closed Appraisal: CountryIdol.com

[1ratehost]

Domain Name: CountryIdol.com

Message:
Might be used for a Country Music competition.

I also have CarolinaIdol.com.

 

[dilpreet]

high XXX or may be low XXXX to end user

 

[nrmillions]

regfee for carolina idol and $xx for country idol

 

[Rockefeller]

XX each.

 

[OXCELL]

I think you have a great name along with strong possibilities for use by one of the media or adv. concerns.
My advice, don't sell it, offer it out for lease and work stricktly on a percentage of ad revenue, best in the long run.
Best of luck!

 

[picassofacepicassoface is verified member.]

I'll give you $100 for countryidol.com

paypal.

Please post "Sold" if that's OK.

 

[Domain Jedi]

I like CountryIdol.com.

Can't place a dollar amount on it but I think it has alot of potential.

Good luck!

 

[1ratehost]

Thanks to all for the advice. I'll most likely hang onto it and look into the lease option. I'm new to all this... so still doing my research.

 

[x11joex11]

I wasn't advertisng... I was giving an appraisal

 

[lilian]

CountryIdol.com.I like this domain.

 

[x11joex11]

I wasn't advertising I was giving an appraisal, if you notice I don't ask anyone to buy anything, they can just help support my site if they want, just take a look at anyones profile they are advertising, you might as well ban them all, once again I'll post the appraisal and *take out my advertising...I think?* and leave it here.

**Appraisal**

Appraising: CountryIdol.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...

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

-$10 ~ you are the only regged TLD in the top 3.

- 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.

-Full Word-
0 - countryidol (no non space searches as single word) -$1.00
198 country idol (nice exact searches) +$0.10~

-2 Word-

200524 - country +$50.13
69856 idol +$17.46

Now remember that these values can be nulified if not found relevent, but lukily for you they are relevent to each other.

+$67.59

- 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.

Your general keyword here is country and not as likely is idol. I will get the definitions for each of your keywords here so we can decide what is most relevent for comparing purposes.

(http://bluerider.com definitions)

"country" - the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"

***"country" -an area outside of cities and towns; "his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country"

"Idol Definitions"

i•dol Pronunciation (dl)
n.
1.
a. An image used as an object of worship.
b. A false god.
**2. One that is adored, often blindly or excessively.
3. Something visible but without substance.

So I think the things to best consider out of the definitions is country idols, that is people adored from area's outside cities or towns in the 'country' like the name says. You might consider getting countryidols.com as well if you choose to invest in this name, if it wasn't you already who has it registered.

**Approved Relevent for country idol related site**

- 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 12,700 for "country idol". (0.33 seconds) +$0.11
Results 1 - 10 of about 37 for "countryidol". (0.91 seconds) +$0~

+$0.11

(weak google searches for the term, but your exact overture on it helps a bit, as usual though the weak amount of registered TLD's reflects the google market)

- 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.metacafe.com/watch/38253/some_other_country_idol/ +$1.00 refers to videos about country idols

http://myidol.idolonfox.com/blogs/willie_bubbles/chris (americanidol.com)+$1.00 this is your closest related site, only one I could find on this search when refering to country idols

+$2.00 (not many sites using the term as you might think)

– 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-

CountryMusicBands.com $2,272 Mar 06 SnapNames

This was the the only name of relevance to yours closely as it relates to music implying idol possibly, but it does use the correct use of country is the point here. So there is an example of a max figure you might make. No other known sales of huge amounts for names like yours in records.

- SEDO -

Lets see what people are bidding on for idol names...

Your search returned 826 matching domains:

So competing with 826 names, there are 4 of those relevant to you with bids on them and those are...

indianidol.com Make Offer bids:24 Minimum bid $60~
americanidols.com Make Offer bids:17 Minimum bid $60~
rockidol.com 1,800 $US bids:3 Minimum Bid $1800~
worldidol.com Make Offer bids:2 Minimum bid $60~

The ones of most interest to you personally since country is general would be worldidol.com.

If your selling on the idea of a country as a nation then your looking potentially $80 max, as worldidol is very similar on that aspect.

If you sell on the idea of a music genre 'country' you have options for bids it seems in the low $X,XXX. I'll do a search for 'country' alone to see how those names do as well.

