I think it’s time to appraise the value of domain name appraisals. Let’s use some recent real world figures here.
I received an email inquiry last week on one of my domain names.
It went something like this:
Hi, would you be interested in selling [name intentionally left out].com?
Thanks,
[name removed]
I did the normal checks to see if it [...]

Here’s an interesting gem I found today on eBay.
QBAY.COM is for sale, current high bid is just over $2000.
What’s more interesting than the domain is the mini blog/twitterlike updates that the seller is making within the auction listing.
4 days after he started the auction, he posted this call for help:
4/12/2008 3:22PM MT
uhhh… no [...]

The sale closed on my first domain sale of 2008 this week. $3200 from an original $10 purchase.
The interesting point about this particular sale is that I had submitted it a previous domaintools.com auction and they passed on it.
One thing that is very clear with aftermarket domain name sales is:
“Good domain names sell themselves”
A good [...]

Bidding is now open in the domaintools.com premium domain name auction. Bidders can now register their bids for any of the 170+ domain names listed for auction by visiting the following website address:
http://www.domaintools.com/live-auction/bid.html
To bid, visit the above link, and if you’re not already a domaintools verified member, you may be asked to enter your credit [...]

Jay Westerdal of domaintools.com pre-announced today (as a reply in the comments area of a recent “Top Picks” blog post) that the upcoming domain auction will be pushed back one week: from January 3rd to the new auction closing date of January 10th.
This is welcome news to domainers (including myself) who have domains who have [...]