Methodology

How WECKETT forms its view.

Confirmed market activity first, structured interpretation second, commentary only where market structure exists.
Section 01

Data sources

WECKETT relies on confirmed market transaction data, including public sales records and reported comps where available.

The platform may also use contextual enrichment signals such as:

These signals are secondary. Confirmed sales remain primary.
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WECKETT PRICE GUIDE SAMPLE
ad.com
.com · Two-Letter · Category Keyword
Grade WPS Price Signal
HIGH $3,700,000 ▲▲
WPS $1,850,000 ▶
LOW $925,000 ▼
Range: $925,000 – $3,700,000 · Structured estimate · Not an offer
Section 02

What is included and excluded

Included

  • Confirmed sales
  • Public transaction history
  • Category-level behavior
  • Selective keyword and vertical clustering

Excluded

  • Private transfers without support
  • Zero-value transfers
  • Unsupported anecdotal claims
  • Automatic coverage of all strings
  • Instant broad-spectrum junk-name appraisal
WECKETT is selective because signal matters more than volume.
Section 03

Coverage philosophy

WECKETT is not built to answer every query. It is built to produce stronger conclusions where market structure exists.

The platform focuses on names, categories, and verticals where:

If a category is not currently covered, participants may request review through the evaluation page.

Section 04

How outputs should be interpreted

WECKETT outputs should be interpreted as structured estimates informed by:

They are not guarantees, offers, or binding appraisals. WECKETT is a reference platform, not a substitute for judgment.

Section 05

Versioning and revision

Methodology evolves as coverage expands and new data is incorporated. Thresholds, filters, and property classes may be refined over time.

Any material revisions should be versioned and dated.

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Methodology meets the meter.

Reading how Weckett prices is one thing. Getting a price on your asset is the other.

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Section 07 — Challenge or Correct an Estimate

Think a number is wrong? Tell us.

Every Weckett result is an automated estimate with a stated confidence band and limitations — not a commissioned appraisal. If you have a completed estimate you believe is off — a comparable we missed, a sale we should know about, a coverage error — open a correction below. We review each one; corrections are appended to the record and never overwrite your original receipt.

A correction request is a review, not a guaranteed change. We may ask for more detail. Filing a correction does not alter or refund a completed estimate on its own.

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EST. 2026 · NEW YORK + WYOMING · Pricing Intelligence for Digital Real Estate

 ·  25,000+ compiled aftermarket sale records since 2000  ·  domains scored  ·  Refreshed · sales through 9 October 2026 · Prices and integrity are the ingredients.
WHAT IS MY DOMAIN WORTH? · TRANSPARENT DATA-BACKED RANGE

Know what the domain is worth before you move.

Compiled aftermarket sale records — prices and integrity are the ingredients. Automated domain-pricing estimates from 25,000+ compiled sale records, published confidence bands, and market logic that holds up in a negotiation.

The market paid $140,000 for golf.ai. Automated tools priced it at a small fraction. See the gap before you price.

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25,000+ compiled sale records Sales data since 2000 68% confidence-band coverage (200-sale blind test)
WECKETT REPORT #WPS · SAMPLE
DOMAIN EVALUATED
example.com
Single keyword · Dictionary · Premium .com
WPS ESTIMATED RANGE
$18,000 – $32,000
CONFIDENCE
Moderate
WPS SCORE
7.2 / 10
TLD TIER
Tier 1 (.com)
COMPARABLE SALES
related.com$19,000Dynadot '24
keyword.com$28,000Atom '24
Strong commercial relevance. Mid-tier single-keyword .com with active search volume. Price supported by three reported comps in the 2024–2025 window.
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Model performance and proof

Pricing integrity, informed by 25,000+ compiled aftermarket sale records.

$644,864,699
Published Weckett floors
25,814 assets. Each floor is the asset's highest recorded sale or appraisal on file (wps-floors.json).
$339,904,666
Compiled sales value, at least
25,002 compiled sales, one per domain per year, highest price kept. March 2000 to 9 October 2026.
$236,727,708
472 sales of $100,000 or more
Same count rule: one sale per domain per year.
$132,591,869
40 sales of $1,000,000 or more
Same count rule. Reported sales, compiled; not audited.
1.72M
WPS model estimates
1,724,942 in the active WPS book (as of 1 August 2026).
Why It Matters

Digital real estate investors deserve a real pricing tool.

