Welcome fellow NameProsians? NPers? maybe just NamePros?,
Some may get a little upset that I'm dropping this info out in the open, some may already have known this for years, but it's something that took me many years of manual research until I finally had my light bulb moment - so why not pass it along to others who may be in the spot I was in once upon a time.
As many domainers know, almost* all of the good .coms are taken, especially in short or single word variations. Because of this, many new domainers come in and start blowing money registering monstrosities of non-.com gTLDs hoping they may strike gold and asking the forum if their pile of garbage is worth anything (not a blow to those of you out there, just some constructive criticism.)
Inspired by @Bob Hawkes recent post and specifically another tip I left in the comments led me to finally make this post about a huge tool that's helped me hand register non .com domains that I already know are in-demand over the years.
Insert our good friend, the handy dandy expireddomains.net. Often used and mentioned on this forum by top domainers as a tool to find the latest and greatest dropping domains, and highlighted in the many beginner guides posted here over the years from community Pros including the aforementioned Bob Hawkes (that I can't seem to find that resource to link to.)
Well after spending years manually searching for available domains to hand reg and also using the thousands of expireddomains.net filters for bargain bin/auction names, it finally hit me how easily I could speed up my available domain searches by quite literally 100x while also bringing me popular names on a silver platter...for this example we will use the scorching hot .ai extension, which I like to think I'm now holding on to quite a few gems, but there are tons more out there that you may find are a perfect fit for your portfolio.
Note: This does not guarantee demand, sales, or that you aren't still wasting your money on gTLDs, but it will guide you to the most in-demand names for any gTLD you are already set on registering
1. Simply head on over to expireddomains and go to the Marketplace Domains section - I personally like to start at Sedo make offer domains
2. Now set up your filters which for me always starts with no numbers, hyphens or adult names and 200 per page under the common section, but you can set the parameters as you see fit.
3. Now this may seem shockingly simple and some of you may already know this, and others may gasp that they wasted so much time manually searching names that they can't believe they missed this simple feature, but under the Additional tab, all you need to do is set the gTLD you are researching under Available in TLD (in this case ai)
4. And all that's left to do now is press "Apply Filter", sort by the "Reg" column, and get to researching what's available that already has high demand across all other gTLDs
For this examples, "irc" is showing available, which I happen to know first hand is already taken, but was just recently expired and auctioned on NameCheap as I was a part of the auction..that's one of the few flaws this process has, but this same thing happens to me with most other bulk searches like GoDaddy's. Every now and then you may find a gem and learn it's actually not available, but for the vast majority, you will be shocked to learn that such a high quality name actually is available, then laugh your way, hopefully, to the bank! You can repeat this across the different Marketplace sections and find new batches of names that may be available other than just SEDO make offer.
Good luck out there in the domain streets, and I hope this was a helpful guide to at least some of you new to domaining out there, that will hopefully help you make better choices when it comes to registering anything not .com.
Cheers
Some may get a little upset that I'm dropping this info out in the open, some may already have known this for years, but it's something that took me many years of manual research until I finally had my light bulb moment - so why not pass it along to others who may be in the spot I was in once upon a time.
As many domainers know, almost* all of the good .coms are taken, especially in short or single word variations. Because of this, many new domainers come in and start blowing money registering monstrosities of non-.com gTLDs hoping they may strike gold and asking the forum if their pile of garbage is worth anything (not a blow to those of you out there, just some constructive criticism.)
Inspired by @Bob Hawkes recent post and specifically another tip I left in the comments led me to finally make this post about a huge tool that's helped me hand register non .com domains that I already know are in-demand over the years.
Insert our good friend, the handy dandy expireddomains.net. Often used and mentioned on this forum by top domainers as a tool to find the latest and greatest dropping domains, and highlighted in the many beginner guides posted here over the years from community Pros including the aforementioned Bob Hawkes (that I can't seem to find that resource to link to.)
Well after spending years manually searching for available domains to hand reg and also using the thousands of expireddomains.net filters for bargain bin/auction names, it finally hit me how easily I could speed up my available domain searches by quite literally 100x while also bringing me popular names on a silver platter...for this example we will use the scorching hot .ai extension, which I like to think I'm now holding on to quite a few gems, but there are tons more out there that you may find are a perfect fit for your portfolio.
Note: This does not guarantee demand, sales, or that you aren't still wasting your money on gTLDs, but it will guide you to the most in-demand names for any gTLD you are already set on registering
1. Simply head on over to expireddomains and go to the Marketplace Domains section - I personally like to start at Sedo make offer domains
2. Now set up your filters which for me always starts with no numbers, hyphens or adult names and 200 per page under the common section, but you can set the parameters as you see fit.
3. Now this may seem shockingly simple and some of you may already know this, and others may gasp that they wasted so much time manually searching names that they can't believe they missed this simple feature, but under the Additional tab, all you need to do is set the gTLD you are researching under Available in TLD (in this case ai)
4. And all that's left to do now is press "Apply Filter", sort by the "Reg" column, and get to researching what's available that already has high demand across all other gTLDs
For this examples, "irc" is showing available, which I happen to know first hand is already taken, but was just recently expired and auctioned on NameCheap as I was a part of the auction..that's one of the few flaws this process has, but this same thing happens to me with most other bulk searches like GoDaddy's. Every now and then you may find a gem and learn it's actually not available, but for the vast majority, you will be shocked to learn that such a high quality name actually is available, then laugh your way, hopefully, to the bank! You can repeat this across the different Marketplace sections and find new batches of names that may be available other than just SEDO make offer.
Good luck out there in the domain streets, and I hope this was a helpful guide to at least some of you new to domaining out there, that will hopefully help you make better choices when it comes to registering anything not .com.
Cheers
After all, many domainers here absolutely despise them for whatever reason. This is what makes your post a nice addition to this week's threads. It's timely and addresses the fact most discussions around registering quality .com names are rather mute - especially since the supply and value boundaries have been cemented long before now. Thank you for countering the pack mentality - even if wasn't intentional. The space could use the dialogue.
