoting?

You end up here:

http://outofthisworld.co.uk/planets/index-wide.html

Something to do with properties, to boring to be clever.

doodlebug · Jun 25, 2012

DomainM said:
It's to promote the http://oakmillchase.co.uk/ website. I like the creativity but it may need some usability tweaks.

Thanks for the link but I am still confused as to why ?, even at reg fee I would be thinking WTF ? but at 2k

Systreg · Jun 25, 2012

Doesn't work on Opera browser

, tried it on IE and what a load of sh!te it is.

retired_member34 · Jun 25, 2012

It's for Countryside Properties, whats 2K in an ad campaign budget to them? I agree it's a bit dull to really work though.

figleaf007 · Jun 25, 2012

Jesus, don't tell LDN, he'll start to think rainonmyparade.com is worth £20,000!

doodlebug · Jun 25, 2012

figleaf007 said:
Jesus, don't tell LDN, he'll start to think rainonmyparade.com is worth £20,000!

LDN could use outofthisworld.co.uk as a personal blog :grin:

figleaf007 · Jun 25, 2012

More like onanotherplanet.com

BREWSTERS · Jun 25, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q

Lovekraft · Jun 25, 2012

I actually quite like it, but seems completely unsuitable for what it's being used to advertise. Maybe they expect people to post and talk about it though so in a roundabout way it gets the message out there.

doodlebug · Jun 25, 2012

Lovekraft said:
I actually quite like it, but seems completely unsuitable for what it's being used to advertise. Maybe they expect people to post and talk about it though so in a roundabout way it gets the message out there.

Reminds me of drawastickman.com but it doesn't go to well for a property company.

Good luck to 'em

cc976a · Jun 25, 2012

Lovekraft said:
Maybe they expect people to post and talk about it though so in a roundabout way it gets the message out there.

Seems to be working

Marcoose · Jun 26, 2012

I don't really understand the link between that and homes. Surely a concept that fit better to the property market would make more sense. I've gone away thinking about spaceships, not houses. They probably did 10-15k developing that along with the outrageous domain purchase....

doodlebug · Jun 26, 2012

Marcoose said:
I don't really understand the link between that and homes. Surely a concept that fit better to the property market would make more sense. I've gone away thinking about spaceships, not houses. They probably did 10-15k developing that along with the outrageous domain purchase....

I have tripofalifetime on .co.uk, maybe I should sell holidays by using an animated game about a rabbit digging a burrow and finding hidden easter eggs.

Marcoose · Jun 26, 2012

doodlebug said:
I have tripofalifetime on .co.uk, maybe I should sell holidays by using an animated game about a rabbit digging a burrow and finding hidden easter eggs.

Compared to the OP, I think the domain is too well suited to the concept. You should definitely think about buying an even more irrelevant domain on SEDO for it - just make sure you waste as much money as humanly possible! Maybe have a chat with that LDN fella!

saberace · Jun 26, 2012

Just lost 2 minutes of my life on that thing lol!

I'm guessing its a precursor to a large marketing campaign around the 'out of this world' strapline that will be coming shortly. They would of had enough of a budget to make the £2k price (plus dev costs) chicken feed.

Still strikes me as odd though!