domain bulls.cc

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Domain: bulls.cc

This domain can be used for a local/national sports team, or anything relating to bulls.

 

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**Appraisal**

I'll appraise one domain name if there is a list of my choosing. If you would like more PM me and I wouldn’t mind doing appraisals of this quality for $NP. I only have so much free time you know =).

Appraising: bulls.cc

I'll appraise using the RVER (Research, Value, Estimate, Recommendation) Method

Please feel free to use this method when appraising others, if you copy my outline please give me credit by letting people know to visit StateExams.Org. Thanks!

---- Research ----


- Domain Availability - (Using http://domainsite.com)

Domain Availability shows your potential selling power of the domain. If the domain is so popular that people would register even TLD's of lower value, then that shows strong selling power should you decide to sell it on the name alone.

Because .COM, .NET and .ORG are the most common TLD’s they are expected to be registered if you have a good name in this field of reselling. Therefore I value names +$2.50 (half of standard $5 reg fee) for every name registered past the initial main three. The value is half of REG fee to be safe and not over estimate on the appraisal as far as value is concerned in this sector.

Below is your Availability Report...

bulls.com: Taken
bulls.net: Taken
bulls.org: Taken
bulls.eu: Taken
bulls.in: Taken
bulls.biz: Taken
bulls.info: Taken
bulls.us: Taken
bulls.ws: Taken
bulls.bz: Taken
bulls.cc: Taken
bulls.tv: Available
bulls.us.com: Available
bulls.eu.com: Available
bulls.web.com: Available
bulls.ag: Taken
bulls.sc: Taken
bulls.la: Taken
bulls.hn: Taken
bulls.cn: Taken
bulls.am: Available
bulls.fm: Available
bulls.ac: Available
bulls.io: Available
bulls.sh: Available

(wow bulls.TV is available!, you might consider registerting that one, it probably worth considerably more then the .CC)

+$35~

(lots of decent reggistered users to sell to, will raise your domain reg value here, though keep in mind these make for hard sales on these facts alone)



- KeyWord Selector Tool - (Using http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/)

The KeyWord Selector Tool is an awesome utility found at the site listed above for seeing everyday use of keywords or terms. If your term(s) has an everyday use of more then 1,000 searches that will usually raise the value of your name to most people IMHO. I usually grade keywords +$2.50 every 5000 searches done that month for it. The ratio of $2.50 cents every 5000 searches is 0.0005. If you have two keywords, the value is $1.25 for every 5000 searches on those keywords alone. The ratio in this case is 0.00025.

25098 bulls

+$12.55

Decent searches!

- Relevance of Terms(s) [If multiple keyWords, or 3-4 LETTER based] -

If your domain name had multiple keywords this section is the research done to see the different potential meanings your domain name could have and the value IMHO I think would be the best way to sell it on versus others.

Bulls could be many things, it could be sports team related, it could be a brandname perhaps (with the use of your TLD)

The key here is what makes Bulls.cc unique from other TLD's. .CC can stand for credit card, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and many other possible combinations.

It can also mean these...

CC Contamination Control

CC Chlorocarbon

CC Competence Centres

According to :

http://www.jemiuk.com/public-industryacronyms.htm

I suppose when you registered this you were thinking .CC the new .COM, which may happen someday, but currently it's supposed to stand for the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. This means that your market in theory is going to be much smaller which means this appraisal is going to be inflated, but at the end in the TLD section I have some methods that will account for the TLD and drops it's value to adjust. For now we'll add value as if it was a general TLD and search the effects the TLD has afterwards. It should also be known that there is lots of 1 word domains availble in .CC still, 1000 common words to be exact! I just found them on my program dnfinder I can send you the list later and you'll see for yourself for a domain investor, since there is so many other names of probably equal value, despite your names value in this appraisal method you won't be seeing that $ value in reality until all the domains are registered, my method assumes all or most domains are registered already and that is how it works well. So hold onto the name for longrun use for now and you might consider getting that .TV domain. That would be useful for the sport section or a bulls.tv program and .TV is getting harder to find good words for.

I set relevance for *Brand Name Recognition, Sports Team (somewhere in the islands preferably)*

- Google Searches (http://google.com) -

Google Searches shows the use of the word in everyday language and how likely someone is to see the word therefore and consider your name for sale or for personal use. Google searches of multiple terms are done using quotes now to accurately see exact uses of the phrase and just the two terms together.

