slaughterbeck

I have owned a couple "typo domains" but have never really had much success with them, I’m aware of the typo-generator located at seochat but I don't really know how important of a tool that is in determining how often certain words are misspelled.

I’m starting this thread eager to become a little more knowledgeable about typos and hoping that NameProers who have had success with them can educate me!

Let’s say I’m interested in generating the most common typos for PartyPoker.com, the #1 poker destination online, this is just a hypothetical domain all of the typos are long gone but what are the most common typos for partypoker.com? Is it artypoker.com with a missing “p” at the beginning or partypoke.com with the “r” missing at the end or some other variation?

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Maybe you could call me the Typo King... because out of 1800+ domains I own close to 40 percent are typos. Out of the all the domains I own, over 800 are poker domains.
I have typos / closely related names from all of the following pokersites.
PartyPoker - 87
PokerStars - 57
PacificPoker - 15
PokerRoom - 15
Bodog - 13
UltimateBet - 7
ParadisePoker - 15
FullTiltPoker - 17
EmpirePoker - 9
PokerChamps - 12
DoylesRoom - 7

These Domain Typos for large pokersites get traffic and are my best money makers in parking revenue. There are many variotions of typos and I have found most of my typos by doing the following...
I follow the keystrokes and see where is it possible to make a typo.
For example if you take the word "POKER" and follow the key strokes for "POKMER" ... this is a very common mistake because the downward keystroke from the "O" to the "K" can lead to a "M" typo.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/94317-misspellings-partypoke-com.html

If you leave a key stroke out, like "POKR", would get more typos taht "POKMER", however anything good is picked up rather quickly. If you can get the reverse key structure ... this can also be just as good. I own the domain Expaida.com and do very very nice on it. But the pokersites are the real money makers and just 1 click from a poker site will out do all the clicks I make on expaida for a week. If you have a type for a poker site you defenitely want have it parked at Fabulous or Domain Sponsor. The most you can make on SEDO is only $2 per click because Google does not give the links to pokersites, they only do poker instruction. Fabulous and DS gives the highest PPC and revenue shairing. I have had some $24 dollar clicks on my poker typos at Fabulous.

Hope this helps

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Interesting article dude. Thanks for sharing.

dgridley

Thanks.. good read..

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A good read indeed. I am interested in how much total you generate monthly from just typos parked at Fabulous.

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Can it be assumed a typo without OVT with extension (if it has say 2K without ext) should be ignored.

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Jonathan

I really don't think so, hark. I think the traffic will likely be less on that typo... but I've had some success with misspellings which I didn't find in ovt. If you have a limited budget, then it's probably better to just go with what ovt tells you people are searching. I kinda have to do this because of limited resources.. although everything seems to be taken. At least, now I know who has the names.

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Great topic. I've had some decent traffic in the past from a few typo domains I purchased, but I never got around to exploring their full potential. This serves as a reminder to follow up more when I have the time. Keep that information coming.

Oh, and 'PartyPoke' brought to mind a completely different type of site when I first saw it.

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danielr

I wish I could give you a direct answer on this, but I cannot because I am in the process of moving my poker names back to fabulous for parking (this is a long story by itself, that I dont care to get into right now). In a few weeks I can give you specifics.... But today on my 50 + PokerStars typo domains alone, I made over $70.00 at Fabulous and still have 4 hours left in the day.

I currently have over 800+ poker domains and only have 290 of them parked at fabulous. I plan to move another 400 poker domains there, but it takes time to move them. Its almost a nightmare trying to comb through 2000 domains and WildWestDomains software is not the easiest to work with.

But in the past I have averaged over $3,000 per month in revenue on my poker domains. This figure includes domains that are parked, and poker website that I have with affiliates. But for those of you who have poker domains and want to learn a few tips.... You might find the following post informative.

1st)
Fabulous is the best place to park poker domains (esp for natural type in traffic) - nobody comes close. Their pages load easy and they have the highest payouts. Google and Overture/Yahoo do not endrose links for direct online pokersites, therefore ROAR can capitalize on the bidding for gambling and poker traffic. If you are interested in the bid prices for ROAR on poker then go to www.ROAR.com and click on "check bid prices". 'Online poker" varies but I suspect it averages about $8.00 per click. However "Poker" is currently $11 per click. Fabulous pays out 75 percent plus I suspect there is revenue sharing included. I have found domains that do well are my pokersite typos and 2 word .com domains with the words "poker" or "holdem" in the domain

2nd)
If you plan to host your own poker site with direct affiliates on pokersites, I have found that PacificPoker.com is the best. They pay out 35 percent of the revenue generated and their stats/reporting is very easy and updates fast.

