Website Awards

We could also call this category as Web Awards or Internet Awards or Online Awards or CSS Awards or Digital Awards, however the name “Website Awards” is self explanatory. Websites are the backbones of the Internet. They are the sine qua non for the world wide web. Therefore awarding beautiful websites together with their skilled teams is absolutely essential; and this is what Paris & Webawards.com do.

WHAT IS AN AWARD?

Let's begin from the beginning. According to Collins Dictionary,

the word AWARD can be used as "Noun" and/or as "Verb".

- An award (Countable / Noun) is a prize or certificate that a person is given for doing something well.

- If someone is awarded (Verb) something such as a prize or an examination mark, it is given to them.

According to Merriam Webster Dictionary,

- (Noun) An AWARD is something given in recognition of achievement.

- (Verb) To give something as a token of gratitude or admiration for a service or achievement.

According to Wikipedia,

- an AWARD, sometimes called a distinction, is something given to a recipient as a token of recognition of excellence in a certain field.

The first known use of the word award was in the 13th century (as noun) and 14th century (as verb).

Synonyms of award (as noun) are; prize, gift, trophy, decoration, accolade, blue ribbon, distinction, honor, kudo, plume, premium.

Related words (as noun) are; badge, crown, cup, laurel, medal, order, plaque, plate, applause, bravo, encomium, eulogy, hallelujah, homage, paean, panegyric, plaudit, tribute, citation, commendation, compliment, honorable mention.

Synonyms (as verb in present tense) are; give, grant, gift, distribute, render, assign, decree, hand out, confer, endow, bestow, allot, apportion, adjudge.

Derived forms are; awardable, awardability, awardee, awarder.

Translations in other languages are; Abaalmarin (Somali), Adjudecare (Romanian), Apdovanojimas (Lithuanian), Auhind (Estonian), Auszeichnung (German), Award (Latin), Balvu (Latvian), Beloning (Dutch, Swedish), Cena (Czech, Slovak), Damhachtain (Irish), Dij (Hungarian), Dodijeliti (Croatian), Eye (Yoruba), Fa'ailoga (Samoan), Ghotja (Maltese), Gantimpala (Filipino), Giai thuong (Vietnamese), Gwobr (Welsh), Kyauta (Hausa), Makana (Hawaiian), Mari-pankasitrahana (Malagasy), Menghadiahkan (Indonesian), Mukofot (Uzbek), Mükafat (Azerbaijani), Myöntaa (Finnish), Nagrada (Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian), Nagroda (Polish), Ödül (Turkish), Palkinto & Myonnetty (Finnish), Penghargaan (Javanese, Malay), Phan Thuong (Vietnamese), Prais (Luxembourgish), Premi (Catalan), Premia (Ukrainian), Premio (Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Galician, Esperanto), Premiu (Romanian, Corsican), Prim (Haitian Creole), Pris & Premie (Norwegian), Pris & Praemie (Danish), Prijs (Dutch), Prix & Recompense (French), Saria (Basque), Tildele (Norwegian), Tilldela (Swedish), Tohu (Maori), Tuzo (Swahili), Umklomelo (Zulu), Verolaun (Icelandic), Xelatkirin (Kurdish).

 

 

HOW A WEBSITE AWARD IS GIVEN?

The website awards are given in WebAwards.com, by an artificial intelligence jury; namely Paris. You can read the historical details behind this technological figure from here: https://webawards.com/jury/

Coming to how the awardee is designed and what is the merit, the artificial intelligence is using both matematics and machine learning processes. Mathematics; because a domain name’s and a website’s characterictics can both be measured & numbered precisely. Machine learning; because thousands and thousands of awards given to websites since the invention of the Internet, is now called “big data” and the artificial intelligence can now learn the patterns of analysing the best websites.

 

 

HOW THE VALUE OF A DOMAIN NAME IS CALCULATED?