I've noticed that registered TLD's start to pop up when the google market reaches about 300,000, watch try it yourself! For this reason I place reg value of roughly $2.50 (half reg fee value) at every 300,000 occurrences of the keyword, for a ratio of .0000083333

Results 1 - 10 of about 39,800,000 for "bulls" [definition]. (0.48 seconds)

+$331.67~ (remember your TLD later will drop this)

That is a lot of searches though!

- Sites Found Using the Name (Terms) -

The purpose of this section is to examine sites that use your name. If there are sites already using your name with TLD's of higher or lesser value then yours, your name has good potential selling power to those companies.

http://www.nba.com/bulls/ +$5 (sports team)
http://www.dbulls.com/ +$5 (another sports team)

Lots of sites using bulls, but not exactly bulls which is your name, we can consider them, but to be safe I'd stick with these exact terms, out of 5 pages this is all I could find since there is so many pages. Probably the rest all refer to the bulls chicago team :P.

+$10 ~

– Sales Comparables –

This is new to my appraisal method, but you can use similar domain name sales in estimating the range dollar value of your domain. To a reseller, looking at possible comparable sales of names that are similar can mean a lot to there decision in buying the name on the extra speculative value. This section determines your possible range value, for example,$200+ LOW $XXX or $200 + High $XXX etc…

Low $XXX, is $300 under, Mid $XXX is under $600 but higher then $300, high $XXX is above $600 but under $1000. Same pattern for $XXXX etc.

All the above tells you is; if you hold onto it long enough you have a chance to sell for higher then its real domain value (which I based from the other factors in this appraisal). So the question is, is there a way to predict the time it might take to sell a domain for those extra figures? After all any domain might sell for one million dollars if you waited five hundred years! To do this I try (and you should too), to find as many similar comparable domain sales as possible and find the value they sold at and how long they were on the market for when they sold for this price. Finding about 6 good domain names IMHO will be a good indicator of the time it might take you to sell your domain name for the extra speculative value.

Before you start looking though, it should be clarified what exactly counts as a sales comparable. The best way to do this is point out the key things about your name. Here is a list of some of the important things I’ve noticed that give value to domain names.

Basic Common Features…

- How many characters long are the comparables domains?
- How many keywords do the comparable domains contain?
- If using keywords, does the keyword(s) of the comparable domains contain at least one similar keyword to the domain you’re comparing it against?

Next Most Common Features…

- What kind of overture and google-market did the comparable domains names have?
- How many other TLD’s were registered on the comparable domains?

Once you find some sales comparables that match exactly in basic common features (with the exception of character length for plural versions of names) and then get then filter the list down to the ones that match (the most closest) in the Next Most Common Features (it doesn’t have to be exact, just as close as you can get), and get six of these. After doing this I feel you have a good measure of similar domains for evaluative purposes.

Being a Real Estate Agent myself, when I want to value real property I go through a similar process of finding similar sales and things in common between the properties. Domains should be no different; they are just online real property.

Now once you find decent domains for evaluating correctly, the hard part is getting the information on those domains and finding the time at which they were listed and the time at which the sold. Next most important is how much it sold for. Usually people are quick to jump the gun and just look for the how much it sold for, but IMHO this is a big mistake and will cost you many wasted dollars. IMHO, the most important thing is looking at how long it took to sell the comparable domain names, as this will decide how long you should hold it and if it’s worth it to sell now or wait.

Now all you have to do is take the median of the time taken to sell and the median of the price it sold for to get a speculative range value and time that it will take to potentially sell your domain name for it’s maximum potential value.

Here is what I found for you…

-DNSALEPRICE.COM-

Searching .CC sales of 4 letter names, these are the only 4 letter sales currently going on, most are very recent in the high $XXX range for names with the quality of yours. Yours is technically bulls, so I'll do 5 as well.

Arab Arab cc $850 Mar 06 Sedo 4 1 N N http://Arab.cc Sedo
Loan Loan cc $940 Feb 06 Sedo 4 1 N N http://Loan.cc DNJournal

- 5 Letter Search -

Comic Comic cc $593 Apr 06 Sedo 5 1 N N http://Comic.cc Sedo
Adult Adult cc $1,000 Sep 05 Afternic 5 1 N N http://Adult.cc DNJournal
Vegas Vegas cc $4,500 Sep 05 Sedo 5 1 N N http://Vegas.cc DNJournal
Earth Earth cc $1,111 Apr 05 Sedo 5 1 N N http://Earth.cc Sedo

So it looks like some .CC names have some good promise with huge returns potentially if you grab the right names. I can't really say these are sales comparables, but if you sell on the fact it's a dictionary word and 5 letters you can argue decent dollars perhaps as this shows.

