Deborah K.
Marketing/Communications Professional Moving into Leadership Development and Social Innovation
Someone has asked to buy a domain name I've been holding and I am looking for some resources that might help me figure out how to price it. Do you know of any or have you done such a thing before?
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Hello,
Here's a list of some companies that will value your domain. Not sure of the results as mine's valued at zip.
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Randall G.
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If it's a website + domain, Website Outlook can provide some useful ballpark numbers
It says linkedin.com Estimated Worth $40.83 Million USD
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Have you contacted Oversee.net? They are in that business and would be a good company to connect with.
I'm not an expert by any stretch but I have sold some domains (as high as mid four figures) and have had lots of 'offers' for various domains over the years. In my experience...
Traditional domainers will value it based on the revenue potential as a parked domain, ie. based on the amount of type in traffic it sees. They're probably only interested it is a very high quality generic domain for which there is real search demand, which means there's probably also some decent type in traffic.
Developers will value it based on their perceived value, ie. highly subjective. It all comes down to the negotiation and knowing what would you be prepared to part with it for. I've passed on some sales because I've felt the domain would be worth more to me in the longer term.
Keep in mind also that there are lots of scams around where people contact you pretending to be interested and then say that they want you to use a particular domain valuation company to assess the value...the rub being that they run the domain valuation business. Most domain valuation sites are a crock imho.
I've always started the discussion of by asking them to make any offer. They'll typically come back and low ball it, to which you can reply saying it really needs to be in the XXXX range (the high end of what you want for it) before you'd be prepared to part with it, and see what happens then.
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Go look on sedo.com and godaddy.com's auctions and see what people are bidding for domains like yours. Just remember that your domain is actually worth $whatever_the_registrar_charges_per_year. Especially if you are just holding it.
All good answers just beware of the guys that set you up for a paid manual valuation using bogus client references.
Usually they start by inquiring about buying your domain then lead you to a fake forum where some company is recommended to do the valuation who is in reality the person that inquired about buying your domain in the first place.
The value of domain names like everything else is equal to exactly what someone will pay for it.
