The value of a domain name can be very difficult to ascertain without a prospective buyer. But now it’s at least possible to get an automatically calculated “ballpark figure” worth mentioning at your local pub. You can even get a real “price tag” to place on your site.
Almost every domain has some amount of visitors, even if it’s just your Mom and Dad trying to be kind to you. At some point a price can be assigned to every domain name. A free service called dnScoop attempts to assign an approximate value to your domain name, based on
- your site’s category
- how old the domain is
- the Google PageRank for the domain
- the number of inbound links to the domain
- the Alexa traffic rank
- the number of pages in the domain that the major search engines have indexed.
Once again, without a prospective buyer nothing really has a measurable value. On the other hand, plotting the appraised value of your web site as it grows over time can be a real incentive when you’ve worked many late nights in a row.
