A Conflagration of Randomness

The Google software goes open source and creates:  http://piratepad.net/

Google gets fined for copyright infringement: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8420876.stm

A recent patent application by Microsoft shows that Microsoft is planning on developing games that would limit certain areas and competitions to healthy Americans.  The players in-game avatars would reflect their own physique. Overweight players would  be restricted unless they maintained a proper health records.  The game would draw the information from digital medical records.  How this will go I don’t know, but it seems like there may be lawsuits of some form against equal rights for all Americans.  We shall see.

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I have discovered four domain valuation tools in the last few months. Both calculate the value of a domain in very different ways leading to very different results. I tested both with my domain name http://shopthe.net. One came out to $700,000 while the other resulted in $100.

The first was Leapfish:

This gives a very generous estimate of a domain, obviously based on only popularity and not actual traffic, since I basically get none.

You can try their search for getting the value of your domain:

The other site is called Website Outlook:

This gives a much more modest and accurate result.

Search on Website Outlook. Enter your domain.

In addition there is another tool called Estibot.  This offered the lowest price of all.

Estibot

Finally I tried a tool called Valuate, which gave me the second lowest appraisal.

Results:

So which domain tool would you trust the most?