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Undeveloped: CollectRewards .com


- Thanks guys

 

[x11joex11]

I'll appraise collectrewards give me an hour...

**Appraisal**

I'll appraise one domain name if there is a list of my choosing. If you would like more PM me and I wouldn’t mind doing appraisals of this quality for $NP or visit dnfinder.net to buy appraisals for $10. I only have so much free time you know =).

Appraising: collectrewards.com

I'll appraise using the RVER (Research, Value, Estimate, Recommendation) Method

Please feel free to use this method when appraising others, if you copy my outline please give me credit by letting people know to visit StateExams.Org. Thanks!

---- Research ----


- Domain Availability - (Using http://domainsite.com)

Domain Availability shows your potential selling power of the domain. If the domain is so popular that people would register even TLD's of lower value, then that shows strong selling power should you decide to sell it on the name alone.

Because .COM, .NET and .ORG are the most common TLD’s they are expected to be registered if you have a good name in this field of reselling. Therefore I value names +$2.50 (half of standard $5 reg fee) for every name registered past the initial main three. The value is half of REG fee to be safe and not over estimate on the appraisal as far as value is concerned in this sector.

Below is your Availability Report...

collectrewards.com: Taken
collectrewards.net: Available
collectrewards.org: Available
collectrewards.eu: Available
collectrewards.in: Available
collectrewards.biz: Available
collectrewards.info: Available
collectrewards.us: Available
collectrewards.ws: Available
collectrewards.bz: Available
collectrewards.cc: Available
collectrewards.tv: Available
collectrewards.us.com: Available
collectrewards.eu.com: Available
collectrewards.web.com: Available
collectrewards.ag: Available
collectrewards.sc: Available
collectrewards.la: Available
collectrewards.hn: Available
collectrewards.cn: Available
collectrewards.am: Available
collectrewards.fm: Available
collectrewards.ac: Available
collectrewards.io: Available
collectrewards.sh: Available

I'll also do a check on the non plural version...

collectreward.com: Taken
collectreward.net: Available
collectreward.org: Available
collectreward.eu: Available
collectreward.in: Available
collectreward.biz: Available
collectreward.info: Available
collectreward.us: Available
collectreward.ws: Available
collectreward.bz: Available
collectreward.cc: Available
collectreward.tv: Available
collectreward.us.com: Available
collectreward.eu.com: Available
collectreward.web.com: Available
collectreward.ag: Available
collectreward.sc: Available
collectreward.la: Available
collectreward.hn: Available
collectreward.cn: Available
collectreward.am: Available
collectreward.fm: Available
collectreward.ac: Available
collectreward.io: Available
collectreward.sh: Available

(Notice you are the only registered user on both and this gives you negative value -$10 as you are the only registered user of the TLD)

- KeyWord Selector Tool - (Using http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/)

The KeyWord Selector Tool is an awesome utility found at the site listed above for seeing everyday use of keywords or terms. If your term(s) has an everyday use of more then 1,000 searches that will usually raise the value of your name to most people IMHO. I usually grade keywords +$2.50 every 5000 searches done that month for it. The ratio of $2.50 cents every 5000 searches is 0.0005. If you have two keywords, the value is $1.25 for every 5000 searches on those keywords alone. The ratio in this case is 0.00025.

No suggestions for collect%20rewards

No suggestions for collectrewards.

There are no searches for the terms with space or without together, this hurts your value possibilities here.

I'll try just collect and rewards now...

3644 collect +$0.91
10514 reward +$1.31 (divided by 2 for value here cause it's not your plural version)
0 rewards -$1.00 (for all 0 searches on key terms)

(your plural version of the keyword reward has no searches, this means you might consider registerting collectreward.com as well to has the set and cover your bases.)

Your looking at a small value increase of +$1.22

- Relevance of Terms(s) [If multiple keyWords, or 3-4 LETTER based] -

If your domain name had multiple keywords this section is the research done to see the different potential meanings your domain name could have and the value IMHO I think would be the best way to sell it on versus others.

This part is important as this is how we will decide which sites count as relevent comparable sites and comparable sales.

