opinion How Does The Age A Name Bring Value?

[EASYPICKINGS]

The name usshelf.com was registered in 2009, which makes it 20 years old with godaddy. How does its age, and history behind it effect its price, compared to a similar name created this year when the ultimate end-user typically doesn't even care the age of the name when they just looked it up knowing exactly what they wanted.

 

[xynames]

I state simply the reality that age does matter and is a positive factor in the value of a domain. Anyway if my entire portfolio were made up or misspelled names I doubt I’d be getting daily offers or price inquiries, as I am.

 

[EASYPICKINGS]

What do you mean by misspelled? Thanks btw

 

[alcy]

most aged names will be quality and valuable. definitely not all.... but definitely most.
which means for example that if someone is totally new to domaining and has no clue what he's doing, he'll greatly increase his odds of owning quality domains, if he buys aged vs non aged ones.... but thats always easier said thna done cause most new domainers will handreg stuff and think they're doing the right thing... myself included when I started

the reasons for connection between quality/value an age is pretty simple... as domainers will just keep renewing quality names... and endusers.. well... many originally regged or bought quality stuff too for their ventures...

 

[Eric Lyon]

The age of a domain can be an indicator that a domain name may be good because a lot of the best domains were registered long ago and if someone kept renewing it for many years, then there's a good chance they believed it was good. However, the age by itself doesn't make the domain better.

Similarly, search engines used to give more weight to domains that were aged because search engines assumed that since the domains had been around longer, the domains were probably more established with better content than a domain registered yesterday. That increased the demand and value for aged domains for a while. Today, search engines may still do this to a negligible degree, but it's not worth considering for SEO purposes anymore.

The history of a domain can sometimes be a bad thing if it was used for malicious purposes in the past (e.g., the domain could be banned from Google) for fraud, spam, etc. It's always good to check archive.org for aged domains before buying them to make sure their history is clean.

Hope that helps,

 

[Hootsifer]

Most of the best keywords were registered early on, hence being aged. It's a great indictator, but not the only one. It also doesn't gaurantee a bigger value or any value. However, most names that are valuable at auction that are aged bring that authority that brings the biggest dollars.

 

[~ The 34 Year Buzz!!]

The name usshelf.com was registered in 2009, which makes it 20 years old with godaddy. How does its age, and history behind it effect its price, compared to a similar name created this year when the ultimate end-user typically doesn't even care the age of the name when they just looked it up knowing exactly what they wanted.

FYI: 2009 is 10 years old not twenty. In ~ten years we can perhaps re-open that topic.

How Does Age Bring Value?

Domain age is/was sometimes valued by Google in search rankings, but that could just be an expensive rumor. Some older domains will be above average quality (as already mentioned), but you might also see hobby-level players who are attached to their old friends.

 

[EASYPICKINGS]

What do you guys think about USshelf.com? Should I make a separate thread post for a possible price check on it?

 

[EASYPICKINGS]

I agree with what everyone just said, but as a new player here, and with no sales, I can tell you I dont regret hand registering my 105 names in the last two-three months. I made most of them up on the spot, but I have a different mind-set than all of you, and I wouldnt sell them all for $10,000 right now. LOL HOW STUPID AM I?

 

[Name Trader]

I agree with what everyone just said, but as a new player here, and with no sales, I can tell you I dont regret hand registering my 105 names in the last two-three months. I made most of them up on the spot, but I have a different mind-set than all of you, and I wouldnt sell them all for $10,000 right now. LOL HOW STUPID AM I?

It could range from extremely stupid to brilliant. The odds are strongly balanced at the lower end of the scale. We cannot say for sure without seeing your domains.

With regards to your USShelf.com domain. Who do you think the buyer(s) would be for that particular domain? And why are you not approaching them for a sale? Personally. I can't see any buyer for this domain at a price which would recover your total investment in your 105 hand-regged domains. So, I would very much like to hear your take on who the buyer(s) might be for this domain. You aren't even redirecting the domain to a for sale page so people can find it. How smart is that?

 

[EASYPICKINGS]

USshelf.com is perfect for retail merchandising, supermarkets, think that way.
You can check out my full portfolio at afternic.com/ellieghassali
Offer me $10,000 ill say no. Extremely stupid is within the possibilities.

 

[Name Trader]

USshelf.com is perfect for retail merchandising, supermarkets, think that way.
You can check out my full portfolio at afternic.com/ellieghassali
Offer me $10,000 ill say no. Extremely stupid is within the possibilities.

