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Few topics generate as much heat as discussion of automated domain name appraisals. The value of human appraisals can also be controversial. This week I decided to take a look at appraisal options and limitations. Should we even be doing domain name appraisals?

Why Do You Want An Appraisal?

The first question to ask is why do you want an appraisal? The following are some possible answers.
  1. I am new to domain investing, and want to know if I am on the right track.
  2. I need help deciding which names I should keep or liquidate.
  3. I am unsure about pricing this domain name.
  4. I hope to learn new ideas about possible uses for this domain name.
  5. I want an appraisal that I can eventually use to make my case when negotiating with a buyer.
  6. I am looking for confirmation that what I think is right.
  7. I want to know appraisal data that may be in the hands of potential buyers.
The reason(s) you want a domain name appraisal will influence the type of appraisal that might be helpful.

Types Of Appraisals

There are several types of domain name appraisals possible.
  • You can post your domain name for appraisal right here on NamePros, and others will respond with appraisals. This is an example of a crowd-sourced domain name appraisals. Social media, and domain name investor gatherings, offer additional appraisal opportunities.
  • Some marketplaces, as well as certain podcasts and dedicated appraisal services, will produce an expert domain name appraisal, often for a fee. I call these appraisals expert, not meaning they are necessarily better than crowd-sourced, or even automated, appraisals, but because the appraiser is claiming to have particular expertise. The appraisal may be the view of one expert, or from a panel.
  • Several of the brandable marketplaces suggest a price for accepted domain names. This is not unlike the expert appraisals mentioned above, except that the appraisal cost is usually minimal.
  • Another option is an automated appraisal, in which an algorithm, or possibly artificial intelligence, is used to produce both a suggested valuation, as well as other information such as comparator sales or advertiser statistics. The best known of these are Estibot, the GoDaddy appraisal, and NameWorth. Other valuation products are mainly geared to evaluating website worth, as opposed to just the domain name, looking at SEO aspects.
  • Another option is a personal domain appraisal. For example, you and another domain investor might agree to privately appraise each other’s domain names. While this is just one person’s view, it has the advantage that there is not a direct cost, and the results are private, unlike crowd-sourced appraisals.
  • Last, but not least, a rigorous domain name self-appraisal, using some valuation metric or checklist, could be done by the owner. This has the advantage that you know exactly what went into the appraisal, including any assumptions. These free research tools can help you get started.
Probably many of us have used one or more of these types of appraisals, perhaps without thinking of it as an appraisal.

Avoid The Domain Appraisal Scam

A common scam that has been present for many years is to tell a domain investor that a domain name has sold for a large amount, but the buyer requires you to provide a domain certificate before the sale can complete. That process requires the investor to first buy an appraisal to prove the worth of the domain name. After the investor pays for the certificate, the buyer disappears, as the goal was always just to get money from the investor. While independent appraisals are, in principle, not unreasonable, and widely used in the real estate world, don’t fall for this scam.

Estibot

The oldest of the popular automated domain appraisal options is Estibot, which is used for about 2 million valuations per day. Estibot provides appraisals for all extensions, although the valuations will be nominal for newly released extensions.

One can do 2 free Estibot appraisals per day without an account, or sign up for an Estibot account to increase that limit and also get additional features. The Novice Plan allow you to do up to 150 lookups per day, and also adds Domain Flipping and Portfolio Monitoring tools. There is no contract or requirement for a minimum commitment at Estibot.

Portfolio Monitoring, one service with the Estibot plans, can be valuable. It monitors similar registrations, trademarks or domain names that have gone into development, among other things such as changes in algorithm valuation for the domain name.

The Estibot lead generator helps to identify potential end-user buyers for the domain name. You can get a rundown of the many Estibot tools on this page.

The Intermediate Plan adds expiring domain data, while the Advanced Plan includes API access. You can do 5000 lookups per day on the Advanced Plan, and 500 on the Intermediate Plan.

Even the free Estibot appraisals provide analytics information. For example, you can see exact and broad search data including volume and and cost-per-click (CPC). The output shows how the CPC data has changed over the past year. While there are other ways to access such data, I find Estibot an easy to use presentation.

While Estibot does list comparable domain sales, I personally don’t find Estibot comparator sale data very helpful most of the time. It seems to list sales very similar in price to the appraised value, independent of whether the name was in a similar sector.