Automated appraisal tools dominate the industry. They produce instant numbers based on keyword metrics, character counts, and historical averages. The output feels precise. Precision is not accuracy.

Golf.ai sold for $140,000, far above the automated estimate it carried. Chat.com sells for $15.5M against a $3M ceiling estimate.

That is not an edge case. Point estimates without comps or confidence can diverge sharply from realized sale prices.

WECKETT is an independent pricing reference for serious participants in digital real estate. Not a commodity tool. Built selective, by design.

25,000+
Compiled Sales
1.72M
Domains Evaluated
15+
Marketplaces
V5.2
Model version
What WECKETT Does

Three things. Done with discipline.

Evaluates Domains

Model estimates anchored on 25,000+ compiled aftermarket sale records. Every price includes a confidence band, not just a point estimate. The model is transparent — methodology, training data, and limitations are published.

Publishes Research

Original research on pricing trends, market structure, and the reasoning behind how domains are priced — published openly, with methodology and limitations in view.

Builds Trust Infrastructure

Structured evaluation process. Published methodology. Transparent limitations. Every estimate is defensible — not because the number is perfect, but because the reasoning is visible.

Why Trust It

The data speaks. We just organize it.

68% In-Band

On a blind test of 200 random mid-market sales ($500–$50K), WPS v5.2, 68% of actual sale prices fell within the model's confidence band. This is confidence-band coverage on that test sample, not point accuracy.

25,000+ Compiled Sale Records

Compiled aftermarket sale records from 2000 to 9 October 2026. The V5.2 model was trained on the earlier record; every sale added since sets a price floor. 50+ feature attributes. RandomForest V5.2 architecture. Cross-validated across 5 folds on the expanded 4.75× training set. 1.72M pre-scored names in the WPS lookup.

Transparent Limits

We publish what the model cannot do. Strategic acquisitions, narrative-driven pricing, and private sales are explicitly excluded from scope. Honesty is the product.

"Many platforms optimize for immediate output. WECKETT optimizes for structured reasoning."

Why This Exists
We built WECKETT because the domain aftermarket has no trusted pricing authority.
The domain aftermarket lacks a transparent, independent pricing reference. Automated point estimates are often presented without comps, confidence, or method, and can diverge widely from realized sale prices. We think the market deserves a reference that shows its work.

WECKETT is a pricing-intelligence platform built on 25,000+ compiled aftermarket sale records from reported marketplaces. The model is transparent about its limits: R² of 0.28 on a held-out test set (log10 scale, 5-fold cross-validated), WPS v5.2. On a blind test of 200 random mid-market sales ($500–$50K), 68% of actual sale prices fell within the model's confidence band — confidence-band coverage on that test sample, not point accuracy — and we show our work on every estimate.

This is not a tool that prices every domain on the internet. It's a selective reference layer for serious participants — buyers, sellers, brokers, appraisers, and investors who need structured reasoning, not instant guesswork.
— The WECKETT Team · Est. 2026 · New York
SECTION 03 — THE BECKETT STANDARD

Methodology & Model Performance

Beckett published transparent comps for trading-card prices for decades. We do the same for domains. Every estimate shows its work — training data, confidence bands, and confidence-band coverage on a blind test of 200 random mid-market sales ($500–$50K), WPS v5.2.
68%
Within Confidence Band
0.28
R² · log10 scale
200
Blind-Test Sample
Domain Venue Transaction Date Actual Sale Weckett Price Deviation In Range

Weckett Price is the posted WPS price. By rule it is never below the asset's own recorded sale or any appraisal on file; a row held at its sale reads "at sale". The 68% figure above comes from the separate blind test.

UNDER THE HOOD

The Specs

Transparent, reproducible, data-first. The model, the features, the overlay.

