hello I own the domain name wonderpets.us . I was thinking of getting a independent appraisal done . I was recently contacted by a potential buyer and he wanted a independent appraisal. he said he will only accept appraisals over 65.00usd. he thinks other appraisals are full of fluff. with the recent craze for wonder pets from the tv show nick jr and tree house channel, and considering that the tv show owns .org ,mtv owns .com and other large production company's own .uk .I think that mine .us since it is a us based show has a good value . I have been doing a Internet check and the amount of people typing in wonder pets is increasing even though the toys for the show has not even been produced yet. with that said if you all can give me a min - max price of its value. thanks
I know nothing of appraisals but do know there is a domain appraisal scam scheme in play by companies doing appraisals. I would be very skeptical.
Here is his last reply to me about where to get the appraisal done:: some parts of the email are in different colors as is copy and pasted , you can not see that here but in the email I can. here is the reply/ I thought about Afternic, but found their service inaccurate and automated. http:// www. igoldrush. com/links3.htm "Capsule Review: After lots of complaints, Afternic is no longer a recommended service. We will re-review the service in the near future." I also found the following information about them http:// www. out-law. com/page-1630 So Afternic.com is NOT acceptable. Reading responses from experienced sellers I was impressed by one reply: "Many Internet users are not smart enough and popular domain brokers are using this fact to make money. They offer them cheap appraisal services. But if their customers would have something in their heads they'd understand experts could not make a professional research for $15-$20. These appraisals are made by machines. Easy money for such appraisers as http://www. Afternic. com and several other major brokers that offer cheap auto-generated appraisals. In my eyes, all services under $50-$55 are not manual and the results are generated by special scripts. I don't trust auto-generated appraisals." The same is true for GoDaddy and SEDO. Their services are not manual. They are just collecting money using their well-known names. I heard many appraisal companies often overpriced domains. So I cannot accept appraisal from each and every site. To avoid mistakes I asked about reputable appraisers in a forum. Several experts recommended me Securenamesale's appraisal service - http://www.s ecurenamesale. com/appraise.asp as a fast, accurate and non-expensive manual service. I also trust the manual appraisal service from http://www. DomainMart. com but it's very expensive - $200/hour. This service was also recommended by many people but I thought it was too expensive. But if you can afford DomainMart . com's fee it's ok with me.