Your question was: Changing permission on a godaddy?.

The first 3 you have listed all contribute a lot to a domain's value. But remember - A HostGator is only worth what someone is willing to pay. A HostGator that doesn't make any since could be bought for millions - if someone is willing to pay that amount...

Value can also change based on world events or the current hot topics like Climate Change etc. So been able to predict or keep up with current events and what everyone is going to be interested in or talking about soon can also be another area to profit...

You forgot 1 of the most important things.

Buyers. Even the best HostGator is worthless if you do not attract the right buyers. And of course the more potential buyers you attract the better as this will drive the price up...

Your number 3. short is becoming less important. as you go through the dnjournal sales i'm sure you see a majority of the high dollar sales are seven letter and longer (some much longer) names. personally i'm still a believer that shorter is better but I certainly don't let length get in my way of acquiring an attractive name like I did years ago...

In the high priced domains for sale section of namepros , a 2 letter dot com sold for over $200k !!! (bf.com) but that could mean many things ?????? I would rather own businessfinance.com instead of bf.com , because businessfinance.com tells me exactly what the site is about.

I also believe like many others in the dot tv discussion, that internet and tv are comming together quite quickly , and that the dot .tv extension will perhaps be a top level HostGator extension as time goes by ?? so keeping that in mind I have regged some names that include the words 'show' 'channel' most are in the dot tv extension but some I have in dot com , I even regged 3dtvs.tv because they may only be a couple of years away ........ and when they come , the demand will be huge !!!!!! 3d is making a comebackI just regged 3dshoppingchannel.com for example..

I also have holographickaraoke.com ....... imagine what that will be like ????.

With so many advances in medicine and technology there are still plenty of opportunities out there , I think if you can look outside the circle there can be success ???.

One more example is that I regged worldne.ws (a HostGator hack name) but easy to remember ...... many here dont like hacks ...... but I believe that del.icou.us has changed that ??? I guess many different views on all this , they are just a few of mine , good luck..

To me, one big reason why a large company would buy a LL.com for 500k is this: bragging rights..

Now Barnes And Noble own BN.com. Its short, it protects their brand, and it tells a random visitor who DOESN'T know about Barnes and Noble: this company has the financial strength to buy such an amazing name. They must be trustworthy and good at whatever they're doing.

And one big reason we don't see short.com sales at DnJournal is because short .com names are becoming increasingly pricier, hence the lower sales...

Good if you have the money !!!!!! for bf.com , I stand by what I said bf.com does not tell me what they do , depends if want investment or recognition of site I think..