The Placesinengland.com portfolio of domain names is a "must buy" for anyone who understands the strength of local search.
According to figures released by comScore in May 2009, the use of search tools to find local businesses, products or services grew 58% last year to reach an annual total of 15.7 billion searches.
In a 2008 report by The Kelsey Group it is forecast that by 2012 Internet Yellow Pages and local search combined will total US $15.8 billion, or 38% of global directional media revenues.
This portfolio of domains has the potential to become a fantastic local network - whereby a developer could break the "places..." brand into all the key towns and serve local content around places to go and places to visit etc.
This is a big challenge but it has phenomenal potential, and it's a great opportunity waiting to be exploited by the right people. If we had more time we would not be selling this set.