Since you own the .COM TLD, this implies company or general purpose. So my first impression with the name is a company where you get rewards, kind of like those ipod sites, do surveys collect rewards, it does have a lot of promise and marketability in the name. Though you should know that just because a name has good marketability if there isn't anyone buying similar names then sure you can get that lots of money, but at what price and how long will it take to get it?

Keeping this in mind, I say we set relevence for your site at anything involving companies that give you rewards for something or some kind of service.

- Google Searches (http://google.com) -

Google Searches shows the use of the word in everyday language and how likely someone is to see the word therefore and consider your name for sale or for personal use. Google searches of multiple terms are done using quotes now to accurately see exact uses of the phrase and just the two terms together.

I've noticed that registered TLD's start to pop up when the google market reaches about 300,000, watch try it yourself! For this reason I place reg value of roughly $2.50 (half reg fee value) at every 300,000 occurrences of the keyword, for a ratio of .0000083333

Results 1 - 10 of about 30,100 for "collect rewards". (0.40 seconds)
Results 1 - 4 of about 32 for "collectrewards". (0.68 seconds)

(As you can see some very weak google market for the term which probably reflects why it had no registered TLD's other then your own)

The value here is (30132*.0000083333) for... -> +$0.25

- Sites Found Using the Name (Terms) -

The purpose of this section is to examine sites that use your name. If there are sites already using your name with TLD's of higher or lesser value then yours, your name has good potential selling power to those companies.

http://www.pesm.active.com/exec/atf/27earn.cfm?publicationID=279
(here is a site that if you sell magazines you get rewards, that's one...)

http://premiumcreditcard.cardrating...cardholders/details.asp?idmin=4178&tempid=124
(credit card site using the term collect rewards, this was the only one I could find doing a search, but I imagine this would sell well perhaps to creditcard companies)

These were the only two sites I could find easily using it, so for now +$2.00 in value here.

– Sales Comparables –

This is new to my appraisal method, but you can use similar domain name sales in estimating the range dollar value of your domain. To a reseller, looking at possible comparable sales of names that are similar can mean a lot to there decision in buying the name on the extra speculative value. This section determines your possible range value, for example,$200+ LOW $XXX or $200 + High $XXX etc…

Low $XXX, is $300 under, Mid $XXX is under $600 but higher then $300, high $XXX is above $600 but under $1000. Same pattern for $XXXX etc.

All the above tells you is; if you hold onto it long enough you have a chance to sell for higher then its real domain value (which I based from the other factors in this appraisal). So the question is, is there a way to predict the time it might take to sell a domain for those extra figures? After all any domain might sell for one million dollars if you waited five hundred years! To do this I try (and you should too), to find as many similar comparable domain sales as possible and find the value they sold at and how long they were on the market for when they sold for this price. Finding about 6 good domain names IMHO will be a good indicator of the time it might take you to sell your domain name for the extra speculative value.

Before you start looking though, it should be clarified what exactly counts as a sales comparable. The best way to do this is point out the key things about your name. Here is a list of some of the important things I’ve noticed that give value to domain names.

Basic Common Features…

- How many characters long are the comparables domains?
- How many keywords do the comparable domains contain?
- If using keywords, does the keyword(s) of the comparable domains contain at least one similar keyword to the domain you’re comparing it against?

Next Most Common Features…

- What kind of overture and google-market did the comparable domains names have?
- How many other TLD’s were registered on the comparable domains?

Once you find some sales comparables that match exactly in basic common features (with the exception of character length for plural versions of names) and then get then filter the list down to the ones that match (the most closest) in the Next Most Common Features (it doesn’t have to be exact, just as close as you can get), and get six of these. After doing this I feel you have a good measure of similar domains for evaluative purposes.

Being a Real Estate Agent myself, when I want to value real property I go through a similar process of finding similar sales and things in common between the properties. Domains should be no different; they are just online real property.

