JasonD - 10:49 am on Sep 10, 2007 (gmt 0)

The Domain Focus event was superb.

It definately had its teethng troubles, but thankfully they had lots of Bonjela and the boys from Domain Focus pulled it off admirably.

I am afraid I had to leave to see a client before the auction started (congratulations Doug on the fly.co.uk purchase) but below are some of my take away points.

The Domaining industry is extremely well established within the UK but is still immature compared to the English speaking dot com marketplace. This shows it has massive room for further and future growth.

A small number (more than a dozen, less than 2 dozen) of domain acquisiation businesses control the majority of UK domainer registrations.

The domainer business (as a whole) is extrmely mature in most business areas but is extremely immature in one major area. The part between registering a domain and selling a domain is handled in a woefully inadequate manner.

Times will change but at the moment it is interesting that there are some businesses out there, investing (let's be honest here) very large sums of money, who understand not just the value within a domain name itself but also are proven at working the domain name to its true potential!