Upgraded domain name sales database makes it easier to find comps when buying and selling domain names.
Domain name sales database NameBio.com has been overhauled, and one of the new features should prove useful when searching for sales comps for domain name sales.
Adam Strong brought in domainer and developer Michael Sumner to assist with the new site, which includes more data sources and a better mobile browsing experience.
Domain names have also been split into 250 categories (underneath ten main categories), making it easy to find sales comps that don’t include the exact keyword in your domain name.
For example, this morning I clicked through to sports > baseball, and saw that InsideBaseball.com sold for $3,500 at the end of 2013. If I’m trying to sell a domain like HockeyToday.com (I don’t own it), neither “hockey” nor “today” would traditionally pull up InsideBaseball.com as a comp. Using the category browsing, you can find comps like this.
NameBio.com currently has $1.2 billion of domain name sales in its database.
Donna Mahony says
Great job Adam Strong and Michael Sumner! I love it!
JSL says
Well done guys
John says
This is a nice revamp
Thanks for the write-up
Jonathan says
Doesn’t look quite ready for prime time.
Tried realestate – 19 entries
Tried estate – 359 entries, having realestate sales showing up that I was looking for when I tried realestate
A Strong says
Thanks Jonathan for pointing that out. As I’m sure you know breaking down domains in to the keyword components of the domain is often tricky. This is a reason we’ve added categorization of domains. . . which I’m sure you know can be tricky too but also provides for more comp data.
So anyway, try ad search the category Business and sub category Real Estate.
That might also help you out. In the meantime I’ll see what Michael can do.
Michael Sumner says
Jonathan,
The keyword search is based on the parsed keywords now, or exactly matching the domain. So if you enter “realestate” which is really two keywords, the only results should be ones that exactly match the domain (e.g. realestate.extension), and ones that haven’t been keyword parsed or failed to parse.
Take for example RealEstateApp.com, that gets keyword parsed as “real estate app” and when it tries to find the word “realestate” in that set it can’t, so it isn’t returned as a result. This is the correct behavior, you shouldn’t be combing two keywords into one any more.
Before we weren’t allowing keyword searches with spaces in them because it was only based on the domain (e.g. realestateapp.com). Once you added a space to your search, no domains would get returned because no domains have a space in them, so the space needed to be stripped out. However, now that we’re searching based on the parsed keywords, I don’t see any reason to continue stripping the space so I removed that from the code.
Try your search again with “real estate” as the keyword (without quotes) and I think you’ll find what you’re looking for.
Michael Sumner says
After a day and a half of feedback, we’ve decided to make the search form not based on matching detected keywords. Now you can go back to sticking multiple keywords together, searching by partial words, etc. People were too used to the old way of doing things and thought the site was broken.
Thanks again for the feedback Jonathan.