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domain SendMelody.com
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Give me one hour and I'll appraise this for you...
**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. I only have so much free time you know =).
Appraising: SendMelody.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.
Below is your Availability Report...
sendmelody.com: Taken
sendmelody.net: Available
sendmelody.org: Available
sendmelody.info: Available
sendmelody.name: Available
sendmelody.biz: Available
sendmelody.cn: Available
sendmelody.us: Available
sendmelody.ws: Available
sendmelody.bz: Available
sendmelody.cc: Available
sendmelody.tv: Available
(Seeing as you are the only registered user of the domain name here you actually have a minus resellers value here of $10)
- 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
No suggestions for send%20melody.
0 searches on overture for send melody together. I'll check the words seperately now for there overtures.
15229 send
23472 melody
There are searches for each of those words seperatly but the value you gain from it is literally half of what you would get value wise for exact searches. $1.25 every 5000 searches on a 2 word name. The ratio is .00025.
Send=+$3.80
Melody=+$5.87
Total Overture Value= "+$9.67"
- 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.
The value gained from google market and overture can be nullified completly if the topic of your domain name with it's TLD is not relevent.
In this case you own a .COM general TLD, which means you can consider your domain name like a 2 keyword case.
We need to clarify what your market to sell your name is to find a value for it.
Send Melody to me makes me think of a site perhaps where you upload music perhaps. Send is a very clear and distinct word with the following different meanings...
--Send--
send1 (sĕnd) pronunciation
v., sent (sĕnt), send·ing, sends.
v.tr.
1. To cause to be conveyed by an intermediary to a destination: send goods by plane.
2. To dispatch, as by a communications medium: send a message by radio.
3.
1. To direct to go on a mission: sent troops into the Middle East.
2. To require or enable to go: sent her children to college.
3. To direct (a person) to a source of information; refer: sent the student to the reference section of the library.
4.
1. To give off (heat, for example); emit or issue: a stove that sends forth great warmth.
2. To utter or otherwise emit (sound): sent forth a cry of pain.
5. To hit so as to direct or propel with force; drive: The batter sent the ball to left field. The slap on my back sent me staggering.
6. To cause to take place or occur: We will meet whatever vicissitudes fate may send.
7.
1. To put or drive into a given state or condition: horrifying news that sent them into a panic.
2. Slang. To transport with delight; carry away: That music really sends me.
v.intr.
1. To dispatch someone to do an errand or convey a message: Let's send out for hamburgers.
2. To dispatch a request or order, especially by mail: send away for a new catalogue.
3. To transmit a message or messages: The radio operator was still sending when the ship went down.
(The above was taken from http://www.answers.com/send)
--Melody--
mel·o·dy (mĕl'ə-dē) pronunciation
n., pl. -dies.
1. A pleasing succession or arrangement of sounds.
2. Musical quality: the melody of verse.
3. Music.
1. A rhythmically organized sequence of single tones so related to one another as to make up a particular phrase or idea.
2. Structure with respect to the arrangement of single notes in succession.
3. The leading part or the air in a composition with accompaniment.
4. A poem suitable for setting to music or singing.
(The above taken from... http://www.answers.com/melody)
So when looking at all the different meanings for your two keywords, it looks like melody is pretty much set in stone as a pleasing arrangement of sounds for the most part.
As for the word send it looks like it clearly means to send something somewhere, or emit data etc.
So sending music more or less is basically what your site has to be about or rather what you have to use for finding resellers value when we compare against names later.
- 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 $5 at every 300,000 occurrences of the keyword, for a ratio of 0.000016666.
Results 1 - 10 of about 587 for "send melody". (0.30 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 45 for "sendmelody". (0.12 seconds)
(Not many google occurances of the term, this will really damage your potential value on the name here)
+$0.11
- 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.bestmusictop.com/sendmelody.html
Other then one site where submit melodies to be approved I see nothing! No resell value as far as selling to other sites!
+$1
– 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--
when searching 'send melody' exactly this is found...
