Jay Westerdal, of Domain Tools, hooks domainers up.
How? He provides several filtering tools, for free, online to sift through the desert like abundance of expiring domains.
One, I use on a consistent basis, is the Advanced Auction section of Domain Tools..
I debated whether to share this info or not, but darn it, it helps me, and - in the end - I wanna help the domainer community, so what the hell, I’ll share it.
One great angle researching domains is targeting really old domains. Domains that have been registered for more than - say - 8 years or so.
Why old domains? Well, think about it this way… Frank Schilling, plus a lot of other domainers, got very active in 2002.. so, it’s 2008 now. All domains, 8 years old now coming up for auction, were off-limits to Frank and the other odd crew back then..
and imagine, if someone registered the domain for 8-10 years, the things gotta have some value to it, right? Either in generic name value, or traffic value.
..if you had a lackey domain name in your porfolio, one that had proven no name value or traffic value, would you continue to register the name for consecutive years? Probly not.
So, guess what the Advanced Auction section of Domain Tools allows you to do?
That’s right, filter by domain age.
Simply jump in there, filter by age, and go crazy.
Does it work?
Yes.
Because Jay gives these types of tools away for free, I was able to identify, backorder, and acquire BeavertonApartments.com today, for the entry fee of $59. I was the only bidder.
No, that name ain’t gonna make me rich, but if you look at the search stats on ‘beaverton apartments’, you’ll realize $59 is a pretty cheap acquisition price.
all this cause Jay was cool to provide tools like this.
thanks Jay.
I owe you a beer at Bone’s.
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Peter,
Thanks for your post - I get the odd feeling that I might be a SEOmainer but never realized it (light on the domainer side). Or maybe just still half in the closet about it. I’m just obsessed with the idea that one can develop these domains and monetize them… I’m constantly asking my normie friends what they think about certain domain names.
So we have a pretty good handle on SEO, what in your opinion are the fundamental learnings to get quickly through the learning curve on the domaining side? Are there particular blogs, books, or other that you would reccomend?
Thanks
e
hmm, for blogs, run through all those on my blogroll..
books? nothing off the top of my head.. Use your PPC knowledge as a guide and you’ll do fine (that’s what I did)
peter
I see - well Peter I will certainly start looking at the blogs on your blog-roll. In fact I already am and I’ve got all kinds of questions. I don’t know if you wouldn’t mind being my Domaining Mentor for a little while.
I’ve been looking at a few of these blogs and the first thing that stands out to me is this concept of Domain Tasting.. Now I’m not sure if I follow what the big idea is behind this. Is it just testing the type-in traffic of the domain without anything but a placeholder site there? Wouldn’t that be pretty thin evidence to base an investment on?
Also, is domain tasting really part of the Domainer game or is it just something that some companies were doing?
Thnks
e
were doing.. I was never a big domain taster, though…not my game…
if you really want my opinion, stick to domain auctions at namejet, snapnames, tdnam, etc. Or dig through the treasure trove of available domains at sedo, fabulous domains, or afternic.
or, shoot, find an existing domain name & website, call the owner up and offer’em cash money for it.. the monetize the existing traffic..