What is the age of a domain worth?

[Adverted]

I was wondering what the the overall idea of the value of a aged/old domain that was registered in the 90's was a live site but now due to business changes the domain will be up for sale.

We are not looking at any of the value the website has other then the age of the domain, we had a few domains all registered in the 90's the oldest domain is from 1996.

Does anyone have an idea on value solely based on age of the domain as those in the SEO business know that Google loves older domains and also could be good to bring historical value to a newer company.

Appreciate any feedback you can give,

 

[GAMEFINEST]

depends on the name

 

[hugegrowth]

impossible to say without knowing the name, domain age can be helpful but isn't that critical to the price, it all depends on what the name is.

 

[Adverted]

I was wondering what the the overall idea of the value of a aged/old domain that was registered in the 90's was a live site but now due to business changes the domain will be up for sale.

We are not looking at any of the value the website has other then the age of the domain, we had a few domains all registered in the 90's the oldest domain is from 1996.

Does anyone have an idea on value solely based on age of the domain as those in the SEO business know that Google loves older domains and also could be good to bring historical value to a newer company.

Appreciate any feedback you can give,

 

[Adverted]

I don't want to post the names as I just would like a general idea on domain age and value, say SITE.com is 2 years old or SITE.com is 10 years old, what would be the difference in value?

I understand its not your normal valuation points but due to the value of SEO and the value to some of having an old domain, heck just look at the high cost to get a shelved company, people paying thousands in premium just to be able to say that their company was formed in an earlier year.

Heck I know I wish I could have a domain from the 80's it would be something to be proud of, maybe 10 plus years still not enough to give a domain value on years also?

 

[GAMEFINEST]

alot

 

[namestrands]

With your qualifications, you should be telling us.

 

[domainah]

this is not stamp collecting here, without the name this thread is useless, ...google doesnt love older domains, it might like old websites and its backlinks etc, if you have a domain that is a bad domain in terms of its name with no traffic it doesnt matter for the value if it was regged 10 years or 10 days ago, if you want to know how much value the age only adds to the name = $0

 

[Biggie]

Moved thread from "Appraisal" section and merged with this one from "Platinum Lounge"

 

[BostonDomainer]

this is not stamp collecting here, without the name this thread is useless, ...google doesnt love older domains, it might like old websites and its backlinks etc, if you have a domain that is a bad domain in terms of its name with no traffic it doesnt matter for the value if it was regged 10 years or 10 days ago, if you want to know how much value the age only adds to the name = $0

Actually on an SEO stand point, older names do much much better on Search Engines. They are prefered in the algorithm.

 

[droplister]

I dont think the value translates to dollars, but to credibility as seen in google's eyes and consumers eyes.

 

[BostonDomainer]

I think age matters if the intent is to build upon a domain that is namely "brandable" as oppose to a generic. I would rather have a 1997 BlahBlah.com then a 2006 or '07 one. For a generic, age means nothing imo. Hell, it could have dropped or something.

 

[dcristo]

Age of links is more important then age of domain. If you have a 97 domain with no links and isn't indexed, not much value IMO. Obviously, the actual name is a factor in determining price too.

I dont think the value translates to dollars, but to credibility as seen in google's eyes

which is exactly why it does translate to dollars

 

[droplister]

I stand by my statement.

 

[dcristo]

I stand by my statement.

it's contradictory what your saying... your more credible to google so there's no value in that :?: your typical domainer may not see value in it, but there not the only buyers

 

[GAMEFINEST]

there are alot of factors...i mostly look at how it can be branded.

for brand new names

 

[droplister]

Im saying with an aged domain you have have cred. Then if you work this cred you will get money. I'm not looking at what you can get, but what you have I stand by my statement again.

 

[Biggie]

i never checked to see a "domains' age", before purchasing.


however, the value of "age" is relevant when selling!

particularly, if you were the first registrant of the domain and...

it has type-in traffic and produces revenue, regardless to it's character as a
generic,tm or typo!

the value of age is also important,because the earlier in "time" that you acquired the domain....the cheaper the price would have been.

 

[DomainingCom]

So domains are like wine, more they are old and more they are valuable?

My point of view is different:

Most appraisal companies you pay to have a domain appraised provide you a sale range value.
For more credibility they also need to give you some explanation about the metrics they used in the valuation and their interpretation.

But the number of metrics on which domain valuation is based is not very large.
Some probably think that more metrics they give, more serious their appraisal look likes.

I assume this is how things started about the domain age.

At a moment there was a SEO discussion that the age of domains was one of the +100 parameters Google consider in his Page Rank algorithm.
Some appraisers started to add this metric in the valuation (it's easy to get), and you know what happen, when a bug guy do it, the others copy!

This is how today most appraisers give you also the domain age as part of the metrics in the domain valuation.

On my hand I think domain age have no value.
In a SEO point of view it's not the domain age that could count but the date the page was indexed the first time. And even this benefit is low.

By the way, another popular buzz is that the number of years the domain should expire if not renewed is another point of value for SEO.
Even if it was true, this SEO plus value should be insignificant compared with the other SEO parameters.

What I recommended to one of the leading appraisers is to check if the last domain owner did not do some black SEO and the domain is not banned in Google.
Because when this happen and the domain was expensive, it's terrible!
The only you can do is found a SEO company having a good contact at Google (and it's rare) that accept to use his preferential relationship (still more rare) to remove the penalty, and (by experience) it's far to be cheap!


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[furca]

Pre-2000 starts at around $100-$150 now min.

i never checked to see a "domains' age", before purchasing.

It's normally a deciding factor in my purchases.