closed Suggestion For Requesting Appraisals

[William9]

Domainduck indicated: “For a few reasons, I have recently stopped my appraisal service, so I can become more active here, without conflict.”

I am very sorry to hear that Domainduck. I have used your appraisals on two (2) occasions (not even my best names). I liked the way that you did not just hand over an appraised number, but you supported your appraisal methodology - target types, search counts, and pages of written information included with your opinion on the $ appraised - all for just $25 [cheap labor??].

I received e-mail offers shortly after info and biz LRs and was very paranoid that if I asked for more $$ it was going to end up quoted in a UDRP as an example of bad faith – without the info that it was in response to a buyer e-mail. Instead, I just quoted your appraisal info in a return E-mail. I never heard another word back. But - better safe than sorry.

I suggest that rather than abandon your appraisal service, simply disclose your other activities. Explain that it is so that you maintain a pulse on short-term market trends. I think that would be 100% fair to the user. If the user is informed, it is a DISCLOSED conflict.

Regardless, good luck.

 

[mole]

Silly idea this imo.

Keep it flexible, this is not the school of advanced domain metaphysics.

Good names will inevitably get comments. If you don't get a comment, that's also saying a lot. It's either everyone is too busy but mostly the name is as exciting as fly doo.

snoops and safe used to try to chip in most appraisal requests when DNF was still a small little BB with 300 members. Perhaps we could all chip in a little money to get someone official like domainduck or someone else to at least include one reply in all submitted appraisals.

 

[TurNIC.com]

I think the idea of putting some categories for domain appraisals do not help. First of all, the initial poster's recognition of those categories is missing one important point. He probably thinks those from the reseller point of view. What about the end-user value of domains? With this said, I agree with Mole that everybody here as majority of us are resellers or developers know reseller value of a domain. Thus, it is honest not to reply threads of poor domains to appraise. This way, in my opinion, the poster can gain some experience and do not reg those kind of domains again.

 

[DNForum]

Simply I thought this was a great idea and whoever wants to use it can do so, and if you don't, they don't have to bother. I'm assuming many times people are a bit too lazy to actually reply to a thread, and they can simply vote for a price range you think it's worth. And for those who have comments about the domain(s) or whatever of course they can respond..

Dan

 

[izopod]

Originally posted by Dan
Simply I thought this was a great idea and whoever wants to use it can do so, and if you don't, they don't have to bother. I'm assuming many times people are a bit too lazy to actually reply to a thread, and they can simply vote for a price range you think it's worth. And for those who have comments about the domain(s) or whatever of course they can respond..

Dan

Bingo! You can already see that the "appraisal by polling" is already getting more feedback.

One thing too add which might help. I think the "term" appraisal is confusing to some. When I ask for an appraisal all I am looking for is a dollar value or confined set of values.

Some others however may think an appraisal is a dollar value of the name which includes the potential uses of the name, people who would be interested in the name etc. If that is the case, then I wouldn't use a poll (or the word "Appraise" in subject heading). I would simply ask, what the "prospects" for your name, or some verbiage along those lines. Essentially you get what you ask for and sometimes your asking the wrong question is why sometimes we don't get the answers we expected.

izopod

 

[domainduck]

William, Thank you very much. I was encouraged by your positive feedback on my appraisal system. I'm glad that you were satisfied with my work. Moreover, I'm glad that it helped you.

The thing that actually stopped me was a recent request for an appraisal of a hyphenated dot-net that I confidently say, had no resale value, so I told the fellow to let it go and provided what little research data I had compiled.

But, it felt wrong to take $25.00 for that information, so I asked him to get a refund at ClickBank.com and I shut my appraisals down until I could figure out if it was really worth the time and effort.

Back to this appraisal thread. I like the idea of using a poll system with comments optional, because another reason some people [ ahem! ] may not appraise is because they get arguments about there numbers and opinions from the people asking for an appraisal in the first place... Why should I take the time to appraise a domain name knowing that the owner is going to give me crap if s/he doesn't like my feedback?

As noted in my previous post: If you place a domain name on the board for appraisal, be prepared to eat what is served. Take the feedback, average the reponses, learn and move on. If you have a 'potential' buyer, note that to establish urgency, but try not to be emotional. Help establish what could be the beginning of a standard.

In my opinion, no individual company or individual can succeed with a uniform standard of domain appraisal... Conflict, trust, greed, and more.

However, this is quite different.

Long replies can be tiring, so I'll stop here, but SafeSys made reference to multiple price structures / philosophies that should be addressed if an appraisal system is to be effective.



quack

 

[scjollie]

Way to go DomainDuck!!
In my very early reply I wasn't downing your system, sorry if it seemed that way. I think it is a good Idea to use the poll if people want to or just have an independent appraisal.
I think its a great addition to the forum!
scjollie

 

[William9]

Domain Duck indicated: “But, it felt wrong to take $25.00”.

Domain – that statement merely showed that you had ETHICS. Because of your ethics, I would hope that requestor put you at the top of the list for future appraisals. You are at the TOP of mine.

 

[domaindirk]

Good idea Miles. Should make this an auto option. Keep up the good work!