Now once you find decent domains for evaluating correctly, the hard part is getting the information on those domains and finding the time at which they were listed and the time at which the sold. Next most important is how much it sold for. Usually people are quick to jump the gun and just look for the how much it sold for, but IMHO this is a big mistake and will cost you many wasted dollars. IMHO, the most important thing is looking at how long it took to sell the comparable domain names, as this will decide how long you should hold it and if it’s worth it to sell now or wait.

Now all you have to do is take the median of the time taken to sell and the median of the price it sold for to get a speculative range value and time that it will take to potentially sell your domain name for it’s maximum potential value.

Here is what I found for you…

-DNSALEPRICE.COM-

(Now this is interesting, seems to be a lot of sales comparables to use for this)

RewardsFirst.com -> sold for $1,250 on Nov 05 at Afternic.
ExpressRewards.com-> sold for $1,250 on Nov 05 at Afternic.
MegaRewards.com-> sold for $2,600 on Apr 05 at Pool.
OnlineRewards.com-> sold for $5,700 on Apr 05 at Sedo.

Looking at rewardsfirst.com and expressrewards.com it's hard to tell if the same person bought both names since there the same price and date, but the other names are sold at completely different places depsite there similar times and for much different prices. You have 4 very good sales comparables from DNSALEPRICE.COM to work with here, very nice possible returns. Taking the average of those sales which by the way have rewards* plural which makes these even better sales comparables for you, especially rewardsfirst.com as your closest related one by relevance you are looking at a range figure here of low to $2700 low $X,XXX basically. The time between the sales of those names was about 6 months. Lets go see how bids go for names like these on SEDO now...

-- SEDO --

Your search returned 598 matching domains when searching 'rewards':

There are some good sales comparables here as well, out of all the people trying to sell rewards names, these are the ones with bids...

tivorewards.com
cityrewards.com
mvprewards.com
pocketrewards.com
coolrewards.com

These seem very similar to your own name, especially pocketrewards, is kind of like collectrewards, and I'd argue collectrewards is better. I'll show you the minium bids they set on each one so we can get an idea of what someone out there is willing to pay...

tivorewards.com (has 3 bids) -> minimum sell price: $60
cityrewards.com (has 2 bids) -> minimum sell price: $60
mvprewards.com (has 2 bids) -> minimum sell price: $60
pocketrewards.com (has 1 bids) -> minimum sell price: $60
coolrewards.com (has 1 bids) -> minimum sell price: $60

So since all were $60 the average is going to be obviously $60 + $20 on the extra bids.

Your looking at if you sell on sedo low $XXX with a name like yours

When you mix the big sales from DNSALEPRICE.COM with the minor rewards domain currently selling and with mids you get an idea of roughly low $XXX possibility to sell within 1 month, and if you wait and advertise properely possibly low $X,XXX+ with 1 year as DNsaleprice shows, and your name I think is relevent enough to be considered in that range with them.


-Developed Site Value Information-

This section is new to my appraisal method but important as well. Unlike sites that use your name, the value here is purely a way to try and find the value to the site in it’s developed state (if there is one). Now this method does not account for the value of the server it’s being hosted on or advertisements paid (and still being paid) to support it, since there is no way I can figure that out easily, so you should add in the value of the cost for you to host and what you’ve paid for already into this calculation when transferring the entire site over to someone else.

Well the first and most obvious thing anyone will be interested in as a reseller is what is its page rank and daily unique hits. Some sites are lucky and get unique hits without any advertising or development; sites such as 2-3 letter domains usually get good results with that, or one word dictionary words. The site I use to figure this out is, (http://urltrends.com). Page rank 10,9 domains would be sites like google.com and microsoft.com, while good moderate names like dog.com are page rank 4,5,6. A higher page rank is what you’re looking for in deciding its value.

Though it should be noted that page rank can be deceiving to the value of a site. You should read this article …

(http://www.clickz.com/experts/search/results/article.php/3518646),

So before buying sites based on page rank, you should make sure it’s truly worth your investment and to understand that real value comes from well placed advertising and unique clicks.

To truly understand Page-Rank and how it works visit this site, (http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank.html)

To save you some time though, here is the sum of it all,

“PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the importance of the page that is casting the vote determines how important the vote itself is. Google calculates a page's importance from the votes cast for it. How important each vote is is taken into account when a page's PageRank is calculated.” –quoted from the above link.

