discuss GoDaddy vs Estibot vs NameBio

[gomikeright]

I feel like GoDaddy's domain appraisal tool is better than Estibot. Estibot looks at searches of a domains words together, but I think it doesn't take into account the value of the keywords individually. I know GoDaddy's tool is free and Estibot costs money after a few appraisals, but that doesn't automatically make it better.

I think it makes sense for GoDaddy to separate the words and recognize their value individually. Also I think NameBio has better comparable sales than Estibot. It seems like Estibot finds the worst comparable sales it can for a domain compared to GoDaddy and NameBio. GoDaddy's comparable sales are more average. What do you think?

 

[Rhinnnn]

Just realized that Estibot has a length problem.

"Very Short: short domains are more memorable." I see this often when Estibot appraises 9 or 10 letter domains.

I'd say a "very short" domain needs to have 6 characters at most.

 

[Shojib]

GD is valuable, if over 3k+

 

[frank-germany]

GD is valuable, if over 3k+

it's valuable
when it's valuable

 

[twiki]

Never mind, but I totally disagree with your statement.

It's the total opposite in actual. The domain is worth what the domain owner is willing to sell it for. There are plenty of buyers who're interested in buying domain but the seller rejects the highest received offer which doesn't mean that highest offer was the actual value of that domain.

The domain owner have to understand the value of it's domain and set price accordingly. How can someone else dictate or set the value of my domain!

I fully agree with AbdulBasit. One of the secrets of success in domaining (retail mode) is being able to set the correct price and stick to that price until the right buyer arrives.

 

[gomikeright]

I found out that Estibot gives results that don't make sense. If you insert cryptowatch.io Estibot says it's value is around $4,000 but when you insert cryptowatch.com Estibot says the value is less than $100. Everyone knows a .com is worth more than any other TLD. I didn't spell it wrong or anything. Put them in for yourself. I can only conclude that Estibot does this because while both of them have no search traffic, cryptowatch.io was sold in the past for around $4,000. Now this looks very bad and I haven't seen anything this bad with GoDaddy's free valuation tool.

What do you think?

Just incase they are paying attention and fix this difference in valuations before you test it out. I encourage you all to look up recent sales on NameBio and see how estibot valuates the different TLD's compared to the .com versions using the same words. Try it with two word domains. That's how I found this.

 

[twiki]

I found out that Estibot gives results that don't make sense. If you insert cryptowatch.io Estibot says it's value is around $4,000 but when you insert cryptowatch.com Estibot says the value is less than $100. Everyone knows a .com is worth more than any other TLD. I didn't spell it wrong or anything. Put them in for yourself. I can only conclude that Estibot does this because while both of them have no search traffic, cryptowatch.io was sold in the past for around $4,000. Now this looks very bad and I haven't seen anything this bad with GoDaddy's free valuation tool.

What do you think?

Just incase they are paying attention and fix this difference in valuations before you test it out. I encourage you all to look up recent sales on NameBio and see how estibot valuates the different TLD's compared to the .com versions using the same words. Try it with two word domains. That's how I found this.

In my experience, Estibot tends to seriously undervalue most domains, while GoDaddy tends to overvalue $0 to $xxx value domains, and to clump a lot of names in the ~$1000 ... $1300 range. Neither has any precision, however GD makes more sense as a price to use in case you have no clue how to price your domain.

 

[frank-germany]

I found out that Estibot gives results that don't make sense. If you insert cryptowatch.io Estibot says it's value is around $4,000 but when you insert cryptowatch.com Estibot says the value is less than $100. Everyone knows a .com is worth more than any other TLD. I didn't spell it wrong or anything. Put them in for yourself. I can only conclude that Estibot does this because while both of them have no search traffic, cryptowatch.io was sold in the past for around $4,000. Now this looks very bad and I haven't seen anything this bad with GoDaddy's free valuation tool.

What do you think?

Just incase they are paying attention and fix this difference in valuations before you test it out. I encourage you all to look up recent sales on NameBio and see how estibot valuates the different TLD's compared to the .com versions using the same words. Try it with two word domains. That's how I found this.

drop the idea that an automated tool can help you to evaluate a domain,
if even you can't do it

 

[brandpainvestment]

All appraisals are worthless and gives false comfort to investors.

The true appraisal is the price in which a buyer and seller agrees to make a transaction, in my honest opinion.

 

[Name Trader]

GD is valuable, if over 3k+

Not really. They have a lid on proposals. IIRC $25K? So there low priced values are crap, as well as any higher priced domain are crap. So why would you only trust those valued between 2K and $25K? I think both Estibot, GoDaddy, and everybody else are crap at estimating the price of domains. You would be better checking out NameBio for sales, and drawing you own conclusions. It couldn't be much worse, and would potentially be better, being based on real sales. Of course, except for the 80%(?) which go unreported And time-differentials