With the market for good usable domain names reaching into the millions of dollars a year range, there are many questions about how much a domain name is worth. You will find many services that will use esoteric formulae for determining what a specific name may be valued at on the open market. Some domain name valuation services will charge anywhere from $10 to $50 to process your information. However, the paid services have the problem of needing repeat business so they will rarely tell you straight up that a particular domain name is worthless. Sometimes the report will cost you more than the domain name is even worth.

Here is one instance where a free service can provide you more dependable data

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As an extra function on your domain name to help separate the website's purpose, the top level domain extension was created. These distinct letters after the individual domain name were designed for use with various specific purposes in mind.

The use of these generic top level domains began in the mid 1980's as a way to separate the types of information you would expect to find on a website. The original six were as follows. The .com was to be used for commercial ventures, .edu was reserved for educational institutions, .gov was the extension for government related websites, .mil was for the use of military information, .org was for the use of institutions that did not clearly fall into the other categories, and the .net which was added at the last minute for network infrastructure sites. While these were originally strictly regulated, .com, .net and .org have become free to use for whatever purpose your website has.

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