Below is some information that you may find useful if you want to raise the page rank value for your domain name…

(http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/275/pagerank-explained/)

“Google created quite a storm when it launched its green PageRank bar. Webmasters became obsessed with methods to increase their PageRank and high PageRank sites started selling text links for hundreds of dollars. A link from a high PageRank page, from a PageRank 7, 8, 9 or 10, has been known to make lower PageRank pages increase a full number, even two if the incoming link is from a PageRank 10, and there is no doubt it is good for search engine rankings.” – quoted from above link

To save you the time of how much page rank value could potentially have on the sale of your site, here is a pricing guide I’ve made. I’ll include my sources below.

(Prices set at lowest possible figures I could find)

PageRank 0-: NEGATIVE value to your domain name considerably
PageRank 1-: $0, standard page rank
PageRank 2-: $9 +
PageRank 3-: $15 +
PageRank 4-: $25 +
PageRank 5-: $30 +
PageRank 6-: $45+
PageRank 7-: $80 +
PageRank 8-: $199 +
PageRank 9-: $2000 +
PageRank 10-: $3,000.00 +

::::Sources::::

http://www.clickz.com/experts/search/results/article.php/3518646

“Previously, on the PR scale he would buy a PR 6 link for $30-60 per month. At the higher end, he'd spend up to $2,000 for a PR 9.”

(Note that my research below from other sites seems to confirm this statement here, to add to the credibility of the site below)

http://www.text-link.us/page-rank-6-933-ctg.htm

(On the site above you can see the value of selling links to people from different sites with different page ranks. This shows the potential selling power of having a high page rank name, and how much at a minimum it might add to the value of your site. Again page rank is to be looked at with a grain of a salt and careful research. It’s only a guess as to the possible unique clicks that might arise from it if you’ve read the article on how page rank works it can be deceiving and manipulative. Despite this fact, many people still buy based on page rank and therefore it does have speculative value that can be quantified as I did above.)

The next factor to consider when giving a value here is the portability of the code and the time it takes to create a site of whatever value it was that you’ve created. Again I’m going to assume the worst and hire the cheapest programmer I could find to do quality work at $12 an hour from India. Assuming this, just calculate the time it would take to make the site in hours, by getting quotes from three different programmers and you’ll have an idea of the value of your site and the time and money it would take to replicate it. Though unfortunately I won’t be able to help you here to much here very accurately, but I can give my estimate of the time it might take to create that site and the minimum I might charge as a programmer myself to get something done assuming I lived in India or some other foreign country working for the lowest price possible. Therefore I will give a range value for that in the estimate.

Development Value

Now that you have an understanding of how I came to the values I’m about to present, here is what I discovered.

Site Value: $0 (undeveloped)



- TLD - (Top-Level Domain) Value

My assessment is based on my personal experience in selling domain names.

In general the TLD's below have more positive value then other TLD's. Most other TLD's IMHO have negative value to most general names.

.COM names +$3.00 or + 3% of total value

.NET names +$1.50 +1.5% of total value
.ORG names +$1.00 +1% of total value
.BIZ names +$.20 or +.20% of total value
.US names +$.10 or +.10% of total value
.CC names +$.5 or +.5% of total value
.INFO names +$.1 or +.1% of total value

Though the value of the TLD's is also dependent on the name and the use of the TLD with it.

In most cases however, the .COM, .NET and .ORG are the way to go for general purpose names.

(You own the .COM best one to have)

---- Value ----

Domain Availability Value - >$-10

Pricing Guide:you are the only regged TLD holder.

KeyWord Selector Value ->+$1.22

Pricing Guide: weak search value...

Relevance of Terms Value ->*approved for rewards site*

Pricing Guide: Refer to relevance section

Google Searches Value- >+$0.25

Pricing Guide:

Sites found using the name Value ->+$2

Pricing Guide:

Sales Comparable Range Value ->

RANGE MEDIAN:low$XXX (one month), low $XXXX (one year)
TIME MEDIAN TO SELL:One Month to Years Depending on Value Desired

Pricing Guide: refer to sales comparables section

Developed Site Value ->RANGE:$0-$0

Pricing Guide: (Read development info section above)

TLD Assessment Value ->+$3

Pricing Guide: .COM is the best.

