I've just been offered the .com extention of a domain name I have the .co.uk for by a drop catching service - they want £500 + vat for it if they get it (which seems expensive).
However it is good name in a high value industry.
Does anyone have any idea what value having both the .com and .co.uk would add?
Also are there any cheaper but good quality .com catching services around?
Well the value is only to you obviously. Of course it's valuable to any business to have the .com - invaluable I'd say especially if it's a long term interest. It's worth negotiating though as they obviously want the sale. Someone else might catch it and it will be caught, and sell it for £200, then again, someone else and £20,000.
Right i'm trying snapfish - i'm not too fussed about the domain so have set a $150 bid and will see how I get on (no one else is bidding on it) - I assume its just a luck game with domain catching so I might get lucky - or is it not that simple?
I've just been offered the .com extention of a domain name I have the .co.uk for by a drop catching service - they want £500 + vat for it if they get it (which seems expensive).
However it is good name in a high value industry.
Does anyone have any idea what value having both the .com and .co.uk would add?
Also are there any cheaper but good quality .com catching services around?
Thanks guys
I take it they aint got it yet? tbh i wouldnt bother with them if your using the .co.uk already and the .com isnt doing the same stuff as the .co.uk then if you dont get it and some one else dose then legally the new owners wouldnt be able to copy you exactly as you can prove youve been doing it longer...but thats not to say some one wont give a monkeys and do it anyway
Ive had these types of letters twice now telling me since ive had the .co.uk would i like the .com ..... didnt reply to them just confirmed what they said by doing a whois found they was right and took a chance for them to drop ... they did i brought them for £20 instead of £400+ .. sent them both an email saying cheers for the reminder
So just because they sent you an email dosent mean they are going to buy it
Now having both .co.uk & .com has things improved? on one set yes (tbh though if i didnt have the .com the ppl would still try the .co.uk as most of the traffic is from the domain name itself and if they went to the .com they would see it wasnt what they where after) and the other domains the traffic is about the same
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A bit because:
They are in a high value industry
high demand industry
short domain
good as a set of domains
fairly useful as a "promise" so gives confidence in say ppc display ads.
but not v. much because:
They are not traffic domains (prove me wrong)
people wouldnt think of that phrase first, if at all when typing in a domain for that industry / service
No other extension is taken for the term (tells you something!)
its not a term I've heard of!
So, I imagine the revenue you'd get from even a small bit of development would exceed any natural revenue you'd get from them, and a multiple of that revenue would be worth more than the domains on their own.
I don't know anything about the finance sector but my general thoughts pretty much echo points made by aqls
Resale value would currently be pretty low, even as a set. A nice set, but Overture doesn't show any searches for the phrase compared to 400,000+ in Jan for debt consolidation. Type ins must be very low
Valuable to you and useful, yes surely. It's short and catchy - the kind of phrase I'm sure you could get people to remember and actively look for if you were able to develop one of them. Debts? Fixed! with DebtsFixed.com - fixed / repaired or fixed interest it's a reassuring and probably fair description of the site and information you'll be giving them.
At only £16 per year for the name renewals they must be worth keeping , getting some content on and developing. Just parking them somewhere like sedo won't get you much in terms of clicks or offers I don't think. It's telling that the one that just dropped was previously parked and up for sale with Afternic, maybe a sign that it didn't even make the renewal costs? Just one finance related commission though and you'd pay for all the renewals and begin to earn something for the time you invest.
Said by someone with more undeveloped and loss making names than I care to think about
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