Free domain appraisal
Find out what a domain is worth in seconds. A transparent domain valuation in USD, with every factor behind the number, recorded sales, and live availability. No signup, no paywall.
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What is a domain appraisal?
A domain appraisal is an estimate of what a domain name would sell for. Ours is instant, free, and transparent: a value in USD, the three prices a name can fetch, a 0–100 name score, and every factor that moved the number, shown as it is here.
How much is my domain worth? Nine names, nine answers
Domains are worth wildly different amounts for reasons that are easy to explain once you see them. These nine span the range, from a one-word .com to the biggest sale on record, and the numbers are the model’s own. Click one to see its appraisal.
| Domain | Estimate | Word type | Score | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| clay.com | $1.0M | Dictionary word | 87 | A concrete noun on .com: the one-word names companies pay seven figures for. |
| cursor.com | $3.7M+ | Dictionary word | 83 | Bought for $400k in 2025 and now a top-5,000 site; the brand outgrew the sale. |
| vercel.com | $4.3M+ | Coined name | 79 | A coined name that became a top-5,000 website; the business sets the floor. |
| figma.com | $16M+ | Coined name | 80 | Coined, and among the 1,000 most-visited sites: the brand, not the letters. |
| voice.ai | $470K | Dictionary word | 81 | The same class of word on .ai: a fraction of .com, well above .io or .co. |
| crypto.com | $12M+ | Dictionary word | 83 | Bought for $12M in 2018; a public sale is the floor, however old. |
| ai.com | $70M | Dictionary word | 88 | Sold for $70 million in 2026, the largest reported domain sale ever. |
| x.com | $330M+ | Single letter | 49 | One letter, and one of the most-visited sites on earth: priced as a business. |
| 123.com | $980K | Numeric | 67 | Numeric names are their own market, and three digits sit near its top. |
How the domain value estimator works
Type a domain
Any name on any extension: one you own, one you’re eyeing, or one you’re about to register. The appraisal appears as you type.
Read the breakdown
A value in USD with a quick-sale, marketplace, and brokerage range, a 0–100 name score, and every signal the model read, with strengths and watch-outs.
Check it against the market
Live availability and price, the domain’s own reported sale if it has one, keyword sale history, extension competition, Domain Rating, and age.
What makes a domain name valuable
The model reads more than a dozen signals about the name, its extension, its history, and the live market before it settles on a number. Here is what it found for voice.ai.
- Length5 characters, short enough to remember from one hearing
- Word typeDictionary word
- Familiarity“voice” is a recognized word
- BrandabilityA concrete, evocative word
- Keyword demand7 recorded sales of “voice” domains
- Extension.ai, a premium extension
- PenaltiesNo digits, hyphens, or generic prefixes
- Reported saleNo public sale on record
- Website rankNot among the world’s 10,000 most-visited sites
- Short-name premiumApplies to one- to three-letter names only
- Availability and priceRegistry check on every lookup
- Aftermarket listingsAsking prices, compared to the estimate
- Extension competitionHow many extensions of the name are taken
- Domain ratingBacklink authority, from a live source
- Domain ageThe registration date, straight from the registry
- LengthShort names earn a steep premium; long ones lose a little per character.
- Word typeOne dictionary word is the top tier, then a natural coined name, then a two-word compound. Random letters price near zero.
- Familiarity and brandabilityCommon, concrete nouns (clay, voice) and action verbs (grow, deploy) read as brands. Abstract words don’t.
- Keyword demandWords with a track record of real domain sales carry a capped premium, from NameBio’s sale statistics.
- Extension.com is the benchmark. .ai holds a clear premium over .io and .co; extensions with no resale market are capped.
- PenaltiesDigits, hyphens, a leading stopword, and generic prefixes like get or my (getharbor) all take value away.
- FloorsA reported sale, a top-10,000 website, or a one- to three-letter .com lifts the estimate above what the letters alone earn.
A range, not a number that only looks precise
An appraisal of $158,328 suggests an accuracy no tool has. A domain has three prices depending on who is buying and how fast, so the result shows all three.
The three numbers are $5.3K, $16K, and $43K: the same name is worth 8 times more to the right buyer than in a quick sale. A single figure would hide that.
What the model can’t see
The factors are calibrated against reported sales from 2025 and 2026, and where we had to choose, the model errs low: a compound word that sold for six figures was a survivor, and most names built the same way never sell at all. What no name-based model can price is the buyer. A company that has already named itself after your word will pay many times the estimate, a trademark can make the name unusable, and private deals never appear in any dataset.
So the result is honest about its limits. A reported sale, a place in the world’s top 10,000 websites, and a short .com each override the letters-only estimate, the summary says when that happened, and every result carries the month its data was built.
