Objective Domain Name Appraisals - Free!

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Easy as 1, 2, 3! And it's free!

1. Enter the domain name you would like appraised. If the name is comprised of more than one word, capitalize the beginning of each word. (for example, if your domain is myfavoritedomain.com, enter MyFavoriteDomain). Select the top level domain from the choice menu at the right. Click 'next' to go the the next step.

2. You will be given a phrase to search at AltaVista. It is important that you search this phrase exactly, including the double quotes at the beginning and the end of the phrase. Do not capitalize the beginning of each word during your search! After you search, AltaVista will tell you how many pages were found containing your phrase. Enter this number in the space provided, and click 'finish'. (hint: to make this easier, right click the AltaVista link and select "open in a new window". Then you will have one browser with the domain appraiser and one with AltaVista.)

3. You're done! The objective domain appraisal tool will tell you how much it believes your domain is worth.

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Sample Domain Name Appraisals

Here are some examples of the power of the Objective Domain Appraisal Tool. These domains have already been sold for the amount shown. The Objective Appraisals (calculated in May 2000) are also shown. In many cases, the blindly objective appraisals are eerily accurate!

Domain Name

How much
did it
sell for?

Objectively
appraised for:

Business.com $7,500,000 $7,700,000

Loans.com $3,000,000 $500,000

Income.com $2,100,000 $1,500,000

Savings.com $1,900,000 $770,000

Biz.com $1,750,000 $920,000

WallStreet.com $1,030,000 $120,000

Drugs.com $823,456 $1,000,000

Cinema.com $700,000 $1,100,000

Taxes.com $700,000 $770,000

Wisdom.com $475,000 $420,000

Tower.com $208,000 $980,000

Architecture.com $190,000 $1,000,000

Fruits.com $160,000 $210,000

PhoneCalls.com $120,000 $130,000

Speaker.com $120,000 $720,000

Seminars.com $119,000 $870,000

HappyBirthday.com $55,000 $50,000

Madeira.com $50,000 $86,000

Florist.com $30,000 $66,000

Withdraw.com $12,270 $14,000

SoccerFans.com $6,300 $1,000

Tidy.com $4,725 $16,000

PoliticalJokes.com $2,095 $540

Jalopies.com $260 $180

..

Friends.net $12,040 $250,000

Diary.net $9,510 $61,000

Venture-Capital.net $4,510 $1,400

Lazy.net $1,990 $10,000

These samples show that the Objective Domain Name Appraisal Tool can usually come up with values that are within a factor of ten of the actual sale amount, sometimes a little high, sometimes a little low. That amounts to being able to come up within one of the right number of zeroes, which is, in itself, quite an accomplishment for an algorithm applied to an abstract, subjective field. It's probably as good as most people can do!

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Appraisal Help

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About the Appraisal Machine

This objective domain appraisal machine was created to do something that no person is capable of, that is, to estimate the monetary value of a domain name based entirely upon objective factors. While you can easily argue that a domain name's value is equal only to what someone is willing to pay for it, and that that value is entirely subjective, the concept of an 'appraisal' is quite foolish when it comes to something like a domain name. This tool, however, accounts for factors such as how long the domain name is, what the top-level domain is, how many hyphens it contains, and most obviously, how many searchable pages on the web contain the word or phrase defined by the domain name.

The fine folks at DomainIQ have this to say: (May 2000)


Objective Domain Name Appraisals

This free self-appraisal service compares the words in your domain name against
 the search result numbers at Altavista to give you a rough estimate of value. 
Although we don't see this as a stand alone option, we do think it has value as a 
compliment to a well researched appraisal.

I think it's very nice of them to credit this applet so! Check out their site!

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