We took a look at the opening night auctions and ran them through estibot.com
According to the online appraisal service, these are the biggest bargains for the opening night, Moniker.com auction to be held on Tuesday night at TRAFFIC:
Domain Reserve Apprisal
groping.com $2,950.00 $130,000
secondamendment.com $9,420.00 $65,000
mens.com $29,420.00 $57,000
seafoodrestaurant.com $2,950.00 $47,000
selfmotivation.com $0.00 $45,000
executivejetcharter.com $2,950.00 $44,000
goldfutures.com $11,770.00 $39,000
absent.com $1,440.00 $36,000
men.net $17,650.00 $35,000
sperm.net $4,000.00 $27,000
feels.com $0.00 $25,000
admitted.com $1,180.00 $24,000
commonstock.com $0.00 $24,000
men.org $11,770.00 $21,000
cashierscheck.com $4,600.00 $18,000
networkingjobs.com $2,330.00 $18,000
children.mobi $0.00 $16,000
prepaidcellphoneservice.com $1,000.00 $14,000
collegenewspaper.com $1,500.00 $11,000
rattlers.com $590.00 $7,100
turnons.com $1,500.00 $6,100
dirtyjokes.net $0.00 $4,400
educates.com $1,000.00 $4,300
beef.net $1,180.00 $4,200
Estimating Groping.com at $130k and Men.net at $35k ? Beef.net at $4,200 ? Surely some mistake.
Esitbot is an automated system and should be taken in that light.
This is to say it is far from perfect but is interesting.
Case and point appraisals are useless/baseless and worthless. No online system, auction house, parking company and person can fairly evaluate digital real estate, not now or in the future for that matter. Know your market, have a vision and pay what you think is fair value, that’s it folks.
Estibot makes quite accurate appraisals for some domains but use to overprice plenty of average domains.
I think it’s interesting that so many domainers refer to Estibot as “IdiotBot” and such, and yet it’s so popular with many ppl (including domainers, although many of them may be new and quickly learn their own methods to value domains). I don’t consider the automatic appraisal itself as an idiot, only those who would blindly follow a GIGO automaton. Personally, I always like watching how Estibot does in a match and it’s kinda like rooting for the underdog.
BTW I find dnscoop more accurate. But since Textlinkads calculator doesn’t work, appraisals for PR domains are very low.
Great response by scott eric norman.
Thanks Damir, by the way I enjoy reading your straightforward blog posts, not too long ago, you were inquiring about purchasing a laptop, I would recommend Apple.
No automatic system in the world will be able to get a true value. Zillow.com does it for realestate but it is far off in many areas. Domain names are different you never know who will buy what and for what reason.
estibot would probably value mycellphone.mobi for 10 bucks, but I sold it for $15,000 along with mymail.mobi prior to that for $15,500, and another one for 5 figures. The point is it does not matter what other people think your domain is worth, if you create a story and find one particular end user that likes your pitch or story then that is all you need.
Don Murray
donsdomainnames.com
Don,
You ripped off those buyers on those .mobi domains…Nice sales! I have a bridge I would like to sell that buyer…Let me know if they are interested…. 🙂