The free version of Estbot shows whether the term is registered in the major legacy extensions plus .info, .biz and .us. One can, of course, get more complete information on this using tools like dotDB.

One thing to watch with Estibot is how the term was broken down, and whether for new extensions they included the extension in the search. Fortunately this is shown in the display.

Estibot, in my opinion, does not handle made-up brandable domain names well, usually suggesting low values. This is because such names will not have advertiser search data or registrations in other extensions.

Some registrars and marketplaces give Estibot valuations in listings, so I think it is important as an investor to know the Estibot value, even if you do not plan to directly use the appraisal information.

GoDaddy Valuation Tool

A few years ago GoDaddy introduced a free domain name valuation tool, which will evaluate any domain name, and it is free to use. They seem to have some limit if you do many valuations in a short time, but after refreshing the site it will let you do more. Because of their huge user base, and the visibility of the domain appraisal service, many millions of valuations are done each day. After they started the service, GoDaddy reported that there was an uptick on leads becoming sales on their platforms.

A GoDaddy appraisal is free and easy to do - just enter the name and press return. As well as suggesting a valuation for the domain name, it has a statement regarding the value of the individual terms in a multiple word domain name. In my experience, GoDaddy does a superb job splitting up multiple word domain names.

It also, in my opinion, is excellent at suggesting comparator sales. Since they have the huge dataset of Afternic and GoDaddy sales, there are numerous comparator sales that are not in the NameBio database. Note that there are additional comparator sales further down the results page, not just the several shown at the top.

The one weakness, though, is they do not provide the year of the sale. An exact match name that sold 15 years ago might not be very relevant now, due to changes in brand choices and Google search over the years.

When the GoDaddy appraisal tool was in beta development, they seemed to be making significant changes almost every week. It was not unusual to see huge fluctuations, sometimes by a factor of 2, in the appraised prices. Lately, however, the prices seem more stable. Clearly valuations should change with time, but slowly.

While the GoDaddy appraisal will handle any extension, even those that GoDaddy the registrar does not handle, with new extensions they do not seem to give proper attention to the match across the dot. For example, just now I checked and investment.fund and investment.dog each have identical valuations of $2155. I think most investors would consider the former more valuable than the latter.

For two-word domain names in legacy extensions, I think Go Daddy appraisal is strong as a technique for ordering probable value. That is, if I check 4 domain names, and the appraisals come back at $500, $1200, $1400, and $4500, most of the times I agree that the $4500 name has highest worth. A number of Requests on NamePros specify some minimum GoDaddy appraisal value.

It seems to me that increasing numbers of potential end users are checking GoDaddy appraisal values before a purchase. This can help if you are pricing below the valuation, or even near it, but obviously can be an obstacle if your pricing is much higher. In any case, it is important to know the value in case it does come up.

NameWorth

There is now a third significant automated appraisal system, NameWorth. While you need to sign up for a NameWorth account to do valuations, you can conduct up to 5 valuations per day on the free account, up to a maximum of 20 per month. They also have paid plans that include bulk upload and API access, in addition to more lookups.

NameWorth currently only evaluate .com domain names, although there is mention of adding .net at some point. Generally, but not always, you will find valuations higher on NameWorth than on GoDaddy valuator and Estibot.

One of the things I really like about NameWorth is they give 6 prices for each domain name, with corresponding probability of sale within a defined period for each. The top price, their trademarked Retail Level, is the price if the buyer approaches you to acquire this specific name for immediate business use with few or no alternative names. The Market Level (trademarked term) might correspond to a user browsing a marketplace for a name, and considering this name as one of several options. There is an Auction Level corresponding to the wholesale price if the name was placed in a 7 day auction. For each price, they state the probability of sale.

NameWorth also gives a demand rating for the domain name, looking at similar names that are developed or used in blogs, along with registrations of similar names. If you use their associated marketplace, BIIX, the NameWorth valuation can show on your lander.

Domain Appraisal Is Hard

While it is natural to be critical of both automated and human appraisals, and indeed sometimes they are very wrong, we should acknowledge that domain appraisal is not easy. The retail price depends on more than the name itself. An investor who does not need funding from domain investing, and is willing to wait many years, and is an expert negotiator, will secure a much higher price than an investor who needs to draw living expenses from a steady stream of domain sales.

Some types of names, such as 4 letter or short numeric, are easier to appraise because there is a wealth of sales data available and the structure is relatively straightforward. On the other hand, an appraisal of a newly released extension, or a thinly-traded country code, does not have that information.