For the valuation of a domain name, several free or premium sources exist in the Internet. If you want to use these sources, you first need to bring together the characteristics of the domain name: (1) What is the TLD of this domain name? TLD means “Top Level Domain” which is the part after the dot. In the “www.domain.com”, the TLD is “.com”, which is the most valuable TLD. Because generally everybody likes “.com” and if only “.com” of a targeted domain name is not available, people buys another TLD. (2) How many letters you have in the domain? Less is better. Short domains are more valuable. (3) How many words you have in the domain? More the search volume of these words are higher, more valuable is the domain. This is simply because while other domain owners will pay “Cost Per Click” ads for these words, the owner of such valuable domains will enjoy the free traffic coming from search engines. (4) Noting that there are more than 1000 TLDs, check in how many TLDs this domain is registered. More is better. (5) Try to spell the domain name. If you do not have to repeat the domain name several times to make people understand correctly, this domain is better. This test is called “Radio Test”. (6) If this is a word, “singular” is more valuable than “plural”. (7) For English domains, “hyphens” are reducing the value, while for French and German domains a “hyphen” increases it. (8) If this is an intelligent “domain hack”, for instance like “www.guit.ar” (.ar is the TLD of Argentine) or “www.understandi.ng” (.ng is the TLD of Nigeria) the value can increase for just the fun it offers. (9) Higher is the domain age, more valuable is the domain name. (10) More is the number of referring domains, more valuable is the domain name.

Once the characteristics of the domain are collected; Namebio is the source for finding the latest sales trends and prices of similar domains. Estibot is a domain name value estimation robot. Godaddy and Brandpa also are offering their valuation engines. There are also domain traders, brokers and journalists offering their valuation concepts, such as Andrew Rosener’s famous “Rosener Equation”. So finally, basing on above mentioned domain characteristics, comparable historical sales and algorithmic valuation tools, it is possible to find the value of a domain name.

 

 

HOW THE VALUE OF A WEBSITE IS CALCULATED?

In 1998, when two Stanford students (Larry Page and Sergey Brin) founded Google in their room, they proposed a groundbreaking algorithm, namely “Page Rank”. The idea was simply to create a search tool that would list relevant web pages by analyzing their respective backlinks. (At that time the existing search engines were finding the results, but they were not able to understand the “value of a website”, so they were listing the search results in an unordered manner, including the irrelevant results.) Google’s search technology was different. A search engine should interpret the Internet as a democracy, and the connections between websites as votes. The most linked-to sites win on the Google usefulness ballot and rise to the top of the search results. This simple algorithm is still used by Google; as well as by Paris to find the value of websites.

On the other side a valuable website is firstly the one which has a good design, an original content and fast opening pages. The user experience is important both for Google and Paris. So (1) the time a user is spending in a website; (2) the number of pages he visits; and (3) the number of visitors per day, are highly important metrics.

Other important factors are (4) the security of a website; for which a valid SSL certificate, a safe browsing value, and a reputation ranking are necessary. Several SEO analyzing tools -such as Moz, Majestic, Ahrefs or Semrush- are giving these rankings together with (5) the quality of the backlinks.

AN EXAMPLE FOR WEB DOMAIN VALUATION:

After all these explanations, an example for domain name valuation can be given as example. Here, the reader has to bear in mind that we just examine the value of the domain name, and not the website.

1) Main Details;

- Domain Name: WebAwards.com
- Domain Creation Date: 1998
- Registered on 33 Extensions
- EstiBot fair market value: $13.000 USD
- Godaddy domain valuation:  $12.500 USD
- Sold $12.500 USD on 2006-08-01 by Afternic (Source: Namebio)
- Keyword: web awards (Monthly Broad Searches: 49,500 & CPC: $6.33)
- Keyword: "web awards" (Monthly Exact Searches: 2,400 & CPC: $2.73)
- Google PR:5 (Obsolete but 5)

2) EstiBot fair market value: $13,000 USD

GENERAL INFORMATION; 
- Domain: webawards.com       
- Keywords: web awards           
- Language: English
- Registrar: Godaddy
- Highly Searched: web awards receives over 2,400 searches per month on Google.
- Competitive: Advertisers pay up to $2 per click to advertise under web awards.

