Did you intentionally post a comment stealing part of my post word for word?

“However, the more important feature I offer my clients is EVALUATION. This process is hugely important as a first step, and I learned it evaluating hundreds of thousands of domains for registrars on the drop. The difference? You don’t give a price, you just say “keep, dump, build, Premium, or WOW”. This gives the domainer an idea of their portfolio’s value AND direction, it costs less than a $1 a domain usually (bulk is cheaper), and it defines a client’s portfolio without them spending tons of money just to find out the domain is a throwaway.”

Explain your post, as you have stolen a comment by me about my services, without commenting on it. If it was a mistake, no harm…

On September 11, I posted about this with a nearly identical heading (How do you value domains?) at CasualDomainer.com

Although, I was talking about “http://www.groupvaluation.com/”

GroupValuation.com has a social aspect I liked – you can add a domain after YOU value 10 other people’s names. You get real people ‘guessing’ value.. I think that works well because after 10 valuations you get a pretty realistic picture of what people might pay at auction IMO.

Francois’ Valuate.com gave similar results – have not asked if it’s new to estibot via some deal, but Valuate seemed to give better results than estibot used to – although it’s been a while.

I like Valuate.com and would say there’s no harm in trying and getting to grips with any differing method of attempting to find a value.

Agree with so many above – Kevin, yes I like equity and long term value over multiples of PPC which I see as short changing.

End user sales are one thing – End USE is still a goal for me. I’ve taken the “for sale” signs off all my domains.

SEDO priced the .net version at 590 Euro and less than 100 for co.uk

Valuate priced 15k for co.uk and less than 50 for .net version.

Now can anyone tell me where are we going tomorrow?

Each and every domain is unique. Like we human. The value depends on seller and buyer.

Like Elliot said “The price of a domain is as much as the buyer willing to pay”

AEIOU is gone and now Valuate!

I gave you a n example: one of my domains (portuguese language), casamaravilhas.com was appraised by Godaddy (where it is hosted more than 6 years) for a value of $200.
Can you believe honestly that a domain that get daily 1.480.000 on Google search and it is the first to be found (the first gogofun pay to Google to be there), only values $200? A domain that has a web site since 1997 with more than 200.000 visitors in total and even today with more than a thousand for week it deserves only 200? ok it is in portuguese and Godaddy experts simply can´t valuate this type of domains (very unnational for their tastes) but it would enough for them to make a search “casa maravilhas” to find so many results and references to this domain and web site (dedicated to artists and shows, parties, etc.). It simply do not need to use adwords and with adsense it reaches hundreds a year.

The domain is now “for sale” at Sedo for thousands that is the real value mainly for portuguese language domainers and end users. That´s it.

Thanks for the article.
Regards
Carlos Martins
domainshouse