Finding domains at GoDaddy

[sobeman88]

Im starting to get discouraged in this whole domain business. I cant seem to find anything good. Ive registered all junk and I havent made a sale yet!

Everyone tells me how they find "gems" at godaddy closeouts and sell them within a week easy. My question is how?!? I dont see any "gems", just junk. I mean of course I could get good domains for hundreds of dollars at auctions. But at the moment I dont have the money for that.

Any tips?

 

[cache]

how many did you look at and how many did you regged?

 

[Semtex]

Learn from other people's mistakes on this forum. You will not make any money in the domain world if you register dozens of names for $8 each and expect to sell them for $100 each. You have to ask yourself....."why isn't this name already registered?"

Instead of spending $200 on 25 mediocre domains, spend the $200 on 3 or 4 nice domains that make sense and then try to find endusers for those domains. Most of the money is in aftermarket names. I registered about 300 domains in my first 6 months and realized a year later that 99% of them were junk. Every sale that I have made $300-$500 profit on were names that were bought from the aftermarket.

Just my 2 cents..........

 

[rmg]

Try FreshDrop.net

 

[Sparhawke]

Im starting to get discouraged in this whole domain business. I cant seem to find anything good. Ive registered all junk and I havent made a sale yet!

Everyone tells me how they find "gems" at godaddy closeouts and sell them within a week easy. My question is how?!? I dont see any "gems", just junk. I mean of course I could get good domains for hundreds of dollars at auctions. But at the moment I dont have the money for that.

Any tips?

Why are you registering junk?

How many domains are you looking through is the question, I will not find it unusual to look through at least 10,000 of them in a single night and maybe only find one worth registering out of that lot...it is purely a numbers game, the more you look through the more you will find but before you register any simply add them to a list and then cross them off if they fail certain criteria.

The initial list sweeping should just be for gathering names, regardless of anything...the second and third sweep should be for clearing the 10 or so names down to 1 or 0

 

[sobeman88]

Im looking through quite a bit. Atleast 20+ pages and finding nothing. What about the traffic? When it states the traffic on Godaddy, do we go by that? Or is that pretty much inaccurate?

 

[lzy]

I'd strongly recommend you not buy domains based on the traffic reported on GD.

Don't go out registering any random domain. There are plenty of useful info on the forums and blogs.

I've been doing this for quite some time and I still make mistakes from time to time.

Good luck!

 

[sobeman88]

Yeah so if a domain on Godaddy shows zero traffic, that doesnt mean the domain is necessarily junk? And vice versa

 

[cache]

after you looked 20+ pages, how many did you buy? Or how much money did you lose before you decide it is "junk"? There is trial/error and learning phase. But don't get discouraged, and don't quit because you lost a few thousand dollars.

 

[clarew]

So you want to know all the secrets.
I doubt anyone will share the good stuff.
You will just get the junk they tell everyone.
My advice is don't invest in domains, to competetive now.

 

[bmugford]

It takes time, effort, and experience to know what to look for. If it was easy everyone would do it.

Brad

 

[sobeman88]

No no i didnt buy any domains in the 20 pages I searched through yesterday. I didnt because they are all junk. I purchased some in the past and they are now what I realize as "junk". Luckily im only at about $80 invested. I know this doesnt sound like a lot of money at all, but for me it is.

Of course no one will tell the secrets....just a bunch of squatters lol just kidding!

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Does anybody have any examples of domains that got from Godaddy that were good?

 

[DavidH]

[/COLOR]Does anybody have any examples of domains that got from Godaddy that were good?[/QUOTE]

Some Godaddy closeout names I have sold with good returns:

CharityAngels.com (second time I have sold this one!)
Duikuitrusting.com
GRCapital.com
Kutman.com
Uyghur.net
CollarUp.com
WillowdaleFarm.com
Weatherfield.com

Some closeout names I still have which I think show promise:

