How important is age of a domain to value?

[bmugford]

I was wondering if anyone had opinions on this. When you are trying to establish the value of a domain how important is age to you?

Personally I think age adds value to already good domains, like a fine wine.
I think it puts marginal LLLL.com domains slightly higher.

But I think if you are looking at a bad domain that was registered in say 1995, and you ask the question "Why was this registered in 1995", then the age is virtually worthless. Like a fine box of wine

 

[irishmat]

supposedly age helps serp ranking

 

[onewordonly]

From auction data stats, age does seem to take the price up. Apparently some search engines offer more weight to domains that are older too.

 

[-REECE-]

Age means little to me, although I know many people who do like old domains. I'm hunting for a nice pre-98 LLLL.com myself.

I was wondering if anyone had opinions on this. When you are trying to establish the value of a domain how important is age to you?

Personally I think age adds value to already good domains, like a fine wine.
I think it puts marginal LLLL.com domains slightly higher.

But I think if you are looking at a bad domain that was registered in say 1995, and you ask the question "Why was this registered in 1995", then the age is virtually worthless. Like a fine box of wine

 

[drjeff]

Domains with age and history are generally more valuable.

 

[Pred]

some domainers are just flippers

many flip, but collect too and develop. aged domains help in this area too.

personally i love a dilf :D

 

[DotWeekly]

I like aged domains. I think it does add value and sometimes help me decide if I want to buy or not.

1997 looks better to me then 2007 on the creation date.

 

[-REECE-]

Early 90s LL.com... That'd be my dilf :hehe:

personally i love a dilf :D

 

[bmugford]

There a bunch of domains out there with creation dates in the mid 1990's that make you wonder why they registered that name over the abundance of available names at the time.

 

[Pred]

There a bunch of domains out there with creation dates in the mid 1990's that make you wonder why they registered that name over the abundance of available names at the time.

because they didn't have hindsight, a crystal ball, or a plethora of resources,data and forums like we have

even in 99 it didnt occurr to me to reg LLL.com
who would want a random LLL ?
Also there was no-one to talk to it about, you felt you were the only nutter doing it

the remarkable thing really was people actually thought at all to reg pure generics, not just acronyms and brandnames.

people are still regging junk now though tbh
.............
........... .asia
8^X

 

[footodors]

Good to throw in on a sales pitch.
"Someone thought enough of this domain to register it back in the 90's. Wouldn't let it go if I was you"

 

[bmugford]

How were these domains registered from mid 1986 (AMD.com) to the mid 1990's?
I have been on computers as long as they existed but at that time what was the process to register domains before Network Solutions became the standard in the later half of the 1990's.

It is funny to look back and see a domain like ebay.com registered in 1995 instead of domains 100x better. In fact I think ebay.com was registered before sex.com.

 

[Spade]

I own MDBE (.com) which was registered in 1991 - years before Sex.com. It just makes me smile.

I believe age does add some value but, not everyone sees it that way. I will promote my older domains as "aged domains" and post the age, but thats about all the hoopla I give, unless its a really really old one.

Justin

 

[Pred]

How were these domains registered from mid 1986 (AMD.com) to the mid 1990's?
I have been on computers as long as they existed but at that time what was the process to register domains before Network Solutions became the standard in the later half of the 1990's.

It is funny to look back and see a domain like ebay.com registered in 1995 instead of domains 100x better. In fact I think ebay.com was registered before sex.com.

they were free prior to '92
that makes it worse



you just had to convince them in the real early days, late 80's , you had a 'commercial use for it

regging china.com would have been nice, but you at least had to give a reason like running an agency for travel etc i belive

many didn't reg anything as most of the internet was meant to be movement of info & 'free man'

we've all had sleepless nights dreaming of the time machine bro, trust me

 

[richland88]

I have a question, how do you check the age of the domain? I have this domain and I know it was register at year 2000. But when I check at smartpagerank, it appeared to be 3 months old??? Pls help.

Age means little to me, although I know many people who do like old domains. I'm hunting for a nice pre-98 LLLL.com myself.

 

[Spade]

Age is based on continuous registration. If a domain drops and is re-registered - it loses its age.

 

[cache]

statistics does show age have some value. I have a couple of 1996 http://mtoh.com and http://mwlk.com, I had to pay more for those names. Even registered in 1997, more money I had to pay:
http://sdte.com
http://tlpf.com
http://undu.com

 

[htmlindex]

I was wondering if anyone had opinions on this. When you are trying to establish the value of a domain how important is age to you?

Personally I think age adds value to already good domains, like a fine wine.
I think it puts marginal LLLL.com domains slightly higher.

But I think if you are looking at a bad domain that was registered in say 1995, and you ask the question "Why was this registered in 1995", then the age is virtually worthless. Like a fine box of wine

Personally, the only thing that makes a domain valuable for me to consider buying it is the quality of the name.

On Digitalpoint that's a different story. Aged domains have a bit of value over there even if the name is absolutely crap.