Getting Started

Creating an account is simple and free:

1. Click "Sign Up" in the top navigation
2. Enter your email address and create a password
3. Verify your email address
4. Complete your profile setup

You'll receive 6 free credits to get started with your first appraisals!

A domain appraisal is a professional assessment of a domain name's market value. Our AI-powered system analyzes over 50 factors including:

• Domain length and memorability
• Keyword strength and search volume
• Extension (.com, .net, etc.) and brandability
• Comparable sales data
• Market trends and industry relevance

Domain values can vary significantly depending on the sales context and buyer. Our AI analyzes multiple pricing scenarios:

• Liquidation Price: Quick sale, below-market value
• Auction Price: Competitive bidding environment
• Wholesale Price: Bulk or investor transactions
• Retail Price: End-user market value
• Best Use Case: Perfect buyer with specific needs

Our appraisal range represents the retail market range - what an end-user might reasonably pay. This gives you realistic expectations for different selling scenarios.

Our AI system maintains a 95% accuracy rate by continuously learning from market data, sales records, and industry trends. However, domain values can be subjective and market conditions change, so our appraisals should be used as professional guidance rather than absolute values.

Overview

GoDaddy Closeout Alerts is a free email notification service that sends you lists of GoDaddy Closeout auction domains, enriched with AI-powered valuations from Appraise.net.

What Are Closeout Domains?

Closeout domains are expired domains available with Buy Now prices as low as $5.00 USD. A closeout begins after the 10-day Expired Auction has ended without receiving a bid, and lasts 5 days. It functions as a reverse auction where the price decreases daily. This is the last chance to capture expired domains before they are returned to the registry.

How Our Alerts Work

1. GoDaddy sends their Closeout newsletter - Listing domains entering the closeout phase
2. We automatically appraise every domain - Our AI analyzes each domain and assigns a valuation
3. You receive an enriched email - Domains are sorted by our estimated value, highlighting the best opportunities first

What You Get

• Sorted by Value: Domains are ranked by Appraise.net valuation (highest first), so you see the best opportunities at the top
• Color-Coded Values: Green = $4,000+, Blue = $2,500+, making high-value domains easy to spot
• Side-by-Side Comparison: See closeout price, GoDaddy's estimate, and our AI valuation together
• Quick Links: Click any domain to view the GoDaddy auction page, or click "view" to see our full appraisal

How to Subscribe

1. Go to your Profile page
2. Scroll to the "Email Preferences" section
3. Check the GoDaddy Closeout Alerts option
4. Click "Save Preferences"

You'll start receiving alerts with the next Closeout newsletter.

Requirements

• Free for all registered users with verified email addresses
• No credits required to receive the email
• Viewing full appraisal reports costs 1 credit each

Tips for Using Closeout Alerts

• Look for undervalued domains: Compare closeout prices to our valuations - large gaps may indicate opportunities
• Act quickly: Closeout prices decrease daily over 5 days, then the domain is gone
• Check the end times: Listed in Arizona timezone (MST)

The Appraise.net API lets you integrate domain appraisals directly into your own applications, scripts, and workflows. This guide covers everything you need to get started.

Who Can Use the API

API access is available on Business, Enterprise, Partner subscription plans, and Lifetime Access + API ($599). You can generate API keys from your subscription dashboard once you are on an eligible plan.

Authentication

Every API request requires two credentials, passed as HTTP headers:

• X-API-Key — Your API key (starts with ak_live_). You can reveal it on your Profile page after confirming your password.
• X-API-Secret — A 64-character hex string shown only once when you create it. You can regenerate it on your Profile page (requires password confirmation), but doing so immediately invalidates the previous secret.

Security warning: These credentials grant full access to your credits. Never share them, commit them to source control, or expose them in client-side code.

Your First API Call

The simplest call is a single domain appraisal:

curl -X POST https://appraise.net/api/v1/appraisal -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "X-API-Key: ak_live_your_key_here" -H "X-API-Secret: your_secret_here" -d "{\"domain\": \"example.com\"}"

The API returns a JSON response. For the full response schema and all available endpoints, refer to the interactive API documentation at /api/docs.

Batch Appraisals

To appraise many domains at once, use the batch endpoint:

curl -X POST https://appraise.net/api/v1/appraisal/batch -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "X-API-Key: ak_live_your_key_here" -H "X-API-Secret: your_secret_here" -d "{\"domains\": [\"domain1.com\", \"domain2.com\", \"domain3.com\"]}"

Batch job progress and results can be tracked on the API Activity page.

Duplicate Protection

The API automatically prevents duplicate submissions. If you submit a domain that is already being processed in a pending job, the API will return the existing job details instead of creating a new one. For batch requests, any domains already in-flight are skipped and reported in the skipped_domains field of the response. This protects you from being charged twice for the same appraisal.

Credit Pricing

API calls consume credits from your account balance at these rates:

• New appraisal (real-time) — 3 credits
• New appraisal (batch) — 2 credits
• Cached appraisal (previously appraised by another user) — 1 credit
• Your own appraisal (you already appraised this domain) — 0 credits

Rate Limits

You can make API calls from any number of clients with no device or IP restrictions. Rate limits vary by plan:

• Business — 30 requests/minute, 5,000 requests/day
• Enterprise — 60 requests/minute, 10,000 requests/day
• Partner — 100 requests/minute, 30,000 requests/day

Viewing Results in the Web UI

All appraisals created via the API are automatically available in the web interface. You can find them in My Appraisals, or view any individual appraisal at /appraisal?domain=example.com.

API Activity Page

The API Activity page (visible in the navigation menu once you have an API key) provides a complete overview of your API usage:

• Summary stats — Total requests, domains processed, credits used, and success rate.
• Batch Jobs table — Shows all batch jobs with status, domain count, and credits charged. Expand any job to see the individual domains and click through to their appraisals.
• Recent API Requests table — Lists the last 50 API requests with endpoint, method, status code, response time, and credits charged.

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.