advice Typo advice to typo newbies

[Domainate.com]

This is all pretty much speaking from my own experience with typo domains...some others may have a different experience with them, and so I wouldn't accept this advice as "fact". It's my opinion on the best way to approach getting typos.

First off, get typos of domains, not words. One of the reasons Pocker.com and Porker.com were able to sell for as much as they did were because Poker.com was an established, fairly high traffic site site in addition to poker being an elite keyword. Keep this in mind when selecting your target to get typos of. The Overture Keyword Selector Tool is often referenced around here as one of the most powerful domain tools, and indeed it is. Put your target domain in here and see how many results it gets. Compare a lot of different target domains you have, and the higher number is the better target for traffic since those are direct type-ins to Overture.

Secondly, though harder to judge, try to target domains in more lucrative markets. Poker is my favorite, because Fabulous pays $8-$20 per click on their poker parking. Casinos are even higher and are another good target. There are many high-paying keywords out there, and a good way for those who have a hard time figuring them out is the Overture Bid Tool. It shows the max bids of links placed on Overture, a PPC-based search engine. The higher the better of course.

So...onto the first revelation: The best typos I have are actually not typos. They are either misspellings or substitute related terms inserted in place of a word in the domain (like putting "auto" in place of "car" in the domain). I have about 30 poker names among which are many misspellings and "related term" names to a couple of poker sites, and it's generally those doing the best.

For the misspellings, target words that could be hard to spell. I was excited to see a commercial for UltimateBet.tv, knowing first that Ultimatebet.com/net was an established poker site and that the .tv was probably new to their arsenal, and seeing that "ultimate" is misspelled a LOT. The misspellings I got for that site have worked out rather well. An example of related term is a "typo" domain I got for DoylesRoom.com/net (another poker site). Doyle Brunson is who the site is named after, and a simple switcheroo of his last name in place of his first and I found myself some available names that have been making me a nice earning.

Some of the other typo names I own are in fact typos though. Again, based on how mine do, if you want to get typos, get missing letter typos or transposition typos instead of extra letter or wrong letter typos. Extra letter typos and wrong letter typos usually involve many situations with 1 single letter of the name. Missing letter involves only 1 situation per letter, and transpositions of letters right next to each other also involves only 1 situation. Don't do more than one transposition or missing letter at a time. Like "music"...search for usic, msic, musc, musi, umsic, msuic, muisc, and musci sooner than typos like mussic, nusic, mudic, etc.

That's all for now. Hope this post helps a bunch of you aspiring typo-ists! If any other people out there doing well with typos would like to chime in, feel free to do so.

 

[SimpleDomaining]

agree with nametrader. i will not give up on typos. there are good ones other there still available. the key is watching news to know whats next coming to the market. and there are constantly new items - so new domains and new typos
just need to know WHERE to look at and for WHAT

 

[-TV-]

typos are worthless anymore unlesss you have an etrmely high traffic domain. and good luck finding one of those

there more out there, typos get born everyday you just need to be a Dr to get you one lol, websites jump in traffic everyday in the internet world need to watch carefully and you will see the light

Tv

 

[svj888]

Wow.... consider me inspired Thanks so much!

 

[Goodwill]

Worthy stuffs !
But what should I call about domain like pre/pure/care/cure etc.
Are they considered as typos ?
Sorry and thanks !

 

[jammin]

Very interesting Thread, it should be downloadable in .pdf format...

 

[domenigo]

some advice if you could

That's one of the good things about one of the "typos" I mentioned, the related term names. For instance, if UltimateBet.com TMd but I had UltimatePoker.com, I wouldn't have anything to worry about, and with UltimateBet.com being a poker site, UltimatePoker.com is a great related term name that would take advantage of UltimateBet.com's prominence. Naturally it's taken already, lol.

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[-TV-]

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Tv

 

[cbsort]

European typos

 

[jleig]

I've gone through most of this thread and the content is extremely informative. Thanks to all who contributed!

I have a question in regards to TMs.

As some of you probably heard @ pp 1 3 made some news yesterday (6/2) by purchasing a new domain name for its web service product. We have the option possibly selling one of the best typos for this domain or just letting it expire. The domain was originally registered back in 2006.

I think this domain could potentially be very valuable, but from what I've read in this thread it doesn't seem like its not worth the risk especially with a company that is so litigious.

Thoughts? Should I just leave this one alone and move on? Sorry this post is so cryptic, I'm sure you understand. :D

 

[DADomains]

Very interesting Thread, it should be downloadable in .pdf format...

I've gone through most of this thread and the content is extremely informative. Thanks to all who contributed! ...

I agree. In fact, if it's ok with everyone I would like to use a lot of the information gleaned from this thread to write the main article for my typo.name site, whenever I get around to trying to develop it.

