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Originally Posted by TFGBlog.com
Are you sure about the 10 times the monthly revenue? My blog is online since one month soon and I earned around $70 but I don't think I can sell it for $700... Am I wrong?
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Hi there,
As others have mentioned, there are many factors that can determine the value of a domain. That 10x figure, I feel, is an artificially low figure, manufactured by professional domainers, in order to get a really cheap price. Just think about it for a second. What other investment is there that you can get your money back in 10 months, and then start doubling it every 10 months. None ... absolutely none - unless you hit on a lucky speculation buy like oil in the last few months. So 10x is extremely low, if there are no ongoing costs besides the domain ... but,
Your blog is a different story, since the revenue flow is dependent upon you writing the blog and getting visitors coming to your site. So you have to factor in the cost of hiring someone, like yourself, to write a blog on a periodic basis, in order to keep the site going, and revenue coming in. Let's say that on average, it costs $10/blog. To write 12 blogs/month would cost $120 per month. Therefore your domain is actually not worth anything in terms of profitability. A person may feel that they can extract more revenue, by making it part of a blog network, but each potential buyer may value it differently.
Part of a domainer's appraisal will be the domain name itself - e.g., whether it is a .com, .net, etc. Is it generic? Easily recognizable and memorable? Can it be associated with some hot keywords? etc. And all of the other factors that others have mentioned, such as traffic, links, PR, Alexa, etc.
If you want to sell it, you may to put it up for auction at a place like Namepros, where the professional domainers hang out, and see what it gets. But be careful, I've seen lots of instances when a novice went into these forums and was talked out of auctioning it, so a pro could steal it.
Good luck with your domain.
Rich