Australian Company Buys Accommodation.com

[aus11]

What do you think of the prices that got paid? I know it's not a .com.au but figured it was worth mentioning here considering the company that bought it was Australian.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/9/prweb9889290.htm

Also, it mentions CreditCard.com.au (which they also bought) as a record sale at $190,000 - I would have through that there would have been larger .com.au sales?

 

[findtim]

those kind of articles make you smile

tim

 

[DavidL]

It's Roland- member of DNT (imarketing), he was at the Sydney Domainers meetup the other week. I think it's a great buy - really they are killer domains with huge longtail to try to leverage

 

[DavidL]

Also, it mentions CreditCard.com.au (which they also bought) as a record sale at $190,000 - I would have through that there would have been larger .com.au sales?

Yes there was carinsurance.com.au on ebay for $250K the other day. Also unconfirmed but widely reported cars.com.au for $1.6M earlier this year (Carsales Shareholders Report supports it)

Admin: any chance you could update the domain sales list for 2012 if we all chip in and help?

 

[Cooper Mills DomainLawyer]

congrats to Roland! Great buy

 

[FirstPageResults]

Great story, congrats to Roland

Yes there was carinsurance.com.au on ebay for $250K the other day. Also unconfirmed but widely reported cars.com.au for $1.6M earlier this year (Carsales Shareholders Report supports it)

Admin: any chance you could update the domain sales list for 2012 if we all chip in and help?

If people can post the top sales in this thread that they know of, then that will help with keeping the list up to date:
http://www.dntrade.com.au/domain-sales-list-2012-t4801.html

 

[chris]

What a killer acquisition. Massive congrats!!

Thanks David and FPR, James also reminded me about updating the list I'll put up what I can scrape together this weekend, if anyone can add to the thread above that would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Chris

 

[findtim]

just sat for a while on the concept of owning accommodation.com , forget uk but it has value, but that .com is a steal !

tim

 

[Joel]

Looks like the .net version is up for grabs too.

https://flippa.com/2816980-accommodation-net

 

[DavidL]

just sat for a while on the concept of owning accommodation.com , forget uk but it has value, but that .com is a steal !
tim

I actually reckon accommodation.co.uk is worth more.

 

[snoopy]

I actually reckon accommodation.co.uk is worth more.

I think it is a "commonwealth" travel term rather than an American one.

Regarding the .co.uk, I don't think it would sell for more, the uk is half .com so effectively you've got half the uk market and the rest of the international market with the name.

 

[DavidL]

I think it is a "commonwealth" travel term rather than an American one.

Yes - 'just' 246,000 phrase search in US vs 1.8m in UK

Regarding the .co.uk, I don't think it would sell for more, the uk is half .com so effectively you've got half the uk market ....

Maybe the .com would sell for more but I'd rather the co.uk and use that natural (and increasing) .uk bias to cement that market. Especially when the domain is by it's definition, geographically located.

Is the UK really half .com? If is search 'accommodation' on google.co.uk, 17 of the top 20 results are .uks (18 if you eliminate wikipedia which should really not be there... people are not searching for a definition of the damn term!!)

and the rest of the international market with the name.

Well not really - a small 'potential' window in each country rather as each country will be dominated by local ccTLDs like Aus & UK.

Also, if you do try to run a global website, you may well increase your scope but the workload is many times.

 

[snoopy]

Is the UK really half .com? If is search 'accommodation' on google.co.uk, 17 of the top 20 results are .uks

Your journalism skills are coming out again, most of those results aren't ".co.uk" though are they? 12 of the 17 are ".ac.uk"

http://www.google.co.uk/#q=accommodation

Well not really - a small 'potential' window in each country rather as each country will be dominated by local ccTLDs like Aus & UK.

There is lots of countries where the country code is not that popular, eg China & India.

Germany, Australia & probably some other European countries are perhaps the areas where the country code is most dominant, so from Australian eyes it is very easy to think cctlds do well everywhere, just like accomodation.com sounds like it would be worth millions from an Australian perspective.

http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/CN

http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/IN

 

[DavidL]

Your journalism skills are coming out again, most of those results aren't ".co.uk" though are they? 12 of the 17 are ".ac.uk"

Oh - I didn't notice so they are. How strange - even down to page 3,4 they are dominated by ac.uk sites.

 

[snoopy]

Oh - I didn't notice so they are. How strange - even down to page 3,4 they are dominated by ac.uk sites.

I suspect the term has a bit of a "student" usage. Seems "accommodations" is used a bit also.

Would be interesting to here from someone from the UK about the usage of the term. Also has a "low" competition score for the UK which suggests not many are advertising on the term.