I was thinking that way. But I couldn't think of a supplier of shelving to supermarkets etc, who might be interested in buying this domain.But it has possibilities, if you can find a buyer. I think you need to be an active, not passive seller, if you want to sell this domain.

I took a quick look at your list of domains. Mostly 2 keyword domains in industries I'm not particularly familiar with. Some seemed ok-to-good, some not so. Most seemed like gibberish combinations to me. But that could be my lack of knowledge in some areas. Overall, I think this selection of domains were not crap. like most noobs registrations. On a range from A-F, I'd give you a C. But the very first thing you should do is redirect your domains to your afternic landing pages, in order to greatly improve your chances of a sale. I wish you all the best. And hope you will visit this thread again if and when you make some sales.

 

[WillW]

Age can be a factor but it does not mean the domain is automatically valuable.

USshelf.com may be aged but I honestly don't see any possible end-users for it so I think it will be a hard sell. Retail is a stretch for sure.

I will say that someone offering you 10k for your portfolio is even more unlikely, imo.

 

[Ostrados]

Age does not always indicate high value sometimes it is the opposite:
If an aged domain was not developed and was for sale all these years then it means it is bad name with no interest in it.

If the aged domain was in use then dropped then it might have a good value, because it was taken and not available for sale.

When I look at a drop list I tend to sort by age, then start evaluating the names, and many times I find good names by doing that.

 

[Name Trader]

The name usshelf.com was registered in 2009, which makes it 20 years old with godaddy. How does its age, and history behind it effect its price, compared to a similar name created this year when the ultimate end-user typically doesn't even care the age of the name when they just looked it up knowing exactly what they wanted.

BTW. 2009 makes it 10 years old. Not 20

 

[golan]

If domain of 10 or 20 years old was not ever sold, this may be a mere proof of it's shitness. That noone ever wanted it. Another face of the coin.

 

[wizard]

Age doesn’t always matter all depends on the quality of the domain some people have been sitting on junk since 1996 we sell far more domains with no age so it all depends...

 

[nicholas]

I agree with what everyone just said, but as a new player here, and with no sales, I can tell you I dont regret hand registering my 105 names in the last two-three months. I made most of them up on the spot, but I have a different mind-set than all of you, and I wouldnt sell them all for $10,000 right now. LOL HOW STUPID AM I?

Not stupid at all. Everyone probably falls for this trap in the beginning, (you're usually at your most confident when you're new to something and feel superior in having an edge over old timers in the game,) and who knows, you just might have some gems on there awaiting discovery.

More likely than not, the reason that many domains you got in the past several months were available for hand reg is that they weren't really of much value in and of themselves. Many times (myself included) we have names we wouldn't sell for a million dollars, until it dawns on us years after, and how we'd pay anyone to take it off our hands (</hyperbole>) and regret having paid renewal fees for that long.

 

[Kate]

If domain of 10 or 20 years old was not ever sold, this may be a mere proof of it's sh*tness. That noone ever wanted it. Another face of the coin.

It could be that the name simply was not for sale, because it was being used by a business.

 

[Truespin Domains]

It might also have been sold privately, and no one would have ever known.

 

[EASYPICKINGS]

Or it was not for sale, being used,

BTW. 2009 makes it 10 years old. Not 20

LMAO you know something, I literally looked 5-10 times at that, and wow.. EXTREMELY STUPID I GUESS HAHA

 

[EASYPICKINGS]

Not stupid at all. Everyone probably falls for this trap in the beginning, (you're usually at your most confident when you're new to something and feel superior in having an edge over old timers in the game,) and who knows, you just might have some gems on there awaiting discovery.

More likely than not, the reason that many domains you got in the past several months were available for hand reg is that they weren't really of much value in and of themselves. Many times (myself included) we have names we wouldn't sell for a million dollars, until it dawns on us years after, and how we'd pay anyone to take it off our hands (</hyperbole>) and regret having paid renewal fees for that long.

I hear ya.

 

[EASYPICKINGS]

For the record this was my dads name, back in the day, it was a warehouse product damage control business, than he sold it for $400k. Told me to try to sell the .com name while im at it...

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

If the saying "time is money" is true, the age should normaly bring valueee
But I believe time is time and money is money and that both is some kind of illusionnn
So value is timelesss

 

[Zilla]

very possible bought some old.aged.ugly names...be careful...usshelf.com has no much value imo, 2009 is not really aged , good name already gone at that time.....the domain before 2005 is much possible better...if using age as indicator, consider the first reg year before 2005....