CustomConversionVans.com
LegalVideography.com
FrozenSushi.com
BloggingGuide.com
DigitalScoreboards.com
JockUnderwear.com
CakeDecoratingEquipment.com
VintageBikeParts.com
GraphiteFishingRods.com
BabyBreastfeeding.com
YonkersDentist.com
MarineSafetyServices.com
SiteFencing.com
BoatOutfitting.com
MegaCleaning.com
WatchYourFood.com
SuccessfullyStopSmoking.com
HowToProtectYourselfFromIdentityTheft.com
MentoringProgramme.com
CleanInAMinute.com

 

[humbug1s1k]

Are you looking for keyword domains, and if you are, are you using google keyword tool?

http://no_url_shorteners/9FqW8F

If not then its quite handy to show the monthly searches for that particular keyword/domain...

just make sure that you change the search criteria to ALL locations and ALL languages and then once the search has been carried out you look to the left of the screen and change THE MATCH TYPE to EXACT by cliking off BROAD and ticking the EXACT box...

 

[cache]

Other than internet, there is no other business I know of could let you to get in and experiment for only $80. $80 is very cheap to just to learn something. If you lose $8k or $80k, then you would have something to worry about.

No no i didnt buy any domains in the 20 pages I searched through yesterday. I didnt because they are all junk. I purchased some in the past and they are now what I realize as "junk". Luckily im only at about $80 invested. I know this doesnt sound like a lot of money at all, but for me it is.

Of course no one will tell the secrets....just a bunch of squatters lol just kidding!

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Does anybody have any examples of domains that got from Godaddy that were good?

 

[sobeman88]

Thanks for the tips! So with the google ad words tool, do I put the keywords in two lines? for example:
Example
Example

Or do I put them in one line this: Example Example

 

[humbug1s1k]

example
example

then make sure you change the 2 boxes below to ALL locations & ALL languages, then press search, you may have to put in a code the first time to show your not a bot, then once the search has been carried out scroll to the left of the screen and make sure the exact box is ticked and not the broad box. Then you can scroll down the lists, if you search byt relevance then your words will be the top searches, if you search by global then it will put your searches in order of the highest first..

Any problems feel free to message me

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This is a nice little tool if you want to add the same thing to lots of searches

eg: You have a list of 10 words and you want to add "i" to the front of all of them

http://textmechanic.com/Add-Prefix-Suffix-to-Text.html

 

[sobeman88]

Ok because the two have totally different results. But doing it in two different lines like you are supposed too can be misleading because something like pencilcars.net doesnt even make sense. But when you type it into ad words like this:
Pencil
cars

You probably get millions of hits, but really that domain is useless.

See what im saying? I think too much lol

 

[JamesDavid]

No no i didnt buy any domains in the 20 pages I searched through yesterday. I didnt because they are all junk. I purchased some in the past and they are now what I realize as "junk". Luckily im only at about $80 invested. I know this doesnt sound like a lot of money at all, but for me it is.

Of course no one will tell the secrets....just a bunch of squatters lol just kidding!

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Does anybody have any examples of domains that got from Godaddy that were good?

Dont get discouraged.. In fact I think it is great you have shown restraint. Alot of people run out and buy every domain they think of and then lose their shorts..

Here is a short tip for you...

BEFORE you buy a domain think about the possible end-users... I will take to the time to give you a REA LLIFE EXAMPLE..

Currently on TDNAM the domain AALC.com is expiring with 8 days left...

Now type AALC into Google and here are some organizations on the FIRST PAGE...

American Association of Lutheran Churches
Ann Arbor Learning Community
African-American Leadership Council
Affordable Assisted Living Coalition
AALC, limited company

Then also go to abbreviations.com and see this list..
http://www.abbreviations.com/AALC


So those are POSSIBLE end users, not saying every one or really any one of those organizations will want aalc.com BUT there is a large audience to market the domain too...

Now that domain will prolly fetch a pretty high dollar BUT if you search for cheaper names and follow this method (and others) it could pay some nice returns.

If you have any questions feel free to PM me..

Good Luck!

 

[sobeman88]

Hey thank you! Im actually pretty smart at this in a different way. Yes I havent gone out and spent thousands because I can tell whats junk. But I have actually gotten a few with your method of finding end users and I have contacted them and got no replies I just seem to be un lucky