Estibot - Great example of why it fails.

[tpruby]

According to Estibot...

motherhood.com = $110,000
motherhood.ca = $720
motherhood.in = $350
motherhood.co.in = reg fee

Here is the issue.

Canada's population is about 32 million.

India's population over 1 billion +.

If only 4% of India's population surfs the net, they have already crushed 100% of Canada's capacity for it's population to surf the net. However, there are only about 22 million canadians between the ages of 10 and 65.

So, only 2.2% of Indians need to surf the internet to reach Canada's realistic capacity.

Why does Estibot overvalue Canadian web sites, what with their being such a tiny population on the net. Yes, I am aware that statistically Canadians embrace technology faster than just about any other population in the world and more Candadians per Capita have broadband than anyone else on the planet....but these numbers are so tiny.

Then Estibot undervalues, or completely and absolutely ignores one of the largest National population centers in the world?

Is there a reason, if anyone has ever thought about this and has come with the answer...I'd love to hear it.

If know one has the answer, then long live .ca tld!

 

[canswift]

Estibot v Snapnames

I was recently "participating" in a Snapnames auction (well, more like watching from the sidelines once I saw the line-up of usual suspects bidding). The domain "discountfuneral.com" just sold for $5,838, but Estibot had valued it at $120. Now I know that the heated atmosphere of a Snappy auction can crank things up a bit, but this seems like a very low-ball Estibot value for such a high keyword dot com domain.

 

[Mark]

While "Discount Funeral" may be a decent paying keyword - I see no proof of it being searched for very often .... I'm not sure what range it should have been in

 

[tpruby]

India is perhaps the second fastest growing economy in the world (correct me Sashas!)

The Indian rupee is growing stronger against the US Dollar (making domains cheaper as I type this post)

Having said all of the above.

Motherhood is not a word I have seen anyone using. Same goes for parenting, creche, day care etc!

Estibot is a great, fantastic, fantabulous tool to check on statistics. It works on past data, cannot predict the future!

Over 10 million google hits for the word motherhood and 18836 hits on overture for motherhood. I have to disagree with you when you hint that motherhood is a word that is not used very often. Parenting, man alive, it has over 100000 searches a month....I don't know how you can assert that parenting and motherhood are 'unused'.

 

[barcode]

Over 10 million google hits for the word motherhood and 18836 hits on overture for motherhood. I have to disagree with you when you hint that motherhood is a word that is not used very often. Parenting, man alive, it has over 100000 searches a month....I don't know how you can assert that parenting and motherhood are 'unused'.

My reference was the usage in India. Typically motherhood, pareting etc as search terms are not queried ot of India.

see this: http://www.google.com/trends?q=motherhood&ctab=0&geo=IN&date=all&sort=0

Not enough volume for the search terms for India as a GEO