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Hi everyone,
I have been helping out a fellow new member here, who has shown a lot of passion and commitment in learning the best way to understand domain names.
I shared with this member a personal domain score list that I came up with over the years and would like to share it with you all.
When looking at domain names to buy, feel free to compare them against the following list. I like to call this list the domain score list, and it is something I came up with and use to help determine whether or not I should purchase a domain name for resell purpose (as opposed to development).
Before you read this list, I want to make one very important point. It is almost useless to use this list if it is not a .com and the .com is publicly listed for sale, if so you have a very very low chance of selling the non .com tld. In fact, you should rarely if ever buy a non .com domain if the .com version is for sale unless you plan to develop it.
Domain Score List
This list is really only recommended to be used with .com domains, although it can act as a reference for other tlds. If you own a 1-3 letter .com or 1-4 number .com, do not read this list, you are already a winner. Any item that has a sub list means the points are accumulative, so the 4 letter section below is +10 for 4 letters and an additional +10 for CVCV.
PLEASE NOTE that this is not financial advice. This is my own personal score list that I use and I would like to share. Please do your own due diligence and research when buying a domain name but feel free to use this as a guide for scoring the quality of the domain name against.
Feel free to compare your domain names against this list and share with us if you like.
The points given on each crtieria may need to be tweaked somewhat, but these are what I have come up with over the years.
I will constantly review this scoring list and adjust points as necessary, and especially if other members here can provide feedback.
Edit: Fixed formatting issues with copy and paste.
I have been helping out a fellow new member here, who has shown a lot of passion and commitment in learning the best way to understand domain names.
I shared with this member a personal domain score list that I came up with over the years and would like to share it with you all.
When looking at domain names to buy, feel free to compare them against the following list. I like to call this list the domain score list, and it is something I came up with and use to help determine whether or not I should purchase a domain name for resell purpose (as opposed to development).
Before you read this list, I want to make one very important point. It is almost useless to use this list if it is not a .com and the .com is publicly listed for sale, if so you have a very very low chance of selling the non .com tld. In fact, you should rarely if ever buy a non .com domain if the .com version is for sale unless you plan to develop it.
Domain Score List
This list is really only recommended to be used with .com domains, although it can act as a reference for other tlds. If you own a 1-3 letter .com or 1-4 number .com, do not read this list, you are already a winner. Any item that has a sub list means the points are accumulative, so the 4 letter section below is +10 for 4 letters and an additional +10 for CVCV.
- Edited: The version that was here previously had some typos and some missing criteria. The spreadsheet that has been attached to this post contains the correct and most up to date version of the domain score list.
PLEASE NOTE that this is not financial advice. This is my own personal score list that I use and I would like to share. Please do your own due diligence and research when buying a domain name but feel free to use this as a guide for scoring the quality of the domain name against.
Feel free to compare your domain names against this list and share with us if you like.
The points given on each crtieria may need to be tweaked somewhat, but these are what I have come up with over the years.
I will constantly review this scoring list and adjust points as necessary, and especially if other members here can provide feedback.
Edit: Fixed formatting issues with copy and paste.
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