Originally Posted by Furious_Male

I am not an expert but I do dabble in the domain market and hold a small portfolio of domains. With non traffic domains domainers do value domains on several metrics including TLD, Length, alpha vs. non alpha characters and hyphens, keyword(s) (search term popularity), current market demand etc.

In the end a lot of it does boil down to what someone is willing to pay for the domain. Finding the end user for a great domain is always nice as they will usually pay much more then another reseller or investor.