Model Architecture

AlgorithmRandomForest V5.2
Sales record25,000+ compiled sales
Sourcesreported marketplaces
Features50+ attributes
R²0.28 (holdout, log10)

Confidence Bands

LO Band15th percentile
HI Band85th percentile
Coverage68% of sales

Top Features

#1 Sale Year26%
#2 Dict Word19%
#3 TLD Score12%
#4 Length9%
#5 Vowel Ratio5%
TLD TIER SYSTEM
TIER 1 — .COM (5.0) TIER 2 — .AI (4.0) TIER 3 — .IO .ORG .NET (2.5–3.0) TIER 4 — .APP .XYZ .US (1.5–2.0) TIER 5 — .INFO .ONLINE (0.5–1.0)

Benchmarks and the gap

The Market's Benchmarks
ai.com
$70,000,000
chat.com
$15,500,000
bot.ai
$1,200,000
golf.ai
$140,000

The market reveals hierarchy through transactions, not theory.

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Benchmark Proof
Domain Tool Automated Est. Actual Sale Gap
Qwen.ai Humbleworth $67 $500,000 7,463×
Bet.bet Estibot $1,400 $600,000 429×
Qwen.ai Estibot $1,200 $500,000 417×
Bot.ai Humbleworth $3,655 $1,200,000 328×
Chat.com Estibot $2,500,000 $15,500,000 6.2×

Source: Compiled aftermarket sale records vs. Estibot & Humbleworth automated appraisal tools.

SECTION 02

The Gap

Realized sale prices vs. automated appraisals — the data speaks for itself
65×
Golf.ai — $140K realized, far above its automated point estimate
Asset Type Example Realized Automated Gap Why the Tool Fails
Interface-defining brand Chat.com (2023) $15.5M $1.0M – $3.0M 5× – 15× No strategic optionality model. "Chat" as keyword ≠ "chat" as primary AI interface.
Category-defining generic Gold.com $8.5M · Connect.com $10M $8.5M – $10M $500K – $2.0M 3× – 10× Cannot model index-constituent behavior or decade-long holding thesis.
AI semantic anchor AI.com $70M · You.ai $700K $700K – $70M $500K – $5.0M 2× – 14× Narrative velocity: appraisals lag adoption 12–36 months.
.ai TLD — single word brand Lotus.ai $400K · Speed.ai $165K · Amber.ai $115K $100K – $400K $500 – $5,000 20× – 800× Blanket TLD discounts on .ai lagged where the market moved.
AI interface primitive Stack.ai $258K · Sound.ai $250K $125K – $259K $100K – $400K 2× – 12× Interface-value not modeled. Sound.ai was private — never in training data.
Sport / lifestyle + .ai Golf.ai $140K (2024) $140,000 $500 – $2,000 70× – 280× Sport + TLD premium — a combination automated point estimates often miss.
Realized figures compiled from DNJournal and NameBio reported transactions. Automated ranges are illustrative of common point-estimate tools. This section is market data, not a claim about any specific provider.
Three Inputs Automated Tools Cannot Model
Strategic Optionality
What a domain is worth to the one buyer who needs to control that category.
Interface Primitives
When a word becomes the name for a modality, its value decouples from keyword traffic.
Narrative Velocity
Markets price narratives before they price cash flows. Automated tools cannot model what the market has decided is coming.

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Commerce status

WPS founding-pilot commerce is being finalized.

Everything explaining how WPS works stays open and free to read.
WHAT YOU GET

What you get in a WECKETT report

A structured deliverable built to support a real pricing decision.

WECKETT REPORT — SAMPLE
Summary
Est. Range
Conf. Band
Comps
Next Move
ESTIMATED RANGE
$18,000 – $32,000
CONFIDENCE BAND
Moderate
CATEGORY
Premium keyword
Strong commercial relevance. Comparable to mid-tier single-keyword .com sales 2023–2025.

A WECKETT report is designed to be readable in minutes and useful in live conversations.

  • A price range, not a vanity number
  • A confidence view, not false certainty
  • Context that holds up in a negotiation
  • Reasoning you can defend to a client, buyer, or partner
COMPILED AFTERMARKET SALE RECORDS — PRICES AND INTEGRITY ARE THE INGREDIENTS

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