Check domain value against the live market
An estimate is only useful next to a real price. Every appraisal runs a live registry check, so the result says whether the name is available, premium, listed, or taken, and how the price compares.
- AvailableFree to register at the standard price. When the estimate is well above that, the result says so.
- PremiumAvailable, but priced by the registry or a reseller. The price shows next to the estimate.
- For saleListed on the aftermarket. The asking price shows, with a note on whether it sits below, near, or above the estimate.
- TakenRegistered and not listed. Someone wanted this name, which is a demand signal in itself.
- Extension competitionHow many of the popular extensions of the same name are already registered. A name taken on twenty extensions is in demand.
- Domain ratingA 0–100 measure of a domain’s backlink strength, from a live source. It separates an operating website from a parked name.
- Domain ageThe registration date, straight from the registry. Long-held names signal stability and search-engine trust.
Where the numbers come from
No black box. Four kinds of data go into every appraisal, and the result page shows which ones it used.
- 38,000+ salesRecorded salesRealized prices from public domain sales going back to 1998, from single words to record-setting names. A domain’s own sale shows on its result.
- 32,000 wordsWord knowledgeWord frequency from a trillion-word web corpus, plus concreteness ratings for 14,545 words and 2,490 verbs: how the model tells clay from durable.
- Top 10,000 sitesEstablished websitesA global ranking of the most-visited domains. A name on the list is priced as a business, not as letters.
- Per lookupLive signalsAvailability and price from our own registry check, plus registration dates and domain ratings from live sources.
The dataset is rebuilt every month. This one was built in September 2026, and every result says so.
Instant vs. GoDaddy, Estibot, HumbleWorth, and Atom
Every free appraisal tool gives you a number. The differences are in what you can check: the signals, the sales, the range, and the market.
| Capability | Instant Domain Search | GoDaddy | Estibot | HumbleWorth | Atom |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free, no signup, no paywall | Nothing to buy or unlock | 3 a day free | 1 a day as a guest, then plans | Free | Free |
| Shows what it read, with a score | Score, sub-scores, strengths, watch-outs | A one-line reason | Attributes, no weights | The number only | A 0–10 score and data points |
| Sales you can check | The domain’s own sale with its source, plus keyword history | Comparables removed in 2024 | Own database, often dated | None | Atom’s own sales |
| A range, not one number | Quick sale, marketplace, brokerage | A point estimate | A point estimate | Three channels | A point, capped at $1M+ |
| Live availability and price | Register, premium, aftermarket, or taken | A buy button | Extension availability | None | Cross-extension check |
| .ai, .io, and newer extensions | Priced per extension | Weak on .ai | 1,990 extensions | Weak on newer extensions | .com only |
| Says how fresh its data is | Build month on every result | Not shown | Not shown | Trained to early 2024 | Not shown |
| Explains the result in plain words | Summary, strengths, watch-outs | One line | A short summary | None | Use cases and root words |
Competitor details are from their public pages and from Domain Name Wire’s June 2026 review of fifteen appraisal tools, as of September 2026.
Record domain sales of 2026
Reported sales are the ground truth an appraisal is measured against. These are the year’s biggest, and each one appraises here with its sale as the floor.
| Domain | Price | Reported | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI.com | $70,000,000 | Feb 18, 2026 | The largest domain sale ever publicly recorded, more than doubling the prior record (Voice.com, $30M in 2019). Reported buyer is Kris Marszalek, CEO of Crypto.com. Brokered by GetYourDomain.com/DomainAssets. |
| Club.com | $10,000,000 | Apr 29, 2026 | Sold via ATM Holdings/Hilco Digital. |
| Green.com | $7,500,000 | May 15, 2026 | Sold via ATM Holdings. |
| NAS.com | $1,250,000 | Apr 16, 2026 | Acquired by Nuseir Yassin of the Nas Daily media brand via Lumis. Nas.io now redirects to NAS.com and the company has incorporated the .com into its updated logo. |
| Bot.ai | $1,200,000 | Mar 4, 2026 | The first publicly reported seven-figure .ai sale on record. Sold via Sedo. |
| Midnight.com | $1,150,000 | Jan 7, 2026 | Sold through Sedo’s premium brokerage. Buyer undisclosed. |
The full list, with SEO metrics for each name, is in our top domain sales of 2026 tracker. Every domain on it appraises here with its sale as the floor.
From an appraisal to a deal
A value is a starting point. The rest of Instant Domain Search covers what comes next: finding names, checking who owns them, and seeing what they are listed for.
- Premium domainsSee what names like yours are listed for right now, and compare the asks to their appraisals.
- Expired domainsNames dropping today. Appraise the ones worth catching before the auction.
