closed Best Place 2 Get an Appraisal Anyone?

Biscuit · Oct 21, 2004

Greetings,
I am looking to get a domain of mine appraised for the 1st time.

Could you recommend anyone that you think in your experience gives the most realistic appraisals of domains and provides the best service.

All suggestions will be ever-so-much appreciated guys!

Regards BB :santa:

Ross1982 · Oct 21, 2004

Getting free appriasials from forums like this are no worse then getting a 'proper' one done really, I wouldn't pay for one unles I had to.

Biggie · Oct 21, 2004

Perhaps if you posted the domain in this thread......then you might get some appraisals or comments.

windyreddy · Oct 21, 2004

I was recommended echoarts.com. You could check them out.

Note: I am not associated with them.

Deleted member 9275 · Oct 21, 2004

Biscuit said:
Greetings,
I am looking to get a domain of mine appraised for the 1st time.

Could you recommend anyone that you think in your experience gives the most realistic appraisals of domains and provides the best service.

All suggestions will be ever-so-much appreciated guys!

Regards BB :santa:

I like the appraisals by dotcomseeker.com. Their website could use a facelift but their appraisals are well organized, detailed and professional. Here' are a couple I had done earlier this year:

http://dotcomseeker.com/orders/appraisals/71F43399EY6464138-appraisal.htm

http://www.dotcomseeker.com/orders/appraisals/7NH21978516050834-appraisal.htm

I don't like the appraisals I've had done by AfterNIC.com. It seems that they determine a dollar amount by looking up the seach volume of the keywords in the domain name, IF ANY. BS.

AmCy

Laird Mobi · Oct 21, 2004

If i were you i would only get an appraisial done by forums such as this, never pay for one, as they are commonly inaccurate and work on set models. This will in fact give you a value to which is correct in their minds.

A domain is only worth what someones willing to pay for it in the end! Even Sedo as a reputable domain broker isn't wholey accurate. So dont chuck your money away!

Anthony Ng · Oct 21, 2004

aggieuk said:
A domain is only worth what someones willing to pay for it in the end!

With all due respect, you may have left out a very important factor in here: the seller. The price of any commodity is determined by the interaction of BOTH demand and supply; so while the buyers (yes, usually plural) have a say on it, don't forget that the seller (singular) who to a certain extent controls the supply (depending on substitutability) plays no less a role in deciding the final sale price. Economics 101!

Deleted member 9275 · Oct 21, 2004

aggieuk said:
If i were you i would only get an appraisial done by forums such as this, never pay for one, as they are commonly inaccurate and work on set models. This will in fact give you a value to which is correct in their minds.

A domain is only worth what someones willing to pay for it in the end! Even Sedo as a reputable domain broker isn't wholey accurate. So dont chuck your money away!

I've noticed that valuable .COM domains get lots of attention in this forum. Other domains often don't even receive one reply with an appraisal. Don't get me wrong: I think that the appraisals offered here are great but sometimes one needs to augment an opinion garnered in a forum like this one with a highly detailed analysis backed up with solid research and summarized with an actual dollar amount, not $xx,xxx.xx.

AmCy

Ross1982 · Oct 21, 2004

I have domain appraisal software but it's mostly so far off the mark I deem it worthless.

Anthony Ng · Oct 21, 2004

Ross1982 said:
I have domain appraisal software but it's mostly so far off the mark I deem it worthless.

Yeah, machine appraisals are mostly useless, regardless of how well their parameters look.

seeker · Oct 21, 2004

Amcy, all extensions have their place on thw web. Some sound better than others, others can be branded better than others.
However, why do yo think our industry is known as the 'dot com'. When I tell people what I do for a living, they say, 'oh, the dot com thing'.

also, dotcomseeker (I like the seeker part), is, after all .com

So of course, .coms do get valued more. It is, usually, all else equal, the better tld.

Now, here, you will also get different points of view from people who actually buy and sell and develop other extensions.
So over all, for me, the best appraisal is the free one by our edtimated colleagues, right here!

JEsports · Oct 21, 2004

I agree ... I tried the domain appraisals out on Sedo.com and have received appraisals for around $5k each for three word domain names that I probably couldnt even sell for regular fee. I think the appraisal section is a good asset to this forum and I find the opinions here very valuable. Let me also say there are some great posts in this thread regarding appraisals that I wish I had read before paying the bucks to purchase appraisals when i first started buying a few names.

I would again reiterate the point from Biggie and go ahead and post the name hear some great opinions.

Deleted member 9275 · Oct 21, 2004

seeker said:
Amcy, all extensions have their place on thw web. Some sound better than others, others can be branded better than others.
However, why do yo think our industry is known as the 'dot com'. When I tell people what I do for a living, they say, 'oh, the dot com thing'.

also, dotcomseeker (I like the seeker part), is, after all .com
So of course, .coms do get valued more. It is, usually, all else equal, the better tld.

Now, here, you will also get different points of view from people who actually buy and sell and develop other extensions.
So over all, for me, the best appraisal is the free one by our edtimated colleagues, right here!

The point I was making is that appraisal requests for the less familiar TLD's--like .TV or .WS or even .NET--often get no response in this forum.

AmCy

seeker · Oct 21, 2004

strange.
In my experience, they do get responses.
They just might not be the responses the owner wants.
In other cases, they surpass expectations.
There are those that are anti anything else other than .com, but then, there are those that deal with other extensions and can realisticly tell you their value.
Emphasis on realistic.

JEsports · Oct 21, 2004

The NON dot com point i have found that most people find value in the extension as long as it fits well with the extension used. Example .. some people might find more value in HD.TV than HD.NET if they ran a high definition tv business. Or VB.NET over VB.ORG because of the programming software. Other extensions will increase in value over time.

Sharpy · Oct 21, 2004

nameslave said:
Yeah, machine appraisals are mostly useless, regardless of how well their parameters look.

Unless you ad -1,000,000 at the end of the equation

Anthony Ng · Oct 21, 2004

JEsports said:
Example .. some people might find more value in HD.TV than HD.NET if they ran a high definition tv business. Or VB.NET over VB.ORG because of the programming software.

To be frank, I'd definitely go for HDTV.com and VB.com.

I mean many people actually prefer a longer .com instead of a .net or .org, not to say .biz, .info or other ccTLDs, despite their industries.

seeker · Oct 21, 2004

I see your reasoning. And to a large extent I agree.
However, HD.TV would IMHO go for more than HDTV.COM
AT least in Europe.

I can present examples, If necessary.

fatter · Oct 21, 2004

most of my names on domain forums get appraised at 0-100 dollars, yet I continue to reject offers especially ones where a domain earns 200 dollars a year in typein traffic and I am offered less than that. I figure out what my names are worth not an appraissal service,Probably explains why I havent sold any yet. Biggest factor i use is what a company has to pay per click(not what i get paid) IE: if child support is 3.00 a click then every vistor I get is worth 3 dollars(to them) to an end user not the 10 cents perclick i get
my 2 cents