Updates to DomainSalesHistory.uk

[seemly]

Not that I work much on this project anymore, but this will be the home for all updates I make to domainsaleshistory.uk

 

[seemly]

The most recent update is a new blog post of celebration as Domainlore passes £5m in completed UK domain sales.

As a solo developer of this independent auction platform, Denys has successfully developed a mainstay in the aftermarket sales of UK domain names, and I think it's important to recognise his efforts over the years, which I'm sure at times was a labour of love.

Well done, Denys!

 

[Aaron]

@seemly have you thought about going public with the code base and making it a community project? Could run it on Github and people could provide commits for additional features and improvements, could be a good incentive for you to get back on the horse.

Or if not public finding someone to carry the torch with you?

 

[ben]

@seemly have you thought about going public with the code base and making it a community project? Could run it on Github and people could provide commits for additional features and improvements, could be a good incentive for you to get back on the horse.

Or if not public finding someone to carry the torch with you?

Like an API

 

[seemly]

@seemly have you thought about going public with the code base and making it a community project? Could run it on Github and people could provide commits for additional features and improvements, could be a good incentive for you to get back on the horse.

Or if not public finding someone to carry the torch with you?

It's closed source because while it works, my code is shit.

But seriously, even I have questioned the value it brings. I think over the years, the various naysayers just niggled away at me enough to give up on holding any value against it myself. Plus real life gets in the way, and priorities change.

I've never really been a domainer as such. I've just bought and sold a tiny handful (less than 20) during 12 years or so. But I personally (still) think that having a point of reference to help validate can be a useful asset, and for that reference to be a source that has aggregated a lot of known/published UK domain sales should be looked at favourably, and can help to bring newcomers to the UK domaining niche, growing the market as a whole.

Waiting on Ryan to sort out my exit, but he's yet to announce it on a livestream.

 

[John]

But seriously, even I have questioned the value it brings. I think over the years, the various naysayers just niggled away at me enough to give up on holding any value against it myself. Plus real life gets in the way, and priorities change.

I have used your site a few times when trying to price a domain after receiving an offer.

It’s been very helpful to me so thank you Seemly.

 

[seemly]

I have used your site a few times when trying to price a domain after receiving an offer.

It’s been very helpful to me so thank you Seemly.

Thanks for the kind words, John!

 

[Jeff]

But seriously, even I have questioned the value it brings. I think over the years, the various naysayers just niggled away at me enough to give up on holding any value against it myself.

It's a useful database, so I hope you ignore the naysayers and persevere with it.

I seem to recall you posting on Acorn a while back that you no longer had a feed from UKBackorder, but will you be adding twitter.uk manually when it ends sometime in the next 45 minutes?

 

[seemly]

It's a useful database, so I hope you ignore the naysayers and persevere with it.

I seem to recall you posting on Acorn a while back that you no longer had a feed from UKBackorder, but will you be adding twitter.uk manually when it ends sometime in the next 45 minutes?

I'm not a member on ukbackorder, and I respect people (and Rob) for wanting the sale prices to remain private, so unless it is publicly reported (rather than leaked), no, I won't be adding it.

Personally, I don't really get why people want secrecy behind sales prices, as the argument of "I'm not paying you X because you only paid Y" doesn't work in any way, shape or form, in any other industry. You want what I have? Pay me.

 

[Jeff]

I'm not a member either, but at the time of hitting "post reply" it's still ongoing and visible to the world here:

https://ukbackorder.uk/twitter.uk/auction.html

 

[Jeff]

Just ended and price still visible to anyone.

 

[Rightname]

Thanks so much have found it very helpful to look back at sales made, keep up the good work.

 

[ben]

Waiting on Ryan to sort out my exit, but he's yet to announce it on a livestream.

Love it

 

[dougs]

The most recent update is a new blog post of celebration as Domainlore passes £5m in completed UK domain sales.

As a solo developer of this independent auction platform, Denys has successfully developed a mainstay in the aftermarket sales of UK domain names, and I think it's important to recognise his efforts over the years, which I'm sure at times was a labour of love.

Well done, Denys!

awesome

 

[seemly]

Latest Update:

Things are going great SEO wise. I've started ranking for more target keywords.

 

[seemly]

Latest Update:

I've been doing some little bits of work on this over the last week or so. Mainly to protect the time and effort I have put into this project over the years.

Basically, somebody reached out to ask for complete dataset access for AI purposes.

This prompted me to;

1. Remove access for new account creations
2. Mask the sale price and platform from public view for unauthed (not logged in) users
3. Implement quite aggressive rate limit throttling (for both unauthed and authed users)

If you didn't previously have an account but are a frequent user, please reach out and I will help get you sorted. All I will need is an email address that you will use to login.

 

[seemly]

Currently working on:

Over the course of the weekend, I've spent a few hours implementing functionality to show inflation adjusted sales prices alongside the original sold price.

This can help:

• Contextualise historic sales: £10,000 in 2005 ≠ £10,000 today. Inflation adjustment helps show economic impact.
• Spot trends more clearly: You’d see when domains were genuinely booming vs just looking bigger because of inflation.
• Benchmark modern sales: Helps someone judge if a recent £5,000 sale is “cheap” or “expensive” compared to a “£3,000” sale in 2006 that might actually be £6,000+ in today’s money.

This is going to be a bit of a slow burner, as I've got a lot of tidying up to do of old code.

It will only be displayed for domains sold in GBP initially, which means I will need to implement currency conversions if I can find the datasets accurate enough (and cheap enough).

This feature will help me with the future implementation of data visualisations (charts), like I once had when the site was originally hosted on seemly.co.uk, to better highlight trends over time.

 

[seemly]

Latest Update: Inflation Adjusted Pricing now available.

As mentioned previously, inflation adjusted pricing has now been deployed and is available for logged in users only.

In this initial launch, the inflation adjusted pricing is available wherever you see the icon with an 'i' in a circle. Hovering it will display a tooltip containing the inflation adjusted price.

• The inflation adjusted price is only visible for GBP sales (currently).
• The inflation adjusted price is based on the CPI (Consumer Price Inflation) time series offered by ONS (Office of National Statistics).
• Whenever ONS publishes changes, inflation adjusted prices will update automatically.
• You'll notice more recent GBP sales won't have inflation adjustments displayed. Hopefully it's obvious why, but it's because inflation hasn't impacted the original sale price, so there's nothing to see/show.
• Prices and Inflation Adjusted Prices are only visible to users who are logged in (with the exception of sales reports, and top uk domain sales in [year] blog posts).

If you spot any obvious mistakes, please let me know. But it seems to work OK from the testing I've done.


Transaction view page:



Search results table view:



Sales Report View:



Top UK Domain Sales in [year] - blog post view:

 

[seemly]

Latest Update:

I am currently working on updating the various frameworks the platform runs on, as it was well out of date.

The initial step for this was upgrading from Laravel 8 to Laravel 10 (initially), and Tailwind 2 to Tailwind 4 with Vite, which has now been done.

The next step is upgrading from Laravel 10 to 12, which I'm hoping will be pretty straight forward. This adds a bunch of new features and functionality available to me, and allow me to continue development of new features as listed on the home page.


Comments:
With the recent changes launched, I have received messages from quite a few of you asking for user account creation, which has been nice to see.

I do apologise for implementing the need to login to find the tool 'useful' anymore, but needs must to protect my time and efforts.

Again, please do reach out via DM with an email address and your name if you'd like access.

 

[paullas]

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