Great post, and many excellent points. Very much agree with OpenForSale and Nick - appraisals are more art than science, and very much depend on the needs of the end buyer. As it has been said before, there are really only 4-5 significant factors that affect the value of a domain: 1). extension -.com, .net, etc; 2). name length - 2, 3, ... characters 3). name type (dictionary / non-dictionary; common/specialist) 4). applicable market size & type 5). and a big one...precedent. Then it boils down to, in my opinion, roughly 5 price ranges: 1). Cheap: $0 - $250 2). Low market: $251 - $1,500 3). Middle market: $1,501 - $10K 4). Premium: $10K - $50K 5). Rare: $50K - $1M While you can pretty easily figure out the range for any given domain without any appraisers, the actual price is always a big unknown, and really depends on the buyer. For the kicks, look at the DP appraisal forum - people typically agree on the range, but the variance is very high. That's the nature of the domain business, and a reason it attracts many people.