You might have thought that this review is about Estibot.com getting better and better, but it isn’t. It is about my experience which I had with Estibot in 2 months. I’ll talk about advantages and disadvantages I found at the site during that time.
I have started using Estibot for free, which gave me only some features, such as 50 domain appraisals per day and couple domain idea generating per day. I liked it, though I saw couple major problems in it. Still, I decided to pay $50 for “Domainer Pro Exclusive” membership. I thought that it will help me to find more worthy domains. Let’s check out what Estibot offers for that $50. I’ll talk only about things that I tried.
1. Domain name appraiser.
This is the tool why Estibot is so popular. It suggests You the price of Your domain. Well, after using Estibot for two months I saw that You have to use technique to correct it’s suggestions. Let’s take not premium domain like Mafia-Wars.net for example. Estibot writes that it is worth about $3,400. Why is it writing this? Well, MafiaWars.com was sold for $31,103, keywords are the same – “Mafia Wars”. Is it really worth $3,400? The answer is no. My domain Mafia-Wars.net is hyphenated domain and this drops down my domain quality and worth, but Estibot don’t care about that hyphen and it still thinks that it’s the same domain as MafiaWars.net. That’s really not the right suggestion, hyphen is cutting off domains worth about 10 times, so this means that my domain Mafia-Wars.net is worth only about $340, not $3,400. Same happens with almost any other not premium domain, if Estibot says that it’s worth $10,000, You should ask no more than 50% of Estibot’s appraisal for it. I saw that one guy is selling domain Stylist.info, at DnForum.com couple people appraised it for $500-$800. What does say Estibot? It says $2,000. Couple times I saw major problems at Estibot. “Bulk domain appraiser” gives not the same amount as single domain appraiser sometimes. Another very big problem is taken “TLDs” column which shows wrong information very often. After all these problems Estibot appraisal tool is not so good as it supposed to be, but still, it is a good tool to evaluate Your domain if You don’t have any idea what Your domain price should be. RATING: 4/5. It could be 5, but You have to correct price a little bit by Yourself and You don’t get the right information all the time, sometimes Estibot shows wrong information and You can’t see that without other tools.
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