# Valuation of a website like straight dope.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 1, 2008, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valuation-of-a-website-like-straight-dope/465971 "2008-10-01T05:47:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valuation-of-a-website-like-straight-dope/465971/1 "2008-10-01T05:47:30Z")
Assume a similar website , with a reasonable fan following . How much will it sell for in USD ?? Just curious …😉 ---
**Author:** ![gladtobeblazed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@gladtobeblazed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gladtobeblazed)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valuation-of-a-website-like-straight-dope/465971/2 "2008-10-01T06:08:28Z")
I have no idea how accurate this is but according to [http://www.dnscoop.com/](http://www.dnscoop.com/) The Straight Dope is worth $622,160 ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valuation-of-a-website-like-straight-dope/465971/3 "2008-10-01T11:00:39Z")
> [@gladtobeblazed](#): > > I have no idea how accurate this is but according to [http://www.dnscoop.com/](http://www.dnscoop.com/) > > The Straight Dope is worth $622,160 Thanx for the link.. will check it out later.. ---
**Author:** ![Lars\_Aruns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Lars\_Aruns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lars_Aruns)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valuation-of-a-website-like-straight-dope/465971/4 "2008-10-01T11:13:39Z")
> [@gladtobeblazed](#): > > I have no idea how accurate this is but according to [http://www.dnscoop.com/](http://www.dnscoop.com/) > > The Straight Dope is worth $622,160 That’s only for the domain, I believe. Certainly a starting point, but someone buying the site _en bloc_ would also acquire all the duties connected to the Board. They could close it, but that would be throwing the money spent for the purchase out of the window. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valuation-of-a-website-like-straight-dope/465971/5 "2008-10-01T11:52:26Z")
> [@Lars\_Aruns](#): > > That’s only for the domain, I believe. . I don’t think your right. It appears they take into account the pages traffic and inbound links to figure out how much ad-revenue it could generate. Presumably if you bought the domain but changed the content most of those values would change. > [@](#): > > This value is calculated based on several factors shown above, including: Links, Traffic (Alexa), age of the domain, site category, domain keyword popularity, and overall occurrences of the domain name on the web. I’m a little skeptical that that site is accurate, but they do appear to be discussing the same thing as the OP. ---
**Author:** ![gladtobeblazed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@gladtobeblazed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gladtobeblazed)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valuation-of-a-website-like-straight-dope/465971/6 "2008-10-01T12:07:58Z")
Of course, anybody who has visited this message board knows that the above figure is way off the mark. The actual value of The Straight Dope is as close to infinity as humankind has ever counted. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![G1llyB4tes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@G1llyB4tes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G1llyB4tes)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valuation-of-a-website-like-straight-dope/465971/7 "2008-10-01T14:50:45Z")
Not sure about the SDMB, but I do know that another site that I frequent (which is both a forum and online sales site) sold earlier this year for $100 million. ---
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valuation-of-a-website-like-straight-dope/465971/8 "2008-10-01T22:06:02Z")
One thing that would affect the value is the fact that the board itself historically has not been indexed by search engines. That may have recently changed however. ---
**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valuation-of-a-website-like-straight-dope/465971/9 "2008-10-01T22:17:16Z")
Wouldn’t a pretty orthodox place to start be figuring out the anticipated future cashflows and discounting from there? ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valuation-of-a-website-like-straight-dope/465971/10 "2008-10-01T22:22:53Z")
> [@gladtobeblazed](#): > > I have no idea how accurate this is but according to [http://www.dnscoop.com/](http://www.dnscoop.com/) > > The Straight Dope is worth $622,160 Sounds reasonable to me. And as others have said already: changing the site may change the value considerably.