Written by: Dylan Barber
5/19/2009 1:19 AM 

This last week I was looking at domains for a project and wouldn’t you know it some of the domain names were taken by cyber squatters, imagine that. After some looking around I found a few of the domain names I was looking for for sale on a variety of domain resellers. What these b******s were asking for these domain names is outrageous! No content, no traffic, no marketing  just a name. This exercise got me to thinking what sites, and to a lesser extent domains, are worth and how they are valued.

In my opinion a going concern of a site should be worth more than a domain name but looking around that doesn’t seem to be the case. If you are curious here are five of the better sites I found to value a going domain. Of course like all things in the business world what something is worth depends on if you can get someone to buy it.

1. Site Value Check – uses Google page rank, Alexa traffic ranking, back links depth, average popularity of related web sites, age of search engine presence, web page load times.
2. Stimator – uses top-level domain, market fluctuations, inbound links, popularity, social presence.
3. ValueMyWeb – uses Google page rank, Alexa traffic ranking, organic keywords value, social media mentions.
4. URL Appraisal – uses domain age, Google page rank, Alexa traffic rankings, Google inbound links, Yahoo! inbound links, URL marketability.
5. WebsiteValued –uses Daily visitors, advertising revenue, sales revenue, active subscribers.

P.S. I would love to know what other people think about all the domain names that just sit and sit and no one can do anything with them cause someone wants $10,000 for it. How do we solve that problem?

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