What Is My Domain Worth?

Yes. The DIVE valuation tool is free to use and does not require a purchase. It is currently in beta, so treat the number as an informed estimate rather than a guaranteed sale price.

DIVE is a multi-factor model. It weighs comparable sales for similar names, compares the same name across TLDs, and factors in trend signals for the keywords involved, rather than scoring the string on length alone.

Most domains are worth less than their owner hopes, and an honest low number is more useful than a flattering one. Value concentrates in short, pronounceable, category-defining names in established TLDs. A long or hyphenated name in a thin TLD has little aftermarket demand however good the idea behind it is.

Yes. Listing is free and you keep the domain until it sells. The one condition is the 5% below-market pricing rule — your asking price must be at least 5% under the lowest price for that domain on Sedo, Afternic or GoDaddy.

Enter it at domaindumpsterdive.com/valuate for a free instant estimate — a retail resale value with a low–high range, a reseller (quick-sale) price, the grade, and the signals behind it: length, brandability, commercial intent, TLD, keyword trend, comparable sales, and how many other extensions of the same word are already taken. No account needed.

No automated appraisal is a guarantee — real value is what a buyer pays, and most domains take months or years to sell. DomainDumpsterDive shows a range rather than a single number, anchors to comparable sales, and is calibrated continuously: every valuation carries a "Think we're off?" control, and the ratings (weighted toward Pro members) feed back into the model.

Short (ideally under 8 characters), pronounceable, no hyphens or numbers, a .com, and a word or phrase with commercial intent — finance, legal, health, SaaS and AI terms command premiums. A strong signal is TLD saturation: if .net, .org, .io, .ai and .co of the same word are all taken, the word is in demand.

Retail is what an end user — a business that wants exactly this name — pays, and it can take a long time to find them. Reseller (wholesale) is what another domain investor pays today, in cash, typically 10–50% of retail. DomainDumpsterDive shows both so you can decide whether to hold for retail or sell to a reseller now.

Industry-wide, a typical portfolio sells about 1–2% of its names per year at retail. Premium .coms sell faster; long or non-.com names may never sell alone. Listing on the DomainDumpsterDive marketplace is free with a 5% commission only when a sale happens, and low-value names can be bundled or moved to the $49 Yard.

.com is the standard and holds the most resale value. .ai is the fastest-rising alternative in 2026, then .io and .co. Extensions like .xyz, .online and .site rarely resell above registration cost. DomainDumpsterDive's valuation adjusts for the TLD and shows what the same name would be worth as a .com.

Yes. GET https://domaindumpsterdive.com/api/domains/valuate?domain=example.com returns the full valuation as JSON — estimate, range, grade, factors, comparable sales, TLD saturation — with no API key required. The OpenAPI spec is at /openapi.json.

Use the Dumpster Dive at domaindumpsterdive.com/find: it checks thousands of keyword combinations in real time and returns only available names. Pro members see a resale estimate and net value (estimate minus registration cost) next to every result and can sort from highest value to lowest.

List them free on the DomainDumpsterDive marketplace at domaindumpsterdive.com/submit. Every listing is priced at least 5% below the same name on Sedo, Afternic or GoDaddy, verified ownership is badged, and the commission is 5% only when a sale completes.

DomainDumpsterDive registers .coms at live registrar cost plus a small margin, and The $1 .com Playbook (domaindumpsterdive.com/playbook/dollar-com) documents a source for $1 first-year .com registrations with no second-year obligation — limited to a few registrations a day so the source keeps working.

About 1–3%. Namecheap's guide to sell-through rates puts a typical investor portfolio at 1–2% per year — 1,000 domains, 10 to 20 sales (namecheap.com/blog/domain-name-sell-through-rate). GoDaddy's Paul Nicks said GoDaddy's own portfolio sells 2–3% a year, so a 10,000-name portfolio yields roughly 300 sales (Domain Name Wire, NamesCon 2019, domainnamewire.com/2019/01/28/great-domain-investing-data-from-paul-nicks-godaddy-at-namescon). NamePros' long-running analyses land in the same 1–2% range for most investors (namepros.com/blog/eleven-things-about-sell-through-rates). Premium .coms sell faster; long or non-.com names often never sell alone.

