GoDaddy gets dual patents for domain appraisal -
Paul Nicks’ inventions related to name spinning and appraisals get patent protection.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office today issued two patents to GoDaddy related to name spinning and appraisal.
U.S. Patent number 8,447,701 is titled “Appraising domain names using comparative data” and 8,447,702 (pdf) is “Domain appraisal algorithm”.
The patents have lots of overlapping material. They cover name spinning to create permutations of domain names ... read more ...
Tag Archives: domain appraisal
Tue 21st May 2013
Tue 3rd July 2012
Patent postulated for programmed web site gratefulness method -
Patent describes system for generating automated appraisals of web sites.
There are a lot of automated web site valuation and appraisal tools out there. Now the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent covering a method of automatically valuing a web site.
U.S. Patent 8,214,272 (pdf), issued today, covers “Web Site Valuation”. The patent’s abstract reads:
According to the invention, a method for automatically determining an appraisal value of a web ... read more ...
Mon 1st February 2010
Estibot 2.0 is a Domainer’s Dream -
Estibot 2.0 public beta offers better valuation algorithms and new tools.
Frequent readers of Domain Name Wire know that I’m not always a fan of automated appraisals. It’s not the appraisals themselves that I dislike; it’s how domainers misuse the numbers. The best part of automated appraisals is less the final number, and more the data used to get to that final number.
Consider the time I wrote about a big domain sale, and a reader promptly emailed me to ... read more ...