COMPARABLE DOMAIN SALES;
Domain / Price / Sales Date:
- WebAwards(.com) / $12,500 / 2006-08-01
- ...(.com) / $10,000 / 2014-03-18
- ...(.com) / $10,000 / 2014-02-16
- ...(.com) / $14,500 / 2014-02-09
- ...(.com) / $15,000 / 2011-12-28

ANALYTICS;
Search Overview
- SERP TERM: 5,550,000         
- SERP SLD: 77,200
- Ads TERM: -            
- Ads SLD: 1              
- Google Page Rank: 5              
- Type-in Score;
- Overture Domain: 0
- Overture SLD: 0      
- Overture Term: 86   
- Word Tracker: -        
SEARCH VOLUME
Broad Searches;
- Keyword: web awards             
- Monthly Searches: 49,500     
- Cost per Click: $6.33               
- Ad Competition: -
- Data Age: Recent   
Exact Searches;
Keyword [web awards]      
- Monthly Searches: 2,400        
- Cost per Click: $2.73               
- Ad Competition: -    
- Data Age: Recent

3) Godaddy Domain Valuation:

- Value Estimation: 12.500 $

Similar domains sold:
- webawards(.com) - Sold: 12.500 $
- webawards(.org) - Sold: 4.000 $
- webaward(.com) - Sold: 1.700 $
- websiteawards(.com) - Sold: 4.055 $
- webarchive(.com) - Sold: 8.250 $
- webpublication(.com) - Sold: 5.220 $
- webdigital(.com) - Sold: 8.000 $
- webcorporate(.com) - Sold: 10.000 $
- webevents(.com) - Sold: 2.180 $
- websummit(.com) - Sold: 11.273 $

4) SAV Domain Valuation:
- Domain Name: Webawards.com
- Estimated Value: $30,000 USD
- Silver Keyword – Top 100,000
- This is why it’s so valuable:
This domain is registered at a registrar for large corporations. Manual review is recommended.
The extension ".com" has 5X more registrations than the next popular extension.
This could be a developed website as it has a high page rank. Manual review is recommended.
If there is a business operating on this domain name a manual review by one of our experts is required.
This domain has been registered for over 25 years. Similar domains of this age are very high in value.
Willing to compromise?
Value for ".xyz" extension: 5-10,000 USD
Value for ".org" extension: $11,000 USD
Value for ".net" extension: $11,000 USD
Value for ".co" extension: 5-10,000 USD

5) Namebio Results;

Domain Price / Sold Date / Venue:

- thewebawards(.com) 3,500 USD / 2013-09-18 / Sedo.
- webawards(.org) 4,000 USD / 2007-06-19 / Afternic.
- webawards(.com) 12,500 USD / 2006-08-01 / Afternic.

- webcam(.com) 1,000,000 USD / 2009-06-10 / Rick Latona
- webmonkey(.com) 65,000 USD / 2020-04-28 / NameJet
- webshare(.com) 55,499 USD / 2022-01-22 / BrandVenue
- webengine(.com) 50,000 USD / 2010-11-18 / Sedo
- webmeeting(.com) 40,000 USD / 2014-03-05 / Private
- webserve(.com) 31,000 USD / 2011-01-06 / Sedo
- webhelp(.com) 30,000 USD / 2008-06-23 / NameJet
- webcards(.com) 23,500 USD / 2008-02-27 / Sedo
- webvideos(.com) 22,500 USD / 2012-11-07 / Afternic
- webalerts(.com) 22,224 USD / 2007-08-07 / T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
- webgeeks(.com) 20,000 USD / 2007-11-06 / DRT Auction

6) dotDB Results: 33

According to dotDB, already taken TLD's for WEBAWARDS are: .com, .net, .org, .co.uk, .tk, .de, .ru, .nl, .eu, .com.au, .fr, .it, .ca, .co, .top, .ch, .es, .in, .be, .dk, .co.za, .ir, .no, .io, .co.nz, .gr, .com.ua, .pt, .ie, .world, .org.au, .bg, .mn

 

 

So in the interest of brevity, above an example of domain name valuation is shared (and not the website valuation because the website valuations in WebAwards.com are given together with each winners, in separate pages reserved to respective winners. To this respect in order to avoid repetition here, our visitors are kindly invited to check the WEBSITE AWARD WINNERS detailed valuation sheets.) The complete list of our website award winners can be found in this link: "ALL THE WINNERS".