Win “The Domain Game” : Review and how to vastly improve your score!

Michael Sumner

Michael Sumner

Domain investor and NameBio CTO, Michael Sumner, developed a nice little game that most domainers should love.

The Domain Game was developed last year for the iOS, and it just made its way to Android!

Finally! 😀

The concept is deceivingly simple: guess the price that a domain was sold for, from four different ranges, three, four, five and six figures USD.

There is a timer counting down, and while right answers are rewarded with 2 points, wrong answers subtract points depending on how far you are from the correct selling price.

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For example, if you tapped on the “$XXX” button and the domain was sold for “$xx,xxx” you lose 4 points – 2 points each for every range between your answer and the correct one.

The Domain Game keeps track of your overall score, your ranking among other players, and your current and longest winning streaks.

So what is a good strategy to vastly improve your score, and win The Domain Game rounds – most of the time?

Simply, by leveraging statistics and the characteristics of domains.

Every round provides you with the domain and where it was sold, along with the year of sale.

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The data is provided by NameBio, where each answer links to afterwards and the selling venues are primarily the following:

  • Private Sale
  • TRAFFIC
  • Sedo
  • Flippa
  • NameJet
  • GoDaddy
  • Buy Domains
  • Afternic
  • SnapNames
  • Uniregistry
  • Moniker

Domains fall primarily in the following categories:

  • LL, LLL or LLLL .com
  • Single word .com
  • Two word .com
  • Brandables
  • Non-English words
  • Prefixed with i, e
  • Long tail domains

The following general rule of thumb regarding the sales venue will most likely land you the correct answer, by eliminating a number of options:

  • Private sales usually go for $XX,XXX to $XXX,XXX
  • TRAFFIC sales : More often $XXX,XXX with $XX,XXX as a second option
  • Sedo sales : Focus on $X,XXX with $XX,XXX as an option; $XXX is likely
  • Flippa sales : Focus on $XXX with $X,XXX possible.
  • NameJet sales : More often $X,XXX and $XXX as the second option
  • GoDaddy : More often $XXX sales
  • Buy Domains : Usually $X,XXX range
  • Afternic : Most often $X,XXX with $XX,XXX possible
  • SnapNames : Typically $XXX and $X,XXX
  • Uniregistry : Many sales in the $XXX,XXX range, and $XX,XXX as a second option
  • Moniker : Most often $XXX,XXX sales.

These answers above should be fine-tuned further, depending on the domain category:

  • LL sales : $XXX,XXX with no exceptions
  • LLL sales : $XX,XXX after 2012, $X,XXX possible for earlier years
  • LLLL sales : $XXX before 2012, with $X,XXX possible. NameJet before 2010 almost always $XXX, but Sedo can generate $X,XXX sales.
  • Single word sales : Most often $XXX,XXX with $XX,XXX possible
  • Two word .com : If at Uniregistry, $XX,XXX is typical but many $XXX,XXX sales
  • Brandables : Afternic, Sedo, BuyDomains and Uniregistry can fetch $X,XXX to $XX,XXX. Others, lower.
  • Non-English words : Typical Sedo sales, $X,XXX or $XX,XXX.
  • Prefixed with i,e : Sales older than 2008 in the $XXX,XXX to $XX,XXX range; newer sales as low as $X,XXX
  • Long tail domains : GoDaddy sales at $XXX, Sedo up to $X,XXX

By processing these rules “on the fly” you should be able to increase your score dramatically.

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Some other observations about The Domain Game, as we experienced them on Android:

  • How fast you tap the correct answer doesn’t seem to reward more points. There should be a remaining time multiplier, giving bonus points to the faster answers.
  • You can leave a game open and continue later. It should time out after, say, 24 hours.
  • The Domain Game can be made harder by not displaying the sales venue, the year of sale, or both. This way, only the intrinsic value of a domain would be used.
  • Sales of seven figure domains, although rare, could further expand the game’s difficulty.

Overall, The Domain Game is a very addictive game related to the domain industry, that domainers will appreciate – and it’s FREE.

Check it out, for Android, at Google Play.

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