financial valuation

Domain
names

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Domain names, like brands, are strategic intangible assets that ensure the positioning of your company in its market, strengthen its reputation, its brand image.

Companies are now implementing real strategic management of their domain names, usually associated with brand management. This management entails costs related to the deposit, renewal, monitoring and defense of these intangible assets.

Thus, like brands, the financial valuation of domain names deserves to be integrated into the management strategy of these assets.

To do this, Finantis Value analyzes different criteria :

  Portfolio strategy

Protection and defense of domain names

  The semantics of the domain name

Its meaning, its universal nature or not, its structure (in particular, ability to be memorized or understood without being spelled)

  The geographical scope

The geographical scope of the extension,

   Seniority

Seniority

  Ranking

Its ranking when it is available (which is based on criteria such as referencing, links pointing the domain name, traffic data …)

   SEO

The SEO performance on the basis of key words

  Analytical data

The website’s analytical data, number of visits, site retention time, visitor acquisition flow, pages generating the most traffic, conversion rate, etc.

  Market

The market addressed by the domain name and its relevance regarding this market,

  Economic activity

Associated economic activity

  Interference

Possible interference

  E-reputation

E-reputation

Finantis Value realizes, from these data, the financial valuation of domain names by adapting the methodologies used for the valuation of brands (ISO 10668 standard). If the domain name is identical to the name of a trademark, it cannot be dissociated from it. Its valuation will therefore necessarily be linked to that of the brand.

In other cases, three methods are particularly considered :

Approach based on historical or reconstitution costs

An approach based on historical or reconstitution costs: acquisition costs of the domain names, operating costs (renewal, associated services, SSL certificates, …), costs of protection and defense of associated rights.

Market-based approach

A market-based approach relies on transactions carried out on trading places and / or comparable domain names.

Prospective approach

A prospective approach related to income attributable to those assets

The value of a domain name is rarely reduced to that of its purchase price and renewal. In fact, the activity associated with the domain name has a direct influence on the value of the domain name.

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