I have seen a lot of people in the domain community discussing, Estibot.com lately.
Estibot.com is an automated domain appraisal tool.
Type a domain into it and it will give you back an appraisal for a domain.
I thought is would be interesting to see what appraisal Esibot.com gave to the Live TRAFFIC names.
Here the top ten domains in the live TRAFFIC auction with a reserve price of $5,000 or less, with the highest estibot appraisal estimate:
DOMAIN NAME RESERVE RANGE ESIBOT VALUE
graphicssoftware.com $1 – $5,000 $45,000
asphyxiation.com $1 – $5,000 $40,000
virgins.net No Reserve $40,000
thankyougiftbaskets.com $1 – $5,000 $25,000
webclass.com $1 – $5,000 $24,000
postalcodes.com $1 – $5,000 $21,000
garden.info $1 – $5,000 $21,000
scraper.com No Reserve $19,000
burningdvds.com $1 – $5,000 $18,000
rabid.com $1 – $5,000 $18,000
Now using the lowest price in the reserve range as the starting price (so in the $5-$10,000 category for example we used $5K), here are the top 5 Live TRAFFIC auction domain bargains based on the highest percentage increase from reserve price to the appraised price of Estibot.com
DOMAIN NAME RESERVE RANGE ESIBOT VALUE
bassguitar.com $25,001 – $50,000 $280,000
something.com $10,001 – $25,000 $210,000
metricconversion.com $5,001 – $10,000 $180,000
patti.com $5,001 – $10,000 $130,000
tvschedule.com $10,001 – $25,000 $110,000
exerciseballs.com $10,001 – $25,000 $110,000
Finally here are the worst buys, in biggest dollars drops from the reserve price to the Estibot appraisal:
DOMAIN NAME RESERVE RANGE ESIBOT VALUE
certifieddiamonds.com $250,001 – $500,000 $69,000
tune.com $250,001 – $500,000 $45,000
koran.com $500,001 – $750,0 $140,000
weddingparty.com $250,001 – $500,000 $37,000
autobody.com $500,001 – $750,000 $83,000
affiliateprogram.com $1MM – $5MM $250,000
pay.com $1MM – $5MM $160,000
portfolios.com $1MM – $5MM $140,000
yachts.com $1MM – $5MM $130,000
jackpot.com $1MM – $5MM $49,000
Remember Esibot.com only values the domain, not the content on it. So like weddingparty.com, which I think is a developed site, rather than a parked page, would be undervalued by it.
So what do you think????
Estibot might not be the best tool to go by. take a look at Hotels.com. If that was true, Id pay cash for it right now!!
Domain: hotels.com
Keywords (Autodetected) hotels
Frequency (Google) 854000000
in Anchor Text 67400000
in Title 64500000
in URL 76300000
Backlinks 21,148,340
PageRank
Alexa Rank 1507 **
Traffic (Visits / Day) 81,000**
PPC Ads # 86
Overture/mo 3839949
Wordtracker/day 10330
http://EstiBot.com
Valuation for domain name only : USD 1,000,000
Valuation considering traffic**CLICK TO VERIFY:
USD 3,500,000
Very cool. I plugged in iphone.com for the heck of it and these were the results:
Domain: iphone.com
Keywords (Autodetected) iphone
Frequency (Google) 1060000
in Anchor Text 47900
in Title 67500
in URL 41000
Backlinks 16,217
PageRank 9
Alexa Rank 1624328 **
Traffic (Visits / Day) 80**
PPC Ads # 11
Max PPC Bid $1.26
MAX PPC Income/day $4.2
Overture/mo 1420
Wordtracker/day 79
http://EstiBot.com
Valuation for domain name only : USD 5,100
Valuation considering traffic**CLICK TO VERIFY:
USD 5,200
Of course iphone ends up resolving to apple.com, but it still gives pause…
Estibot is of course just a bot, but it makes our lives easier by giving a range of what the domain may cost.
The worst or dumb tool ever I have seen!! Says America.com is worth $350K.
Estibot – The worst or dumb tool ever I have seen
I tested it for several major US Geodomains and it provided plenty of comedic fodder for the evening:
Atlanta.com 210K
Dallas.com 200K
Nashville.com 110K
SanFrancisco.com 38K (!)
We believe there is no formula known to man that is an accurate diviner of market value. It is simply ludicrous to think otherwise.
I have quite a few for sale at Traffic in the Extended and 3 in the Live BUT all of mine are priced BELOW estibot:
Here is an Example:
FuturesBrokers.Com $5,000 Reserve
Domain: futuresbrokers.com
Keywords (User-Defined) futures brokers
Frequency (Google) 3130000
in Anchor Text 12800
in Title 22500
in URL 7880
Backlinks 0
PageRank 0
Alexa Rank Not Ranked
Traffic (Visits / Day) N/A
PPC Ads # 71
Max PPC Bid $5.82
MAX PPC Income/day $19.4
Overture/mo 17648
Wordtracker/day 72
http://EstiBot.com Valuation : USD 60,000
Guys
You are very harsh, especially for mothers day towards Estibot.
Kelly
You definately cannot use this or any automated service to get values of domains that have been branded.
That is simply not fair to it.
No software will pick up on the value of a branded domain such as iphone.com or ireport.com
If there was no service or products behind either of these domains, and they just sat as parking pages, they would not get a high value in anyone’s book
In my humble opinion, appraisals are for the most part useless in evaluating a domain name.
There is a simple methodology that my brother and I will sometimes use for single word dotcom domains to get a ballpark figure.
Do a search for the word on Google and multiply the number of results by .075.
It would put the following prices on these single word dotcom domains at the TRAFFIC auction:
yachts.com $1,237,500
portfolios.com $2,167,500
koran.com $975,000
jackpot.com $1,567,500
“No software will pick up on the value of a branded domain such as iphone.com or ireport.com
If there was no service or products behind either of these domains, and they just sat as parking pages, they would not get a high value in anyone’s book”
if Estibot cant pick up on the value of these domains, what is it good for ?
if it cant value domains like NewYork.com, why would anyone use it???
Yaron
Newyork.com is not the same as iphone.com or ireport.com.
NewYork.com should get a realistic valuation on the tool.
David
I think this is what they are trying to do.
Pull all stats like Google, overture, Word tracker, etc, assign a value to each, and come up with a number, as well as that can be done with a real human being looking at it
Plain and simple, just the buyer/seller of any domain name should be placing a value on the digital asset period. Additionally in my opinion people should be placing values on names over a prolong period of time, not one year, two years, three years, but rather ten plus years.
Folks don’t waste your money on appraisals, they are worthless and give absolutely no true value of a digital asset. Just use good business sense and instincts, that’s all.
“Do a search for the word on Google and multiply the number of results by .075.”
Well that would certainly make the two single-word dot coms from the first top-ten list above a terrific buy:
scraper.com $478,500
rabid.com $546,000
I agree about the branding and would not fault the free bot for leaving out that factor. Off the top of my head I cannot think of any brands which use these words.
Scraper.com sounds like a search engine to me (or an infomercial product, the Incredible Scraper!).
I did read they might be making a movie from that novel Rabid. I wonder what Paramount/Sony/MGM/Miramax etc. would pay for that. I guess that unlike Da Vinci Code it’s a single English word, so they’d have to negotiate. If there’s a major motion picture, the bot wouldn’t know to factor that in.
Ultimately the value is what the buyer and seller agree on, but I’m curious to know what dat the .075 rule was based on, and if there’s a similar trend for multi-word phrases.
The person who said America.com was appraised by estibot for $350,000 was wrong. It appraised for $900,000.
Garbage!