Appraisal of single word domain names should be easy, but because the elite names trade so infrequently, and the role of the negotiator may be crucial in these sales, in practice this is not always the case.

Made-up brandable terms are among the most challenging to appraise, as each is unique and it is not easy to establish close comparators. Those who have sold many brandable names, such as the brandable marketplaces and highly successful investors in that niche, are probably in the best position to evaluate these.

Treat An Appraisal As A Second Opinion

There is little doubt that over-dependance on automated appraisals has hurt some early-stage domain investors. I think there is danger in depending too much on any one measure, whether that is number of extensions, age of domain, or automated appraisal. Therefore, view automated appraisals, or I would argue any appraisals, as a second opinion.

First do a detailed analysis, looking at things like business use, comparator sales, and alternative names, and decide on your own a price range for the domain name. If the appraised value is much higher, or lower, perhaps take a second look, but don’t give it more importance than that. Consider getting a fellow investor, or a site like NamePros, to give you a additional opinions as well.

It’s Not Only About The Price

Interpreting an automated appraisal should not be mainly about the price. Use Estibot as an easy way to get SEO statistics, or GoDaddy valuator as a source of additional comparator sales. Use a NamePros appraisal, or one from a friend, to help you with relative worth, and to suggest possible users for a name.

I think it is unfortunate that the automated appraisals, except for NameWorth, do not give a price range. If GoDaddy valuator, instead of saying that the worth was $1411, said it was in the range $500 to $2500, the appraisal would be sounder. The model NameWorth use, of different prices corresponding to different potential buyers, makes a lot of sense to me.

When using an automated appraisal keep in mind the approach and biases inherent in the appraisal. For example, Estibot take into account search volume and costs per click, which is not relevant for a made-up brandable term. Remember that GoDaddy appraisal for new extensions takes little account of match across the dot, so you must interpret results with that in mind.

I think ultimately automated appraisals could get much better through more sophisticated artificial intelligence, and in particular machine learning.

It is human nature that many people think their own domain names are more valuable than they really are. An appraisal can be a valuable reality check on the true worth of domains in our portfolio. That said, keep in mind appraisals can sometimes be very wrong.

Stay Tuned

Originally, I had planned this article to also cover how to optimize appraisals here on NamePros, with recommendations both for those requesting appraisals and those responding to the request. Given the length of this article, I decided to split that topic, and will be publishing it in a week or two on the NamePros Blog.


I welcome your comments on domain appraisals.
 
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@oldtimer your faith in AI is quite touching. And, if I may say so, very premature.

In fact it's too early to predict with any clarity what effects AI may have on the domaining sector but I fear it won't be in the positive ways you predict for the typical NP member. The smaller players.

Who are going to be the first to employ and exploit it? I strongly suspect it will be the monoliths. Those big enough to directly employ the required expertise, whether directly, per project or on a consultancy basis for those already with capable development teams in-house. And it won't be for our benefit. Purely for their own.

My own philosophy on this is make hay while the sun shines. It is shining now.

The clouds are already on the horizon, though, with too much consolidation by big players in order, again not to help us, but to grab a bigger slice of the pie without sharing any of it. And that is the more likely way, if at all, AI will eventually be deployed.

IMO.

That's why in another thread here I wrote that the future is determined in a big part by what choices we are going to make today:

Technology + Logic + Compassion

Or

Technology + Greed + Lack of Empathy

And that's why that as an activist I have been trying to create awareness around these issue for a while now.

This is the most critical time in the history of the World as Humanity has to make a transition from one era to another, If you give up now and surrender yourself to the forces in the status quo who want to use technology to enslave you, there will be no one to blame but yourself,

You should not allow greed and hate to cloud your judgement because if you as a somewhat enlightened and aware person surrender to the forces of the status quo for some short term monetary gains then what hope is there for the rest of the people (the so called sheep).

And don't forget that you don't have to wait another 20 years for AI as things are happening right now as we speak.

AI is being intentionally downplayed by the forces in the status quo and made to look like a fantasy just so that people won't realize what is going to happen to them.

Anyone who cares about the future of the Humanity and our Home Planet should be extremely concerned about what choices are being made right now not only about AI, but also with the many other new technologies that are in the immediate horizon such as Automation or Genetic and Quantum Engineering (just to mention a few).

