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Can back links really be worth £124k???
P.s. Great work liquidators!!
 
dn said:
I don't think it was wise to pay that sum for a single domain.

what "liquidators" have to do with it?
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They did not realise this asset for the creditors.
 
I think @Cav is auditioning to be the new JMI because I can't find the domain he's referring to and I only picked up on the sarcasm about the liquidators from his second post. @seemly's site seems to have gone members-only.

Talking of Julian, his widow was recently asking for help with his domains on Acorn:

https://www.acorndomains.co.uk/threads/domain-name-selling-support.186189/

Can someone who still has an account over there send her a DM to make her aware of this place? Needless to say Helmuts forgot to do so in his reply.
 
Jeff said:
Can someone who still has an account over there send her a DM to make her aware of this place? Needless to say Helmuts forgot to do so in his reply.
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Probably just get censored though, right?

Perhaps better off reaching out directly if anyone has a personal contact/ old business contact (she mentions access to his admin).

Hope she finds her way across,
 
He 100% does read PMs. I no longer use Acorn, I would reference posts as to why but he has deleted them to cover things up.

I sent a PM to someone about Aarons' UKDNF forum (RIP... nice one Ryan De Corsie Ewen and co!) which was entirely non offensive and basically said the forum existed. Much like the intended DM/PM would be sent as above.

That PM was read ... and I was banned from sending PMs :ROFLMAO:

For extra context, this is while grim homophobic abuse was allowed on there.

The guy is a goon IMHO. Looking at Acorn now it is bots, AI and very few real posts and even less interesting posts if any. It appears many people share my viewpoint and voted with their virtual feet 🤩
 
Jeff said:
A DM should at least last long enough for her to see it.
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With XenForo you can censor even inside private messages (it’s just a filter on the text). So if Helmuts has set word filters, they’d wipe out certain keywords anywhere, even in DMs... that's my understanding anyway.

Just checked - still got my trusty badge of honour. 🥺🎻
(Auto-filters straight out.)

I hope he has enough sense of community and goodwill, alongside his 'complimentary ticket', to pass on all the supportive avenues available to her...
 
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Cav said:
They did not realise this asset for the creditors.
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I guess you haven't done this research for nothing =) Tried to acquire this domain before the drop ;)
 
dn said:
I guess you haven't done this research for nothing =) Tried to acquire this domain before the drop ;)
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Alas, no. Just checked it out after and seen they were in liquidation. Do liquidators not understand the value of a domain name????. Yet again, I cannot fathom how links in this sector can repay such an outlay.
 
Cav said:
Alas, no. Just checked it out after and seen they were in liquidation. Do liquidators not understand the value of a domain name????
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I see..
They obviously assume that the 'name-of-the-organization.org.uk' has zero value to any other business. Which was true, before SEO profiles gained in value.
 
Cav said:
Can back links really be worth £124k???
P.s. Great work liquidators!!
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Well, if they rank #1 for "non gamstop casino", they make £25-30K a day - and they get a flat fee of £X00K a month for listing a specific brand in
#1 position in their listicles.
 
Not being familiar with the expiring (SEO) domains market until seeing the sales results on DL and the closing auction price of some of the very poor quality keywords these domains represented, I thought I would ponder which lasted all of 30 seconds. Domains have built up a lot of authority over the years and have gained public trust. Then they expire, and because of the built-up over the years back backlinks continue to rank as before, allowing any Tom, Dick or Harry to direct consumers wherever they like if they manage to catch them 😱 . If people fork out big chunks of dosh for whatever it might be, then it is their decision and of course, their gamble. Despite all the might and shite Google preaches and the hoops they dictate, we all jump through to keep a righteous webspace, I would have thought they could have tinkered with their little index and their ever-updating and so-called improving algorithm to auto disavow these domains and eliminate this little flaw in consumer safeguarding when a domain expires and is reregistered? Shame on them :unsure:
 
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Hook said:
Well, if they rank #1 for "non gamstop casino", they make £25-30K a day - and they get a flat fee of £X00K a month for listing a specific brand in
#1 position in their listicles.
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yes, the question is if DR70 domain for 124k will rank longer than five DR50 domains for 25k each. They already hold top positions with their existing arsenal of domains, so paying that much seems desperate, when it is their competitors, who should be desperate.. so perhaps they are just keeping competitors at bay =)
 
Hook said:
Well, if they rank #1 for "non gamstop casino", they make £25-30K a day - and they get a flat fee of £X00K a month for listing a specific brand in
#1 position in their listicles.
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From what I have seen, I think it's substantially more than that. Maybe around $1m a day for some of the terms - worldwide, not just UK I'd imagine. Some of them were bragging about doing 30-60m a month.


I have no idea if it's the same people, I doubt it is, but in that clip he goes into how much they say they make.
 
Crazy figures. £86,800 is not a bad profit on £3.90 for Aldmar Ltd who will no doubt be sitting round his firepit.co.uk having some champagne. I always wonder how such random businesses get involved in domain name catching.
 
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GreyWing said:
From what I have seen, I think it's substantially more than that. Maybe around $1m a day for some of the terms - worldwide, not just UK I'd imagine. Some of them were bragging about doing 30-60m a month.


I have no idea if it's the same people, I doubt it is, but in that clip he goes into how much they say they make.
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I'm talking strictly about that one KW - there is about 20-25 more KW groups which are around the same topic, the main one being "non gamstop casino", which makes 25-30K a month no problem.

So, we are talking only a few days of ranking and they'll breakeven - and even if they don't rank first, they still push the competition down further I'm sure.
 
dn said:
yes, the question is if DR70 domain for 124k will rank longer than five DR50 domains for 25k each. They already hold top positions with their existing arsenal of domains, so paying that much seems desperate, when it is their competitors, who should be desperate.. so perhaps they are just keeping competitors at bay =)
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I don't think money is an issue per se, the ROI on these domains must be very high for them right now as they've got the process down quite well. They always rank :)
 
What i don't understand is that if you visit some of these domains converted into websites is that you get a popup stating that the page is blocked in the UK.

So how do they still make money from them considering that the websites are being blocked?
 
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