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Most site owners think of their project as a side income. Buyers think of it as an asset worth 2–4 years of profit, paid upfront. A site earning $500/month can sell for $15,000–$20,000.
SiteAppraiser shows you that number for free — so you can decide whether to keep earning or cash out.
Value my site →Revenue, profit, traffic and how you monetize. No account, no connecting anything — just the numbers you already know.
A likely sale price plus a low–high range, with a transparent breakdown of exactly what is pulling your multiple up or down.
A checklist to prep the sale, tips to raise your price first, and the right marketplace matched to your site's size and type.
We start from your monthly net profit and apply a market multiple, then adjust for the factors real buyers care about. It's the same logic a $200 appraiser uses — we just show our work.
Compare fees on Flippa, Empire Flippers, Motion Invest and brokers at your price, or tell us about your site and we'll recommend where to list.
A tour of the marketplaces and brokers worth knowing, sorted by the kind of site each one serves best.
Most registered domains have no resale value. Five quick checks tell you whether yours is an exception, and what to do with it either way.
A breakdown of typical profit multiples by site type this year — and the specific factors that push yours higher or lower.
Get a free, data-backed valuation range in about two minutes — no email required.
A data-backed valuation in two minutes. Use last month's numbers or a typical month — estimates are fine.
The higher each factor, the more it lifts your multiple.
Based on your inputs, these moves have the biggest impact on your multiple.
The platforms owners use to make the improvements above. Optional — pick what fits your plan.
Tell us about your site and we'll match you with the best-fit marketplace or vetted broker — plus prep tips to get top price. Free, no obligation.
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Marketplace trends, current multiple ranges, and listings worth a look — once a month, free.
Fees and thresholds are typical ranges and change over time — confirm current terms on each platform before listing.
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Most domains are worth only their registration fee. Names that do sell usually go for $100 to $5,000. Enter a name to estimate its value in seconds.
This values the domain name itself — separate from any site on it. For a website's full business value, use the site appraisal instead.
What a result looks like for an ordinary two-word .com. Enter your own name above for a live estimate.
Paste up to 100 names, one per line or separated by commas. Free, no signup. Bulk results use the factor model only; check a single name above for the AI-assisted estimate.
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Get a copy plus a heads-up if this name's estimated value moves. Free, no spam.
If it's unregistered you can grab it now, often for under $20/year. If it's taken, these registrars will show who's selling it and for how much.
Park the domain on an ad page and collect revenue from type-in traffic — and many parking services help sell it at the same time. Free to set up.
Domain values are inherently rough — the real price is whatever a buyer will pay. This estimate reads the name's characteristics and is informational only, not comparable-sales data.
Paste up to 100 names and see which ones are worth keeping, listing or letting lapse. Results sort by value and copy straight into a spreadsheet.
| Domain | Quick-sale | Likely | Retail |
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| quickfern.io | $720 | $1,430 | $2,720 |
| harborledger.com | $600 | $1,200 | $2,280 |
| cosmic.si | $590 | $1,170 | $2,220 |
| best-roof-quotes.net | $25 | $50 | $95 |
Notable domain and website sales, marketplace fee changes, and one valuation tip. One email a month.
Every figure below is a publicly reported cash purchase of the name alone, with a source you can check. They are not comparables for an ordinary domain — they are the ceiling, and they show what the market rewards.
| Domain | Year | Source | Reported price |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI.com | 2025 | Financial Times | $70,000,000 |
| Voice.com | 2019 | MicroStrategy press release | $30,000,000 |
| 360.com | 2015 | Vodafone to Qihoo 360 | $17,000,000 |
| NFTs.com | 2022 | DN Journal | $15,000,000 |
| FB.com | 2010 | Farm Bureau to Facebook | $8,500,000 |
| Bot.ai | 2026 | Sedo — largest public .ai sale | $1,200,000 |
Cash purchases of the name only. Nine-figure headlines like Business.com and Cars.com were company acquisitions or accounting valuations, not domain sales. Brokers state openly that many high-value sales are confidential, so the public record is a floor rather than a full picture.
See all reported sales above $8m, with sources →A domain has no revenue to multiply, so it is priced on what a buyer would have to pay to get an equivalent name. Five characteristics carry most of the difference between a name worth $12 and one worth $12,000.
A .com is worth several times the same name on almost any other extension, because it is what buyers assume by default. Country extensions hold value inside their own market. Newer extensions rarely resell for more than their renewal cost unless the name itself is exceptional.
Short, pronounceable, spellable-from-hearing names command a premium because they work in speech and on packaging. Hyphens, numbers and doubled letters reduce value sharply, since they have to be explained every time the name is said aloud.
Names that describe a market where customers spend money are worth more than names in markets where they do not. The same two-word structure is worth an order of magnitude more in insurance or software than in a hobby niche, because the buyer's return on the name is larger.
A name a company could build an identity on has a different buyer from a keyword name, and often a better one. Invented words that sound like real words are the most valuable category that contains no keywords at all.
An established registration date helps. A history of spam, adult content or a search penalty hurts, and it is the one factor that can make an otherwise good name close to unsellable. Anyone paying real money will check the name's past before they pay.
The distribution is steep. The overwhelming majority of registered domains have no resale value at all, and the headline sales you read about are a rounding error in volume. These are the bands most names fall into.
Most domains. Long names, hyphens, unpopular extensions, or anything with no commercial meaning. Realistically these sell only to someone who specifically wants that exact phrase, which usually means nobody.
Sensible two-word .com names in a real market, or decent single words on a secondary extension. This is where most genuine transactions happen, and where a name will usually sit on a marketplace for months rather than days.