The ultimate question is whether Humanity as a whole is going to be a Force For Good that is going to use all these new technologies for the good of the World or whether we are going to stand by and allow our future to be sabotaged by those who want to use technology to enslave us .

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@oldtimer I agree with your sentiment but your methodology appears to be a technique similar to whistling in the wind. Substitute the simile I first had in mind for the example and you'll get wet. Unless you can govern who will adopt AI and how they will use it, or can persuade others to do so in a manner which fits your aims, it will have no effect. But you can't even influence that, let alone do it.

Far better IMHO to talk to legislators and genuine influencers about how it would be practical to harness AI use to the wider interests of humanity and why it will be beneficial to do so.

Banging on at us, who don't have the wherewithall to influence even the smallest registrars - see our (UK) recent Nominet experience, with the board even immediately after losing the vote simply waving two fingers at us all, and GD, a much bigger and more powerful group, backing the Nominet board as well as closing down Brent's account very effectively - is hardly going to have much of an impression.

I am not by any means idle in these matters. But I select targets at which I am less likely to be wasting my breath.
 
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@oldtimer I agree with your sentiment but your methodology appears to be a technique similar to whistling in the wind. Substitute the simile I first had in mind for the example and you'll get wet. Unless you can govern who will adopt AI and how they will use it, or can persuade others to do so in a manner which fits your aims, it will have no effect. But you can't even influence that, let alone do it.

Far better IMHO to talk to legislators and genuine influencers about how it would be practical to harness AI use to the wider interests of humanity and why it will be bedneficial to do so.

Banging on at us, who don't have the wherewithall to influence even the smallest registrars - see our (UK) recent Nominet experience, with the board even immediately after losing the vote simply waving two fingers at us all, and GD, a much bigger and more powerful group, backing the Nominet board as well as closing down Brent's account very effectively - is hardly going to have much of an impression.

I am not by any means idle in these matters. But I select targets at which I am less likely to be wasting my breath.

We all have our own ways to contribute to the cause of saving the future of Humanity and our Home Planet,

No need to put down or downplay my efforts,

Unless you are the status quo. :xf.smile::xf.wink::angelic:
 
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@oldtimer we are in clear danger of drifting way off the topic of whether automated valuations are of use. Let's keep it to whether anybody is going to introduce AI into their valuation offering and who that may be?

My point is that I am showing my serious doubts about AI in this context. Far from having a go at you or your efforts in either the ecological or humanitarian fields. I simply doubt domaining will have much impact on either. I also doubt any AI inputs into domaining will serve the purposes of any more than a minority of the major players, such as GoDaddy.

Beyond an hitherto unseen level of collaboration among domainers to instigate an initiative collectively, we simply don't have the infrastructure or the resources to start introducing AI into our operations.
 
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I will give you again my thoughts and feedback about what I would do... think about the GD appraisal, it's free and it has become a "standard" for some domain investors... now think if everybody could see your appraisals freely and without having to register.

This is a good suggestion, but unfortunately it's not possible to do without losing massive amounts of money.

NameWorth burns a lot of fresh data each time it is run. For a $100 plan with 10,000 lookups, I probably pay around $65+ for the data. With version 3.0, this is going to get more expensive for the data. Right now users are limited by their budgets. If it was made free, there will be users running 100,000+ lookups per month.

The fresh data is really critical as new trends can make a domain that was worth $2,500 last month, worth $25,000 this month.

Currently, the modest revenue from NameWorth helps the tool improve and evolve. It also pays for ads at the bottom of NamePros and in the middle of DNJournal results. The progression of the tool is only made possible by the subscribers. If I did it for free, it would instead cost me $6,000 per month to provide 1,000,000 lookups.

Besides, the old saying that "you get what you pay for" is often true. Below is a real-world example of what people do with the results. The benefit from that one sale, will pay for a Gold subscription for over 10 years. For me, I personally sold PlanToGrow(.)com last year for $24,500. Without working on NameWorth at the time, I likely would have priced it at $5,450 as many other domain investors would.

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I've been selling domains for over 17 years and you'd think I have no use for the tool, but it has made me evolve as well. During this time, I've also been implementing some of Rick Schwartz's ideology of selling domains, so it is a combination of the two. In the last year I've been buying better domains like CarSound(.)com, Undie(.)com, GlobalWest(.)com, & vyuu(.)com and dumping my bad names at the same time. Over the last 1 1/2 years, I've saved $5,903 from dumping my worst domains. I then use that money to go back and buy better domains. Besides the total, you can see the second entry below is a misspelling that I wouldn't have caught without the tool.

