I'm curious what domainers think about this kind of tool (not a sales post)

[stevethesmurf]

Hey all,

I’ve been working on a side project and wanted to get some honest thoughts from the domain crowd here.

It’s a tool that scans YouTube videos for links in the description that point to expired or dropped domains — basically domains that are no longer registered but are still being linked from videos with active traffic.

The idea is to uncover domains that may still get residual traffic simply because those video descriptions haven’t been updated. In some cases, the videos have hundreds of thousands of views (some millions) and the domain is still clickable in the description.

Once we find one that’s expired and available, it gets logged with basic metadata (source video title, views, etc.). We’re not scraping backlinks or SEO metrics – just flagging cases where there might be leftover traffic flowing through a forgotten link.

I’m curious:

• Would this kind of tool be useful to domain investors?
• If so, how would you personally use something like this? As a traffic lead-in, redirect opportunity, resale angle, or something else?

I’m not trying to sell anything here – just trying to validate whether this kind of data would be interesting or valuable in the domain space before I invest more time building it out with additional features like, traffic estimation etc...

Open to all feedback, especially from people who’ve worked with traffic domains or done flips based on residual attention.

Thanks!

 

[biggie]

Hi

link traffic has some value depending on origin and subject, and there are folks who are already doing this

so you wouldn’t be alone

imo….

 

[stevethesmurf]

Good to know, with the tool I built it's somewhat random - so you never know what it's going to find - except it filters out videos with less than 20k views - so every domain has been cared for a tiny bit in the past. But it's exciting seeing what it finds. a few days ago it found a domain in a video with 7 million views (and counting) and I bought it / redirected the traffic to a maxbounty offer through bemob, and it's getting 40 - 100 hits everyday.

I am not saying every domain it finds is like this...there is a lot of rubbish, but still plenty of hidden gems out there.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Smart idea. Just do your due diligence before registering any of them.

 

[stevethesmurf]

Smart idea. Just do your due diligence before registering any of them.

Thanks, yes good shout. There is a lot of junk to filter through.