David Castello: GoDaddy promised new, uncapped domain appraisal system

Posted by DomainGang on December 1, 2025, at 12:00 pm

For years, GoDaddy’s public appraisal tool (GoValue) has effectively treated $25,000 dollars as the top of the market, showing no historical sale above that number and never valuing any domain beyond that ceiling. In practice, this squeezes everything; from solid five-figure names to true six- and seven-figure assets into the same artificially low price zone, […]

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It wasn’t so hard now, was it?

Posted by DomainGang on October 3, 2023, at 9:00 am

Dan.com announced via Twitter that a fresh release of its platform code fixes the lack of a switch for the estimated value, or GoValue as GoDaddy calls it. The changes add a switch that toggles the view on and off. While this appears to work, there are a couple of issues: First, the switch’s logic […]

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How to disable the new Dan GoValue “appraisal” in your browser – Part 1: Chrome

Posted by DomainGang on September 29, 2023, at 6:20 pm

Among new features introduced at Dan.com today there’s GoValue, an arbitrary metric stuck next to your domains’ BIN prices. Tagged with an “Est. Value” header, the numbers are calculated the same way such metrics appear next to domains registered with GoDaddy. These domain valuation numbers are capped at $25,000 dollars and are highly inaccurate and […]

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David Castello: GoDaddy promised new, uncapped domain appraisal system

It wasn’t so hard now, was it?

How to disable the new Dan GoValue “appraisal” in your browser – Part 1: Chrome

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