PartyPoker.com is ok but I dont think I was getting a fair shake. They give affiliates a choice between taking a 1 time payout of $65-$75 dollars per real money sign up or you can select the 20 precent of the revenue (for the life time of the player) they generate, but they also deduct a percentage of any bonuses that they give the customers. I always selected the 20 percent of the life time of the player revenue because i was alway hopping to get a really big money player under my belt who would play for years and years. I did get a few for a while but it seemed to drop off. I also noticed that if you have a real money player signed up under you, and they run out of money.... PartyPoker will grant them a free $20 dollars to play with and guess who helps pay for this Grant whether you want to or not.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=94317

But the Best I am doing as an affiliate is with FullTiltPoker.com even though they only pay out (20 percent). The reason why is because I have so many domains close to there site such as TiltPoker.net and PokerTilt.net. I am getting about 5 real money players per week (35 play money players per week). I have the URL's forwareded directly to their site and I dont even have to host the domain. I also suspect that I am getting traffic from players who play on the major sites like PartyPoker.com and looking for a new / differnt place to play. The bad thing about FullTiltPoker.com is their reporting system really sucks. They send you an email once per week that shows all your signups and deposting players. And currently they give you monthly stats by email. The revenue you earn gets deposited into your PokerAccount and if you dont play, you can just withdraw it with neteller or some other electronic gambling funds.

3rd)
As far as secondary Parking, I have found that domains that relate to specific poker features do well on Domain Sponsor. For example... I own some domains closely related to the "World Series of Poker" which is going to happen next month. This is a very big event and I get traffic on domains like... WorldSeriesOnPoker.com and WorldOfSeriesPoker.com. Domain Sponsor Allows the domain owner to set the own links/categories and naturally I have links that relate to "world series of poker". Now when I had these WSOP domains parked at SEDO i set the keyword to "World Series Of Poker", I was only getting .20 per click because the google bidding on World Series of Poker was not very high. But if I set the keyword on SEDO to "POKER" the PPC would rise to $1 - $2 but there would be no links for the "World Series Of Poker". But getting targeted traffic for specific events with poker works great with DS. The bad thing about DS is sometimes their pages load slow and you need a double click to get any revenue.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=94317

4th)
SEDO works great for domains that realate to Poker Instruction, Cons, Cheats, Odds. But you must set the keyword to "POKER" and NOT thinks like "poker odds". You are not going to get anything more than $2.00 per click on SEDO. One of highest traffic domains "partypokerodds.com" has a very hich clickthru rate at SEDO, but the PPC is not very high. I would consider moving it to Fabulous but sometimes I feel that if its not broken, dont fix it.

But for all of you have decent poker domains that are not parked at fabulous (.coms no hyphens) I strongly suggest you send a Private message to Andrew on a previous post (I call... Lets see your poker domains).. Link to the post is...

http://www.namepros.com/89426-i-call-lets-see-your-hand-5.html

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Jonathan

Great information, daniel. Thanks.

ezimedia

HI Daniel,

Thanks for sharing some great info... I hope some other members that know something about typos are as willing to share with us as you have...

Great thread...

Thanks
Tom Dahne

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dabb

FWIW, it looks like Harrahs at least once went after WSOP names.

http://arbiter.wipo.int/cgi-bin/doma...ase=D2004-0989

I doubt many companies go after the real exotic typo variations though.

Fabulous.com

Thanks for the name check Daniel ,

We are alway on the lookout for good quality type in gambling domains. If anybody has quality domains that would like us to consider please feel free to PM me or send me an email.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=94317

Cheers

Andrew
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WebbyMedia

danielr thanks for sharing some of your insight... great read!

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equity78

Dabb thanks for the link interesting they got to keep online world series.com

JUST LOOK AT THE SALE OF PORKER.com $155,000

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dabb

Funny... if you go there now, it redirects to WSOP. Since they didn't win it, they must have bought it.

slaughterbeck

Thanks, Daniel! Your comments have not only been informative but also enlightening and it’s truly a wonderful occurrence and testament to all Nameproers to see this kind of substantial insight shared amongst your fellow Namepro members.

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danielr

I am glad everyone found this post informative, however I got a bit side track from typos to poker domains.
I am going to make a new post, very soon stickty about poker domains and what makes them so special. Look for it soon.

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slaughterbeck

I will and I’m truly excited about it.

PS. I just donated 20 NP’s because of your tremendous contributions.

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