🚨 DOMAIN APPRAISALS: SOMETHING IS SERIOUSLY WRONG.
Today, I decided to revisit the asking prices on several of the 20+ .AI domains I own, including five listed on Afternic.
As I began updating prices, I noticed GoDaddy's automated appraisals displayed alongside my listings.
The first was
SFJ.ai: $178,144.
I was stunned.
Naturally, I decided to compare GoDaddy's valuations against Atom's.
The results were astonishing.
💰 My asking price: $37,888 each.
📈 GoDaddy appraisals: $67,302 to $178,144.
📉 Atom appraisals: $4,600 to $15,500.
Same five domains. Two major domain-marketplace platforms. Wildly different valuations.
Let that sink in.
Can anyone name another major industry where two prominent valuation services produce estimates so dramatically different for the EXACT SAME ASSETS?
These aren't minor disagreements. They represent fundamentally different opinions of value.
And yet, domain investors and buyers are supposed to take automated appraisals seriously?
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Automated domain appraisals have ZERO credibility as definitive indicators of market value.
A domain is ultimately worth what an informed, motivated buyer is willing to pay—and what its owner is willing to accept.
I rest my case.
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