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Appraise.net — Service Timeline

Major updates to the appraisal engine, platform, API, and pricing. Sections tagged ENGINE tell you whether a refresh of older appraisals is worth the credits.

2025-10-30 — Bug bounty program FEATURE

Public bug reporting launched at /bugs, advertised from the dashboard, batch, and lists pages. Every confirmed bug is rewarded with 50 credits. The first reporter received the inaugural reward.

2025-11-07 — Public API documentation API

API documentation went public at appraise.net/api/docs, so partners can integrate domain valuations directly into their own platforms and workflows.

2025-11-14 — A+ security rating PLATFORM

Appraise.net scored A+ (105/100) on the Mozilla HTTP Observatory. Spot-checks of a dozen marketplaces, registrars and competitor sites showed Sedo at C+ (60/100), Aternic at D (30/100), and GoDaddy at D– (25/100).

2026-01-12 — Discord bot FEATURE

The Appraise.net Discord bot launched. /appraise domain.com returns instant AI valuations privately to the requester, with estimated value, strengths, weaknesses and market analysis. New users receive 18 free credits on registration.

2026-02-19 — Engine baseline (v5) ENGINE

The reference appraisal algorithm. Established the brand-score → price tiers, the .com-equivalent ceiling rule, and per-TLD base percentages. This is the point all engine changes below are measured against.

2026-02-22 — Confidentiality & ccTLD recalibration ENGINE

• The service was hardened so internal scoring mechanics never leak into the user-facing market commentary.
• .CO bumped up — recognised as a real aftermarket rather than a thin one. Meaningful uplift on .CO valuations, especially short and keyword-aligned ones.
• .XYZ bumped down slightly (crypto, tech, and ultra-short modifiers reduced).
• Established compound words (landmark, sunflower, notebook…) are now kept as a single component instead of being split.

Refresh recommended for: .CO domains, .XYZ domains, and compound-word generics.

2026-02-25 — Brandable recalibration ENGINE

Brandable and coined one-word valuations recalibrated downward across all tiers to better reflect current marketplace comparables. Elite tier dropped from $100K–$1M to $60K–$250K, with proportional drops below.

Refresh strongly recommended for: pure-brandable and dictionary-brand domains across all TLDs.

2026-03-02 — Industry categories & .IO/.CO uplift ENGINE

• New applicable categories field — every appraisal now tags up to three industry categories (technology, finance, health, AI, SaaS, crypto, and more). Powers filtering and discovery.
• .IO and .CO base percentages raised again to reflect continued strength of the developer and startup aftermarket.

Refresh recommended for: .IO and .CO domains. All earlier appraisals gained category tags automatically where possible.

2026-03-07 — Segmentation consistency & listing titles ENGINE

• New listing title field — every appraisal now includes a one-line marketing call-to-action for marketplace display.
• Segmentation made deterministic across TLDs: yaber.ai and yaber.net now segment identically.
• Suffix handling (-ify, -ly, -able, -less, -tion…) standardised.

Refresh recommended for: coined and brandable domains where prior segmentation looked inconsistent or over-split.

2026-03-07 — Doma briefs & "more than a price lookup" FEATURE API

Launched the automatic Doma brief view, a different way to expose existing appraisal data for a specific portfolio (example: /doma/tokencobra.com). Published a companion piece, Appraise.net Is Much More Than a Price Lookup Tool, spelling out what the API actually returns: semantics, brand scores, buyer profiles and market analysis — not just a price.

2026-03-14 — Tighter ranges, deeper analysis, batch consistency ENGINE

• Tighter valuation ranges. Typical low–high spread compressed from roughly 3× down to about 2.3× — a narrower, more defensible band instead of a wide guess.
• Deeper market commentary. Expanded comparable-sales reasoning and market analysis in every appraisal.
• Batch consistency. The same domain run multiple times — or alongside siblings in a batch — now produces materially more stable results.

Refresh recommended for: any appraisal from before this date where the range felt too wide to act on, and any batch where sibling results looked inconsistent.

2026-03-24 — Lifetime Membership & Pricing Wizard PRICING FEATURE

• Lifetime Membership — by popular request, lifetime platform access is now offered at $399 (without API) and $599 (with API). No monthly credits included, but purchased credits (which never expire) can be used at any time without an active subscription. Previously, a minimum $29.99/month plan was required just to spend an existing balance.
• Pricing Wizard — new interactive tool at /pricing-wizard with a recommendation flow plus static comparison tables. It calculates the exact break-even point between a lifetime membership and a recurring plan based on projected appraisal volume.

2026-03-28 — Lifetime affiliate commissions PRICING

Lifetime Memberships were added to the affiliate program. Affiliates now earn $79.80 on a Lifetime ($399) referral and $119.80 on a Lifetime + API ($599) referral, on top of the recurring commissions already paid on subscription referrals. Apply at /affiliate/apply.

2026-04-02 — Engine Enhancements (current) ENGINE

The appraisal context enforces stricter validation and several new rules:

• Literal-spelling enforcement. Misspellings (for example, brigthr) are now flagged as a primary weakness and substantially reduce value, instead of being credited as "creative branding."
• Pronounceability test. Unpronounceable consonant clusters are detected and penalised.
• Pattern validation. CVCV / LLL / NNN classification is checked letter-by-letter — fixes prior cases where non-CVCV strings were misclassified and over-valued.
• Compound-word boundary rule. Doubled letters at legitimate word boundaries (sentinellink, bookkeeper) are correctly recognised instead of being flagged as typos.
• SLD vs TLD discipline. Segmentation now strictly applies to the second-level domain only — fixes appraisals like ai.kitchen where the wrong half was being analysed.
• Segmentation integrity check. Components must reassemble to the exact original string — eliminates a class of bugs where the service silently "corrected" the input.
• .SO added to the TLD framework, with a tech / developer "solution" association.
• Tighter category enforcement.

Refresh strongly recommended for:

• Any domain containing a likely misspelling or unusual letter cluster.
• Any domain erroneously classified as a CVCV, LLL, or NNN pattern.
• Compound-word domains with doubled boundary letters.
• Domains where the SLD is very short and the TLD is itself a dictionary word (.kitchen, .studio, .legal…).
• All .SO domains.
• Any prior appraisal whose value looked surprisingly high for a borderline-pronounceable string.

General guidance

If you appraised a domain before 2026-04-02, a refresh is usually worthwhile — especially for brandables, .CO / .IO / .XYZ, and anything with unusual spelling or letter patterns. Appraisals from after 2026-04-02 reflect the current algorithm.