domain USAWings.com

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USA Wings .com

My initial thought was that this would be good for a USA Travel Agency.

Please appraise!

 

[x11joex11]

Appraisal for USAWings.com

**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: USAwings.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...

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

As a courtesy I'm searching the non-plural version to look for registered TLD's as well.

usawing.com: Available
usawing.net: Available
usawing.org: Available
usawing.info: Taken
usawing.biz: Available
usawing.cn: Available
usawing.us: Available
usawing.ws: Available
usawing.bz: Available
usawing.cc: Available
usawing.tv: Available
usawing.us.com: Available
usawing.eu.com: Available
usawing.web.com: Available

(No one has taken the non plural registered TLD's and I'm guessing you are the owner of the .NET as well, but for the sake of argument since I don't know I'll assume it was another registered TLD.)

-$5.00 for only 2 registered TLD's in plural. (-$5.00 per every TLD under main 3)
-$5.00 for only 1 registered TLD in non plural. ($-2.50 per TLD under main 3)

Value: -$10

(in other words this is not a good sell point for it)

- 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 usawings. -$1.00
No suggestions for usa%20wings. -$1.00

Since there is no value on the names connected, lets see what value the names have as seperate terms.

76838 usa +$19.21
29816 wings +$7.45

Nice key words, added together makes the name bounce back up from the negatives at this point.

+$26.66 - 2.00

+$24.66~

So there is some good sell points on your strong keywords here. Remember to keep in mind that those caculations only apply to .COM 2 word names. Different' extensions act as keywords that lower your value most of the time.

- 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 domain usawings, is specific and general at the same time. As one can see, USA stands for United States of America. Wings acts like a brand name or perhaps could imply some sort of flight business, or something to do with flying. It leaves you kind of open, and we definently need to know what were talking about when we compare your domain name for sales so it's time for some research into the possible meanings wing can have on business.

Here is a list of possible meanings...

- Aviation
- Bird Related
- Brand Name

So when we are looking for sales comparables we will consider each of those as a seperate category so you can find the best category to advertise it as.

*Appoved for Aviation, Bird Related, Brand Name Business*

- 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 69 for "usawings". (0.26 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 2,110 for "usa wings". (0.10 seconds)

+$0.02

(Weak value here, not a good sell point)

- 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://uswings.com (uswings.us,.net etc) +$5 (They are a strong consideratin, because they like to buy extra domain names and there brand name pertains exactly to yours! This is your best lead)

http://www.wingsinc.com/ +$1 (The don't use USA, but they do use wings and are aviation related, so this counts as a site using)

http://www.taylorwings.com/index.jsp +$1 (They are a trucking business but use wings in there name and are United States Based, so I allowed this as a comparable for the U.S factor.

http://skylinewings.com/flash/ +$1 (I didn't think about tail wings on cars, but you might consider this idea as well, since they are U.S based I'll count this as well)

http://www.wings-interior-design.com/about.htm +$1.00 (U.S business using wings as there business name, there current domain name sucks! Imagine the selling power persuading these guys to a much easier name like usawings.com)

http://www.getfastwings.net/ +$1 (another wings using site for cars it seems)

http://www.autumnwings.com/ +$1 (Here is a site using birds and wings as there business title, interesting)

http://www.wildwings.com/ww/servlet/introdisplay +$1 (big business site apparently with many locations, uses wings as business name, unlikely to sell to but still a site to note, U.S.A bases)

http://www.corporatewings.com/aboutus/index.html +$1 (Business using the term wings for aviation industry)

http://www.eagleswings.com/ +$0.50 (Brand name for ties using wings, flordia U.S based)

http://www.awishwithwings.org/ +$0.50 (Couldmarket to them a much easier name to remember for the non-profit purposes)

http://www.wildwingsinc.org/ +$0.50 (bird related helping site, they might -unlikely- but might consider usawings)

http://www.scottwings.com/servlet/StoreFront +$0.50 (weak wings using site for computers, still might be considered)

http://www.petfinder.org/shelters/KS114.html +$0.25 (beak n wings Inc. adoption non-profit business)

http://desktopwings.com/ +$0.25 (HD TV company using wings, might be a good name if they take USA wings since they like the word wings)

http://www.wings-press.com/ +$0.25 (They might consider using your site for an easier name here, U.S based as well)

http://www.southwings.org/index2.html +$1 (using wings in name, aviation related)

http://www.blackwings.com/ +$1 (avaiation site using wings again)

http://www.threewing.com/ +$1 (might consider your name and avaiation business)

+$19.25

(Not bad, some great sites pertaining to the relveance set forth using wings as a brand name and as aviation related, not to many bird sites. Your best bet it seems is leaning toward aviation sites and Brand Name Recognition, which you can make a strong case for with these examples.)


