I was too rash and harsh last night (but I'll leave my above post unedited). Took another look this morning and will try to do a little more justice:
newyorkyankeesticket.com
pentiumlaptop.com
thebarrescue.com
These are trademark based domains. To develop or try to make any money from them is not legal. I know a few years ago it was still being done rampantly, domainers and site developers found high-search TM terms, built sites around them, seo'd them up high in the serps, and made a lot of cash... and to some extent it's still being done... but since it's bad faith/not legal, most legit domainers and developers now stay away from TM's. I'm slightly worried on behalf of some of your clients if they are trusting their business to someone who still thinks it is okay to deal in trademark-infringing domains and websites... I hope you change that and get rid of TM-based domains from your biz plan because you are putting yourself and your clients at risk (this is assuming that you have other already-built websites built around TM terms. If you don't, then good, but I'd still get rid of the TM domains listed here).
This one I can't figure out. No monthly searches at all on google. Singular gets 50 searches. The 'life' seems to be part of a variety of brands, like Vasa's 'soft life' brand creams... if that's what you're going for, then I can only add this to the above list of trademarked domains. If there's something I'm not seeing about this domain, let me know.
lowfeepayday.com
moneyfastloans.com
Look, I get it. You're shooting for terms that have high cpc keywords in them because that can translate into high-value and targeted leads. 'low fee payday' gets zero monthly searches but it's part of the term 'low fee payday loans' which receives 320 searches; 'money fast loans' gets 90 searches because it's a backwards way of writing 'fast money loans' which gets 1000 searches.
So you're finding phrases whose keywords receive high cpc amounts, then (since those phrases are already taken in dot.com) you're doing the chop-shop thing, taking the same words but mixing them into a different order, chopping off a word here and there, regging those versions and also using software to watch out for these kinds of domains that are deleting in dot.com.
You build them out, do some seo, try get traffic to them which hopefully translates to leads going to your clients.
I guess you're also using domains/phrases that have zero searches and little or zero cpc amounts because you intend to optimize them for related terms that do; for example 'chicago shower' gets 10 monthly searches, no one's looking for that term, and it has a very low cpc. But you build it out to suit, for example, Chicago Contractor or some related business with high cpc and better leads, right?
I won't go thru the rest of the domains, they're pretty much based on the same basics. You've asked us for appraisals of these as domain names without content, and I do have to repeat that as domains alone, there are millions of these types still available to register, or dropping each month. The intent of your business model revolves around getting traffic to a particular type of website; and google, with the considerable search algorithm changes over the last few years, has made it difficult for small sites with minimal development to rank high in serps. That is even for exact-match domains.
Since your websites (based on the examples in this thread anyway) are based on domains whose phrases have little to zero monthly searches, that means you will have to do even more development than if you had exact-match domains to work with. Now you have to make google and other engines, and other websites you want to link trade with, work even harder to see the value in your websites, you're practically asking them to look past the phrase in your domain and see only the content. Instead of exact match, your domain becomes more like a brandable.
I guess what I'm saying is: I saw how much work it would take to build those domains out into receiving any notable traffic - and notable targeted traffic is what you need for lead generation to pay off - and it looked to me like you're doing it the harder way, rather than finding more 'pure' exact match domains with decent monthly searches. Since selling the domains isn't your priority, you might do much better finding exact match domains and developing them on other extensions like .info .net .org? Less easy to sell the domain, but better chance of good optimization when you use the exact match phrase.
If you're finding that your returns $$ are well worth the amount of development you have to do for these domains, and your clients are happy too, then you've found a biz model that works for you.
We can appraise them as domains - and I still wouldn't have any of them myself [edit: perhaps as a reseller I might pay low xx for golddallas and bbqnewyork] - but if you are making money with them (rather, the developed ones similar to these listed here), and your clients are receiving enough leads and are earning income from them, then
your development is succeeding despite - not due to - the quality of the domains. It means that you're developing and optimizing in very smart ways, and congrats if you are doing well at this.
But do get rid of the TM names entirely, both developed and undeveloped. You're playing with hot potatoes and are also placing your clients at risk, any who are involved with TM-based websites whose TM they do not own.
Good luck
