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Speaking as someone with a fair bit of domaining experience, unfortunately a lot of the domains listed are worthless, with the exception of daz.com which is a 5
by tristanperry 16y ago
Speaking as someone with a fair bit of domaining experience, unfortunately a lot of the domains listed are worthless, with the exception of daz.com which is a 5 figure domain, ww.com which is a 5 (possibly 6?) figure domain, secondhandcar.com which IMO is a 4 figure domain, webcamsoftware.com which is 4 figures, and a few others which hold a <$100 value. So there are some valuable domains, but the majority are worth $0 in my opinion. (Note: I don't mean to sound insulting when I say they're worthless - indeed, I literally mean it that their valuation is $0).
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.
- sebseb 16y agoI have a few domains I would like to sell. Would you give me a quick valuation range like you just did with those?
- jtheory 16y ago...I thought of posting a few I was curious about as well, but that would get silly pretty quickly. 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.