How to you estimate your domain name value?

There are lots of sites that give estimates but I think they are much to low.

I decide by how much money it makes me.

if you're looking to sell your website, a good place to start is by taking the monthly revenue and multiplying it by 12 (months)

estibot (dot) (com) is a good resource to evaluate your domains..I have tried it and it is pretty accurate..

First of all, there is no such thing as an accurate domain value. A domain name may be worth thousands to one person, while being valueless to another. Ask 10 'experts' to appraise your domain name and you'll get 10 different answers.

The value of a domain name is mostly determined by your ability to locate potential buyers who NEED it or WANT it badly enough.

That being said, you can do a 'comp', much like real estate people do when pricing a property. Go to DN Sale Price- Domain Name Sales Price and History and enter a few details. You'll get a list of similar domain names along with the price they actually sold for. Use that as a guide to help you figure out a fair market value.

If there is already revenue from your website what Dimian says is what other sellers' do. That's reasonable enough to price your site.

For me i think a domain name is worth, the amount that the buyer is willing to pay for it. I often try to check sites for valuations but none seems to be accurate for the stats are always wrong.

Put it up for an auction on flipper and see what it will go far.

It's simply a matter of two major factors:

-What kind of history, traffic, and revenue has the domain generated?

and

-What is someone willing to pay for it?

I have tried all the FREE valuation tools, and find it almost humoring that one claims the value of your domain is $15, and the other spits outs $86,000. There too, I acquired (5) FREE paid "domain appraisals" from GoDaddy and explored their 'valuation' only to find that an 'unused' new domain is general worth about what you pay for it, unless it's brandable, short and concise, and is a top level tld, and then you may make some money on it 'if' you find the right buyer.

Many of the domains in GoDaddy's auctions are almost laughable, when I see people putting a $50K price tag on a never registered .org domain.

But, if that domains happens to fetch those numbers, the seller looks genius, and there's really no telling what a good developer can do with the right domain name.

For me, I just look for 'keyword rich' relevant domains, and generally won't spend more than $7 -$10 for it. I do however have some for sale that are WAY overpriced... cause you just never know what someone's willing to pay for the right one?

All the Best,

Art

Absolutely agreee with Gene Pimentel his answer

lots of good answers here. beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Domain pricing is a complete science and art and have its own dynamics.Better research will surely give you a huge profit

There are numerous domain sold on a very high price and some are
1 sex.com $13,000,000 Clover Holdings Limited November 2010
2 fund.com $9,999,950 Gentile, Philip March 2008
3 porn.com $9,500,000 Moniker Privacy Services May 2007
4 fb.com $8,500,000 Facebook, Inc. September 2010
5 diamond.com $7,500,000 ATTN DIAMOND.COM May 2006
6 beer.com $7,000,000 Thought Convergence, LLC January 2004
7 casino.com $5,500,000 Mansion Limited of Gibraltar November 2003
8 slots.com $5,500,000 Bodog Media June 2010
9 toys.com $5,100,000 DNS MASTER March 2009
10 asseenontv.com $5,000,000 AsSeenOnTV.com

Dave