With the idea of building a new, open, appraisal formula in mind, we thought the domaining community could help.
Cast your vote on what influences the most a name's value to you.
An appraiser should help investors to invest at the right price, but can also be used when selling a domain to an end-user ("Proving" the price).
Making the number random wouldn't work..
But here are some elements we could use in a future (free) Appraiser :
Gube
Cast your vote on what influences the most a name's value to you.
An appraiser should help investors to invest at the right price, but can also be used when selling a domain to an end-user ("Proving" the price).
Making the number random wouldn't work..
But here are some elements we could use in a future (free) Appraiser :
- The domain length
"the shorter the better" or another rule
- TLD used (Does a .com have the same value as a .paris, Increased complexity here, as some GTLDs might be a better fit than a general TLD)
- The domain age
I think it's still believed age can be a deciding factor when buying or selling a domain. (More names available and registered in the past, meaning the average hand reg quality was better)
- Word balance ratio
I did use that factor on my personnal scoring system, it worked that way : A domain with a small word size balance had a better score than others (Example : The dog was better than wonderful dog)
- Vowels/Consonants ratio
- TLDs taken count
- Potential end users
In my formula, I was checking for the amount of similar domains registered (Count of all domains countaining the SLD of the name searched, it's not precise on short SLD, example : the.paris, it was matching all domains containing "the", but .paris was not taken into account - Should it be improved and used ?)
- Readability
This factor might not be clear, but basically, we would check if a given name can be spelled and read easily
- Dictionary factor (If the name is part of a dictionary, and is commonly used for example, could it influences its value?)
- Similar names sold (Similarity % multiplicated by the sale price?)
- More factors? Feel free to discuss about them in the thread
Gube
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