Domain searches question.......

[Surfn]

Normally I buy these days for SE traffic...projects I will work on if I find the time.

I've had many domains 3-4 letter I sold after a few years to businesses that wanted them for a good profit.

I bought tons of domains on spec before the mainstream businesses realized that the net was for real and sold their domains to them for a healthy profit too. That was in the last century.

It really doesn't matter much what the actual domain name is...it's what you do with it. Who would of thunk link-o-rama.com would be a great domain for a LL. Just one chubby finger waving green blob...the rest is history

[Linkster]

Gary - mine are a mixture of adult and mainstream - a lot of words or word combos that bring in good traffic by their name alone - I usually park them at a brokers site to earn PPC while Im not developing them - some were bought entirely for speculation - some were for "that great project in the sky" that never seems to happen - and some just cause I think their good stupid or funny names that Im sure somebody will be searching for some time in the future

[KG Gary]

Originally Posted by Surfn

Normally I buy these days for SE traffic...projects I will work on if I find the time.

I've had many domains 3-4 letter I sold after a few years to businesses that wanted them for a good profit.

I bought tons of domains on spec before the mainstream businesses realized that the net was for real and sold their domains to them for a healthy profit too. That was in the last century.

It really doesn't matter much what the actual domain name is...it's what you do with it. Who would of thunk link-o-rama.com would be a great domain for a LL. Just one chubby finger waving green blob...the rest is history

So I haven't really lost a treasure with my "wristlist" after all?


Looking at some of the bigger adult sites around I can see that you are absolutely correct.

Still liked wristlist though.
I'll shut up about it now.
Maybe.

Gary - mine are a mixture of adult and mainstream - a lot of words or word combos that bring in good traffic by their name alone - I usually park them at a brokers site to earn PPC while Im not developing them - some were bought entirely for speculation - some were for "that great project in the sky" that never seems to happen - and some just cause I think their good stupid or funny names that Im sure somebody will be searching for some time in the future

So no huge result for you yet, but at least you enjoy the chase anyway.

Thanks for the great input folks! As always I'm learning more and more.
This forum and it's members combine to make a truly incredible resource!

[Linkster]

Originally Posted by KG Gary

So no huge result for you yet, but at least you enjoy the chase anyway.

Heh heh - I didnt say that I just dont advertise my results too much

[kenny]

I already had robots go through all the available domains for "dictionary.com" or "dictionary/dictionary.com" or every combination of three characters.



All the good names are taken and the ones that drop are picked up by www.pool.com or some other drop service.

[KG Gary]

Originally Posted by sleeper

I already had robots go through all the available domains for "dictionary.com" or "dictionary/dictionary.com" or every combination of three characters.



All the good names are taken and the ones that drop are picked up by www.pool.com or some other drop service.

I didn't even consider that!

I guess a lot of success comes from building a good reputation by building good websites.

I wonder if most novices enter the business like me thinking they'll be running their own great linklist within a year or two.
Are there enough hours in a day to be a solo succesful linklist owner?
I'm currently working around 18 hrs per day researching, building freesite templates & recip tables etc, more researching, more researching, more..... etc etc.
I'll be ready to start submitting freesites in early January, and my linklist ambition is quite rightly now a "hub" ambition.

Without the research and especially the help I've received here I would have fallen flat on my face a few months back.

[kenny]

There is some people that are experts at finding names and selling them at high prices.

I can give you a example you acquire FTD access to the TLD Zone files help by VeriSign.

Then you take that list and use powerful software (they do have this) to filter the domains were you can see the ones that are dropping before anybody else.

Try to buy them from the owners at a low price or back order those domains with snapnames, etc.

The only set back about the back order is that pool.com usually gets them. (Atleast back when I use to do it) and they auction them off to these guys with endless money who are willing to pay $10k for a domain just to sell it for $15k within two years and shit like that.

Basicly my point being - if there is a valuable domain out there those fuckers will usually find a way to it.

[Linkster]

Sleeper - there are a bunch of 3 char .coms available out there - but you are correct - if they are a dictionary word they are going to be taken - but think outside the box a little (I did and picked up one that was a doozy based on cell phone/IM shorthand)

[KG Gary]

I should have guessed.