poll What makes a domain valuable (or not) in 2020 ?

[Gube]

With the idea of building a new, open, appraisal formula in mind, we thought the domaining community could help.
Cast your vote on what influences the most a name's value to you.

An appraiser should help investors to invest at the right price, but can also be used when selling a domain to an end-user ("Proving" the price).
Making the number random wouldn't work..
But here are some elements we could use in a future (free) Appraiser :

• The domain length
  "the shorter the better" or another rule

• TLD used (Does a .com have the same value as a .paris, Increased complexity here, as some GTLDs might be a better fit than a general TLD)

• The domain age
  I think it's still believed age can be a deciding factor when buying or selling a domain. (More names available and registered in the past, meaning the average hand reg quality was better)

• Word balance ratio
  I did use that factor on my personnal scoring system, it worked that way : A domain with a small word size balance had a better score than others (Example : The dog was better than wonderful dog)

• Vowels/Consonants ratio
• TLDs taken count
• Potential end users
  In my formula, I was checking for the amount of similar domains registered (Count of all domains countaining the SLD of the name searched, it's not precise on short SLD, example : the.paris, it was matching all domains containing "the", but .paris was not taken into account - Should it be improved and used ?)

• Readability
  This factor might not be clear, but basically, we would check if a given name can be spelled and read easily

• Dictionary factor (If the name is part of a dictionary, and is commonly used for example, could it influences its value?)

• Similar names sold (Similarity % multiplicated by the sale price?)

• More factors? Feel free to discuss about them in the thread

You can vote for up to 3 different factors, but if you have more in mind, or would like to defend your point of view, please do.

Gube

 

[LaunchUp.com]

Brandability #1

 

[Ostrados]

It might sound difficult, but not impossible

Only possible using deep learning AI.
Forget about finding a formula or equation it will never work.

 

[Ostrados]

BTW GD claim that their appraisal tool is using AI, their appraisal tool did improve a little but no big improvement that you would expect from a learning AI, and it is still far from being a reliable appraisal tool.

 

[biggie]

What makes a domain valuable (or not) in 2020 ?

for some domains, it's the same things that made them valuable in 2019.
and for others,
it could be any news surrounding an event, product, service, etc that occurred in 2020 or anticipated to launch in near future.

as for the appraisal bot:

unless you can program common sense into that time sucker
then....do we really need another?

imo...

 

[Name Trader]

@biggie - isn't common sense programmable?

 

[biggie]

@biggie - isn't common sense programmable?

obviously, it's not

having been around some years before the bot, and seeing all the competitors and rivals which have came after,
one can see the effect they have had on domainers, who started after the bot, over the years.

on NP in particular, at least 2-3 times a year, there is a "how accurate is bot" post.

and.., when you view the lists of sales threads with bot evaluations, there is plenty of evidence that majority of those registrations, were not made using a "common sense" approach.

in the argument of bot appraisals, there are two sides
the builder of the tool
and the user

and to me, common sense says
the more dependent the user becomes on a tool for pricing,
the more power the builder, has over prices.

if you can find some fallacies there, i'll listen.

imo….

 

[NickB]

"An insightful opinion piece on the future of common sense in AI."

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/08/common-sense-artificial-intelligence-2026.html

give it a bit of of time and the machine will develop / have common sense - for now no, so trust those appraisal tools at your peril

 

[ThatNameGuy]

"An insightful opinion piece on the future of common sense in AI."

give it a bit of of time and the machine will develop / have common sense - for now no, so trust those appraisal tools at your peril

Seriously...i just got an email from a friend, Subject; Toilet Paper Tips

"Toilet Paper will go twice as far if you use both sides"

Is this the sort of common sense AI can add to the appraisal process?

 

[Croissant]

Thank for the poll Gube

(of course all options/parameters on the poll are important)

my answer is:
I would like to repeat, Dictionary =)

 

[Samer]

Thank for the poll Gube

(of course all options/parameters on the poll are important)

my answer is:
I would like to repeat, Dictionary =)

too many dictionary words to count;

many unknown ones; i dont like that answer;

How will you measure “dictionary”“?

 

[frank-germany]

the only factor that makes a domain valuable is:

somewhere out there does an end-user exist
who has the creativity/insight to understand that that special domain
will make him aka his company even more profitable aka successful

and as that end-user exits
there might as well a domain investor exist
who has the idea to buy it cheaper from you

 

[trelgor]

The overall gravitas as a brand. You will need to filter it through your intellect and experience. There is no formula. Brands are like people. Different. Some are different in a similar way and some are similar in a different way. All have a persona that can be liked by some and disliked by others. The accuracy of a valuation for something this complex depends on the overall skill of the person making it. You can read a book from start to finish and memorize it perfectly. That will still not make you a good lawyer or doctor or writer or artist or anything. Maybe you can be a dictionary.