A case study from across the pond

Posted on February 25th, 2011

Elliott Silver’s blog has a really interesting update on his experience with City in a Box.

Elliott’s Burbank.com city site has had seven months under the management of City in a Box and the article gives a really detailed and frank update of the successes and failures of the site – which has 20,000 unique visitors a month – and the money it has made.

What is clear is that direct ad sales are the way to go. But it’s also clear that attracting advertisers requires both hard work and professionalism.

You can read the article about Burbank.com here.

Posted in Geo domain analysis, Geo domain development, Opportunities

Wandsworth.com and other geo domain sales

Posted on February 21st, 2011

The UK geo domain name Wandsworth.com sold this week for $3,200.

In other sales reported this week, Irish.org went for $6,750 at Sedo, while Portugal.net fetched $20,000 at Upmarket URLs.

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Solent.com

Posted on February 11th, 2011

DN Journal is reporting that Solent.com has been sold – for just $2,500.

That’s a steal.

The Solent is one of the world’s premier yachting channels and the domain would make a terrific sailing-oriented geo website.

The new owner is based in New York, so it will be interesting to see if anything gets built on the site.

Posted in Geo domain analysis, Geo domain sales

England.net

Posted on January 27th, 2011

The ever reliable DN Journal reported this afternoon that England.net had changed hands for $30,000.

This seems a good price for buyer and seller.

While the name might have been worth more on paper, England.net will demand a pretty huge website development.

Plus there’s a massive amount of competition out there.

A google search for “England” returns a staggering 353 million pages.

For the record, England.com is developed into a hotel booking site and England.co.uk doesn’t resolve at the time of writing.

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Posted in Geo domain analysis, Geo domain sales

Chesil.co.uk sold

Posted on January 26th, 2011

The Dorset geo domain name Chesil.co.uk was sold on Domain Lore yesterday for £700.

There was only one bidder.

Still, not bad for a strip of shingle.

Posted in Geo domain analysis, Geo domain sales

BBC to close 200 sites

Posted on January 24th, 2011

Great news for geo domain owners that the BBC has announced that it will cut its online spending by 25%.

The BBC also said it would be closing around 200 websites.

It’s pretty extraordinary that it ran so many in the first place.

The BBC spokesman conceded that one of the benefits of the BBC’s decision is that it would be good for competition.

Nowhere is this more the case than for geo domain owners – pinned down by state spending via council websites, tourist board websites and BBC websites.

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Consett.com

Posted on January 21st, 2011

The geo domain name Consett.com is up for auction at SnapNames.

The auction ends tomorrow and the reserve is very low – and there are already a few bidders for the domain.

Consett is a former mining town of nearly 30,000 people in County Durham.

Local exacts searches per month = 2,400.

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Wessex.com

Posted on January 7th, 2011

Proof that there’s money in regional geo domain names – even if the region hasn’t existed in political terms for over a thousand years.

Domain Journal is reporting today that Wessex.com was snapped up at NameJet for $2,000 last week.

The term ‘Wessex’ is still used by plenty of organisations.  Google returns over 9 million search results for it.

The Google Adwords Tool shows 6,600 global exacts searches per month at the time of writing.

Posted in Geo domain sales, Geo domain valuations

Wandsworth.com for sale

Posted on December 23rd, 2010

The domain name Wandsworth.com is up for sale at brokers Sedo.

The sale is sue to end on 29 December and there is a starting bid of £2,000 already made.

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Isle of Wight for sale?

Posted on November 23rd, 2010

The geo domain name iow.org.uk is being auctioned at Domain Lore  – the auction ends on 25th November.

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