Best Domain Appraisal Service?

[prateekj]

I know this question pops up time and again somewhere or the other on this forum... "Which is the best professional appraisal service out there?" and by consensus the answer is generally all appraisal services are worthless and the best place to get them appraised is this forum itself. But the fact remains that professional appraisals do have immense value when selling to the retail buyer.

I want to know which appraisal service is the most widely accepted in the industry and results in the most sales. Not because I want to know the value of my domains, but because I want the prospective buyer to know the value of my names.

The biggest ones that I know of are Godaddy, Moniker, Sedo, Afternic. Which one is the best when it comes to promoting your domain?

All of you who have experience with professional appraisals, please share your views.

 

[Jeff]

But the fact remains that professional appraisals do have immense value when selling to the retail buyer.

^ I don't understand your premise, IMHO. :blink:

Can you provide some examples, and resultant sales specifically to retail Buyers? :gl: :talk:
Thanks for the insight.
-Jeff

 

[Pommy - The DN Doc]

^ I don't understand your premise, IMHO. :blink:

Can you provide some examples, and resultant sales specifically to retail Buyers? :gl: :talk:
Thanks for the insight.
-Jeff

I would agree. Any buyer who started asking about appraisals would make me think "SCAM" . If they want an appraisal, they can get it themselves and they might trust it more. if you put forward an appraisal, a buyer might regard that as a maximum. Them putting it it forwards means that the same appraisal becomes a minimum.

Just a learner though.

 

[prateekj]

I think you are getting me wrong here. I am not talking about the buyer asking for an appraisal. I am talking about getting your domain appraised just for the sake of an additional means of promoting your domain.

 

[Jeff]

I think you are getting me wrong here. I am not talking about the buyer asking for an appraisal. I am talking about getting your domain appraised just for the sake of an additional means of promoting your domain.

Thanks for the clarification ... I still don't see how "the fact remains that professional appraisals do have immense value when selling to the retail buyer", IMHO. :red:

Which specific retail buyers of domains have said that this is, in fact, that a "professional appraisal(s)" helped in their decision to purchase the domain name(s)? :gl:
IYHO.

Thanks again,
-Jeff

 

[VisualArtistFrankBonilla]

Appraisals

What you have to rememeber is: Sedo, Afternic, Moniker, and all the rest don't offer domain appraisals to benefit you, or let you know what your domains are worth. They do it for one reason only, to make money! To make it worse, if they rate it high, or excellent, then the owner is happy he had it appraised.

If professional appraisals were free, then you could ask who gave the best appraisals!

Free is best!

Frank

 

[jacal1]

namebio or dnjournal...most buyers use comps. of some form or another.

 

[Jeff]

namebio or dnjournal...most buyers use comps. of some form or another.

^ Completed "sales comp's" ... that's the ticket, IMHO. :music:

PS. I wish there was ONE centralized - and searchable - database that has been reviewed and verified by a third-party accounting firm to better establish such "sales comp's" and the accuracy of the reported information coming in from the various outlets, etc. Hopefully one day, the industry will move toward such a central Registry ... including the names and addresses, etc. of the respective parties to the transactions (much like Real Estate transactions are recorded at the respective County Registry of Deeds, along with the amount of the transfer tax paid), IMHO. :gl:
Just my two sense for the future.
-Jeff

 

[Spade]

^ Completed "sales comp's" ... that's the ticket, IMHO. :music:

PS. I wish there was ONE centralized - and searchable - database that has been reviewed and verified by a third-party accounting firm to better establish such "sales comp's" and the accuracy of the reported information coming in from the various outlets, etc. Hopefully one day, the industry will move toward such a central Registry ... including the names and addresses, etc. of the respective parties to the transactions (much like Real Estate transactions are recorded at the respective County Registry of Deeds, along with the amount of the transfer tax paid), IMHO. :gl:
Just my two sense for the future.
-Jeff

Right now thats a hard thing to pull off. But maybe some day Jeff... (maybe if you stop typing, I can stop trying ti post more than you and work on this service you described)...

 

[Jeff]

Right now thats a hard thing to pull off. But maybe some day Jeff... (maybe if you stop typing, I can stop trying ti post more than you and work on this service you described)...

Righto, hopefully one day ... :gl:

PS. You realize that I'm a BOT, right? :blink:
Could an actual human being post this often, for this many years? IYHO. :p

 

[Spade]

Righto, hopefully one day ... :gl:

PS. You realize that I'm a BOT, right? :blink:
Could an actual human being post this often, for this many years? IYHO. :p

Doh! I knew there was something.... "automatic" about you..

 

[Jeff]

Please keep this between us! :red:

Nightio. :zzz:
-Jeff