http://www.savagehost.com/how-do-i-purchase-a-parked-domain-name-for-a-good-price.html Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:13:58 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.savagehost.com/how-do-i-purchase-a-parked-domain-name-for-a-good-price.html/comment-page-1#comment-10976 McFate Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:08:56 +0000 http://www.savagehost.com/how-do-i-purchase-a-parked-domain-name-for-a-good-price.html#comment-10976 Leapfish does domain name appraisals:http://leapfish.com/ They look at the popularity in Google and so forth, and calculate an approximate value for the domain name. No guarantee it's a reasonable one, though. (It calculates a value of about $50,000 for my personal domain, and while my web sites are popular, I don't think it's worth that much.) In any event, a parked domain is owned by someone else. They can set the price to whatever they want, and whether or not it is "reasonable" you don't have a lot of options. If it is worth the asking price TO YOU, then you can buy it, if not, then you can easily choose a slightly different name or a different top-level domain for your own. Leapfish does domain name appraisals:http://leapfish.com/
They look at the popularity in Google and so forth, and calculate an approximate value for the domain name. No guarantee it’s a reasonable one, though. (It calculates a value of about $50,000 for my personal domain, and while my web sites are popular, I don’t think it’s worth that much.)
In any event, a parked domain is owned by someone else. They can set the price to whatever they want, and whether or not it is “reasonable” you don’t have a lot of options. If it is worth the asking price TO YOU, then you can buy it, if not, then you can easily choose a slightly different name or a different top-level domain for your own.

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