**Appraisal**
I'll appraise one domain name if there is a list of my choosing. If you would like more PM me and I woudn't mind doing appraisals of this quality for $NP. I only have so much free time you know =).
Appraising:
TheWorldNewsHeadlines.com
I'll appraise using the
RVER (
Research,
Value,
Estimate,
Reccomendation) 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.
Below is your Availability Report...
theworldnewsheadlines.com: Taken
theworldnewsheadlines.net: Available
theworldnewsheadlines.org: Available
theworldnewsheadlines.info: Available
theworldnewsheadlines.name: Available
theworldnewsheadlines.biz: Available
theworldnewsheadlines.cn: Available
theworldnewsheadlines.us: Available
theworldnewsheadlines.ws: Available
theworldnewsheadlines.bz: Available
theworldnewsheadlines.cc: Available
theworldnewsheadlines.tv: Available
theworldnewsheadlines.us.com: Available
theworldnewsheadlines.eu.com: Available
theworldnewsheadlines.web.com: Available
(Your the only reg? doesn't show much selling power here)
- 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.
245 world news headline
(This isn't that good really... At least you have some searches for it though, I give it +0.20.)
- Relevence 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.
It's very clearely about 'the world news headlines', it can't be anything else and only relevant to that. As far as making some kind of relevant sense, longer names tend to do well at that, so you gain value in relevance, but at the cost of TLD minus value as I'll explain later...
There are many other ways to convey this same topic though, with just...worldnewsheadlines.com..speaking of which I did a check and 2 TLD's were regged with it, still kind of weak though...
worldnewsheadlines.com: Taken
worldnewsheadlines.net: Available
worldnewsheadlines.org: Taken
Usually it's not a good idea to go more then 3 words, 3 words is already pusing it as it is. you want something easy for people to remember.
- 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 therefor 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.
Results 1 - 10 of about 216 for "the world news headlines". (0.48 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 379,000 for "world news headlines". (0.10 seconds)
Notice just worldnewsheadlines is almost 1754 times better then with the keyword the in it, the word the is killing you without pitful search returns actually causing a minus value to your name here. However, if you had the domain worldnewsheadlines notice that value would go positive considerably from the market value it has, which explains the reg'd TLd and one .ORG, you would think there would be more, but then again that isn't a million market term like others I've seen, I tend to notice searches in the 300,000 range up to a million have 2-3 regged TLD's. Once you get past a million and up towards 6 million, half the known TLd's start to get regged. Keep this in mind when regging later to see if you 'really were lucky' to snag it.
- 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.namibian.com.na/Netstories/2000/January/World/index.html
http://www.parentalguide.com/Documents/News_Deskbottom.htm
These were the only somewhat decent sites that worked and showed up. I don't see anything you can really market this to, so neutral value here.
- 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 have the .com so +$3 to reg value), there is an exception to most my appraisals in that your TLD value with a 4 word REG lowers by half of any value it once had, purely on the fact that there are better reg's, and again so on for every word after IMHO)
---- Value ----
Domain Availability Value - >$-7
Pricing Guide:You were the only reg, with only 2 other reg's on the simalair name.
KeyWord Selector Value ->+$0.20
Pricing Guide: Barely any value as a keyword
Relevance of Terms Value ->+$20
Pricing Guide: Very relevant to the topic of world news headlines, so as far as that is concerned you get positive points here IMHO.
Google Searches Value- >-$40
Pricing Guide: Very weak google searches with those exact terms, as that is your market.
Sites found using the name Value ->$0
Pricing Guide: Neutral position here. Not many sites found to sell to.
TLD Assesment Value ->+$3, (with a 50% drop of whatever total value was)
Pricing Guide: My standard equation I use from experience.
---- Estimated Value ----
Final Value:
-$35 - REG FEE
---- Recommendation----
I recommend selling your domain name ASAP, it's a bad investment, I don't see you selling it to anyone really on any records, it's a purely speculative domain name IMHO, sorry I coudn't find any value into it. My estimates are conservitive as well to show your best interest and I do it from a resellers point of view. Hope this helps and you learn from it.
If you can try to get worldnewsheadlines.com, that is worth a bit more, probably in the $100 mid $$$ range, because of the vast google searches that will add to it's value and lots of sites it could sell to.
Good luck with your domain name.
- Joe
-License-
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P.S (Though I don't think in this case you want to show this appraisal =P)
