It's not clear that LeapFish's analysis is accurate, but according to them I could sell johndan.com for more than $18k. Damn, I wish that was true, because it'd be the most valuable thing I own outside of my house, and it'd put Spork nearly 40% of the way through her first year at Skidmore. Let me know if you want to make a bid.
Here's LeapFish's rationale for pricing:
The .com top level domain is the most valuable extension because of it's long history. It has also been advertised in every form so when people think of a domain name, they instantly add .com to the end of it when typing it in. This TLD alone makes your domain name valuable.
As any good domain should, this name does not contain numbers, hyphens, or unicode characters. This is a desirable effect and may not increase the value of your domain name, but it definitly won't decrease it.
Your domain name contains two Dictionary.com entries. There are names like this that are more valuable than a single dictionary word and when paired correctly, these words can be much easier to remember than a single dictionary word. An example would be, LeapFish.com is much easier to remember than Imprescriptible.com .
This domain name contains 7 or more characters. These names are not valued for there length as much as they are for their lexical context. If your domain name contains say 9 characters randomly like jyuxbeplz.com then you have no inherent value contextually or lengthwise. It is nearly impossible to design an AI system to see how a human will react and memorize a domain name, that said, you should use your own judgement to see if the length of this name is suitable.
Maybe they're right. I've noticed, over the last three or four years, that it's become more difficult for me to register "johndan" as a userid on services. When I registered my IM account at AOL, I tried "johndan" and quickly found out that had been taken years ago; so I decided to just start appending various numbers, and ran through "2000", "zero", "beta", and then "1" counting up. I gave that last one up after, like, "9" and switched to spelling out numbers (under the assumption that new users would want shorter usernames, so spelled out version would be less deleted). I got to "johndanseven" before I hit an opening.
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Posted by johndanseven at May 19, 2006 01:20 AM