discuss When is a domain on backorder considered competitive?

[Lightja]

Hi everyone, I'm new to the domain game, and particularly coming from SEO and IM in general (which I'm also relatively new to) and I'm wondering when a domain is considered to be competitive.

• Are there certain statistics (trust flow / T:C ratio / DA / tld extension / domain name length / age / etc) that make it competitive? Which are the most important?
• Are there any ways I can tell if it's competitive besides just trying to gauge based on statistics? Like are there sites where I can check if there are already backorders on it? If so, when do people usually start putting in backorders?

I'm asking this because I found a domain that looks useful for my next online project. I currently registered a backorder with Dynadot and so far Dynadot only because my budget is very limited. I'd really like to avoid a ~$70 backorder if I can, but without much experience I really have no clue if I should be registering at every backorder site there is, if I should be expecting a bidding war, or if I can probably get away with just a Dynadot backorder.

I'll try to avoid identifying the domain, but here are some general stats about it:

• Name: 11-14 characters, very niche specific to a relatively small, maybe medium-small, niche (.com tld)
• Trust Flow: ~17-20 on the main domain, although a subdomain has ~26-29 trust flow
• Trust:Citation ratio: >1.2 for most pages
• Age: ~8-11 years
• DA: ~8-11
• Backlinks: few but powerful, 8-10 backlinks from ~3-5 domains

So far the domain is pending delete in roughly 1 day. Speaking of which, and this seems like a dumb question, but with a backorder I retain the age of the domain correct?

From my limited experience, it doesn't seem like a highly competitive domain. My instincts say I will probably be ok with just Dynadot, but my instincts are very underdeveloped in this game, and I'd especially hate to lose it to someone just using the API to register it with software. Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[Name Trader]

Is this a dropping domain (approx 75-80 days after expiry) or a Pre-Release (approx 35-40 days after expiry)? If it's the first, it doesn't retain it's domain age, because it will drop and be newly registered. If it's the latter. It will retain it's domain age.

How can it's age be ~8-11 years old? It must have a fixed registration date.

It has powerful backlinks, and is circa 10yrs old, but you seem to think it isn't highly competitive?

Are there any bids for this domain on NameJet/SnapNames? If there are. Your Dynadot backorder will be useless.

If there are no bids. I'd try a cheap Pheenix Super Saver Backorder. Comparable price to Dynadot Backorder and gives you more chances to capture the domain.

If there are bids. Then you will have to also bid at NameJet. But it still doesn't guarantee you'll get the domain for $70.