Domain Names: How much is your domain worth? Guide to placing a value on your domain names. You’ll find many companies that are happy to assess the value of your domain name. Some offer this service free through an automated "valuation wizard" type approach, others charge a fee for a more customized, personal valuation. Fundamentally, all these appraisal services suffer from the same flaw: domain names are UNIQUE! So while there is certainly some merit in looking at the current domain name market and trying to find "parallels" with recent sales, it’s impossible to base the valuation of one domain name on the valuation placed on another, no matter how much some domain name valuation services would have you believe otherwise. At the end of the day, a domain name is worth exactly what a buyer is willing to pay for it, no more and no less. To revisit a theme that has been brought up several times on this site already, please bear in mind that 90% of domain names are essentially worthless.
Example: Cars.com may be worth enough to retire on. B) Is the domain name a ".com" name? Conceptualist.com, By Sahar Sarid. DomainPulse.com - The Beat on the Domain Name Industry. Domain Name Journal - The Industry News Magazine at DNJournal.com. Blog Archive » Promoting Parked Domains Through Paid Advertising: Don’t Make This Mistake! When I first got into the domain name business almost two years ago, I began accumulating domains rapidly. Many were hand registrations.
I registered assorted typos of popular websites, celebrity names, and future technologies that might one day be viable (like QuantomComputer.com, a typo of “quantum computer”, which is a theoretical technology that might one day exist). If I had it to do over, by the way, I would not register the typos. Some of them infringe on other companies’ trademarks. I also bought several domains at auction, focusing on domains with traffic.
Parking My Domains I ended up with a stable of several hundred domains. I found that the income from parking was meager, because the traffic on most of the domains was low. I was completely unaware that this is a violation of the terms of service of almost every domain parking service. A Highly Profitable Experiment The first month I tried this, I made several hundred dollars profit. The second month I made almost $3,000.