I found a website that allows folks to paist names and receive
automated appraisels by nameboy.com I wonder what people here
think of this service and the values on names their.

Here is one I had on one of mine:

The free service is here

I do think that here at nameslot there is a good balance when folks appraise
names just wondering how everyone feels about automated systems like nameboy?

I think if you just use one that they can be good in that they can give you some idea of the value of your domain. The problem is that like the appraisal that you listed, The actual values seems to be determined by someone that is taking powerful drugs. They are having a great time, but they seem to want to make you feel as good as they are, and so provide an inflated appraisal.

The bad thing about them is that they make people think their domain is worth much more than it really is. Then when they get an offer of $50 or $200, they don't take it. They look at the offer in the context of the $xxxx appraisal and not the $8 registration fee, and so are blind to the prospect of getting many times their investment in hopes of a future "jackpot".

I am not against any site which provides free appraisals but I don't trust them either. I am a programmer myself and I can imagine what code I would have written if I had made that kind of tool. Analyzing that imaginary code tells me that it is not going to be as good as an appraisal given by a human being.

If still the code want to be much more effective then it would need a inbuilt dictionary. The thesaurus data. Google search API to find the marketability of that industry. OVT checks, link popularity if it is a developed site, PR value, w3c check, etc.

Still the code cannot make assumptions on revenue and so I think it will be not a good appraisal.

But as you have mentioned it I would like to say "Thanks for sharing them" sometimes we can check them in free time, just for the sake of checking it.

this one is still in beta:

http://www.estibot.com/

It is still wildly off sometimes, but it's more accurate than the other automated appraisals I've seen.

Of course a truly accurate automated appraisal is currently impossible.
( I think some human appraisals are also not very accurate :tongue: )

i made 15 appraisals at nameboy.com they are look fishy to me i dont think they are even close of the domain real value 2 examples:

Appraisal Value of uswallet.com
- Dollar Value is $18187

Appraisal Value of canadawallet.com
- Dollar Value is $6471

WOW nice appraisals. Dear r1csrr whenever you sell those domains please don't forget us.

We are all your friends. :grin: Please remember us.

Nameslot do you think this appraisals for this 2 domains are corect ?

No friend they are not correct. I wanted them to be correct you could have made nice money. But in real it is not true. You can yourself also imagine that the sum it is saying is not just right for the domain name on its own. Don't know if it is taking developed website or its data into consideration. But I checked your domain uswallet.com it is on sedo. So the automated appraisal tool is just making some mistake here. Or maybe it knows something that I am not knowing about your domains.

this i was saying too..:) anyway if i will make this amount of cash from these domains ,5% will be donated to this board promise :D

i wish nameboy was true

Appraisal Value of howtoselladomain.info
- Dollar Value is $1934

showed me the above information.