DaySend com $800 Feb 06 sold at SEDO
FlowersSend com $450 Oct 05 Afternic
SendSMS com $30,000 Aug 05 SEDO
Looks like names with SEND are selling better on SEDO.
when searching 'melody' exactly this is found...
No matching data *(ouch)*
when searching 'send' exactly this is found...
Same as 'send melody' search above.
--SEDO--
Searching 'Send Melody'
You are the only site for sale! (*ouch*)
Searching 'Melody'
Your search returned 132 matching domains:
Out of all the 132 domains containing Melody, only 1 was receiving bids, and it was not a two word domain but a single word .fm domain, melody.fm. With over 6 bids, the minimum bid for that domain the seller offered was...
160 USD
Not to promising, for the keyword 'Melody'
Searching 'Send' domains...
Your search returned 1138 matching domains:
Send does a lot better, and I will filter the list to just the 3 best 2 word send names available (with bids) as closely related as possible to your name.
sendflower.com Make Offer 5 90
sendroses.net Make Offer 2 -
sendporn.com Make Offer 1 2
The minimum offers on this similar domain names were,
380 USD for sendflower.com
60 USD for sendroses.net
60 USD for sendporn.com
It should be noted that sendporn.com only has 1 Bid making it risky as it could have been generated by the user himself to induce value to the name.
sendflower.com is your best bet for an idea of a similar send name, selling at minimum $380 with 5 bids in it's history. That's not bad for a name.
So if we total up all the minimum bids, thats $400 of bids divided by 1270 domains total for sale in your market, gives you $0.35 send and melody speculative value. Not enough to warrant spending extra money advertising for it on SEDO IMHO.
You want to get names where there is a small amount of the names for sale and of those names for sale they are getting a lot of bids, a good example of this method at work is searching 3 character domain names or i(name) domain names. They tend to get bids if you got a good name after it.
Now if we take into account the years before the sales of all SEND NAMES, that we found from DNSALEPRICE, we can get a time figure for the amount of time in theory it would take to possibly even sell your name for extra figures, and also keep in mind, that those were sendroses and flowers sites, not melody, but none the less here is the info.
Time Median: 6 months
Range: low $XXXXX (if you take the median of the sale prices from DNSALEPRICE, then divide by the 6 months it could potentially take to look at a realistic potential figure of low $X,XXX in theory and that is only on sendflower names not melody names.
So there really isn't any send music sites that I can use to properly guestimate a value for you, but I can say from the trend in sales and the amount on sedo, that $0.35 cents per domain in general for send names is an instant value you get for haivng a send name, it's not much...but it's something! =).
I'm going to say low $XX to be safe with a time period of 6 months to gain that extra income.
-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 (not developed)
- 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 value for it.
---- Value ----
Domain Availability Value - >-$10
Pricing Guide: you are the only registered user of the TLD
KeyWord Selector Value ->+$9.67
Pricing Guide: Decent search values on each of your terms.
Relevance of Terms Value ->*Approved relevent for sending music site*
Pricing Guide: read relevance section
Google Searches Value- >+$0.11
Pricing Guide: terrible search results...
Sites found using the name Value ->+$1
Pricing Guide:
Sales Comparable Range Value ->
RANGE MEDIAN:Low $XX
TIME MEDIAN TO SELL:6 months
Pricing Guide: read sales comparables section...
Developed Site Value ->RANGE:$0-$0
Pricing Guide: (Read development info section above)
TLD Assessment Value ->+$3
Pricing Guide:
---- Estimated Value ----
Final Value:$3.78 + low $XX (6 months)
---- Recommendation----
Your name IMHO is worth less then REG fee, with the potential to be worth a little more given enough time roughly 6 months as sales show, and probably in reality longer because those weren't even proper domain comparables. Selling the name as it is has no value, I suggest developing the site out a bit, working on it's page rank and reselling it later and you should be able to get your money back on it, but as far as the name stands alone, I don't think it's that good.