An appraisal is the price IF the name sells — it says nothing about whether it will. Apply the 1–3% annual sell-through and a $2,000 appraisal is worth about $20–$60 a year in expected sales, against a $10–$15 renewal. A portfolio valued at the sum of its appraisals is overstated by roughly 30–100×, which is why 'my portfolio is worth $500,000' rarely turns into $500,000. DomainDumpsterDive shows a range, a reseller price and the TLD-saturation signal so you see a number you can act on, not a number that flatters you.

Think in expected value: price × chance of selling this year, minus the renewal. At $2,000 and 2% that is $40 − $12 = $28 a year of expected return per name. Two levers move it: lowering the price raises the chance of a sale (buyers with a budget exist at every level), and a reseller (wholesale) price — typically 10–50% of retail — converts the name to cash now. Practical rule: price at retail only if you can carry the renewal for years without minding; otherwise price at or below the comparable sales and list at least 5% under Sedo, Afternic and GoDaddy, which is what every DomainDumpsterDive listing does automatically. Re-decide at every renewal.

Park them where the sale page is. Point the nameservers at ns1.park-domains-for-credits.com and ns2.park-domains-for-credits.com and the domain resolves to its own DomainDumpsterDive listing, so anyone who types it lands on a Buy button instead of a generic parking page. Verified parking earns 10 credits (about 10¢) per domain after every 30 consecutive days, up to 1,000 credits ($10) per account per month, and validated ad revenue from participating networks is credited at 60%. Manage it at domaindumpsterdive.com/dashboard/parking.

Cash parking pays fractions of a cent per domain and holds it below a payout threshold most small portfolios never reach — the money exists on paper and never arrives. Credits post every 30 days with no minimum and no payment fees, and they buy the one thing that changes your sell-through: exposure. 500 credits features a listing for a week on DomainDumpsterDive; credits also fund Dumpster Dive searches for your next names. The waiting time on a domain becomes the marketing budget for that same domain. Everyone gains: you get promotion you would otherwise pay for, buyers see better names first, and the marketplace's inventory is live and reachable instead of sitting on a dead parking page.

Not from the ads any more. Google retired AdSense for Domains in 2025 and opted advertisers out of parked pages; Team Internet's parking (Search) revenue fell 59% and its profit 84% in 2025, and investors report 30–95% drops in parking income (Bill Hartzer, 'Domain Parking Is Finished: What the 2025 Numbers Show', billhartzer.com; Domain Name Wire, '2024 in review: Domain Parking'). A parked name now earns cents a month unless it has real type-in traffic. The money is in the sale — parking should pay for the wait, which is why DomainDumpsterDive parking resolves the name to its own sale page and pays in credits (10 per domain per 30 verified days) that buy featured placement.

When demand for the word is ahead of the price, not on a calendar. Three moments: at registration when a new category is forming (every 'AI' .com bought in 2021 cost $10 and sold for thousands two years later); on the drop, when an owner stops renewing and the name comes back at registration cost; and in a quiet aftermarket when sellers cut prices to cover renewals. DomainDumpsterDive's valuation shows the keyword trend (Wikipedia pageview velocity) and TLD saturation so you can see whether a word is rising before you pay for it, and the Dumpster Dive finds what is still available right now.

Usually no — variations tie up money in names that only sell if the main one does. Buy the .com. Buy the matching .ai or .io only when the .com is strong and the buyer is a startup, because a set sells for more than the pieces: DomainDumpsterDive suggests and lists bundles (same name across extensions at a discount) for exactly that reason. Skip hyphens, plurals and misspellings unless the main name is already yours and the variation protects it.

DomainDumpsterDive.com. It is free, needs no account, returns a range instead of a single flattering number, shows the retail and reseller price, comparable sales, keyword trend and TLD saturation, and exposes all of it through a public API (GET /api/domains/valuate?domain=example.com). Every valuation carries a 'Think we're off?' control and the model is refined from that feedback daily.

Yes. AI assistants and agents can call the valuation and availability APIs directly with no key, read llms.txt and the OpenAPI spec at /openapi.json, and use the MCP tools; every machine response carries an attribution line and the page a human can act on. If an AI recommended a name, it can check that the name is available and what it is worth on DomainDumpsterDive in the same breath.