New vs Old. Why old domains cost so much.

[lock]

A new domain name $15 + $40 year hosting.
= $55 per domain

10 years Domain alone since 2002 = $150
domain and hosting since 2002 = $650 per domain

14 years Domain alone since 1998 = $360
domain and hosting since 1998 = $2650 per domain

Additional years $70+ per year domain not including hosting.

The math:

The cost of a new dot com domain maybe $10-15 a year. The average user would pay $40 a year in hosting eg $2.95 month
$10 a year to buy a domain and park Free
$50 a year to buy and host a domain last 10 years.

The cost of an old dot com is $10-15 for last 10 years but before that is was $35 a year and earlier $70 a year though internic before the other registers. In 1998 a domain costed $70 a year in 2000 it was dropped to $35 a year but having to pay for 2 years at a time after this time it could be transfered to a $10 a year register.

Cost of a domain since 2002 at $15 per year
= $150 pay + hosting at $500 = $650 over 10 years

add
Cost of a domain since 1998 add $35+35+70+70
= add additional $210. Average domain Hosting was approx $500 a year $2000.

Hosting may in fact be a lot more in my case it was. just estimating what the average name costs to the owner not counting incomes.

There can be more money in a domain sale margin wise buying $15 domains and selling them same year at $60 400% percent is great margin better than most shops. Are their any real name pros here since a professionals get paid how is everyone really doing.

cost vs appraisal is where a lot of us need to get out.

Post your thoughts. Were domains over $100 a year for dot coms?

 

[topgrade]

Besides all these maths the old domains also have a trust being in business (or active) for so many years, and the trust matters. Also according to a popular saying "old is gold".

 

[DubDubDubDot]

People don't price a domain at $X because they've been renewing for 5 years. They've been renewing for 5 years because it's worth $X to them.

Hosting fees are irrelevant in this industry. It's cheap and not charged per domain as your figures imply.

 

[lock]

People don't price a domain at $X because they've been renewing for 5 years. They've been renewing for 5 years because it's worth $X to them.

Hosting fees are irrelevant in this industry. It's cheap and not charged per domain as your figures imply.

I added hosting figures and also priced them without as a consideration in costing.

 

[GiftedDomains]

You can buy 10 to 15 years domain names here at namepros for 10 to 50 Dollars. So all this math is irrelevant. The market decides what to pay.

 

[lock]

You can buy 10 to 15 years domain names here at namepros for 10 to 50 Dollars. So all this math is irrelevant. The market decides what to pay.

True but many domain owners have no idea it was ever more than $10 a year and most names i see here if sold today wouldn't even sell for $50. so i agree with you. I was only trying to show there is a cost. I never mentioned profit either. I also see there is really nothing to contribute to this site unless i want to slap a few dreamers.

 

[kahthan]

For me older domains get better prices because of the trust google associates with aged domains.

as for the cost, if you held a domain for that long, there would have been a good reason or some value attached to it.

 

[Ms Domainer]

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You can buy 10-12-year-old domains at low BIN prices ($5-$11) at Godaddy auctions, BUT most of them are awful. Some owners just hang onto their junky names for a long time.

Occasionally, a good brandable one will slip through, but very rarely.

I think that age is one indicator, but certainly not the only indicator.

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[Name Trader]

It's unlikely (not impossible) that a newly registered domain is worth $x - $x,xxx,xxx. It's more likely (but still likely impossible) that an aged domain is worth $x - $x,xxx,xxx. It has absolutely nothing to do with the cost. It's market price driven. A market between a willing buyer and a willing seller. Many owners of aged domains have no idea what they are worth and will never sell them if they use a pricing model like you describe. It has everything to do with the domain name and nothing (well almost nothing) to do with the domains age. If it's been registered a long time it only means that somebody thought it was valuable enough to have continued to pay the annual registration fees, hoping to make a profit (not necessarily monetary), not just to get their money back.

 

[lincolndsp]

new means either regfee or potentially valuable if a drop from the past
old means potentially valuable. and because you cannot manufacture poker.coms on a chinese factory
in million circulation and sell fake clones of poker.com at $60 a piece.
valuable because you and others want it. few will agree to buy from others their crap nobody wants.
except for when they buy crap from godaddy on their own.
for the most part.

in one sentence - in the past people had the space to reg quality names.

 

[Fonzie]

It has to do with how the internet evolved.
It blew up in 1994, .com speculators rushed in around 1995 an from that point to about 2004, basically scarfed up most every desirable .com domain name.

The corollary between age and value has to do with how the market evolved. Age isn't an innate value driver. If Dogs.com were to expire today and have its registration date reset to now, it would be worth precisely as much. Likewise, worthless domains registered in 1996 are still worthless. The only exception to this are otherwise worthless names with really old registration dates (ie, before 1994) that have some novelty value based on age alone.

In the domainer ecosystem, 'age' has become an utterly false value indicator based on the industry's absurd narratives but it's otherwise meaningless. One thing that is nice is it can convey trust. When I'm debating whether to do business with an otherwise unknown company, I do check reviews but those can be (and almost always are) manipulated. If I see the domain was registered two months ago, it can be a tipping point.

 

[ddomainka]

new and old domains

Google trusts the aged domain name more than a newly registered one because they have been around for a while. Alot of factors and way to find and purchase aged domain names with a good price, you can purchased old aged domains from different sources as long as they are reliable and has the list of high standard aged domains. I recently got mine from domainka.com and godaddy.

 

[tenovid]

I said Yes if Google put a trust factor for old domain especially more than 3 years and have a great page rank. But we have to aware even those old domain win in high PR and aged, don't forget panda and penguin impact for all domain owners. If you get an offer cheap aged domain, don't open your wallet very easy. Perhaps those name already got impact from those black and white animals.

 

[zerocool7]

Is an aged Domain really good unless it has some type of steady backlinking history? I would think an aged Domain is just that "an aged Domain" without some type of PR or good backlink history.