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Stage one of the unclaimed .uk domains release ended and 1,793,701 domains were made available to the public via participating registrars.
In the first week, 41,459 of those .uk domains were registered. That is 2.26% of all released domains.
251 registrars participated in stage one.
z.uk was the most contested domain of the week, with 80 registrars trying to register it on Friday at 2pm.
Looking at the top 10 list, it comes as no surprise that shorter domains, and dictionary words, attracted the most interest.
- z.uk
- law.uk
- k.uk
- wedding.uk
- job.uk
- yes.uk
- voice.uk
- camping.uk
- big.uk
- manchester.uk
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Copy of most of my main comment on this at morganlinton.com:
One thing I determined when I was regging some during the release was this:
This domain is really for end users now, not domainers. I was actually not happy when I saw some I was not able to get show up being listed for sale right away. Thought that was a horrible thing and they were ones I wanted to put to immediate use.
I thought I only had around 10 to 15, but I’ve just tallied up and have over 20. Every single one I bought for end use, not for “domaining” or selling. I got into an interesting 3 way auction for one of them and fortunately won. Every single one I put into immediate use, have not listed for sale, and have no plans to ever do that. But never say never as they say. I don’t really put any effort into selling domains beyond maintaining a small fraction of my portfolio passively listed in mostly one place, with a tiny number in one or two other places.
As far as “insight” goes, I found this comment by the user “platey” very interesting at NamePros:
“OK here goes lol
I am from the uk etc
To understand the
.uk
Market
You have to forget domain names
And go way back in the uk to about 40 years ago to the era of the yuppie in the 80’s awash with dough Eg money buying porsche etc in the uk you done OK if you bought a porsche or rolls Royce etc but in the uk back then there was a little white booklet that used to list personalised number plates by a company called
Elite registrations where a person could buy a personalised licence plate or as we say in the uk number plates etc so that people who had a few quid could pose and buy a number plate with their initials on it and a couple of numbers on it etc but a person even if they had quite a few quid could only buy a personalised number plate for their car within a certain format which had to consist of numbers and letters and they would pay a pretty penny for these personalised number plates etc but then a company called
registration transfers
Entered the personalised number plate market and the prices of these personalised number plates started to soar in value
Check out
Elite registrations
And
Reg transfers. Co.uk
And you’ll see the prices these personalised number plates sell to the wealthy in the uk etc
Bear with me lol
Before the Internet people used to have to speed scan pages and pages of these personalised number plates trying to make words from letters and numbers using zeros for the letter o etc and 1’s as the letter I etc etc
Which I thoroughly enjoyed finding these very desirable personalised number plates etc
But there was a problem lop
I could save money for toffee and couldn’t afford to buy these personalised number plates in order to be able to profit from them etc and still can’t today lol
But but one of these personalised number plate companies has also gone in to the domain name market
Eg
Elite registrations
The number plate company
Owns?
Intervention. Co.uk
A domain name reseller / registrar
But it appears to only sell
.Co.uk
And
.uk
Website addresses
But it’s main number plate business has over 40 years of premium top dollar end users as does
reg transfers who also have some of the best potential buyers for. Uk website addresses
Isn’t that right wizard lol
Wizard knows most of them and understands the market too
But when reg transfers eventually enter the domain name market
The prices of. Uk Website addresses will soar in value like the uk has never seen and achieve millions for some. Uk Website addresses purely down to the fact that these two companies have significant amount of wealthy end users as customers who trust these two companies and they have the dough to buy pretty much anything suggested to them. By these two companies
And when you understand both these markets and the potential uk end users for the. Uk Website address extension you’ll understand just how important buying the most premium Website addresses in the. Uk Website address extension could prove very lucrative
And when the prices of very good
.uk Website addresses start to soar in value it will attract the big. Com dough investors from the states
It’s just that the uk market currently is still digitally asleep but only until
Reg transfers
Enters the domain name market as a reseller and or registrar
But although I never made money on number plates in the uk
I learned my domain name skills from the big. Com investors in the states but have a very good understanding of the uk domain name market and have managed to build up a little portfolio of domain names for reg fee using 40 years database experience scamming pages of number plates manually extremely quickly and now the Internet is hee my experience at playing the fruit machines back in the day lol works well with domain names etc lol
But suffice to say
The domain name market in the uk is still digitally snoring at the moment but this week investors in the states are buying up the uk domain names because domain name investing in the states is understood but these. Uk domain names became available whilst the uk domain name market was still asleep but it won’t be for long and when the uk domain name market wakes up and realises that the domain names they need are already bought the wealthy end users will start paying proper dollars for these premium. Uk domain names
But the best domain name auction for
.uk
And. Co.uk
Domain names
Is
Currently
Domainlore. Uk”
It is found here: https://www.namepros.com/posts/7302027/