I am new to the concept of buying and selling a domain. But not new to SEO, development, buying domains, WPO, etc. I have been working on the internet since the early 90s. With that being said, I am interested in getting into domaineering and have a specific question(s) about strategy. Let's say I find a recently expired/deleted domain name "wordpdf.com" and think right away it has value because it's short, .com, and people want to convert word files to pdf format. I check google PR and its 1 (does this even matter, once i get the domain and change the content I assume there is a big possibility that the PR will probably get refreshed?). I go to google and search for "word to pdf" and see "About 1,760,000,000 results" (Not really sure what this indicates, I guess my future competition so maybe I want this number to be low, right???) Ok, I go to adwords toolbar and see that "word to pdf" has 5,000,000 monthly searches and medium competition. So, to me that is a lot of people interested in converting word docs to pdf and medium competition refers to ppc competition. Ok, I go to godaddy and buy the domain for 10 bucks, I first write an article on converting word docs to pdf and do some SEO work and wait a while for Google to index me and give me some ranking. I put some ads and wait for traffic. (How long do you think I would be waiting? Is the domain/website more valuable at this point and by how much?) A different strategy could be spending a day or two writing a word to pdf converter web app and making this new domain, wordpdf.com, a neat word doc to pdf converter online tool for the world. Now, how much do you think this domain/website is worth? I am looking for estimates and general advice, really appreciate anyone who can just give me their opinion.
so, you was asking for an appraisal here, be happy its gone as it has a nice zero value. Google search bar will not help you, the opposite when you are a newb. First step is to check exact searches and then analyse results to see where there from. If you wana go further you should be looking for trends on the term you are about to reg. Also, if you wana play all the game, check sales history for similar terms, TM database, check availabillity of other alternatives at regfee, check how much other similar terms are priced and can`t sell and basicly start thinking from the publisher/developer side, at the end always you have to think as a buyer. Give a serious appraisal before you reg a domain. Then decision is easy. Ok, if you are good enought you can have some lazy picks (1/10), because you just like the name and believe it will sell by itself Best TT