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I wouldn't suggest a new user solely rely on the results without any knowledge, but for me, it's been an effective tool in helping to decide how to price domains and decide what to drop if you already have some experience in selling domains.
 
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1- Make it possible for people to get 2 or 3 Simple and Basic appraisals without having to subscribe or create an account. In the long run this might help you get more subscribers.

2- Offer a more detailed appraisal for those who subscribe to the paid version by including such things as an assessment of the Probability of Making a Sale in regards to different scenarios such as in a Wholesale or Retail setting and also for Short or Long Term commitments. We all have seen a lot of those domains that sell at wholesale prices in the four figures between domainers and then are sold to end users later on at retail prices in the five or even six figures. So a thorough assessment of all the inherent potentials in a domain name could create an added value to the services that you provide.

Thanks, I appreciate the feedback. I would add an option to do appraisals without creating an account, but it opens the floodgates to people using proxies so they can do thousands of lookups per day. Then while battling the proxy bots, you end up blocking some real legitimate users, and they get really upset. So for me, because it costs me for each lookup performed, I really don't want to create a fire-fighting job for myself where I need to monitor when the free lookups are being abused.

For your suggestions in #2, I think it already does this and more even for the free lookups.

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3- Familiarize yourself with AI and find out about new ways to train your system so that it can learn the inherent value and importance of the keywords in the domain and the added value that certain keywords can create when combined together in the right order. The problem that most current appraisal systems have is that they lack these basic understandings and abilities.

I did look into this for 1-2 months at the beginning, but at least at the time (2 years ago) AI was more for very defined cases that have a true outcome. For example, in the medical industry, these 3 symptoms are likely to yield a particular diagnosis. These are very measurable. Or I could build a tool using AI to generate domains according to a users preference, based on other user's preferences. Again, very measurable and finite.

But domain sales and pricing is a very nebulous problem. If we just look at the following example where I priced and sold the domain PlanToGrow(.)com at the NameWorth suggested price at the time it is far above any similar comps. So do you use the comps to drive the AI? How do you determine when an investor is paying $20k for a domain rather than an end user? What about determining the type of buyer for all the sales in the $1k-$2k range? I can see value in determining a piece of the data based on AI, but whenever I tried to design a core system based on this, the projected results would have been unacceptable.


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You mentioned it should learn "the inherent value and importance of the keywords", but this is already in the system along with 20+ other forms of analysis, some of which took me a month just to think of an idea on how to solve the particular issue. So NameWorth is already way beyond keyword "basic understandings and abilities", or should be in most cases. Like I mentioned, version 3.0 is expected to clean up most of those loose ends.

But it still does have AI...Actual Intelligence built right in. :xf.wink: Some taken directly from the actions of industry leaders.

In seriousness, I appreciate the feedback and based on this I can think of a couple areas where I can add in some AI based analysis.
 
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In seriousness, I appreciate the feedback and based on this I can think of a couple areas where I can add in some AI based analysis.

@NameBuyer.com ,

You already have a good system going, perhaps better than most others in the domain Industry,

But unless you have an advanced degree in computer science and are an expert in the area of "Training AI" then I would suggest that you consult with an expert in this area.

Unfortunately no mater how hard you try to program the AI to analyze all the different criterias and factors that you have mentioned, but it's not going to be considered to be true AI unless it can surpass its initial programming and can learn to figure things out on its own by coming np with insights that can only be visualized through having access to "Big Data" pertaining to the domain Industry which should include all the information that is available concerning domains and the English language and grammar.

In all honesty this is more than one person can provide since at this time it pretty much falls only under the expertise of a few specialized companies or some University and academic institutions that are doing research in this area.

So I would suggest that find either a private company or an academic institution that can at least point you in the right direction.

Meanwhile you might google such things as Machine Learning, Big Data, Visualization, and Insights in regards to AI in order to become more familiar with the scope of what AI can do for your company.

Good luck and I hope that you will be the first one to pioneer the use of true AI in the domain Industry.

By the way a while back I registered the domain name AiAppraisals.com but because of my ongoing health issues I never got the chance to do anything with it, but I have always been a fan of learning about AI to the point that some people might think that I am hyping the AI abilities, but the truth of the matter is that this is just an area of interest to me and I do see a lot of potential for AI once it's fully integrated into our lives. Although as I have mentioned in different threads here before we have to make sure that AI and any other technology is going to be used for the good of the World and that is not going to be misused by those who are driven by greed and lack of empathy.