Short, clean, brandable .com names, or exact-match phrases in a market with real spend. At this level buyers are companies rather than investors, and a broker starts to be worth the commission.
One-word .com names, or category-defining terms. Sales here are negotiated rather than listed, often through a broker who already knows which company wants the name. Vanishingly rare as a share of all domains.
Bands describe typical market behaviour, not guaranteed outcomes. A domain is worth what a specific buyer will pay on a specific day, and the same name can fetch very different prices depending on who is looking.
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Type, URL and a rough profit range. No documents yet.
One or two venues that fit your size and type, with the fees you'd pay at each.
You deal with the marketplace or broker yourself, with our prep checklist in hand.
A real person will review your site and reply by email within 2 business days.
See what you'd pay and keep on Flippa, Empire Flippers, Motion Invest or a broker.
Open calculator →The moves that most reliably raise your sale price before you list.
↓ Download checklistGet a likely sale price and range in about two minutes, if you haven't already.
Start appraisal →Free templates every buyer asks for, plus the software we reach for to lift a site's traffic, revenue, and final sale price.
Free, no signup. Start here if you want to know what something is worth.
A valuation range from your traffic and profit in about two minutes.
Start appraisal →Quick-sale and retail estimates with every factor shown.
Check a domain →Paste up to 100 names and sort them by value before renewal.
Appraise a list →Brandable name ideas with availability checks.
Generate names →Four quick answers you would otherwise work out on the back of an envelope.
What you'd pay and keep on Flippa, Empire Flippers, Motion Invest or a broker at your sale price.
Open calculator →Monthly profit and a multiple into a valuation — or reverse it to see what multiple an asking price implies.
Open calculator →What actually lands in your account after commission, escrow and the costs sellers forget to count.
Open calculator →Estimate the taxable gain from your sale price, cost basis and selling costs. Estimate only, not tax advice.
Open calculator →The four documents buyers and sellers use most, ready to fill in. Download free.
A clean 12-month profit-and-loss layout with revenue and expense lines already set up. This is the first thing buyers ask for.
↓ Download templateEvery item buyers and sellers verify before money changes hands — financials, traffic, legal, and the deal itself.
↓ Download checklistA plain-language purchase-agreement template covering assets, payment, transfer, and seller reps — a starting point to take to your lawyer.
↓ Download agreementA month-by-month plan of the moves that most reliably raise your final sale price before you list.
↓ Download checklistWe'll send the full toolkit to your inbox so you have it when you need it.
Each one targets a lever buyers pay premium multiples for — traffic, recurring revenue, and diversification. Optional, and pick only what fits your site.
Some links are affiliate links — if you buy through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. We only list tools we'd use ourselves.
Run a free appraisal first — it shows which levers move your value most, so you spend on the tools that actually raise your sale price.
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Enter a word your business is about. You get name ideas built the way valuable domains are actually built — and you can check what each one is worth before you register it.
These are ideas, not availability checks — we do not query the registry. Popular short names are usually taken, so expect to try several. The availability links go to a registrar and are affiliate links.
Type a word above to see name ideas.
A domain you register for $12 today is an asset with a resale value, and the characteristics that make a name good to use are mostly the same ones that make it worth something later. Four tests, in order of how much they matter.
Turn a monthly profit and a multiple into a valuation — or work backwards from an asking price to see what multiple a seller is really asking for.
Looking at a listing? Enter the asking price alongside the monthly profit above to see the multiple the seller is actually asking for.
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Small online businesses generally trade between 24× and 45× monthly net profit, which is 2× to 3.75× annual. Where a specific site sits inside that range is decided by a handful of factors, and they matter more than the arithmetic.
Enter a sale price and see what you'd pay and keep on Flippa, Empire Flippers, Motion Invest or a broker.
Some venue links are affiliate links. If you list through one we may earn a commission, at no cost to you. It doesn't change the fees shown or the order, which is always cheapest first.
Flippa and Empire Flippers rates from their published pricing as of September–October 2026 (Empire Flippers also has its own commission calculator). Motion Invest rates from independent reviews; it publishes rates on request. Broker shown at 12%, the middle of the typical 10–15% range. Escrow uses Escrow.com's published domain and website rates (October 2026); Empire Flippers and Motion Invest handle escrow themselves. Confirm current rates with each venue before you list.
Fees are only part of it. Tell us about your site and we'll recommend where to list.
A sale price is not what you keep. Work out what actually lands in your account after commission, escrow and the costs sellers forget.
Commission is the obvious one and rarely the only one. Before you accept a price, account for these four, because each is real money and none of them appear in the headline figure.
Estimate the taxable gain on a website or domain sale. You supply the rate, because the right one depends on where you live and how long you held the asset.
This is an estimate, not tax advice. Rates depend on your country, your income, how long you held the asset, and how the sale is structured. Speak to an accountant before you rely on a number.
Plain-English definitions of the terms buyers, brokers, and marketplaces use — so nothing in your sale catches you off guard.
Now that you speak the language, get a free, data-backed estimate of what your site or domain is actually worth.
SiteAppraiser gives website owners a free, honest answer to a question most never think to ask: what is my site actually worth?
Most people who run a profitable website think of it as a side income, not an asset. Buyers think differently — they'll pay two to four years of profit, upfront, for the right site. That gap costs owners real money, either because they never sell or because they sell for far less than the market would pay.
Traditional appraisers charge $200 or more and hand you a number with no explanation. We thought a first, honest estimate should be free — and that you deserve to see exactly how it was calculated. So we built a tool that runs the same profit-times-multiple logic the marketplaces use, shows its work, and asks for nothing in return.
Questions, feedback, or a correction to an estimate? Email us at hello@siteappraiser.com — we read everything.
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