Phones.co.uk sells for £175,000 GBP

Posted by Scott on July 7th, 2008 .

A massive .co.uk domain sold with funds being transferred today, Phones.co.uk sold for £175,000 , yes that’s GBP which is about $344,364 USD, so congrats to James on the sale and it being made public.

A great flip really seeing as it was purchased in November for £49,500.

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Comment by Matthew from GadgetVenue Subscribed to comments via email
2008-07-07 12:16:26

That’s one heck of a return in just over half a year.

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Comment by Colm Subscribed to comments via email
2008-07-07 13:12:19

Really nice sale…working in the mobile phones business (day job) and running a personal mobile phones website I hope mine is worth that sort of money someday

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Comment by Mikael Subscribed to comments via email
2008-07-07 14:00:37

Well if I can get just 1/10 of that for my latest .co.uk domain I would be happy :)

 
Comment by Mikael Subscribed to comments via email
2008-07-07 14:01:29

I just love it when I misspell the title or domain when making a comment :)

 
Comment by Zath@Technology Blog from Technology Blog Subscribed to comments via email
2008-07-07 15:22:29

That’s a brilliant return for any .co.uk domain - there may be some value in zath.co.uk yet…then again maybe not! ;)

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Comment by Amit Bhawani from Tech Blog
2008-07-07 15:48:38

Wow thats around 125500£ or 247,217USD Less taxes made without much efforts but good amount of risks taken while buying it.

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Comment by Justin Cook from SEO Toronto Subscribed to comments via email
2008-07-07 18:48:01

Was it purchased purely for the name, or was their ranking & traffic stats along with it?

Comment by Scott from Scott
2008-07-08 09:31:47

Just the name Justin although I think there would be type in traffic of around 60 per day but bought for generic value of the domain.

 
 
Comment by Mally from Magazine Subscription Subscribed to comments via email
2008-07-09 06:34:16

Excellent return for someone who obviously knows what they doing when buying a selling domain names!

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Comment by poems from Christmas Subscribed to comments via email
2008-07-10 09:12:15

The sum is really big. What for??

Comment by Matthew from GadgetVenue Subscribed to comments via email
2008-07-10 11:16:01

The sum is large because a good domain name like that can fetch the owner a lot of money if used correctly. In the sellers case he managed to flip the domain quickly. It wouldn’t surprise me if the domain flipped again this or next year at a greater price. Some day it might get developed (and would do well), but I bet it flips a few more times before then.

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Comment by paulette from Lovermus Subscribed to comments via email
2008-07-13 03:56:18

Congratulations on your big sales!

 
Comment by Surplus Steel Buildings from How To Do Anything Subscribed to comments via email
2008-07-22 14:44:22

Don’t you think he would have got a better deal if he had waited some more? I wonder what prompted him to sell.

 
Comment by Mike from Toronto SEO
2008-08-12 19:49:05

I was always wondering - why CO.UK?
was it hard to setup dot UK for all of British domains?…. after all it is hard as hell to type bbc - dot - co - dot - uk
isn’t it?….

Comment by Matthew from GadgetVenue Subscribed to comments via email
2008-08-13 10:39:38

I’m not sure why it’s .co.uk. I guess it was just decided at a round table a good number of years ago and it just stuck. I never really thought about it to be honest and just accepted it as a way of internet life here in the UK ;)

I’m not sure if you are being sarcastic about it being as hard as hell to type bbc.co.uk as I really do not find it hard at all. LOL.

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Comment by Scott from Scott
2008-08-13 14:40:57

co.uk Commercial entities and purposes
ltd.uk Private limited companies
me.uk Personal names
net.uk Internet Service Providers’ infrastructure
org.uk Not-for-profit entities
plc.uk Public limited companies

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