Christmas.co.uk on sale for £12,000
Good domain names are quite hard to get these days as most dictionary words have been taken and finding a name to match your business or idea can be quite hard. You can of course try registering a domain and keep trying until you find a domain name that hasn’t been taken.
Alternatively there are several auction sites that auction existing domain names to the highest bidder and I noticed today that Christmas.co.uk is on sale for £12,000 - and I suspect the bidding will go much higher.
That may seem like a lot of money, but over the last few months, records have been broken in the .UK domain world with fly.co.uk selling for about £85,000 and recycle.co.uk sold for £150,000.
For Christmas.co.uk, I’d guess its too late this year to get anything worthwhile revenue from it - although I’m sure a PPC campaign could do quite well if the content of the site could be generated quickly enough.
But baring in mind that the new owner could then have 9 months after this christmas to perfect their site, put on a lot of content or products to sell, or link through to affiliate programmes - next christmas they could make some serious money and could make back their investment easily within the first year. From that point onwards it could be a real money generator.
If only I had £12,000 to spare, I’d be queuing up to buy it…
