$2,398,634.00

[SiouxMD]

I found this interesting. Domain Name Appraisals from www.leapfish.com.

www.uiowa.edu - $8,728,190.00

www.umn.edu - $3,602,395.00

www.UND.edu - $2,398,634.00

www.umt.edu - $2,198,544.00

www3.sdstate.edu - $1,368,105.00

www.stcloudstate.edu - $571,779.00

www.umary.edu - $266,950.00

www.usd.edu - $105,266.00

Please do not take these appraisals seriously...we all know that www.siouxsports.com is the most valuable web domain.

[jimdahl]

I know it was meant for entertainment value, but I can't let this go by without making sure everyone understands that the numbers are at least 80% meaningless.

The so called "score" is the sum of:

• points for being a top-level-domain (e.g. siouxsports.com instead of bob.siouxsports.com)
  
• points for not having unwanted chars (e.g. chars not possible on an American keyboard)
  
• points for being short ()
  
• points for having pages archived in archive.org, 1 point per archive
  
• And indeterminate points based on finds in search engines (with google, the search engine that drives 90% of traffic, always apparently coming up 0)
  

Any domain any of us are interested in will get full points on #1 and #2. So, they're estimating the value of a domain to be a combination of:

1) how popular the site currently at the domain is (ok, there's some merit to thinking you'd pick up some of that traffic)

2) how long the site has been up / how frequently the front page (only) has changed substantially enough to instruct archive.org to reindex it

3) how short the name is

The second is absolutely meaningless, and unfortunately tends to dominate "low-value" domains. The third has some merit, ceteris paribus, but siouxsports.com is indisputably infinitely more valuable than sioxsprts.com, though the latter gets more length points.

To kick a dog while it's down, a quick look at their forums confirms how serious an enterprise this is.

[PCM]

My domain is worth $924. Any buyers out there?