Could I get the basic factors that go into an appraisal of a domain name? I know that the sites that offer appraisals are mostly elevated junk. Thanks in advance.
+ Being a generic or a dictionary word in any language (especially important words). + Being brandable. + Being easy to remember. + Domain's age. + Pagerank. + Traffic and Alexa rank (and other ranks). + Backlinks. + Indexed pages. + Length. + Containing keywords in it and search amounts, google results and popularity of those keywords. How much an ad system pays for those keywords per click? + Any possible endusers. + Is it infringing a trademark, if so, any possible thing that we can use as defense in case of a lawsuit. + Registrar. Generally domain investors won't buy your domain name if it is at an expensive, unpopular or a problematic company. + Company must have a push (account change) function. Otherwise there will be transfer fees. + And of course the extension. Com is generally better than other extensions.
That's as good a definition of domain name appraising as I've yet seen. Couldn't add anything more to it.