If you are a domain investor, perhaps you can provide pointers for newbies starting out on best practices in domain name research. Here is what I do daily.
A few months ago, rekindling my interest in domain investment (started “investing” in 2004 when working at GoDaddy), I do what I call, “splatter paint on the wall domain research”. Nothing sticks but each day starts the same.
I check my GoDaddy domain Watch List (created from using ExpiredDomains.net, NameBio email or a random website article.)
For example, PlaySoccer.com is available at auction today – estimated value is $8,858. Bidding is at $3,938 with 3 hours and 39 minutes left.
I open each domain in a separate Chrome tab for further scrutiny. It is not unusual to have 150 tabs open at a time. I copy and paste each domain’s info from my GoDaddy Watchlist into a Word document saving them for future “paint on the wall” days when I may revisit their domain values. I copy all domains into one Word file. It got unwieldy to use separate Word documents for each domain.
In Chrome, next to each domain tab, I add a new tab and open it to ExpiredDomains.net. I copy the domain name and paste it into Expired Domains search bar to find additional domain info (SEO, TLD’s registered, WayBack Machine, CPC’s, plus). I continue, opening new tabs to ExpiredDomains.net for each watched list domain, adding tabs and researching through the list of domains that are ending that day.
More in another post. Rather than write about it now, I hope to post my watched domains daily, to see what you think! Some are “buy now” – for example, $5 plus the domain renewal fee. Some are on live auctions.
So far, since I have started “domaining” this way, I have yet to sell any domains though they are posted for sale at GoDaddy and Afternic.
Comments are most welcome.
Update: While writing this post, 34 minutes later, PlaySoccer.com received a few more bids! It is now up to $6,228!
PlaySoccer.com at GoDaddy Auctions today
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