There is no .CC name selling for more then $3000~ average in the big time sales currently. Which doesn't look to good for sales comparables.

I did notice your name was on greatdomains though that is a major acheivement and will help you sell your name since greatdomains is recognized for quality domains.

-SEDO-

You are only .CC domain with bulls in it for sale so I have no good comparables to use, the only thing we can go off is sales of the other same character length .CC which isn't to reliable in this case. Know that .CC is still pretty new as far as registered names are concerned, it'll take a while to see enough to properely calculate this.

-Developed Site Value Information-

This section is new to my appraisal method but important as well. Unlike sites that use your name, the value here is purely a way to try and find the value to the site in it’s developed state (if there is one). Now this method does not account for the value of the server it’s being hosted on or advertisements paid (and still being paid) to support it, since there is no way I can figure that out easily, so you should add in the value of the cost for you to host and what you’ve paid for already into this calculation when transferring the entire site over to someone else.

Well the first and most obvious thing anyone will be interested in as a reseller is what is its page rank and daily unique hits. Some sites are lucky and get unique hits without any advertising or development; sites such as 2-3 letter domains usually get good results with that, or one word dictionary words. The site I use to figure this out is, (http://urltrends.com). Page rank 10,9 domains would be sites like google.com and microsoft.com, while good moderate names like dog.com are page rank 4,5,6. A higher page rank is what you’re looking for in deciding its value.

Though it should be noted that page rank can be deceiving to the value of a site. You should read this article …

(http://www.clickz.com/experts/search/results/article.php/3518646),

So before buying sites based on page rank, you should make sure it’s truly worth your investment and to understand that real value comes from well placed advertising and unique clicks.

To truly understand Page-Rank and how it works visit this site, (http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank.html)

To save you some time though, here is the sum of it all,

“PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the importance of the page that is casting the vote determines how important the vote itself is. Google calculates a page's importance from the votes cast for it. How important each vote is is taken into account when a page's PageRank is calculated.” –quoted from the above link.

Below is some information that you may find useful if you want to raise the page rank value for your domain name…

(http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/275/pagerank-explained/)

“Google created quite a storm when it launched its green PageRank bar. Webmasters became obsessed with methods to increase their PageRank and high PageRank sites started selling text links for hundreds of dollars. A link from a high PageRank page, from a PageRank 7, 8, 9 or 10, has been known to make lower PageRank pages increase a full number, even two if the incoming link is from a PageRank 10, and there is no doubt it is good for search engine rankings.” – quoted from above link

To save you the time of how much page rank value could potentially have on the sale of your site, here is a pricing guide I’ve made. I’ll include my sources below.

(Prices set at lowest possible figures I could find)

PageRank 0-: NEGATIVE value to your domain name considerably
PageRank 1-: $0, standard page rank
PageRank 2-: $9 +
PageRank 3-: $15 +
PageRank 4-: $25 +
PageRank 5-: $30 +
PageRank 6-: $45+
PageRank 7-: $80 +
PageRank 8-: $199 +
PageRank 9-: $2000 +
PageRank 10-: $3,000.00 +

::::Sources::::

http://www.clickz.com/experts/search/results/article.php/3518646

“Previously, on the PR scale he would buy a PR 6 link for $30-60 per month. At the higher end, he'd spend up to $2,000 for a PR 9.”

(Note that my research below from other sites seems to confirm this statement here, to add to the credibility of the site below)

http://www.text-link.us/page-rank-6-933-ctg.htm

(On the site above you can see the value of selling links to people from different sites with different page ranks. This shows the potential selling power of having a high page rank name, and how much at a minimum it might add to the value of your site. Again page rank is to be looked at with a grain of a salt and careful research. It’s only a guess as to the possible unique clicks that might arise from it if you’ve read the article on how page rank works it can be deceiving and manipulative. Despite this fact, many people still buy based on page rank and therefore it does have speculative value that can be quantified as I did above.)

