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Old 08-15-2004, 10:57 AM THREAD STARTER               #1 (permalink)
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Domain Names: Words More Valuable Than Characters


Sacramento, CA (PRWEB) August 12, 2004 -– The secret to a valuable domain name just became a little clearer, as Zetetic releases the findings of their July 2004 secondary domain name market research. Zetetic finds that domain names with fewer words are more valuable than those with fewer characters.

“While most people know that shorter domain names are more valuable, most assume this means fewer characters,” Zetetic Founder Keith Pieper said. “We’ve found that while fewer characters are somewhat important, a domain name with fewer words is significantly more valuable.”
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Based on the results of 405 secondary domain name market transactions collected in July 2004, Zetetic finds that word count is nearly eight times more significant than character count when determining domain name value. Zetetic incorporates analysts to manually parse keywords within each domain name, ensuring higher word count accuracy than that offered by most automated systems.

The company also finds that the average domain sale increased by four percent to US$2,690, a slight rebound from June 2004 (see chart). Zetetic also releases the median sale value for each month from September 2003 through July 2004, uncovering a median sale price that hovers around US$1,000 (see chart). The range of sales collected for the period was US$60 to US$39,500, excluding two sales transactions over US$100,000. Zetetic excludes outliers, which often number only one or two, from the data set to provide an accurate reflection of market conditions.

Zetetic also announced that they are currently tracking the value of 1,568 domain names on behalf of clients using their Portfolio Tracker service.

Additional market data, including historical research, is available at http://markets.zetetic.com.

Zetetic currently tracks the secondary domain name after market, collecting hundreds of sales transactions every month. This data is analyzed, updating the pricing model to reflect current market conditions. The model is incorporated into the Portfolio Tracker and Quotes products. Portfolio Tracker enables domain name investors, speculators or corporate owners of large domain name portfolios to always know the market value of their domain names, obtaining an updated portfolio value report every month, used to establish sale or purchase prices or justify the expense of domain name programs.
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well that is a bit obvious
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Yeah, I think we all knew that o.o
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Interesting figures. Thanks Stokie.

Here's an updated link from the source
http://www.zetetic.com/domain-name-secondary-market/
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Gosh, that is obvious.
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