@jideofor
Yeah, I buy them mostly from expired auction. Dynadot expired auction for instance, that's the cheapest place you can get it.
The highest I have spent is 56$, I hope to be spending bigger in the future but now, I can't invest more than I can make from parking in less than 6 months.
What are the Things to look out ??
1. Backlinks; how many backlinks does the domain have? This very one has 5.7k Backlinks. I can't buy domain with less than 500 Backlinks.
2. How quality are the backlinks? checkout where the domain name has been mentioned or referenced before. the quality of the Backlinks matters alot,
for instance mine has references from websites like Tacony, sewing, fabrics, sewingmachineplus and many bigger sites that deals in the art and craft niche. No go buy domain with junk or porn Backlinks
How do you checkout the Backlinks ? I don't use any special tool, all I do is type-in the domain with space before putting the . com. That would bring out those sites it has been mentioned. There are paid tools too but I haven't gotten to that level. You can still use seokicks. De but you can only access only the first page of the back links for free.
3. What it was used for in the past; with archive// org one can check that out. Type in the domain name on archive and proceed, then chose the first date it was registered and keep checking every year. If it has been used, parked, reused and parked again, it's a turn off for me, If it has been used by Chinese, nah to run.
4. It must be the same service or product from inception to the current year. I don't buy ones that has been parked before or stopped working as a website since 2019 or 2018. It must be same year since we are already in 6th month.
5. Years matters too; i hate seeing recent registrations with thousand of backlinks. Its always flawed. I can't buy a domain with even a million Backlinks if it was registered recently, for instance 2018, 2019, 2020 unless its a real English word.
6. Check out the the meaning of the word; because byeclepabsneeeved has 10m Backlinks, 100dp and 1m traffics doesn't mean I should buy it. It should get meaning first.
7. Last but not the least; check out if it has been banned or falisted before buying. How can you do that ?
Just goto bodis, click on tools, you will see check failisted. Type in the domain name and proceed. You have free 100 names to check daily.
Failisted or banned domain name can never generate more than 0.01 pay click. Example is games/ com.
Despite being a single English word, its banned and would earn less, that doesn't mean you shouldn't buy games/com should you been given the opportunity to own it for 56$.