question Ever come across a dropped domain & wonder why?

[WhoaDomain.com]

As one who frequently handregs. I come across domains that I find available that could easily be perfect for big brands like Dial soap (Cleanbody.com fictitious just for example purposes.) or stoppain.com (taken but for example purposes assume as dropped)

domains like this seem to be out there. once owned for years now dropped and no one picked up at expired auctions.

Has anyone ever come across such domains and wonder why?

and also with the same thought also think.

"This domain is better than most of my best domains. How is it this domain is dropped and never picked up again and is "out there"? If such a domain "failed" what chance could my domains have?"

if you have come across such domains and decided not to take it or did take it. please explain why or why not?

most pro domains would simply "walk away" from dropped domains as a "drop" is literally the touch of death.

Yet I hear Mike Mann buys such domains that are "out in the open" after drop and turn around and sell them for thousands for 10,000% profit.

Can someone explain this "phenomena"?

Figured it would be a good conversation piece.

Thanks in advance to anyone who contributes.

 

[Domainatic]

Yes for me,it was a pure chemical name..wondered why it was still available...
I know the market for Chemical name is very less..but for a pure chemical name it is worth to register...I will hold this one until I find a buyer...not gonna drop..

 

[Robin A.]

Well, I know - and also feel - what you mean .. but even when catching that type of domains it is usually a waiting game (if you do not want to let them go for only some bucks). imo.

Mike Mann would probably sit on those until they sell for $4,000 or higher. I'll be happy with 10X ROI.

 

[aramyus]

Keep in mind there is a strong difference between 'not renewed' and 'expired'. Many excellent domains are not renewded for very legitimate reasons (death, bankruptcy, lack of interest, too small to worry ...). Most get caught before they expire but not all.

 

[Potential.Domains]

Most get caught before they expire but not all.

@aramyus – Can you elaborate more on this?

 

[frank-germany]

Most expired domain tools are PBN oriented

what does PBN mean

what would a good tool do instead?

 

[frank-germany]

I regged ImHoly.com today

I made a tool for find stuff easier
its in my sig

 

[Robin A.]

Pbn - private blog network

 

[Kate]

It was originally posted for sale on Godaddy for $300,000. Then dropped.

Actually this is one reason why viable domains drop: they are priced for sale at ridiculous amounts. After a few years, the domain holder is fed up and drops the domain. Then somebody else will try again with the same domain. That might work or not, depending on the strategy and timing (the buyer may not materialize for a long time).
We would see more sales if domains were priced realistically.

 

[james haw]

A bit of misinformation here. To those who think this is possible, it is, with patience. Go back and read his Tweets to see that he's held these drops for a significant amount of time (years).

Plus, like a lot of things, we read about the sales in the media, but not news/info about how many he drops each month.
(Although, from what I've read about his portfolio, perhaps not as many as some people would.)

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

I have no idea for sure......but perhaps it's the sheer volume of domains that are expiring, I suppose some will just slip through the cracks..

a perfect example is my domain. 885888.net which I noticed was expiring soon. so I said what the heck? I backordered it with Godaddy which it was registered at luckily. Then when it expired I got it for a cool $25.

after which checked namebio and found out it sold a year before or so for $4000+!!!

can anyone explain how THIS happened?

$25?

is this an example of domains "falling thru the cracks"?

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

@aramyus – Can you elaborate more on this?

read my most recent post before this one.

 

[james haw]

a perfect example is my domain. 885888.net which I noticed was expiring soon. so I said what the heck? I backordered it with Godaddy which it was registered at luckily. Then when it expired I got it for a cool $25.

after which checked namebio and found out it sold a year before or so for $4000+!!!

can anyone explain how THIS happened?

$25?

is this an example of domains "falling thru the cracks"?

Looks like it was used for a Chinese website, doesn't mean another buyer will pay the same. Tho, there are plenty of 8s

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

Thought about the original post of this Thread and wanted to just throw this out there.

maybe some domains that drop and are "out there" are out there because the original did let them expire on purpose

AFTER.....

they do the grimey technique of letting their domain expire only to allow it to go to expired auction on Godaddy or whatever and if they see it getting high bids they pay the fee to get the domain back thereby cancelling thee auction with all the bids. in which case the domainer puts it back for auction paying for a featured and hopes that the originally bidders find it again to bid on it.

now that the domainer knows there's interest he or she proceeds with this move.

if not let's it go if it doesn't go above $200-$300 because of the cost of fees.

very Grimey right?

could explain the domains that are "out there"

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

I'm looking into are

picked up turfpond.com yesterday with 1.5 million backlinks. don't know why? lol

that must have cost you a pretty penny.

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

Yes, it's absolutely wrong to assume that a domain isn't worth owning purely because it was dropped by its (former) owner. We can recount numerous instances where we have let a domain expire, only to find it grabbed by a new registrant and then subsequently resold for a pretty penny. That's what makes the domain industry exciting, there is plenty out there if you know where to look and can be bothered to look through lists...

So goes the old English expression: "Where there's Muck, there's Brass"

reminds me of when I let TGOR.com expire and now it has a pricetag of $8000+

 

[Wesley S]

gems in crap are just that, you should wash it. that's all. lol

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

here's a perfect example I just found while BSing on domaintools whois. found MobileAppSites.com was dropped twice. and now owned by Time Warner.

Sometimes I wonder.

Say you handreg a great domain. That's perfect for some big company. Does anyone think that maybe when you approach a target company that it is their standard MO to "not be interested" if for no other reason but to play the "waiting game" and just sit and wait till the domainer offering them a domain that they generally are interested in but not showing interested publicly gives up and drops the domain and if it isn't bought at auction expireds or dropcatch. get it for the price of a handreg?


could this be happening behind the scenes you think?

 

[Grego85]

the thing is, when you're wading through crap lists all day, mediocre (at best) names start to look like gems! That's why I've mostly quit going through expired lists. I just keep my own ever growing list. I try to add 20 names a day, much faster and easier than drop lists!

 

[wormfood]

here's a perfect example I just found while BSing on domaintools whois. found MobileAppSites.com was dropped twice. and now owned by Time Warner.

Sometimes I wonder.

Say you handreg a great domain. That's perfect for some big company. Does anyone think that maybe when you approach a target company that it is their standard MO to "not be interested" if for no other reason but to play the "waiting game" and just sit and wait till the domainer offering them a domain that they generally are interested in but not showing interested publicly gives up and drops the domain and if it isn't bought at auction expireds or dropcatch. get it for the price of a handreg?


could this be happening behind the scenes you think?

Reminds me of this thread https://www.namepros.com/threads/renewing-domains-in-advance-to-increase-sales.955656/

 

[daica85]

I see that many guys have addiction in hand regged expired domains, they can be found here https://www.namepros.com/threads/im-addicted-to-regging-new-deleted-domains.965549/unread