pc.uk.com and car.uk.com

**biggedon** · 11-29-2002, 11:04 AM

estimated value for these please!

pc.uk.com
car.uk.com
attached.info

President Gringo · 11-29-2002, 11:07 AM

tough to value .uk.com's, as they are not really mainstream, although electronics boutique was using eb.uk.com

Low hundreds for the first 2. Not too keen on the .info

**DomainPairs** · 11-29-2002, 02:32 PM

I don't understand how a sub-domain can have any value at all. The .com is an international tld and the uk bit kills that. There is no chance of any type-ins so anything you do is just promoting the name for the domain owner. It almost seems worse than .uk.co at least that looks genuine to many surfers.

**Alex Ojideagu** · 11-29-2002, 06:02 PM

Some comapnies do use them in England, and I've seen some sold.

One guy on afternic even sold lots of uk.com sub domains to a company for over 10k.

It takes some convincing, but it is possible to sell them.

**Ciqala** · 11-29-2002, 06:25 PM

I am seeing more and more sites using .uk.com now...

it will never be as popular as .co.uk as that is almost as commonly known as .com here in the UK (IMHO)

I think to find a seller you would have to actively search one out. you have two very generic terms so you have a wide pick of people to pitch the name to.

Good luck with it though

Ciq

**Validweb** · 11-30-2002, 04:16 AM

These are great names, but aren't there a lot of issues with these uk.com names? As far as I know, one doesn't 'own' the names, you merely have a arrangement to use a subdomain of .uk.com

An aftermarket in these names could be really successful though.

Have you had any success in selling these type of names? It would be interesting to know, if you want sales of .uk.com names is to take off.

**yesonline** · 11-30-2002, 04:47 AM

Originally posted by Validweb
These are great names, but aren't there a lot of issues with these uk.com names? As far as I know, one doesn't 'own' the names, you merely have a arrangement to use a subdomain of .uk.com

Actually, we don't own any domains at all:embarrass
We just have a right to use and renew it. And any domain like abc.com is also a kind of subdomain of .com I think

**Validweb** · 11-30-2002, 04:55 AM

Hi
That's true. The exact terminology could be the subject of a whole forum.

You've got some great domains, but surely your rights over those names as registrant is completely differnet than someone who's got rights over a subdomain?

Whatever you want to call your rights over your names, I would say these rights are about as safe and secure as the internet itself.

Its completely different than whatever rights one has over a subdomain of a domain registered to a small company in London, isn't it?

**mole** · 11-30-2002, 07:35 AM

What happens if the guy who owns uk.com decides to sell the name? ccTLD pretenders hold very little value imo. They only serve to confuse namespace clarity.

**Instinkt** · 11-30-2002, 07:47 AM

I only think companies use it when they want something short(and available) and that still recognises them as UK.
It may have value compared to other .uk.coms but not it's still not that much.
You can also get .eu.com and .gb.com and lots of others.
How did you get this domain?CentralNic doesn't even allow 2 letter domains and when I search on it it's too short.