Good luck with your domain name.
- Joe
-License-
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**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. I only have so much free time you know =).
Appraising: SendMelody.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.
Below is your Availability Report...
sendmelody.com: Taken
sendmelody.net: Available
sendmelody.org: Available
sendmelody.info: Available
sendmelody.name: Available
sendmelody.biz: Available
sendmelody.cn: Available
sendmelody.us: Available
sendmelody.ws: Available
sendmelody.bz: Available
sendmelody.cc: Available
sendmelody.tv: Available
(Seeing as you are the only registered user of the domain name here you actually have a minus resellers value here of $10)
- 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
No suggestions for send%20melody.
0 searches on overture for send melody together. I'll check the words seperately now for there overtures.
15229 send
23472 melody
There are searches for each of those words seperatly but the value you gain from it is literally half of what you would get value wise for exact searches. $1.25 every 5000 searches on a 2 word name. The ratio is .00025.
Send=+$3.80
Melody=+$5.87
Total Overture Value= "+$9.67"
- 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.
The value gained from google market and overture can be nullified completly if the topic of your domain name with it's TLD is not relevent.
In this case you own a .COM general TLD, which means you can consider your domain name like a 2 keyword case.
We need to clarify what your market to sell your name is to find a value for it.
Send Melody to me makes me think of a site perhaps where you upload music perhaps. Send is a very clear and distinct word with the following different meanings...
--Send--
send1 (sĕnd) pronunciation
v., sent (sĕnt), send·ing, sends.
v.tr.
1. To cause to be conveyed by an intermediary to a destination: send goods by plane.
2. To dispatch, as by a communications medium: send a message by radio.
3.
1. To direct to go on a mission: sent troops into the Middle East.
2. To require or enable to go: sent her children to college.
3. To direct (a person) to a source of information; refer: sent the student to the reference section of the library.
4.
1. To give off (heat, for example); emit or issue: a stove that sends forth great warmth.
2. To utter or otherwise emit (sound): sent forth a cry of pain.
5. To hit so as to direct or propel with force; drive: The batter sent the ball to left field. The slap on my back sent me staggering.
6. To cause to take place or occur: We will meet whatever vicissitudes fate may send.
7.
1. To put or drive into a given state or condition: horrifying news that sent them into a panic.
2. Slang. To transport with delight; carry away: That music really sends me.
v.intr.
1. To dispatch someone to do an errand or convey a message: Let's send out for hamburgers.
2. To dispatch a request or order, especially by mail: send away for a new catalogue.
3. To transmit a message or messages: The radio operator was still sending when the ship went down.
(The above was taken from http://www.answers.com/send)
--Melody--
mel·o·dy (mĕl'ə-dē) pronunciation
n., pl. -dies.
1. A pleasing succession or arrangement of sounds.
2. Musical quality: the melody of verse.
3. Music.
1. A rhythmically organized sequence of single tones so related to one another as to make up a particular phrase or idea.
2. Structure with respect to the arrangement of single notes in succession.
3. The leading part or the air in a composition with accompaniment.
4. A poem suitable for setting to music or singing.
(The above taken from... http://www.answers.com/melody)
So when looking at all the different meanings for your two keywords, it looks like melody is pretty much set in stone as a pleasing arrangement of sounds for the most part.
As for the word send it looks like it clearly means to send something somewhere, or emit data etc.
So sending music more or less is basically what your site has to be about or rather what you have to use for finding resellers value when we compare against names later.
- 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 $5 at every 300,000 occurrences of the keyword, for a ratio of 0.000016666.
Results 1 - 10 of about 587 for "send melody". (0.30 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 45 for "sendmelody". (0.12 seconds)
(Not many google occurances of the term, this will really damage your potential value on the name here)
+$0.11
- 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.bestmusictop.com/sendmelody.html
Other then one site where submit melodies to be approved I see nothing! No resell value as far as selling to other sites!
+$1
– 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--
when searching 'send melody' exactly this is found...
