Unless the domains are amazing, make a list of everything you want to buy, then review it the next day (or after sleeping for those with messed up body clocks).
Always give one final review to the domains, and select the ones you know your best buyers will purchase - technically these are the only ones you should purchase.
Forget Overture, it's all about wordtracker, and if you want specifics enter the term in to adwords suggestion tool and get the exact match, forget predicted and go for last months data, if it's got any it's probably worth a buy, if it's 2k+ grab it, if it's 5k+ stop reading and buy instantly.
2 questions to ask yourself:
1 if it's been on X forum for so long, had no bids, price drops, and plenty views - is it really worth buying? [only if reselling, dev'ing is different]
2 are you most likely to be able to move the domain to a reseller/domainer, or an end user, if it's the former then you stand to make little profit, if it's the latter then you know at worst another reseller/domainer will buy it.
Visit the "Domain Name Discussion" Section Regularly and it should be Top Priority Section here on NamePros .
Edit:Always keep a pen & paper handy like when you are driving,trying to sleep ,watching tv etc as good domains tend to slip easily from mind and that causes a lot of frustration later on when you finally get time to check for their availability.
More Bumps in the Sales thread degrade value/s of your domains.So,try to mix and match your domains for sale to match tune with the buyer/s.
If you have a lot of domains available for registration then be brave and share some on the forum as it will be helpful for your credit card and also later you will be content that you did spend less and also learn a lot that which domains that you posted for others were really worth registering as they would be scanned by pros from all walks of life.
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Last edited by sankalpsingh : 08-14-2008 at 01:44 PM.
Well, I guess fell afoul of this one. See my signature, or look at the w-o-r-d-s.com thread here at NP.
My novice observation tells me, that while hyphens generally devalue a domain, they do have their place.
More important, since Google search rankings don't care whether you have hyphens or not, they are great names for developing. In other words, house-loan.com has an equal shot with houseloan.com.
M-i-a-m-i.com sold for the mid-xxx dollars a month or so ago.
Perhaps the biggest caveat about a hyphen is that it gives the buyer one more thing to remember. The following example:
beehives.com GOOD
beehives.net Minus 1, because the buyer must remember it's .net and not .com
bee-hives.net Minus 2, because the buyer must remember .net and the hypen.
It's all complicated, but if you get a cheap hyphenated domain, it may well worth it. But, maybe raghav's advice is pretty good until you really understand the market for hyphenated domains.
#155) dotCOM is king, always get the dotCOM (if available) even if you are after only the CC ext.
#156) Get the .net, .org when getting your dotCOM.
#157) always get the dotNET when getting either the COM or ORG
#158) Don't waste your time developing the NET or ORG if COM is way ahead of you of the same niche program. Consider affiliating with the COM jointly
#159) Always get the pre tense, past tense of any name "s" "es" "ed" "ing"
ex: car repair, get: carrepairs, carrepairing, when ever possible.
#160) Do your homework, ask yourself will this name be good for developing? , just flipping it?, niche or catch pharse? Is it good for SEO regardless of parking?
#161) Put your domain to to work -- If you build it, they will come. This is true, even if it is a mini 1 page site. A site with SEO adds value to selling.
#162) A parked domain is like a store with nothing on it's shelves. Develop your name, build traffic and SEO , then consider selling. You can get a buyer easier if all the "hard work" of SEO and link campaigns are in place. Even if it is a 1 page mini site over parking.
#163) Parking sucks. Unless you have a large porfolio of direct navigation names try to Half Park them by working them.
IMO that depends on the general strength of the name. It's true if indeed the domain is something as strong as carrepair.com. Then you should probably get all three, because time travel to 1999 is risky and you should reg as many names as possible while you're there, or should I say: while you're then. Or more properly in time travel grammar: On-when you're there-then 1999 you should willan-on have registeren many domain names
CarRepairing.com is a fairly weak name though. Leave that out. (Leaven-out)
OK, OK, sorry. Seriously:
For weaker names (hand regs), I usually only get the category defining name (or closest) plus sometimes (rarely) the corresponding singular/plural. The defining name is the default form that people use and hence has the greatest search popularity.
For hand regs, I never get anything other than the .com. There are some good .com hand regs still to be found, but they are not strong enough to justify getting various tenses/forms, just the best ones, and not strong enough to justify getting any other extension than .com.
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if it's been on X forum for so long, had no bids, price drops, and plenty views - is it really worth buying? [only if reselling, dev'ing is different]
and it should be Top Priority Section here on NamePros .
