[Gllug] Pricing for a domain

salsaman at xs4all.nl salsaman at xs4all.nl
Wed Mar 4 10:41:18 UTC 2009


On Wed, March 4, 2009 10:56, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 09:56:12PM +0000, tid wrote:
>> I've been approached by someone offering to buy a domain name I own.
>> Does anyone know if there are any metrics for pricing of domain
>> names, or indeed of pitfalls of selling domain names? I'm aware that
>> domains, like a lot of things are only worth what people are
>> prepared to pay for them, but as I'm pretty broke at the moment,
>> want to get decent value.
>
> As you say, it's whatever you can scam the buyer for ..
>
> There is a relatively scientific method for valuing a domain for
> domain parking purposes, which involves measuring the residual traffic
> that visits a site (clicks from unqualified visitors through random
> broken links, typos, etc.) and then using knowledge of how many of
> those people are stupid enough to click an advert on the site and how
> much stupid advertisers will give you for each click, will assign a
> minimum value for a domain.  But almost any name of any signficance,
> particularly if there has been a useful site at that name before, and
> if there is a business plan, will be worth more.
>
> Rich (still looking for something to do with http://xn--xiqc.com/)
>
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Be very careful though. If you do offer a price and they decline it, they
can later bring up the fact that you were willing to sell the domain in a
court of law, and this fact can be used against you to force you to hand
the domain over !

So if you definately don't want to part with a domain (or you think it is
worth a lot of money to somebody...), don't even negotiate, just say no !

Salsaman.
http://lives.sf.net


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