I have an idea I really need to know your opinion about.
Here’s the thing – me and my partner have been working to get a good understanding of traffic generating domain names and what attributes affect the value of domains and to what degree. It’s not as simple as it might look. Some tools have really fancy math formulas which factor in OVT, OVT w/o TLD, Alexa, Link Popularity, etc. It churns all these numbers together and out pops a “value”. Truth is, it’s not that simple.
So, we had our engineers take our list of domain names, pull all the ratings for them and analyze them based upon traffic results for the previous month. Some interesting things came out, but we just don’t have enough data to really analyze this in detail.
Then it occurred to us – this is an opportunity to create a tool for the community. What if we build a system which allows users to upload their stats from their parking services into a single, centralized database? Then, engineers develop reports which allow the members of the community to do “what if” analysis. Like “if OVT is greater than 100, what other attribute has the most significant influence on traffic generated?”
I think that this type of tool can help us pull back some of the mystery and voodoo magic associated with domain name valuation. Maybe we can get a little of the error margin reduced and pick up fewer duds and more revenue generating domains.
If we build it, we would offer it as a free service. We would benefit the same way everyone else would – by observing patterns in the data after the community forms and we have a large amount of actual results in a single database. We would probably provide some basic reports on the site and allow the users to download the data to study on their own computer.
What do you think? Would you use this system? Would you share your data in this system?
Please let me know your opinions, any questions, any comments, etc.
thank you!!
Katya
Here’s the thing – me and my partner have been working to get a good understanding of traffic generating domain names and what attributes affect the value of domains and to what degree. It’s not as simple as it might look. Some tools have really fancy math formulas which factor in OVT, OVT w/o TLD, Alexa, Link Popularity, etc. It churns all these numbers together and out pops a “value”. Truth is, it’s not that simple.
So, we had our engineers take our list of domain names, pull all the ratings for them and analyze them based upon traffic results for the previous month. Some interesting things came out, but we just don’t have enough data to really analyze this in detail.
Then it occurred to us – this is an opportunity to create a tool for the community. What if we build a system which allows users to upload their stats from their parking services into a single, centralized database? Then, engineers develop reports which allow the members of the community to do “what if” analysis. Like “if OVT is greater than 100, what other attribute has the most significant influence on traffic generated?”
I think that this type of tool can help us pull back some of the mystery and voodoo magic associated with domain name valuation. Maybe we can get a little of the error margin reduced and pick up fewer duds and more revenue generating domains.
If we build it, we would offer it as a free service. We would benefit the same way everyone else would – by observing patterns in the data after the community forms and we have a large amount of actual results in a single database. We would probably provide some basic reports on the site and allow the users to download the data to study on their own computer.
What do you think? Would you use this system? Would you share your data in this system?
Please let me know your opinions, any questions, any comments, etc.
thank you!!
Katya
please tell me what you think, any questions, any comments, etc. Since this kind of tool would need community participation I’d really like to know how you feel about this.
