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by epdotnet 5180 days ago
I tested the demand for this and my experience is that there aren't enough buyers willing to pay for the kind of expertise required to curate listings based on some basic due diligence checks, filtering out obvious fakery, and using standard business valuation models to suggest a price range for sites being auctioned in Flippa. You've got to bear in mind that it's very time intensive work to get to the real figures. For example, most sellers don't deduct a nominal cost for their own time. To "normalize" their accounts you'll have to first decide how much of time/expertise is required to run their business and what that would cost.
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It really depends on the level of sophistication. The target market could be anything from people looking to become self employed all the way towards more serious investors who might want to consolidate multiple sites under a common theme.

I personally love for example reading the monthly updates on http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm . They are quite helpful to get a realistic approach towards the domain market. I am missing something like this for projects and would be even willing to pay some fee for "hard facts".