I would be sure to give credit to everyone and include a link to this forum. :tu:

That ok with everyone (especially the moderators)?

 

[advaita]

I just got into typos and can see there's a lot of potential bu like the very first post on this thread says I think you need a type of an actual popuular domain not just a typo of a word

 

[-TV-]

I just got into typos and can see there's a lot of potential bu like the very first post on this thread says I think you need a type of an actual popular domain not just a typo of a word

before, the source of that was the ovt , but it did stop updating so now you can still go by what ovt states but if you need the update of traffic domain names , alexa is your solution , just needed little bit of work and a good tool to help you work faster to find good typos, as you can see right now alexa well known domain traffic most of the best typos of them domains are already gone because alot of people snatch them as soon as the website gets traffic or jump in traffic, so that is why i created fax browser and i used it and still using it because that is the only faster way to navigate tru alexa and same time the tool will look for the typos for you and availability of the most popular typos of that domain , easy and fast because when it comes to typos in alexa , time is really important , the tool demo you can find it here http://www.faxreport.com/domain_browser_demo.htm

Tv

 

[kceleb9]

Thanks!! Very Useful

this was a real help - thanks!

 

[Sam]

I have conducted some Alexa Rank to Traffic via parking anaylsis... not very accurate at all .

I own a 80,000 ranked name, and 0 hits

 

[pandaking]

One long name maybe have more than 2k tpyos.

 

[jigar657]

A newbie question...

How do we know if the website (domain name) is trademarked. Is it only of TM is written beside the name ? If its not written then ?

TIA

 

[whannel]

http://www.comparethemeerkat.com/tv-ad.html typo marketing...

 

[Domainate.com]

I have conducted some Alexa Rank to Traffic via parking anaylsis... not very accurate at all .

I own a 80,000 ranked name, and 0 hits

A note on this - I've seen a lot of fake Alexa rank names lately - there was a post about one on the forum lately, someone bragging about having gotten a xx,xxx alexa rank name, and ironically in a search of Alexa ranked names I turned up a bunch of very similar names - all had very high Ethiopian Alexa ranking for whatever reason and in general the pattern of the traffic graph was very similar on all of them. The poster of the thread said howver he was getting barely any traffic, and I'm sure it's probably worthless traffic anyways.

There's 3 things to consider with typos:

1. The value of the traffic: Typos of torrent sites for instance may get a lot of traffic but won't make much parking revenue. Typos of poker sites on the other hand can make more than reg fees even on 10-15 uniques per YEAR.

2. The traffic to the domain coupled with type-in % of the traffic: Alexa can be used as a guide for overall traffic to the domain, but figuring out type-in % is tougher. I usually check the best typos I can think of for the domain and if they have Alexa rank too, that's usually a good sign. Otherwise there's no way to tell.

3. The spectrum of typo quality and the site's traffic: Obviously no one will register a quality youtube typo these days - the quality of ones remaining would be horrible since anything even remotely worth checking out is taken. On the other end of the spectrum are sites that has SOME traffic - Alexa rank may be mid xxx,xxx or x,xxx,xxx, so there's certainly some traffic to it but low enough such that no typos are taken. There can be opportunities in ANY part of the spectrum, and that's what you would have to consider. The benefit to getting a weak typo on a high traffic domain is that chances are the traffic it does get will hold up decently over a long period of time. The benefit to getting great typos on low-moderate traffic domains is that the site could get popular.

One thing to remember is that nothing is for sure. Even with my knowledge of typos, I get good buys maybe 10-20% of the time. Now with the likelihood of ICANN soon removing the ability to delete domains for a refund, gambling on typos will be a lot harder. The good news with that though is that all the big domain tasting operations won't be spending the time to learn how to pick n choose typos, so there may be more gems to find once that happens.

 

[Sara Vanessa]

Nice analysis

"Very nice post, but you gotta keep in mind theres an onslaught going on against typo names and these wont be much popular sooner or later. " I agree

 

[nanochip]

So is it that bad to register a typo? Never?

 

[BrianOconor]

I m not very much inspired though a very good post.! I have some doubts in my mind.. " common generic terms such as "mortgage" and "shopping" are fine and cannot be trademark challenged in any way?" I dint get this answer.

 

[texasgamer]

What kind of onslaught is going on against typo names?

 

[411domains]

Typos....Everyone eventually buys one or two when starting out. It's a given. To really cash in, you need to be on top of the game.

It really isn't worth it though. Sure those who registered names like mypsace .com or similar make a fortune, but run the risk of being sued and these days they are coming after typos and trademarks.

Generic typos are pretty much a waste. If you do end up going that route, make sure it's worth it. Otherwise, you're just throwing away money that you could use registering or buying a worthwhile domain.

 

[bigskinnygreens]

I have been looking for this info, thanks for the post!

 

[jinnymax]

good topic