How much is your domain worth?
Do you know?! Do you care?
What if someone offered to buy your site? Would you know how much it’s worth?
Well, check out LeapFish.com!
It will give you a free instant estimated valuation to your site!
Like OMG (Oh Mi Gosh), my cousin recently got a check for $5,000 Canadian for her site. I ran her URL and it says:
Combined Domain Name Appraisal Value Score: 494
Top Level Domain Name Score: 10
Unwanted Characters Score: 10
Length Score: 4
Archive.org Score: 110
Google Search Results: 2,890
Yahoo Search Results: 0
MSN Search Results: 588
Search Engine Score: 1
Estimated Domain Name Value: $54,834.00
I told her and her husband NOT to take it!
DO *NOT* Undersell yourself!
Know your domain worth…and if its not nearly as high as you’d like…start crackin’ baby!
EmpowerWomenNow.com is worth a measly $300, and my cousins site was her ‘hobby’ site…crude, I should be asking her tips, huh?
For her privacy (and not to embarrass my dearest beloved family member, I will *not* disclose her URL…and, plezzz…do not ask!)
And, NO, her site was a very family-friendly, *health* site…I was just asked 
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Posted on June 27th, 2007 by Ponn Sabra
Filed under: Blogging, Internet Marketing
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It isn’t the most accurate gauge in the world, andybeard.eu is worth $36
I have undeveloped domains that are worth more.
I just checked mine and it’s worth: $19.00
LMAO!! My site is teh suxorz.
Wow, what a bargain, I could buy andybeard.au for $36.
Like most of these tools, I think they are wildly inaccurate. The best price guide for a domain, is how much someone is willing to pay.
Andy
Urgh…hope you weren’t too disappointed
Your site totally trumps mine!
Jenny
Based on Andy’s comments, I’m totally laughing with you girl-friend!
Leigh
Hee hee! I can’t agree more! But, I am totally NOT for sale, so that’s assuring!
I trump you all! My site is worth $12, probably because of the .au domain.
Cool albeit worthless tool
$12 - I think I’l keep it.
Little did I know how *hysterical* this little post would be
Y’all got me crackin’ up ov’r here :LOL:
BTW, I’m seeing a pattern here…anything outta the U.S. just plain is worth pennies.
Andy’s, Andy’s and Matt’s
That alone shows the worthiness of this tool…but, its still funny, huh!?
You know a good place to gauge how much your domain is worth? nameboy.com
Amanda
Thanks for the tip…what too lazy to make the link live!?
Not a problem…here it is y’all:
Nameboy.com Appraisal Tool. Emailed to ya…let’s see!
One domain that I sold for 4-digit three yrs ago when its alexa rank was about 50K (ie. slightly hire than empowerwomennow.com’s), is now worth $2-million according to Leapfish… (the site now is ranked top under 10,000 according to Alexa).
Hence, if you have a good domain, if you’d nurture it good in a couple years or so, you might hit a jackpot later on.
Another domain that I’ve sold for about the same price, about the same time: just months later, several other buyers made offers worth 3x more! (of course, the new owner won’t sell it back to me when I asked for it!). This domain also shown to be worth around $50K (about 10x what I got back then).
It’s good feeling though knowing that I still have several off my current portfolio that seems to be worth up to $100K EACH! — I did NOT know that earlier!!
(I’m a domain freak: I once personally had 200+, but now I keep under 100 — these cost me around $1000-2000/year just for registration fees)
Domain names are good investments, eh? With many of them selling at millions of dollars each (just the plain name, without any content), and thousands of them at multiple-fold of registration cost, EVERY DAY, that surely sounds much better than buying stocks, houses, business etc.
Initial CAPITAL: starts at under US$9 (even well under $1 for many domains, or with hosting etc).
All the best everyone… All these talk about domain just got me excited again to rock my stalling domain portfolio (starting to trade them actively again).
BTW, crack your mind:
TRIVIA #1: Which domain, according to LeapFish, has a NEGATIVE value, i.e. you owe money (in debt) if you own that domain!! [HINT: try f*$&ed up, opps, I meant, bankrupt companies]
TRIVIA #2: Which domain is worth the most according to Leapfish? (I’m not sure if folks at Leapfish themselves know this!) HINT: it’s estimated to be worth more than blogger, geocities, google, yahoo, microsoft’s, myspace, apple etc.
N
Thanks for sharing all your experiences! Wow!
I’ll be following-up a interesting posts regarding blog-flippin’ and domain names sales…;earned a ton in a guest bonus call with David Krug in Yaro’s Mastermind
BTW, my mind is broke…no ideas to your trivia question
Fun tool to use, but definitely do not base your domain value on LeapFish. Recently, some of my associates purchased a domain for 95K; and LeapFish has it at 1k.
And one of my domains are priced at 300k, but does not pull in the same amount of sales by a domain ranked at 50k. So in conclusion, LeapFish is for entertainment purposes only.
Sorry for the delay…
Here are the answers to the two trivia q’s:-
#1. No longer applies because Leapfish has since changed its estimation algorithm, making most domains to be valued at much higher price nowadays. For the record, X.com (formerly a full-fledge bank but has for a while now bought by Paypal) and several other domains used to be reported as having negative values. I initially thought that Leapfish has since corrected this purported flaw, but Myspace.com, one of the most visited web destinations in the world today, is at present shown to be worth -990.00 USD! (simply because it may be employing a robots.txt file to deny archival by amazon’s Alexa archive.org)
#2. It’s CNN.com — one of the most recognized brand name since the early 90s due to its heavy reporting of Gulf War etc. There has been a conspiracy however where this domain gets listed the most — at many times more than its closest competitor in Mozilla Open Directory. It used to be estimated by Leapfish to be worth US$60-million but is now estimated to be worth nearly US$4-billion.
Like most of you, I too was disgruntled by the inaccuracy of LeapFish. Luckily, a new tool has come out on the market which is far more accurate I think. You guys should check it out, its called WorthFish.com. Here is the appraisal of this site:
http://worthfish.com/analyze.php?url=empowerwomennow.com
N
You sure are chalked-filled with trivia! Thanks for getting back–and now, my turn for my delayed response :-/
Billy
Little did I know how fun/funny this post/exercise would be! Thanks for commenting-out
Jared
Thanks so much for this new tool–and running our $s…much better. But, still NO way worth my sell.
Just today, I was researching this topic, because I’m considering my 2nd acquisition right now. What is everyone’s thoughts of How much is your blog tool?
It’s not strictly “domain-name” related…but with a price-tag of $114K…now that’s totally making my day.
I’m curious what everyone is *really* using, especially if you’ve flipped or acquired domains or full-blown blogs/websites.