Southtexas81
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If a .com domain name was sold at $100k what would be the value of the .net and .org of the exact matching name?
Actually the .com is sometimes not the most valuable. cdn.net sold for $185,000 in march 2012. Estibot currently values cdn.net at $190,000 and cdn.com at only $45,000.
The NameNinja chart suggests as a very general rule 5 to 20% the price of the .com for a .net (and I presume .org).
If you aren't going to be selling the domain, then you are an end-user buyer. Which has nothing to do with if you were to buy it as a domainer. This is a domaining forum, so all the advice you got was in the case you were looking to buy the domain with intent to resell at a profit.
If you're actually going to build out the domain into a website and business, then the value of the domain is whatever amount you feel the domain will save you in other marketing costs to bring you your desired traffic.
Here too it definitely depends on the specific domain/niche .. and it's still essentially impossible to give you a percentage without knowing the exact domain ...
On top of that .. you don't even know what the baseline is .. because even if you had a percentage, it would be wrong to use that percentage on the $600k you mentioned above. The .com is only worth $600k if it actually sells for $600k .. the fact it is listed at $600k means absolutely nothing at all. Depending on the niche, if the domain does indeed make sense in .net and there are no other alternative rewordings in .com, then it could mean you'd be more likely to sell (because the .com isn't realistically available), but you are still totally blind if you're looking for a comparative relative (%) price.
So .. lol .. at the end of the day .. again .. any general advice here is pretty useless without knowing the exact domain ...
If .com is 6 figure name, then % works most of the time.
.org would be worth 2% to 10% of .com value in most cases, depending on how well the word matches the extension.
For example help.org could be 1/10 while cruise.org could be 1/50 or less.
I'm not contesting what you said. I am agreeing with you and adding further scenarios that may pan out in the .com vs .org comparisonMy post was specifically about a subset of 6 figure names, please pay attention.
That is what OP referred to.
In that scenario, .org will have a value always and almost 100% of times .com will be more valuable.