– 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-

Doing a search on DNsaleprice did not yeild any relevent USA - Aviation, Bird business, but it did bring up some Brand Name Resources you can refer to. Type in USA to see them on the site http://dnsaleprice.com.

The most notable was...

USAMotors.com $2,000 Dec 05 Afternic

The rest of them I don't really consider as they are way off topic, and why would they relate to wings? wings if your problem here, it limits your market a lot to specialty sales. USAmotors most closely relates to yours because it's mechnical related and says USA, yours is USAwings and relates to aviation, and USAmotors is an example of probably a company in a somewhat related business. It's the best I could do for an example. It sold on Dec 05, which is about a year ago, there were no other reported major sales of USA (of your type name) recorded known of. I'll check sedo now...

- SEDO -

Your search returned 1006 matching domains when searching 'Wings'

The only relevant domain with bids was 'aerowings.com'

with 3 bids, it's minimum bid was 60 USD. Meaning it's probably really around $100 possibly by now assuming $20 bid increments per pid of interest.

Your name IMHO is better then aerowings, but it's hard to say as that is the only wings domain for sale on SEDO right now with bids.

I'll search USA names now...

Your search returned 3576 matching domainswith USA in front of the name)

Lots of USA names with Bids, USA names seem to sell well, which kind of reflects from the DNSALEPRICE, I'll list the top 6.

usabank.com - 9 bids currently (minimum $60+20X8=$160+$60=$220~)
usabids.com - 4 bids currently (minimum $60 +20X3=$60+$60=$100~)
usatrader.com - 2 bids currently (minimum $60 +20X1=$20+$60=$80~)
*usacoins.com - 2 bids currently (minimum $60 +20X1=$20+$60=$80~)
*usabirdflu.com - 2 bods currently (minimum $60 +20X1=$20+$60=$80~)
usaloans.com - 4 bids currently (minimum $10,000)

You can look at the other USA sales as an idea of same of the larger USA sold domains, but in reality you should consider the usacoins and usabirdflu as they most resemble yours in relation to wings as your second keyword, coins I say relates because of the eagles on usa coins, they might find it attractable, and bird flu because of the keyword wings.

Your looking at low $X,XXX potential from DNsaleprice but at a wait of possibly 4 years!, and High $XX (realistically) 1 month, and possibly low $X,XX in the 6 month range. You can speed up these time figures by contacting all the businesses I found for you that advertise themselves online currently using wings and get them to your bid.


-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.

+$3, .COM is the best.

---- Value ----

Domain Availability Value - >-$10

Pricing Guide: (refer to domain availability)

KeyWord Selector Value ->+$24.66

Pricing Guide:refer to keywords, wings and usa have good search returns. Halfed to reflect it's 2 words already.

Relevance of Terms Value ->*Approved Relevent for Aviation, Brand Name, Bird Type Business or Sites in the United States or Selling to*

Pricing Guide:

Google Searches Value- >+$0.02

Pricing Guide:very weak search returns

Sites found using the name Value ->+$19.25

Pricing Guide:

Sales Comparable Range Value ->

RANGE MEDIAN:High $XX, to low $XXX, maybe low $X,XXX (rare)
TIME MEDIAN TO SELL:1-6 months for $XX, XXX figures, many years for $X,XXX figure

Pricing Guide:

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

Pricing Guide: (Read development info section above)

TLD Assessment Value ->+$3

Pricing Guide:

---- Estimated Value ----

Final Value:$36.93 + High $XX (1-3 month), low $XXX (3-6 months), low $XXXX (many years possibly)

---- Recommendation----

As the research shows your best sell points are your keywords and sites using wings terms in the u.s.a. You can probably ask for low $XX, value roughly $20-36 range here in namepros for resell value, more then reg fee of course, and it has the potential given enough time and advertising to sell for an extra $100 past that maybe more but with a lot more risks and time involved.

Good luck with your domain name.

- Joe

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