The next factor to consider when giving a value here is the portability of the code and the time it takes to create a site of whatever value it was that you’ve created. Again I’m going to assume the worst and hire the cheapest programmer I could find to do quality work at $12 an hour from India. Assuming this, just calculate the time it would take to make the site in hours, by getting quotes from three different programmers and you’ll have an idea of the value of your site and the time and money it would take to replicate it. Though unfortunately I won’t be able to help you here to much here very accurately, but I can give my estimate of the time it might take to create that site and the minimum I might charge as a programmer myself to get something done assuming I lived in India or some other foreign country working for the lowest price possible. Therefore I will give a range value for that in the estimate.

Development Value

Now that you have an understanding of how I came to the values I’m about to present, here is what I discovered.

Site Value: *Undeveloped*



- TLD - (Top-Level Domain) Value

My assessment is based on my personal experience in selling domain names.

In general the TLD's below have more positive value then other TLD's. Most other TLD's IMHO have negative value to most general names.

.COM names +$3.00 or + 3% of total value

.NET names +$1.50 +1.5% of total value
.ORG names +$1.00 +1% of total value
.BIZ names +$.20 or +.20% of total value
.US names +$.10 or +.10% of total value
.CC names +$.5 or +.5% of total value
.INFO names +$.1 or +.1% of total value

Usually .CC adds value to the name but since the reason all of your google value is so much is because of the chicago bulls you should really negate that value considerably by 95% here, which is probably the amount of difference on those pages. 1 item on the 20 shown was something different it seemed.

I also know that personally the resell value of any dictionary words is based on the knowledge of the seller right now and not a for sure thing set in stone since there is lots of registered names still available with equal or more selling power, and there is not that many low $XXXX .cc sales just check dnsaleprice.com there is only 3 pages period of .cc sales, and they are the best of the best in names most of the time.

That is why I'm dropping value because of the .CC TLD here.

Though the value of the TLD's is also dependent on the name and the use of the TLD with it.

In most cases however, the .COM, .NET and .ORG are the way to go for general purpose names.

- $315.08~


---- Value ----

Domain Availability Value - >+$35

Pricing Guide:

KeyWord Selector Value ->+$12.55

Pricing Guide:

Relevance of Terms Value ->**approved for sports team/brand name sites*

Pricing Guide:

Google Searches Value- >+$331.67

Pricing Guide:No doubt about it google searches shows you have a huge market of people to see your name and consider it for purchase, this gives you an edge like no other.

Sites found using the name Value ->+$10

Pricing Guide:

Sales Comparable Range Value ->

RANGE MEDIAN:High $XXX - Low $X,XXX
TIME MEDIAN TO SELL:1 Year Possibly

Pricing Guide:

Developed Site Value ->RANGE:$0-$0

Pricing Guide: (Read development info section above)

TLD Assessment Value ->-$315.08

Pricing Guide: .CC kills it potentially at the moment, may change later. Dropping 95% of what a .com would be seems to be pretty accurate from what I've seen in resell sales on here.

---- Estimated Value ----

Final Value:$74.14 + $high XXX, low $XXXX (1-2 year possibly)

---- Recommendation----

I advise holding onto your name, selling for a quick profit now will gain you slightly more then reg fee with all the available names to a reseller, of course to the end user this name could be worth high $XXX to low $XXXX as .CC sales show for high quality single word names like yours, since that is all I had to go off. This may take 1 to 2 years which is why I put 1-2. The rest of the single word .CC names have to disapear and your value on this name will slowly climb in the extention area hopefully to a positive number instead of a negative. That is assuming .CC turns into a general purpose TLD like .COM, like they are trying to do. If it doesn't then your value will probably stay where it is because that is an extremely small market in those islands.

Hopefully this gives you an idea in general for .CC domains, I have experience in selling, I own want.cc, in theory worth mid $XXX to resellers but probably not worth the risk to resellers yet on here. So it's an investment to hold onto for later. You can put it up for sale, but don't expect high bids, if you get more then mid $XXX then you might consider selling because that is probably it's enduser value right now, and in 2 years it might be worth a lot more so don't feel bad if you reject offers under the mid $XXX range (if your willing to wait that is)

Also advertise your name is listed with greatdomains that is a great edge and sales tool for you and will attract some resellers to your name.

Good luck with your domain name.

- Joe

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