Overture

[pascal]

Can someone please explain me what exactly the number is that overture shows? So far I have not been able to find one unregistered domain that has an overture rating. Does overture only show a number if the domain is registered, or does it also show numbers if the domain is not registered yet?
Thanks.

 

[pascal]

Anyone please?

 

[Tippy]

Overture shows both for unregged and regged, not surprised those with domain and ext are regged...

Mike

 

[pascal]

So if I would type in a domain.ext which is not regged, but gets type ins, it would have a value at overture? And what exactly is this value? Is this the number of type ins in that month?

Thank you.

 

[Rico]

miniclip.pt
kazaa.fr
emule.fr

All great OVT results WITH .ext
Try to reg em!

 

[Jeff]

Overture search results are not "type-in's", even with the extensions ... though with the extensions it could be noted that folks were searching for a specific extensioned domain name/site and may have traffic/actual type-in's. It's possible it could have been developed at one time, as well.
The numbers you find there are search results for the previous month (or month noted) ... and when complemented with other research at Google, etc. can be quite helpful in locating worthwhile domains (registered and unregistered, or for a specifc purpose), IMHO. Overture is a great resource for domainers.

 

[pascal]

What is your opinion on msnentertaiment.com. It has 38 overture with ext. Would it have traffic in your opinion?

Thanks.

P.S. Rico, I cannot reg french domains, but was is a pt domain. I bet that you would have regged them all if it was possible for us dutchies.

 

[Jeff]

If I recall correctly, Dr. Pepper owns (or did own) this domain name at one time. 38 count is pretty low, but it may get a few actual type-in's per month ... the larger issue here would be probable ™ issues, IMHO.
Best of Luck.

 

[pascal]

I just bought it and I am going to park it. I don't worry about TM for now, just hoping for some revenue.
I still don't quite understand though how to interprete this overture count. Just how many type ins can I expect? Is there a range that could be specified? 0-100, 100-500, 500-1000 a month?

 

[Jeff]

Best thing to do, IMHO ... now that you have the domain name, get some cursory hosting/parking so that you can begin to track the actual traffic coming to the domain name.
I don't believe there is a scientific conversion of Overture search results numbers with the extension to likely domain type-in's. One could conceivably search for the domain with extension 38 times on Overture while never once having visited the actual domain/site.

 

[pascal]

Thanks.

 

[identity_00]

The results are just what people type in the seach engine to look for and nothing more. Dont expect to find big results by typeing in names like "youname.com". If you find a big one, It will probably be taken.

The results are not going to help you if you dont know how to use it (SEO). Unless your just buying and selling domains.

 

[pascal]

You mean SEDO by SEO I guess?

So you are saying parking is not a good idea for this domain?

 

[Jeff]

"SEO" = "Search Engine Optimization"

 

[pascal]

HAHA, oops.

I didn't know that.

Thanks.

 

[identity_00]

I am not a big "parker" fan. The money is just not there.

No.. when I say SEO i mean search engine optimizaton.
The results from overture tell me how many visitors I can expect (or hope) to receive from a top position for that keyword in Yahoo/Google. some keywords produce more visitors and some are less. And of course the more visitors the more competition for that keyword/s are going to be.

The little bit of people who type "msnentertainment" are looking for MSN, news entertainmant, or maybe entertainment products.
So..the typein visitors you'd receive would be from average joe surfers and not webdesigner or webmasters - basically they wouldnt buy at sedo or even know what it is.

good luck Pascal

 

[pascal]

Okay. Thanks.

 

[pascal]

Hello, last week or so I bought 2 domains with overture 25 en 39 with extension. Now they both have 0.
What does this mean?

 

[pascal]

msnenteraiment.com had ovt.w.ext. of 38 a few days ago and now it is 0. How is this possible?

 

[pascal]

Does overture reset these values once a month?

Anybody?