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my-cool-startup-name.net
$25 – $100
Indicative resale range · would lease around $39/mo
✓ Available to register right now

How that score was reached

+14 .NET extension Discounted against .com — resale demand outside .com is a fraction of it.
0 20 characters Long names have thin resale demand — they are built, not traded.
-22 Contains a hyphen End users mistype and mistrust hyphens; resale value collapses.
Worthless placeholder, not an asset

This is a twenty-character, double-hyphenated .net string that literally reads like a placeholder someone types in a tutorial. It has no resale market at any price above the registration fee, and the indicative $25–$100 range simply reflects a year or two of renewal costs, not value. Nobody is bidding on this.

What it has going for it

  • It is unregistered, so there is no acquisition cost or negotiation — you pay reg fee if you actually want it
  • The words are plain English and instantly understood, which is the only thing it has going for it

What holds it back

  • Two hyphens plus 20 characters: unusable in speech, on radio, or on a business card without spelling it out
  • The phrase 'my cool startup name' is self-referentially generic — it signals a demo, not a business
  • No .com, no keyword equity, no end-user category that maps to it
  • If you build on it, every dollar of brand spend accrues to a name you cannot defend or resell

Who buys it: Realistically nobody — perhaps a developer needing a throwaway domain for a demo, tutorial, or test environment.

What we'd do: Don't register it as an investment; there is no exit. If you need it for a sandbox or a screenshot, grab it for the reg fee and let it expire when you're done.

This is an indicative range from measurable characteristics — extension, length, shape and recorded demand. It is not a formal appraisal and cannot be: two names of identical length can differ a hundredfold on the strength of the words inside them. Treat it as a first read, not a price.

my-cool-startup-name.net is unregistered

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