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That's why in another thread here I wrote that the future is determined in a big part by what choices we are going to make today:

Technology + Logic + Compassion

Or

Technology + Greed + Lack of Empathy

And that's why that as an activist I have been trying to create awareness around these issue for a while now.

Very true.
If majority of people Lack of Empathy and don't care about it.
Many people will lost their jobs in the next few decades. Many jobs will be replaced by AI and robots.

At the same time, we can imagine that it will brings up another problems because growth rates are so necessary for capitalism. If the people with power are lack of empathy, they may choose to let robots became citizens and let them have the rights to shopping and upgrade themselves to ensure the growth rate is keep growing. :dead:

I would say the next 10 years are very important and it will determined our future.
 
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@Bob Hawkes - Great article and very helpful. Thank you.
@aelko - Thanks for recommending this thread.
 
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I appreciate your post, Bob. I have a query regarding Afternic appraisals: are they given more weightage within the community if paid for? Will opting for a paid appraisal ultimately benefit both the buyer and the seller? Lastly, as a seller, would you suggest disclosing the appraisal value or keeping it confidential and using it as a reference?
 
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best appraisal tool...recent comparable sales
 
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The following is just my personal opinion, and I have never paid to get an official appraisal so really do not know in detail the quality, depth or impact they might, or might not, offer.
re they given more weightage within the community if paid for?
If you mean domain community, I think while they might carry slightly more weight than a free automated appraisal, they carry very little weight probably. If business community, I suspect that it varies, and to some potential buyers it may carry some weight if they view it as a disinterested, skilled third party appraisal.

Will opting for a paid appraisal ultimately benefit both the buyer and the seller?
Occasionally a buyer may need to justify an acquisition price to a boss, board, etc. I think they could be helpful then. Seller I do not see enough benefits to justify cost (see more below).

Lastly, as a seller, would you suggest disclosing the appraisal value or keeping it confidential and using it as a reference?
A good question. Very early in domain investing (5+ years ago) I thought it could be a selling point, but now I think opposite is probably true. Even quoting a high appraisal will open up the situation for a buyer looking at other appraisals, and for almost any name they are all over the board. That will weaken confidence in the purchase. I think it is worthwhile knowing what the free appraisals say, but I think it is not useful to bring them into a negotiation unless the buyer raises appraisal values.

In terms of paying for a domain appraisal, I view it this way. Let's say the appraisal costs $75. There is one chance in 100 of a 'typical' legacy domain name selling in any one year. That means that if I plan to hold this domain name for say 4 years, the appraisal must bring me (100/4)*75 in extra price or likelihood of sale equivalent price boost. About $1875 *boost* needed. For a typical name selling in $1500 to $3500 window that is almost never going to happen.

If a negotiation was stuck, with a serious buyer, because of buyer looking at ridiculously low automated valuations on a name, it might in that one circumstance be worth paying to get a professional human appraisal.

The curated marketplaces that set a price, that leads some credence to the asking price. But you don't pay extra for that.

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  • By the way, after being relatively static for most names for years, the GD Appraisals have changed significantly of late. @Paul Nicks and @James Iles confirmed that this was because many new sales data points were recently added, and not that the algorithm itself had changed.
  • It seems to me that in general many .com and .org are up under the new system, with names that were say at $1500 often boosted to $2000 or a bit more.
  • At the same time, names that were around $1000 previously are often down to low $$$ now, so the instrument has become more discriminating, a good thing in general, but often brandable type names, creative spelling, word merge, etc. are hit negatively too.
  • I have not checked enough .co or .io or .net to comment.
  • It seems to me that .xyz single words have edged up, but are still below market values.
  • The system still does not differentiate based on TLD for the new gTLDs, in general, leading to some very wrong estimate. For example neural.network (an incredible combination -- much of AI is based on neural networks) and neural.horse are both given precisely the same value by GD valuator.
  • I have not personally checked, but it is reported that 4L .com are generally higher.
  • Based on only looking at a few dozen, but it seems Canadian .ca are now somewhat higher.
  • I am still in process of looking at other TLDs and may add later. I have recorded prior values for quite a few names with different TLDs.
-Bob
 
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