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Estibot.com - Free Domain Appraisals

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Category: Free Stuff on the Web
Written by Rich McComas

estibot.gifwww.estibot.com offers a variety of tools for domain owners, and is currently the most reliable automated FREE tool for valuing any domain that you own or wish to purchase.  The newest version of Estibot analyzes more than a dozen different aspects of the domain and/or the keywords in the domain and suggests both a wholesale price (for bulk sale of a portfolio of names to another domain investor) and a retail value (the price that a business owner would pay who intends to develop the domain).

estibot-page.jpgEstibot is a collection of tools indespensible to anyone who owns domains.  In addition to valuing your domains, you can also automatically parse a group of domains into separate words (an important technology for accurate valuation), look up terms in the USPTO trademark database to see if you are at risk of violating a trademark with your domain, check on availability of a group of domains, or do a bulk lookup of the owners of a group of domains.

Although automated domain valuation has NEVER been trusted in the past, we have found that Estibot is a leap ahead of any other effort to automate appraisals and is fairly accurate, especially at evaluating keyword-oriented domains, but less accurate at valuing otherwise "brandable" but meaningless names.  For many smaller domain owners who believe that everything they own is worth tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, Estibot will probably be a disappointment.

We used Estibot to value all of the domains that we own and have sold in recent years, and found it to be fairly accurate at predicting the sale amount and at matching our gut valuation of the domains.  On average, larger more sophisticated domain investors seem to sell about 1-3% of their portfolio every year at what they would call retail prices.  If you own 100 domains, and you don't sell any in a year, then you are probably priced too high, and if you sell 10%+ in a year, you are probably selling them for less than retail.  If you sell 2% of your domains every year, it would take 50 years to sell ALL of your domains, so we consider "retail" is a VERY high price.

So, if you only sell 2% of your domains every year, what do you do with the other 98%?  The answer is you have to put them to work for you making money, at least enough to pay for their registration fees every year, and MORE if you want to be paid "anything" for your time.  During coming months, we are going to be exploring some ideas that ANY domain owner can use to make sure that their extra domains are always making money.

Who are the Gadget Gurus?

peopleatsign.jpg Gadget Gurus technology reviews are heard and read by millions of people across the United States, including more than a dozen print publications, dozens of tier-one radio stations, on third-party websites, and more than ever, online at our own website.

NEWS: This year, you will see a number of exciting announcements from Gadget Gurus, including podcasts, our syndicated "Gadgets-in-a-Minute" broadcasts, and our ever-expanding "Best Of" lists.   Also, you will be seeing our portfolio of magazine "gadget pages" growing into a number of vertical markets.

TECH2 LAKE HOUSE

th-channel7-370.jpgUPDATE - The exterior of the Technology Lake House is complete and we are now working on interior finishing and electronics.  Last year, San Francisco's Channel 7 ABC News ran a special video report on the construction progress of the Technology Lake House, and we expect them back for a follow-up soon.  Click HERE for a DLINK Live Video Feed with pan and zoom features (userid=user, no password, daylight hours only). 

Ron Rosberg's current project home, the Technology Lake House, is currently under construction on the shores of Clearlake in Northern California.  Even though the house is a wireless demo house, we have installed more than seven miles of wires in the walls for dozens of flat panel TVs, speakers, control panels, and sophisticated lighting. So far, more than a dozen technology and fixture manufacturers have agreed to sponsor this project, which has been simmering in Ron's head since he attended the first CES show in New York in 1967.  The 7,500 square foot project (plus three existing rustic cabin guest houses) is being built on a five-acre Honeymoon Cove resort with 500 feet of beach directly across from Konocti Harbor Resort.  This summer retreat will host  technology gatherings annually, inviting Western states home builders, contractors, and technology consultants for a live open house showcasing the latest in home technologies.  There is room to park plenty of boats, so plan on coming up for some lake fun after the project is complete.  For more info, send email to ronald@usa.net, or call 707-995-2683.  To see the latest photos, visit Ron's Flickr gallery.

We are currently looking for products to evaluate in these areas:

  • Home automation: lighting, security, and entertainment
  • A/V technology for the 500 SF home theater media demo room

Hot News on Cool New Features: The ENTIRE front of the home is made of 21 sliding NanaWall glass panels that fold into the walls, opening the entire home up to the lake during demo days.