---- Estimated Value ----

Final Value:-$3.53 + LOW$XXX (1 month), low $XXXX (1 year)

---- Recommendation----

What this tells you is that the value to a reseller being able to sell the name for instant profit just isn't going to happen likely on here. You have what is called an 'End User' Name, that is valuable to end users as the sales data shows.

This means it's a name that entails decent risk with high returns but for a long wait, and resellers prefer to buy there domain and sell for profit right away (or at least some of us).

My advice is since there are other names that aren't even as good as yours for sale with bids on sedo, and some amazing sales done through afternic and such is you might consider if your willing to take the risk and wait it out a year to get that low $XXXX, is buy a cycling spot on sedo and see what happens. I'd only do this if you have the money, but there is pretty good odds you'll get that low $XXXX your looking for eventually if you advertise there enough throughout the year.

You have no selling power, except perhaps marketing to the creditcard companies, you might be able to lewer them to your bid. This name will not SELL on ebay very well so don't waste your money there. I say this from experience, EBAY is best for 3 character domains and only the best of the best in domain names if you want some money right away.

SEDO, AFTERNIC and maybe POOL are the ways to go for the big $$$. Your name to anyone here for resale though is worth less then reg fee, unless were willing to take that risk to try and sell for the low $XXXX, but I don't have the time to be taking that risk so it's unlikely you will sell to high here, but you can try. It has great potential but only from it's sales comparable data which will be kind of difficult to sell on that alone.

Good luck with your domain name though!

- Joe

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[Kenny]

OMG!!!! *wipes tears rolling down cheek.....

That is one of the most beautiful, in depth examples of an Appraisal I have ever seen....
this may in fact rival the great Maestrus, if this proves out as accurate as his have.

That is a work of art, a classical music piece equal to Mozart, a Michaelangelo of appraisals,
and I for one am moved by your unselfish attitude and the quality of this post.

Rep up'd and kudos to you sir, for taking the time and sharing this with us.

Peace,
Cyberian

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Introduce yourself to Staff and the other members and enjoy your time here at NP!!!

 

[B33R]

Wowzers! That is one loooong appraisal!

I've got a really bad headache right now so I'm subscribing to this thread to read that appraisal in full tomorrow. If it's as good as it is long, then it looks like deadweight hit the jackpot!

For now I'll say collectrewards is the best IMHO. I don't really like the other two much. Maybe low - mid $XXX for collectrewards (to the right buyer).

 

[MCDomains]

I don't see collectrewards.com being very valuable. No one really searches for 'reward(s)' and no one searches for 'collect rewards' ... to a reseller it won't be much more than $25 - 40, IMO. Of course, to an end-user, it could be priceless.

 

[btrader]

collectrewards.com $150

how is that for brief?

 

[sdtrader]

I'll appraise collectrewards give me an hour...

.....

Yep that just about sums up my appraisal exactly :hehe: .
Had I been able to type a little faster you would have got the same
from me
I see a few things left out but for the sake of brevity I guess that could be understood.LOL
Nice job on that appraisal.

 

[x11joex11]

Thanks, I do these for the new members as a courtesy to namepros and it helps get the name out for my domain name finding software at DNfinder.net. Check it out sometime. I've put my appraisal guide up there. By the way, if I missing some angle as far as checking the domains let me know. I would have gone further into detail but I only had so much time, I only give an hour =P. Thanks for the comments everyone =). We'll see if I'm right =), you should comment back on this thread and let me know what you eventually sell it for and which plan you were going for.

 

[deadweight]

Will do. Thanks again for providing a tremendous understanding of the process. The plan is to wait it out and develop the site with some content and seo work, focusing on the numerous rewards programs out there. If anything significant happens in the next year or so, I'll be sure to dust off the thread and bring it to the top with some details.