Searching Country on Sedo...

Your search returned 2979 matching domains:

So competing with 2979 other country names, I see 4 with potential relevance that have bids on them.

countrymusic.info Make Offer bids:5 Minimum bid: 60 USD
countryrock.net Make Offer bids:2 Minimum bid: 1,004 USD
countryshows.com Make Offer bids:1 Minimum bid: 518 USD
countrysports.com Make Offer bids:1 Minimum bid: 1,004 USD

So out of thse countryshows.com kind of relates to idols more so IMHO in this case, which is mid $XXX figure with 1 bid, could be fake bid though to gain attention. I really only trust 5 bids at least. Assuming this is real though and looking at DNsaleprice for similar sales on sites of this kind, it seems the most you'll ever make is low $X,XXX with the potential for mid $XXX given (1-3 months on the market as these domains show. You might consider advertising it on SEDO in the rotating spot, it might just make you a sale since your name is pretty similar to those others.)



-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 (you have the .com, best to have)

---- Value ----

Domain Availability Value - >-$10

Pricing Guide:refer to domain availability section

KeyWord Selector Value ->+$67.59

Pricing Guide: nice keywords

Relevance of Terms Value ->**approved for country idol site**

Pricing Guide:refer to relevence

Google Searches Value- >+$0.11

Pricing Guide:

Sites found using the name Value ->+$2

Pricing Guide:

Sales Comparable Range Value ->

RANGE MEDIAN:mid $XXX , low $X,XXX
TIME MEDIAN TO SELL:1-3 months~, (years for low $x,xxx)

Pricing Guide: refer to sales comparables

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

Pricing Guide: (Read development info section above)

TLD Assessment Value ->+$3

Pricing Guide:

---- Estimated Value ----

Final Value:$62.70 + mid $XXX (1-3 months), low $X,XXX (possibility with many years)

---- Recommendation----

This name shows good potential to compete with the other names available with bids on them and should quite possibly land you in the mid $XXX range. At a minimum your keywords are strong so that is your sell point and makes your name valuable especially since the two keywords are relevant to each other in this case. It should have a resell value in the mid $XX range to a reseller willing to take the risk.

Put it on SEDO if your going to sell yourself though.

Good luck with your domain name.

- Joe

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[DoneDeal]

Since you got a lot of time in your hands x11joex11 , could you appraise mine as well

CabServices.co.uk
Remortgage.cc

 

[x11joex11]

remortgage.cc looks good, I don't know about the other, also there is a lot of .cc names available right now so I can't properely appraise a .cc name. Until all the one words are gone the market to a reseller will be regfee most likely, hold onto it and it'll be worth more later.

I post a lot more on na-me pro-s.com, but decided to give dnforum a try, so go easy on me here, I know my post count is low.

 

[1ratehost]

Hi all... I'm reviving this appraisal because I received an offer of $2,000 for this domain (CountryIdol.com) and don't know whether I should take it or not. I was hoping for a little more than this as I think this domain has a lot of potential, but then again $2,000 would be nice.

Any advice? :undecided:

 

[domainah]

Hi all... I'm reviving this appraisal because I received an offer of $2,000 for this domain (CountryIdol.com) and don't know whether I should take it or not. I was hoping for a little more than this as I think this domain has a lot of potential, but then again $2,000 would be nice.

Any advice? :undecided:

Thats a good offer, def more than reseller, but you are giving up the potential some TV station might come around for huge money, but that might never happen. $2000 is a great offer and a reseller offer like that might not come around again.., your decision...

 

[Onward]

I would not think twice about taking a 2k offer on countryidol.com.

Take it quick IMO.

 

[1ratehost]

Thanks for the advice, domainah & Onward.

I'm still unsure, but I might just have him bid on it at Afternic and let it go to the "Closing Soon" auction and hope for a higher bidder, else settle for the $2,000.

Thanks again!

 

[sashas]

Look at it this way.
The company that makes American Idol etc. has shows with the same name running in several countries (Indian Idol, Canadian Idol, etc.).
This domain could be bought by the company as a sort of start-up page, since it has "idol" competitions running in so many "countries"

 

[DNP]

low $xxx undeveloped

 

[McDot]

2K today is a very good offer!
Tha name might very well develop more potential if you chose to wait.

Your decision.