DaySend com $800 Feb 06 sold at SEDO
FlowersSend com $450 Oct 05 Afternic
SendSMS com $30,000 Aug 05 SEDO
Looks like names with SEND are selling better on SEDO.
when searching 'melody' exactly this is found...
No matching data *(ouch)*
when searching 'send' exactly this is found...
Same as 'send melody' search above.
--SEDO--
Searching 'Send Melody'
You are the only site for sale! (*ouch*)
Searching 'Melody'
Your search returned 132 matching domains:
Out of all the 132 domains containing Melody, only 1 was receiving bids, and it was not a two word domain but a single word .fm domain, melody.fm. With over 6 bids, the minimum bid for that domain the seller offered was...
160 USD
Not to promising, for the keyword 'Melody'
Searching 'Send' domains...
Your search returned 1138 matching domains:
Send does a lot better, and I will filter the list to just the 3 best 2 word send names available (with bids) as closely related as possible to your name.
sendflower.com Make Offer 5 90
sendroses.net Make Offer 2 -
sendporn.com Make Offer 1 2
The minimum offers on this similar domain names were,
380 USD for sendflower.com
60 USD for sendroses.net
60 USD for sendporn.com
It should be noted that sendporn.com only has 1 Bid making it risky as it could have been generated by the user himself to induce value to the name.
sendflower.com is your best bet for an idea of a similar send name, selling at minimum $380 with 5 bids in it's history. That's not bad for a name.
So if we total up all the minimum bids, thats $400 of bids divided by 1270 domains total for sale in your market, gives you $0.35 send and melody speculative value. Not enough to warrant spending extra money advertising for it on SEDO IMHO.
You want to get names where there is a small amount of the names for sale and of those names for sale they are getting a lot of bids, a good example of this method at work is searching 3 character domain names or i(name) domain names. They tend to get bids if you got a good name after it.
Now if we take into account the years before the sales of all SEND NAMES, that we found from DNSALEPRICE, we can get a time figure for the amount of time in theory it would take to possibly even sell your name for extra figures, and also keep in mind, that those were sendroses and flowers sites, not melody, but none the less here is the info.
Time Median: 6 months
Range: low $XXXXX (if you take the median of the sale prices from DNSALEPRICE, then divide by the 6 months it could potentially take to look at a realistic potential figure of low $X,XXX in theory and that is only on sendflower names not melody names.
So there really isn't any send music sites that I can use to properly guestimate a value for you, but I can say from the trend in sales and the amount on sedo, that $0.35 cents per domain in general for send names is an instant value you get for haivng a send name, it's not much...but it's something! =).
I'm going to say low $XX to be safe with a time period of 6 months to gain that extra income.
-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 (not developed)
- 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 value for it.
---- Value ----
Domain Availability Value - >-$10
Pricing Guide: you are the only registered user of the TLD
KeyWord Selector Value ->+$9.67
Pricing Guide: Decent search values on each of your terms.
Relevance of Terms Value ->*Approved relevent for sending music site*
Pricing Guide: read relevance section
Google Searches Value- >+$0.11
Pricing Guide: terrible search results...
Sites found using the name Value ->+$1
Pricing Guide:
Sales Comparable Range Value ->
RANGE MEDIAN:Low $XX
TIME MEDIAN TO SELL:6 months
Pricing Guide: read sales comparables section...
Developed Site Value ->RANGE:$0-$0
Pricing Guide: (Read development info section above)
TLD Assessment Value ->+$3
Pricing Guide:
---- Estimated Value ----
Final Value:$3.78 + low $XX (6 months)
---- Recommendation----
Your name IMHO is worth less then REG fee, with the potential to be worth a little more given enough time roughly 6 months as sales show, and probably in reality longer because those weren't even proper domain comparables. Selling the name as it is has no value, I suggest developing the site out a bit, working on it's page rank and reselling it later and you should be able to get your money back on it, but as far as the name stands alone, I don't think it's that good.
Good luck with your domain name.
- Joe
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