TDNAM Traffic Stats?

[Name Trader]

Does anyone have any idea about TDNAM's Trafic Stats? If I checkout domains with traffic at urltrends, they usually have some links in Yahoo and Alexa, but no Google links, but it would seem to me that volume of links, approx 20, wouldn't necessary justify 1000-3000 hits a month. Does anyone have any insight into how they calculate these hits? I let 1 domain drop which had no traffic, and they are claiming it has 15 hits a month. Both seem a little "off".

 

[fonzie_007]

I've heard from others who have purchased traffic domains at TDNAM that the traffic is really hit or miss. In some circumstances, traffic is actually understated. However, the quality of the traffic is unknown. Is the traffic real unique visitors or from bots constantly hitting the site?

Overall, people at TDNAM are willing to pay much more than I am for the risky proposition of buying a domain with unverified traffic/revenue results.

 

[Name Trader]

Yeah. That's what I found too. I've bid way over my comfort zone and still never won any domains. There was 1 exception. That domain provided about 10% of the traffic TDNAM claimed.

Somebody in another thread mentioned www.compete.com. It got my hobby site visitors about right, but I never had any luck getting results for any TDNAM dropping domains, even if they had many more visitors than my hobby site, according to TDNAM's Traffic Stats.

 

[Seabass]

I've purchased hundreds of domains from TDNAM. I have never once found the traffic to be more than the stated claim, in fact, I would say it is most of the time it is about 30 percent less than what they claim. A few examples have been 80 percent less. A few of these 80 perecent less purchases and you begin to take an even closer look at the domains you buy.

What they are counting is bots because we have tested the traffic and with all good, bad, and ugly "hits" the numbers even out to about what they claim, you put in the filters and firewalls and you get closer to the real numbers the parking companies show. This has convinced me they count everything, or almost everything.

So, bid accordingly and don't be a sucker!

 

[Optinom]

Whenever I see traffic names on tdnam, I just look-up alexa data.

Even names with apparently 10-20k visitors per month as per tdnam have very low traffic as per alexa or sometimes no alexa history.. strange.

 

[VURG]

What happens to the domains with minimum bids above $10.

GoDaddy keeps them if nobody bids?

 

[cache]

the tdnam names will start at $10. If it is higher than $10, then it may not
be a tdnam name expired.

What happens to the domains with minimum bids above $10.

GoDaddy keeps them if nobody bids?

 

[Chappy]

The >10000 traffic names on TDNAM are always bid over $1000. They must be valuable or people would stop bidding on them. Perhaps the guy who keeps buying them is laughing all the way to the bank.

 

[Seabass]

The >10000 traffic names on TDNAM are always bid over $1000. They must be valuable or people would stop bidding on them. Perhaps the guy who keeps buying them is laughing all the way to the bank.

I've purchased a few of them just for kicks, to test them out. Most are loaded with bots and are not worth the money (when the traffic graduates to that level).

Most of these folks buying them are new domainers I suspect, unless they are developers or traffic redirect buyers. I think they are looking too much at the high number and not the quality. Much of that traffic goes "poof" as soon as you park it, b/c bots are not counted.

C'mon we all know how hard it is to get 10,000 legitimate uniques a month without link farms, bots, etc...

If you buy adult domains - expect an even bigger drop in traffic upon parking or hosting.

Buyer beware.

 

[WeBuyThe.Com]

Keep in mind that many of these expired names had traffic because of SERPS.
Once the names expires and content is removed traffic dies off as the pages are no longer listed. There are certainly some gems out there and hey, traffic's not everything. I've seen names sell for XX,XXX with zero traffic.

 

[Keynes]

That traffic is actually impressions, which includes lots of bot traffic, etc. Cavaet emptor

 

[sirengirl]

I have bid and won about 12 names on Tdnam. The most I paid for a name was $182. I did my research before I bid on that one; wayback, alexa, pagerank, searches. Also if a .com are the other extentions taken. It turns out with the former, traffic has exceeded stats, and so far may have been a good investment.

I may have made one mistake. A "what was I thinking?" If you do your research you can do fine IMO. Either to resell, or PPC. Be careful though...Bots on certain names inflate the numbers.

 

[Chappy]

I have bid and won about 12 names on Tdnam. The most I paid for a name was $182. I did my research before I bid on that one; wayback, alexa, pagerank, searches. Also if a .com are the other extentions taken. It turns out with the former, traffic has exceeded stats, and so far may have been a good investment.

I may have made one mistake. A "what was I thinking?" If you do your research you can do fine IMO. Either to resell, or PPC. Be careful though...Bots on certain names inflate the numbers.

What kind of traffic can you acquire for $182?

 

[sirengirl]

What kind of traffic can you acquire for $182?

Bidding on names one should also base things on the names potential. Would you develope such a name? Is it a .com? I see people bidding $900 on a hyphenated three word obscure .net becuse it says, 3000 stats. The above name in question gets 100 hits a day so far, so I got lucky.