Updates to DomainSalesHistory.uk

I am working on a side project using Laravel. i havent a clue how it works or use it as never touched it so should be a good learning up hill battle :)
Once you get going, it's such a fantastic framework for rapid development.

Really good docs, a bunch of libraries to enhance your offerings, and such a good community, too!
 
Latest Updates:
  • All infrastructural updates have now been completed, and was a pretty big chunk of work. I have written a brief post as a kind of changelog entry.
  • A few additional tweaks to the Inflation Adjusted Prices CPI caching, and writing some more robust tests for the functionality.
  • A blog post describing the Inflation Adjusted Prices functionality, and why it even matters.
This is a huge win for me personally. Just the infrastructure changes alone was a pretty big task, but with the inclusion of the Inflation Adjusted Prices, I think these changes are paving the way for some pretty cool features in the coming weeks/months.

Sorry to have been spamming the forum, and you all, with the updates. For those that aren't a fan anyway, I'm sure the forums ignore functionality has been a god send.
 

Concrete Future Plans:​

I’m working on some upgrades behind the scenes to make DSH even more useful and insightful for domainers, investors, and researchers alike. After a bit of thought and planning, upcoming features consist of:
  1. Currency Conversion
  2. Public API
  3. UI Query Builder
  4. Data Visualisations
  5. Alerts / Dashboards
  6. Paid Subscriptions
  7. Valuation Engine

Currency Conversion​

After the recent launch of Inflation Adjustments, the obvious next feature will be currency conversion. This means non-GBP sales like USD and EUR will be automatically normalised using historic exchange rates, then inflation-adjusted where relevant, allowing better comparisons across time, region, and currency.

Public API​

The next logical implementation will be a gated API. While technically public, it will be used for internal purposes only to start with, eventually becoming invite only during a testing phase, then becoming a tiered premium offering. This will give vetted users structured access to DSH data, perfect for integrations, research, or tooling, while letting me track and control usage. I don't want to be making competition for myself, after all!

UI Query Builder​

Once I have the API built a new UI-based query builder will be launched. This will let users create much more advanced and granular queries, providing a sneak preview of what’s possible through the API itself.

Data Visualisations​

This will display charts for most of the filterable fields, allowing you to spot trends over time.

The data visualised will be filterable, and potentially exportable in some form.

Custom Alerts and Dashboards​

I’ll be adding alerts and dashboards. You’ll be able to follow keywords, TLDs, or price tiers, and get notified of relevant new sales. Dashboards will provide personal insights, track trends, and offer a clearer view of what’s moving the UK domain market, kind of like building your own purpose built Recent Sales Reports (that could possibly be exportable).

Paid Subscriptions​

To support some of this and help sustain future development, I’m preparing paid subscriptions. Free users will still get access to a rich but time limited dataset, where as subscribers will get access to features such as:
  • Extended history
  • Saved searches
  • Custom Alerts and Dashboards
  • Gain access to the UI Query Builder
  • CSV exports
  • Tiered API access (time and feature based)

Domain Valuation Engine​

Lastly, that leads neatly into the valuation engine. A tool that will use historical comparables and inference models to estimate the potential value of any UK domain. It won’t spit out inflated nonsense; it’ll give context-driven, data-backed estimates that evolve as the dataset grows.

Whilst I know this last feature might be scorned upon, as we all know how accurate domain valuations aren't. But this is about valuations based on real-life sales data over a period of 20+ years, currency converted and inflation adjusted.

I would love to hear you're thoughts on the above - even if you're feeling mean.

Supporting my efforts​

If you'd like to financially support me on my upcoming efforts, not only will it be highly appreciated, it will be both remembered and rewarded.

Over the years there have been some incredibly supportive folk of the DSH project, and behind the scenes they have actually already been recognised & marked as 'supporters', and have been for some time.

This will mean something when the new features are launched, as you are my early evangelists, and without you, we probably wouldn't have come this far together.

Depending on the level of support provided over the years, this will likely mean something along the lines of:
  • Early beta access to the new features listed above
  • Voting power (help guide what features ship next)
  • Lifetime discounted/free subscription (depending on level of support)
 
Latest Updates: Currency Conversions v1

V1 of currency conversions have now been implemented and deployed. Where applicable, conversions have also been inflation adjusted to see today's comparable value.

There is still a lot more to go with conversions, as:

Database queries are still based on the originally stored transaction price. That means we're not yet able to view inflation adjusted conversions, and how that impacts things like Top 10 selling UK domains, etc. It also means that filtering and sorting of queries isn't ready to take the new functionality into account.

The Public API and advanced UI query builder will play a big part in refining how this works.


What will Users (authed, or logged-in) see?
Authed users, when the price is hovered (clicked for mobile), you will see a popover with a breakdown of values and calculations.

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What will Guests (unauthed, or non-logged) see?
Guests will have prices redacted/masked, as pictured below.

With the exception of the home page, Sales Reports, and Top UK domain name sales in [Year] posts, in which they will see the adjusted conversions. Mainly because redacted/masked prices in these areas would be pretty shit.

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Latest Updates: Total Price always displays GBP tally.

Not the biggest of updates, but when searching through Transactions, the table footer will now always display the total calculated sale prices in GBP.

Previously if there was an EUR or USD sale in the results, the mixed currency symbol (¤) would be displayed, which was pretty much useless.

Next step will be to display GBP prices by default, but this means modifying queries to order results by converted prices, not by price integer value.
 
Latest Updates: GBP now the default display price
  • All prices on the home page and search results pages now display GBP by default.
  • Search now also orders prices correctly based on converted price (GBP).
I still need to reflect these changes to Blog posts and Sales Reports, but there's only so many hours in a day.
 
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