How much of each domain is worth depends on how it's being sold. For example, I was asking a domainer how much my domain eskimokissing.com would be worth the other day, and this is what he told me:
If it expires and drops, 300 - 600 dollars.
In a wholesale liquidation of an entire portfolio: 800 - 1200 dollars.
On it's own, with a list of 50 potential companies that you're willing to cold call, and you've put in the work to find the right person within each company: 6,000 - 20,000 dollars.
The above scenario, but if there is a bidding war between two or more companies: 15,000 - 40,000 dollars.
So the answer is basically it depends how much work you are willing to put in to sell them. With some of these domains it's clear that you can put together a list of 100 leads if you're willing to put in 10+ hours per domain, but with others I would guess that you would probably have to liquidate them at bargain basement prices to get any money back.
Domainers are so silly. The value of your domain is what someone is willing to pay for it and what you said proves it: If you bother to find the people who want it then they will pay for it. Saying $15k - $40k is also silly, because it matters what the specific companies are. A bidding war between a small corner shop and a family owner jewellery store won't reach the same as Apple vs. Google.
"So the answer is basically it depends how much work you are willing to put in to sell them."
The value is what someone is willing to pay for it, if you can find a good end user who desperately wants it and has money then you can sell it for lots, but the money you make doesn't scale relative to the effort you put in, just like with any commodity like housing, cars etc. I can't sell a beaten up old ford focus for $1m because I spend 60 hours a week for a year finding a buyer.
Personally I doubt your domain would clear >$100 in a sale.
That keyword term only gets 210 searches a month, and there is no real way to monetize it...short of just doing a blog.
I'd say that's worth 200 bucks tops...and that's with bidding to drive up the price...since you'll have a hard time finding people actually wanting to get it.
You may well be right, that's just what I was told. The logic was that it's a dictionary term, and so a company like Eskimo Pops might want it for a marketing campaign. Or maybe some sort of adult site targeted at women, that was the other angle.
I think you have liquidation and expiring wrong. Expired domains generally command higher prices than you can get on the aftermarket from resellers.
Why? I am not really sure, but I would hypothesize that the demand is most highly concentrated at the major drop sites. They also facilitate transactions more smoothly and uniformly. Big players don't have to muddle around with lots of individuals, they deal with one company who takes giant checks from them and are assured the domain and no drama every time.
>Expired domains generally command higher prices than you can get on the aftermarket from resellers.
Don't expired domains lose big time SEO by getting classed as "new" in SE algorithms though, I thought that was why they lost value. This assumes you've got something on there that's keyword relevant already I think.
I suspect the majority of the buyers aren't looking at the SEO value. Also, most of the better names go through pre-release instead of actually dropping these days. As far as the penalties, I don't know for sure how and which names are affected.
If it expires and drops, 300 - 600 dollars.
In a wholesale liquidation of an entire portfolio: 800 - 1200 dollars.
On it's own, with a list of 50 potential companies that you're willing to cold call, and you've put in the work to find the right person within each company: 6,000 - 20,000 dollars.
The above scenario, but if there is a bidding war between two or more companies: 15,000 - 40,000 dollars.
So the answer is basically it depends how much work you are willing to put in to sell them. With some of these domains it's clear that you can put together a list of 100 leads if you're willing to put in 10+ hours per domain, but with others I would guess that you would probably have to liquidate them at bargain basement prices to get any money back.