Every one knows, if you want to appraise a domain you have to know some info, at last basic info that can influence the domain value (defaultuser, thank you for sharing to us your way of appraising a domain)
Judging A Book By Its Cover
What's the title, what's the image, what's the context of the image, who's the author, how does the title and image relate to convey a sense of what the book is. Who's the author? Did the author previously have sales - who has a blurb on the cover, what does it say, who said it...
What's the genre - Is it horror, is it fiction, is it non-fiction.
When was it written. What does the summary say? What does the author look like? Is he white, black, male, female and where from? Where did they study? (this only gives clues to what might be context of background and doesn't actually necessarily provide anything)
Is this their first book, second book? Has it been on the best seller list, won an award? Nominated?
I know quite a lot without knowing the contents of the book, the typography, the sentence structure, the words that make a book a book.
Sometimes I read reviews - sometimes I take a chance.
What I do know is that I don't always have to read it to have a rough idea of whether the book is something that I'm interested in. Will I miss a gem? Sure. Will I read something crap? Sure. Generally speaking? It works quite well.
Sometimes I say a lot and people tell me they don't have time to read a novel. Sometimes I say a little and think people might actually think about it a little.
Thanks for showing me how deeply you consider what someone says.
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Current book:
I can tell quite a lot from that cover? Can you? (bear in mind that this is just the front).
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This is referenced in the link below, but just check out this admittedly extreme example.
http://www.namepros.com/domain-appraisals/78354-kr-org.html
This may be a special case. I have to admit when I first saw KR.ORG I didn't even think 2-letters at first - I just through a hack on Krorg? What's that?
It's so unusual to see 2 letter domains in a proper TLD.
Of course had I just said that and then pointed out it was 2 letters I'd have to apologize for missing it
ShopFitting.co.uk was a fairly obvious decent name but I still wouldn't have put it as high as it sold for.