What is your webiste worth?

There are some useless (yet fun) websites that try to calculate a website’s value based only on the domain name. Let’s see how much would a random website (ylipsis.com) cost:

• $56 according to mywebsiteworth.com
• $2372.5 according to websiteoutlook.com
• $95 according to websitevaluecalculator.com

The disturbing problem is when people use those values in business proposals:

Hey, my website was valued by websiteoutlook.com at $2372.5 so I got to get at least $2000 for it.

Why would you even consider this information useful to your buyer? There could be only one of 2 explanations for this:

1. you are dumb
2. you believe your potential buyers are dumb

And here are a few such listings:

• http://flippa.com/auctions/82838/High-Traffic-Directory-Earning-Over-100-Per-Month
• http://flippa.com/auctions/82871/Domain-and-Site-TwitterTrafficTips-com-For-Sale
• http://flippa.com/auctions/83096/Custom-Coded-Forum-Approved-Free-Image-Host-For-Sale
• http://flippa.com/auctions/81837/Link-Directory-Network-Earning-240-Per-Month-No-Reserve