Valuing Deleting Domains

What methods are you using?

[finer9]

As a buyer of deleting domains, I often find myself trying to value a domain, based only on public info.

Of course you can look at Google backlinks, but that is partial.

You can look at ATW links, and that may be more helpful.

You can look at Alexa traffic rank, but that is almost useless.

It seems to me that a value per link may be the best way, but of course not all links are created equally.

Anyone have a good formula they use?

[dsmmg]

I reguarly buy them based on the factors that you listed; number of links, quality of links, PR, and so on. I then value them (to sell) based on a percentage of what I 'think' (think being the imparitive word here) I could earn were I to put them to use. IE: I 'think' that a domain I grabbed could bring me in a thousand dollars over the course of it's life doing what I do; I might sell it for $250 today.

That percentage takes into effect the fact that the only work I need to do is push them to the buyer, as opposed to building content, promoting it, and so on.

So I guess 'my' (Again, the imparitive word being MY) answer to your question is: It is only worth what you can make from it, and the 'for sale' percentage depends on how much work you want to do.

Just my 2 cents...

DS