discuss Estibot is a failure, why do domainers insist on using it?

[jamesosix]

Seriously, its such a flawed piece of software and yet all i see in domain circles is "estibot this" and "estibot that"

Why do domainers insist on telling other domainers what esitbot apprises something at? It is actually starting to make me question whether a particular domainer is serious or not.

I'm going to start saying "my folks appraised this at xxxxxxxxxx value, because they probably have a better insight to a domains value versus estibot!!

Is it just me that feels this way?

I say we should start considering NOT using estibot EVER because it is full of s***.

Discuss.

 

[biggie]

people use the bot now,because for most....that's all there was when they first started domaining.

before the bot, Overture ruled as #1 tool for finding domains with traffic

after it's demise, the bot entered the picture and the hype has been on, ever since.

i'm not a user, but it's obvious for those who continue to use it, that it's not failing them.

so i guess there's value for the owner and for the user.


imo...

 

[mad409]

Fun tool, I enjoy it but it's still a tool and not totally acurate by any means.

oomi (dot) com sells for $130,650.00 and Estibot says $14,000.00.

It's all about supply and demand and not online tools... JMO.

 

[biggie]

Fun tool, I enjoy it but it's still a tool and not totally acurate by any means.

oomi (dot) com sells for $130,650.00 and Estibot says $14,000.00.

It's all about supply and demand and not online tools... JMO.

Hi

for any value the bot spits out, the variables that are NOT taken into account are:

"who" owns the domain, how long they had it, original cost to acquire, it's statistics and their ability to negotiate.

this factor is prevalent in every domain transaction, therefore an appraisals' variable is always related to the owner.

imo...

 

[S-B]

What am abt to say might start world war 3 up in here but I have to say it.

It seems some people are in denial of estibots relevance or status in our industry. No one is saying live by estibot but you still have to acknowledge its presence and use of it validates it as a positive for the users and our industry. Also Its not really free...someone said that.

It is definitely have 1 positive benefit... Essentially it acts as a suicide deterrent for novices who drop 4-figures on worthless hand registrations.

 

[London555]

People will use Estibot when and only when it works in their favor. If you're trying to buy a domain and as Shane said the seller quotes Estibot you might as well hang up and call him in a year when he still hasn't sold it. Obviously,if you own AB.com the price is whatever the market says it is at that time and Estibot will be close perhaps-apart from that-a waste of time.

 

[London555]

We own the .com name of a company in China that has 60,000 employees-no idea why they never bought the name but they didn't and no TM. I'd guess Estibot says it's worth $10. My guess is it's worth a bit more.