How To Value Third Level Domains?

i.e. example.uk.com

[Jon_King]

I think they are refered to as third level domains; the ones with the .com after the country TLD and offered by CentralNic.

Are they really a domain? How do they value? Downsides?

[encyclo]

They are subdomains, nothing more, of a collection of two-letter .com domains owned by a private company, so they do not have the same status (or value) as a genuine domain name. Your relationship is uniquely with the primary domain-name holder, not with any gTLD or ccTLD registry.

[Webwork]

In all the years that I've been lurking about domain forums I don't think I've even seen anyone offering such a domain for re-sale.

That's not to say there there might not be developed websites - using 3rd level domains - that might sell or have sold at different times due to the quirk-du-jour of various search engines favoring sub-domains or the link love given to a sub-domain website.

I suspect the value isn't "in the domain", only in the domain as matters now stand for that domain as an active site.

Sometimes such value can be fleeting. On the other hand there are folks that reportedly make loads of money based upon their awareness of such fleeting opportunties for great traffic love affairs with search engines.

[cfx211]

If you are into domain extension typos, people adding a .com on top of a .de to make example.de.com instead of example.de then you might find some value in these domains.