02.11.07
How much is your domain name worth? Here are some sites that will tell you.
A friend of mine sent me a link to a web site that said that one of my domain names was worth a lot of money. It was quite entertaining. You can enter your domain name and it will tell you the general value based on its length, and whether it is a TLD (.com, .net, .org). It also checks Archive.org to see how long the domain name has been in use, since this can also have an affect on how search engines will rank the domain name.
The site is www.leapfish.com. The domain name that I tested was “ce.net”, which will be the domain name that we are going to use for our upcoming version of Store-Logic, which we are going to call “Commerce Engine”. It’s a nice, short domain name that I have had for some time. LeapFish says that the domain name is worth $450,846.00.
That is really good news for me, right? I own a domain name that is worth half a million dollars. The sad thing is that the estimate isn’t accurate. There is no way that a web site could accurately determine what someone would be willing to pay for the domain name. Sex.com was a domain name that was recently sold for $12 million dollars, and at one point leapfish said the sex.com domain name was worth $60 million dollars. Now when you enter that domain into leapfish it says it is worth $14 million. Who knows?
Another site that has a domain name valuation tool on it is called NameBoy. NameBoy will email you valuations for several domains at one time, and the valuations are a little lower (more reasonable) than LeapFish.
I don’t trust either of these sites, but I think it’s fun to play with them and see what a domain name might be worth. Try out the sites, and let me know if you get a decent valuation on the domains that you own.
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