Domain name valuations
jacquesmattheij.com
jacquesmattheij.com
If it expires and drops, 300 - 600 dollars.
In a wholesale liquidation of an entire portfolio: 800 - 1200 dollars.
On it's own, with a list of 50 potential companies that you're willing to cold call, and you've put in the work to find the right person within each company: 6,000 - 20,000 dollars.
The above scenario, but if there is a bidding war between two or more companies: 15,000 - 40,000 dollars.
So the answer is basically it depends how much work you are willing to put in to sell them. With some of these domains it's clear that you can put together a list of 100 leads if you're willing to put in 10+ hours per domain, but with others I would guess that you would probably have to liquidate them at bargain basement prices to get any money back.
Why? I am not really sure, but I would hypothesize that the demand is most highly concentrated at the major drop sites. They also facilitate transactions more smoothly and uniformly. Big players don't have to muddle around with lots of individuals, they deal with one company who takes giant checks from them and are assured the domain and no drama every time.
Don't expired domains lose big time SEO by getting classed as "new" in SE algorithms though, I thought that was why they lost value. This assumes you've got something on there that's keyword relevant already I think.
Domainers are so silly. The value of your domain is what someone is willing to pay for it and what you said proves it: If you bother to find the people who want it then they will pay for it. Saying $15k - $40k is also silly, because it matters what the specific companies are. A bidding war between a small corner shop and a family owner jewellery store won't reach the same as Apple vs. Google.
"So the answer is basically it depends how much work you are willing to put in to sell them."
The value is what someone is willing to pay for it, if you can find a good end user who desperately wants it and has money then you can sell it for lots, but the money you make doesn't scale relative to the effort you put in, just like with any commodity like housing, cars etc. I can't sell a beaten up old ford focus for $1m because I spend 60 hours a week for a year finding a buyer.
Personally I doubt your domain would clear >$100 in a sale.
That keyword term only gets 210 searches a month, and there is no real way to monetize it...short of just doing a blog.
I'd say that's worth 200 bucks tops...and that's with bidding to drive up the price...since you'll have a hard time finding people actually wanting to get it.
I guess the old real estate saying is true: "location, location, location"...
These days with so much spam, I try to avoid domain names with my search keyword in them.
There is some effect, but it's not that significant. Bing, on the other hand, seems to weight domain names very highly.
It may not "seem" that way, but our data suggests strongly otherwise.
why? Simple..exact match bonus.
An exact match domain has a much MUCH easier time getting to the #1 spot in search results.
This is why creditcards.com outranks all of the big banks.
The domain was regged in 1998, and if the TM was registered after this date then it should be okay.
There are pushes by some US law makers (e.g. the silly Senator Olivia Snow) to change this so that TM holders have much more rights over domains, even if the domain existed before the TM, but for now it should be fine.
Would be worth consulting a domain lawyer if an offer is made for it though.
A company called Mills Brothers BV hold an internationally registered mark "Daz" in classes 18, 25 too.
I'm sure there are several others.
The biggest problem, as I see it, is that there are only a few TLDs, none of them are very meaningful, so it all effectively converges into a single namespace.
If there were TLDs like .games, .mag (magazine), .press, .news, .comp and so on, no single domain would hold so much "value".
For companies, you could have a reserved .corp TLD where every entry has to be verified (so only a registered business with matching name can own it). For products, you could have .prod.
The scarcity isn't artificial, it's the limited amount of recall a consumer has for information.
It's getting harder, certainly, but sometimes you luck out.
ICANN's policy: - Create close to one new TLD a year. - Either make it converge to the same logical"namespace" (what's the difference between .biz and .com?) or make the new TLD highly specialized and charge "premium" prices (.mobi).
This does not alleviate the "deficit". For example, if you own food.com and someone else buys food.biz, you're in conflict. Solution? Offer lots of money for food.biz. Oh, but there is also food.mobi! You company has a mobile app, right? So you try to buy buy food.mobi as well. The system encourages you to hog the domains.
What I've described: - Make a large number of TLDs available at the same time. - Make them describe the type of content the server works with.
This would create a multitude of logical namespaces, which would drive the prices down. If you own food.review and someone else owns food.wholesale, you're not competing for the same name any more. This wouldn't completely remove contention, but it would reduce its intensity.
As for remembering domains, I don't see how adding meaningful TLDs would make it harder. Is food.review really harder to memorize than foodreview.com?
Second, yes, food.review is harder to remember than foodreview.com. Trillions of dollars have been spent branding .com into consumer's minds worldwide (also local ccTLDs in some country trump .com because of use/adoption). Wait, did I want food.review or food.guide? or was it...? People do get confused by URLs, having the same TLD (.com/or whatever your country uses) makes it easier to remember for average consumers. The biggest thing I think a lot of people here forget is, YOU'RE NOT NORMAL. Average consumers aren't hanging around at HackerNews, a site for the tech elite, and their behavior doesn't match this audience (you).
I've had domains that I hand-registered in the last two years sell for 4-5 figures and other that according to experts/tools are very valuable, but that simply do not attract any buyer.
And I'm not even a regular domain investor (or domain squatter as people on YC seem to believe all domain investors = squatters).
Anyway, I think the blog poster has a pretty good idea of what his domains are worth, but he's just trying to raise attention and possibly start a bidding war on the 2-3 interesting ones. Some choose to do their auctions through auction houses, other uses more creative forms.
It's also worth noting that the domain industry got hit a fair bit by the recession, and it's possible that some of the above domains would sell for slightly higher than the rough range I've given (espeically the two 4 figure domains I quote, which could go for low 5 figures in the right circumstances).
It's quite common to see people (as the blog post says) regging domains on a whim since they look good, but usually such domains regged on a whim are worthless. And unfortunately it does seem to be the case here.
Anywhoo, I'll send my semi-informed appraisals along to the blog author now. I've been a domainer since I was 16/17 (am 20; 21 next month), so whilst I'm not an expert or anything, I have a fair bit of domaining experience and hope my appraisals are somewhat useful.
And I'd possibly advise that he looks at DNForum.com and NamePros.com (the two big domaining forums; the former is paid-only though) a little bit to get a general feel of domain prices.
Just about everyone here probably has 5-10 domain names (if not more) that they've registered somewhere along the way with a side project in mind that hasn't materialized yet.
I personally am wondering if anyone knows of a way to put a domain name in escrow -- I had an offer for one of my domains from someone with a side project, and tried to work out a solution where he could have it for free, but if his project hadn't gotten any traction after a few years, it would revert back to me (since maybe I'd have found time for my own project by then...). No dice, though; he didn't know/trust me, the legal aspects were too confusing, and so on.
secondhandcar.com could be valuable to the right person. You could probably get $50k from the right buyer.
The rest are nice, but not "must haves". Unless a domain is rare and generic its not worth > $10k. Color.com, Mint.com, Tires.com are rare and generic, most of these are not.
I suspect there was a bug in the script/procedure he used to scrape, because they don't match up to the sources below.
Edit: here's a decent list http://www.webcooltips.com/the-most-expensive-domains-sales-...
ww.com is the aesthetic winner though.
"Ww.com and reocities.com are there for 'curiosity value' only."
:( it was the bastard child of to much beer.