The first question: Was $50,000 a reasonable price for table.com?  

Since domain names are unique, there wasn't going to be an exact calculation which could tell us the answer, but there were several strategies I decided to pursue to help us make an evaluation:

• Creating a list of comparable domains which were recently sold.  If I could identify the most similar recent sales, I would probably have a pretty reasonable number.  But, could I collect enough data about premium domain sales?  Would their be enough very similar single word generic names from which to draw conclusions?
• Availing myself of some of the many valuation services out there.  While "the experts" tend to be skeptical of these evaluation services, it seemed like a worthwhile exercise, both to better understand the factors that go into their ratings, and to generate a range of data.  And, I'm curious...  How accurate are these evaluations?
• Asking some of "the experts": I was going to ask absolutely everybody their opinion.

I'll delve into the details of each of these in a separate posting. 

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