- Bulk domain searchPaste a portfolio or a shortlist, check every name at once, then appraise the keepers.
- WHOIS lookupWho owns a taken name, since when, and when it expires.
- Domain checkerSocial handles, trademark hits, history, and a preview of the name in a search result.
- Trademark searchA valuable name is only valuable if you can use it. Check live, pending, and dead US marks.
Guides to buying and selling domains
The thinking behind the numbers, written down.
- A guide to buying and selling domain namesWhere domains change hands, how deals close, and how to price one.
- Top domain sales of 2026The year’s biggest reported sales, with the metrics behind each name.
- How much does a domain name cost?Registration, renewal, premium, and aftermarket prices explained.
- So, you want to buy domain names?Domain investing from the first purchase to the first sale.
- How to choose a domain nameThe checks to run before you commit to a name.
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Domain appraisal FAQ
Type it into the box above. The appraisal gives a marketplace value in US dollars, a quick-sale and a brokerage figure around it, and every factor that produced the number. Most registered names built from ordinary words land between a few hundred and a few thousand dollars. One-word .coms, one- to three-letter names, and names with a public sale on record reach six and seven figures. What a name is worth to one particular buyer is a different question, and no automated tool can answer it.
Three checks, in order. First the name itself: length, whether it is a real word, how brandable it is, and its extension, which is what the appraisal above scores. Second the market: whether the name is available, premium, listed for sale, or taken, and what comparable names have actually sold for. Third the demand: how many extensions of the same name are registered and whether the word has a sale history. The result page shows all three, and the aftermarket search shows what similar names are listed for today.
The model reads the name first: length, word type, how familiar the word is, how brandable it is, whether it has a keyword sale history, its extension, and any digits, hyphens, or generic prefixes. Then it reads the record: a reported sale of the exact domain, a place among the world’s 10,000 most-visited websites, or a one- to three-letter .com each set a floor. The factors are calibrated against reported sales from 2025 and 2026, the data is rebuilt monthly, and the same domain always gets the same answer.
Treat any automated appraisal as a starting point, ours included. In our checks against reported sales from 2025 and 2026, most estimates landed within a factor of three of the price paid, and the misses were almost always on the low side, which is the safe side to be wrong on. What no model can see is the one buyer who needs this exact name for a product, a trademark that makes it unusable, or a private deal that was never reported. That is why the result shows a range rather than a single number, and why it links to the sales it knows about.
Yes. There is no account to create, no paywall, and no paid report to upsell. We earn a small referral fee when you register a domain through one of our registrar links; the price you pay is the same as going to the registrar directly.
They are built on different data and aim at different prices. A model trained on retail listings will run high; one trained on auction results will run low; one whose data stopped in 2024 cannot price a .ai name in 2026. Most of them show a single number with no way to check it. Ours shows the factors, the sales it used, and the build date of its data, so you can judge the estimate rather than take it on faith. If two tools disagree by a lot, the reported sales of similar names settle it.
Use the three figures on the result as your ladder. The brokerage figure is an opening ask to an end user who needs the name; the marketplace figure is a sensible list price; the auction figure is your floor in a fast sale to another investor. Then check what comparable names are actually listed for, and read our guide to buying and selling domain names before you list.
Shortness, a real word people already know, brandability (a concrete noun or an action verb beats an abstract adjective), the extension (.com first, then .ai, then .io and .co), and demand: how many extensions of the name are taken and whether the word has sold as a domain before. Digits, hyphens, and prefixes like “get” or “my” take value away. The section on what makes a domain name valuable above shows every signal the model reads.
For the name alone, very little: a great word is a great word whether it was registered in 1996 or last week. For a developed website, a great deal, because age comes with backlinks, search history, and trust. The result shows the registration date and the Ahrefs Domain Rating for a registered name, so you can see whether you are looking at a parked string of letters or an operating site.
Yes. Every extension is priced on its own scale. .ai carries a clear premium over .io and .co, backed by the sales of the last two years (Bot.ai at $1.2 million, Wisdom.ai at $750,000, Cloud.ai at $600,000), and sits below .com. Extensions with no resale market to speak of are capped, because no word rescues an extension nobody buys.
Almost always, yes. The pattern is an unsolicited offer for your domain, followed by a request that you buy a certified appraisal from a site they recommend, which pays them a commission and is the whole point. A real buyer does not need the seller to buy anything. If you want an independent figure to negotiate with, use this page; it costs nothing and shows its work.
Yes, on this page, and as an estimated value card inside the domain checker. Unlike a paid Sedo appraisal, the result is instant and free. For a whole portfolio, run the list through bulk domain search to see which names are registered, then appraise the ones that matter.