They say that beachfront property is among the most valuable.
But what about Broadstairs – the epitome of the Kent seaside holiday?
Sedo handled the sale of Broadstairs.net last week for USD 1,300. The resort has a population of 24,000 but this is swelled by day-trippers and holidaymakers in the summer, eager to enjoy the seaside air.
I’d say the price is about right.
Grimsby – the home of the fish finger – is more popular than Motherwell….at least when it comes to domain name auctions.
Grimsby.org.uk was one of a pair of UK geodomains auctioned yesterday at DomainLore. It fetched £70 – not enough to push the boat out and a bargain for the purchaser, despite Grimsby not being a particularly glamourous holiday destination.
Motherwell.org.uk didn’t attract any bids and so was left unsold, despite a reserve of just £50.
I’ve just been doing a sweep up to see if any UK county geo domains have become available and am glad to say I picked up a few that will be suitable for development into directories or tourist information sites in due course.
Luckily there were a few that I was able to hand register, but there were quite a few others still available FTR or which have become available, so I thought I’d share this list.
Banffshire.Info
Berwickshire.Org
Breconshire.Net
Breconshire.Org.Uk
Caernarvonshire.Com
Caernarvonshire.Net
Caernarvonshire.Org.Uk
Cardiganshire.Org
Ceredigion.Info
Dumbartonshire.Info
Dumbartonshire.Net
Huntingdonshire.Net
Lanarkshire.Biz
Morayshire.Net
Nairnshire.Net
Northriding.Info
Northriding.Org.Uk
Peebleshire.Co.Uk
Peebleshire.Net
Peebleshire.Org.Uk
Stirlingshire.Org
Westriding.Info
Wigtownshire.Net
There are some more .biz and .infos based on the above too.
These geodomains were all available at 12.00 on Wednesday 11th April.
Just for the record, the geo domains I registered were:
Glamorgan.Info
GreaterManchester.Biz
NorthYorkshire.Biz
TyneAndWear.Biz
Not much to report over Easter in the UK Geodomain world other than a couple of village sales recorded by Sedo.
Liphook.com sold for £100 and Frimley.com (just up the road from Liphook) sold for £210.
Just a couple of geodomain sales to record this week.
NorthWales.com has sold for USD 4,900. The sale took place at Afternic.
And Chelsea.org was sold at Sedo for USD 2,434.
DNJournal is reporting that the geodomain Glasgow.biz sold this week for USD 1,125.
I don’t have much further information on this, but the domain would clearly make a great Glasgow business directory, with plenty of scope for getting search traffic from long term phrases.
And although most domain investors sneer at .biz domains, it will only be a few years before the number of developed .biz sites raises the consciousness of the extension among advertisers.
When that happens, Glasgow.biz will become a very attractive brand.
One geodomain recently offered for sale at Sedo which I missed was Wiltshire.org.uk. I would have fancied a bid at that if I had noticed that it was for sale.
Anyway, the domain sold for £350 with one bidder, which seems pretty good value.
As always however, building out county geo-websites takes a huge amount of work and there is a ton of competition out there.
The London geodomain name Hoxton.org.uk just sold in an auction on DomainLore for £50 – the lowest bid permissible under the auction rules.
There was just one bidder for the domain.
Hoxton may not be the most salubrious part of London, but it’s famous for the chilling black and white film The Hoxton Creeper and more recently as one of the trendier up-and-coming parts of the capital.
The lovely Scilly Isles came up for sale at Domain Lore this week – or to be more precise, the geodomain name ScillyIsles.org.uk.
There was only one bid and the domain fetched a measly £50 – well below par.
A google search on the term “Scilly isles” reveals part of the reason why I think.
There are just lots of attractive, mature, well-designed sites with keyword rich geodomains about the Scilly Isles. Even the council struggles to get a prominent position in the search results – which is highly unusual, to say the least.
I have a similar dilemma with my domain Devon Net. I picked it up as an expired domain with good PR and links, but the Devon and Cornwall tourist information market is heavily saturated.
I’m not totally convinced that it’s worth going to the trouble of developing fully in such a crowded marketplace with good, informative websites.
By Mark Hoult
Another big shift in the UK geodomain landscape took place this week as Blackburn.com, Leicester.com, Ulster.com and Wolverhampton.com all changed hands.
Ian Andrew of DotCom Agency is again the buyer. Clearly he’s planning something big in the geo-space to add to his outstanding collction of generic domain names.
The price of each sale is reported as $25,000 each.
Not content with that, Ian also picked up StokeOnTrent.com, HomeCounties.com, Dunstable.com, ForestOfDean.com, HerneBay.com, Pennines.com, Runcorn.com and SouthendonSea.com for sums between six and seven thousand dollars.
At the moment the domains are all parked.