Methodology
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Combines name structure, extension fit, commercial usefulness, and estimated buyer-market signals into conservative wholesale, flip, and retail ranges.
The current model is heuristic. It checks recognizable words and patterns, length, clarity when spoken, numbers or hyphens, extension fit, and the user-selected industry. It does not yet query live comparable-sales, trademark, search-volume, or backlink databases.
Read valuation guide →Open calculator →Subtracts percentage commissions, minimum commissions, payment charges, and other fixed seller costs from a gross domain sale price.
The reverse calculation tests both the minimum-commission and percentage-commission branches. Taxes, currency conversion, buyer-paid costs, and conditional marketplace rules are excluded.
Open calculator →Works backward through total investment and selling fees to calculate required gross prices.
Separate outputs cover cost recovery, target profit, and target ROI. The nominal model excludes tax, inflation, and discounting.
Open calculator →Calculates a purchase ceiling from expected net proceeds, future costs, and a target ROI.
The resale price is a user scenario rather than a guaranteed valuation, and the result is not probability-adjusted.
Open calculator →Compares the next renewal outlay with probability-weighted sale proceeds and annual domain revenue.
Past spending is treated as sunk. The one-year financial signal cannot resolve trademark, legal, or portfolio-strategy concerns.
Open calculator →Annualizes observed sales against eligible inventory and translates the result into portfolio planning outputs.
Expected sales may be fractional. The at-least-one-sale estimate assumes equal, independent odds across domains.
Open calculator →Models fixed or interest-derived installments, seller receipts, buyer premium, fees, and present value.
The calculator is not a contract and does not model legal terms, tax, ownership transfer rules, or default probability.
Open calculator →Subtracts purchase, renewal, marketplace, and other selling costs from the expected sale proceeds.
ROI compares profit with total invested cost. Annualized return reflects holding time, while the break-even figure estimates the sale price needed to recover the modeled costs.
Open calculator →Projects visits, clicks, gross advertising revenue, parking-provider share, renewal costs, and multi-year net cash flow.
Traffic quality, seasonality, advertiser demand, invalid clicks, and provider policies can make real revenue differ materially from a projection.
Open calculator →Models expected sales from portfolio size and sell-through rate, then compares sale proceeds with acquisition, renewal, and selling costs.
Fractional expected sales represent a probability-weighted average across many possible outcomes. A real portfolio will produce whole sales and may vary significantly from year to year.
Open calculator →Important limitation
A domain is worth what a willing buyer and seller agree at a particular time. Liquidity, outreach, timing, trademarks, buyer budgets, and negotiation can outweigh a model. Use these tools for scenario planning and further research—not as a professional appraisal or guarantee.
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