Comments on: Expiring Domains Research Pro Tips

By: ?????????????

????????????? — Wed, 19 May 2010 07:23:31 +0000

I have 1 expring domain, just so sad

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googleadvertise — Mon, 10 May 2010 22:35:33 +0000

Really great information. Now I can register a good name domain.

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By: tel4rent

tel4rent — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 14:16:04 +0000

Well! unless the domain expiring fits indeed the concept you have in mind or for brand/idea protection or simply complement the domain portfolio you may hold.

By: Bolo

Bolo — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:06:50 +0000

You're right…The domain choice should be based on idea of a site, not on a list of expiring ones. But some ideas of the article are helpful for educational purposes…

By: Betty

Betty — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:30:38 +0000

Sincerely speaking, but to my mind expiring domains are not worth taking research. I can't catch the idea from your article what for can it be necessary. Nevertheless in was interesting to read – thanks!

By: JLouisBiz

JLouisBiz — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:13:26 +0000

Regarding "hyphenated", that is not correct, it is only your personal opinion. It may be true for you, as you shape your statement regarding hyphenated domains on a limited information. While for DotSauce.Com it does serve the purpose, certainly it is not true for all.

Our hyphenated domains rank always better than our same non-hyphenated domains, and better then of competitors with similar domains, similar words, hyphenated domains. Since 2002, our hyphenated domains are bringing us true income, enough for life and pleasure.

And if you have hyphenated,you shall have non hyphenated too. But we worked for 8 years with hyphenated and had no problems in ranking whatsoever. For certain major keywords we keep rank one.

Again and again there are "experts" teaching those which had their websites when experts were still in the middle school. Mark Fulton started his now very informative DotSauce.Com in 2006, we started making money from Internet in 1995 in a different business, and in 2002. in business services. Of 20,000 people in our client's database, so far nobody ever has complained that domain looks unprofessional due to hyphen, further we have never "lost" high portion of traffic to to hyphen.

Unfounded.

By: Mark Fulton

Mark Fulton — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:07:34 +0000

I agree Adam! Thank you for your comment.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:13:30 +0000

Good reflection.
What I'd like to share with you, is about traffic. I am experienced in European ccTLDs mainly, not gTLD, but I guess it's the same. So, there are 2 different models of investments which I observe – traffic/revenue domains and powerful keyword domains.
First group of people firstly ask – what is the domain traffic/revenue. Based in this, such person appraise a domain name. I understand such model if your target is parking revenue – then OK. BUT, if you think about investing in strong domain name, with a business opportunity, the only thing we pay attention should be stats of a keyword, not traffic (this is the second group).
Why I think so? – High traffic is easy to generate, it comes and goes off, depending on domain history etc. When you have a domain name with a strong keyword stats, even if a domain name has 400-500 view per month, a domain could have a great business opportunity ahead, it could respresent an interesting business industry and so on…. In such case, these 500 uv per month could worth significantly more, rather than 5000 of poor quality traffic per week. So, my tip is – pay attention to keyword quality and the industry it's about, not to traffic only.

Best regards,
Adam

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By: tel4rent

tel4rent — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:54:05 +0000

It is a great article. Thanks for sharing it with us….the newbies :)

Any advise on parked domains? how to get the best out of them?

By: bob

bob — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:42:38 +0000

Have fun and may your research unviel all the best domains!…UNveil
matt from google did mention using hyphens in titles as being beneficial to the readers.

By: sajadahanak

sajadahanak — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:43:54 +0000

i love this cool site like you said “very inspiring”

By: 77v

77v — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:29:44 +0000

good v

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By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:00:15 +0000

Helpful article, Mark. Thanks. A couple questions from a newbie to the game:

Re: #4, searching Google keywords...Do I search for ALL the terms in a name TOGETHER (e.g., PurpleComputerWidgets.com, search for "purple computer widgets" or just "purple computer" or "computer widgets" or do I do multiple variations on the search)? And once I do the search(es), what exactly am I looking for the results to be?

Also, when I check the monthly search volume, what are the minimum numbers I should be looking for and why?

BTW, right now I am mostly looking for domains to park, so am I correct to conclude that your advice here pertains to that specifically?

Thanks again for the advice!
Mark

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:00:15 +0000

By: Mark Fulton

Mark Fulton — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:55:28 +0000

Thank you for your kind words. Glad you are able to put my advice to use!

Always nice to hear about a new reader.

By: remonatrix

remonatrix — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:42:30 +0000

That's it ! I'm hooked.

I've been in the domain game for at least 2 years – kinda going at it solo and treading my own little way about it … I stumble upon this site … read a few articles and Bammo ! I fall on some great advice – some really nifty tools and web sites …

As the saying goes … where have you been all my life (at least in the last 2 years …) -

You can add another weekly follower to your list on Alexa Ranking … your reach has increased yet again…

Looking forward to reading more and more …

By: Mark Fulton

Mark Fulton — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:15:44 +0000

Consider subscribing to my available domains newsletter (scroll down to bottom right of page) for some domain name suggestions. Thanks for reading.

By: clark

clark — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:50:02 +0000

Thank you for sharing with a couple of tips to give Infections Expiring Domains that must be very useful for me.May be beneficial to all people ..

By: Clayton Semple

Clayton Semple — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:41:09 +0000

Domains still remain a mystery for me. I see so much profit potential in them but I'm not brave enough to actually dive in, ya know?

By: hostgatorcoupons

hostgatorcoupons — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:24:07 +0000

Thanks for these tips. I guess sometimes I register a keyword domain even when the keywords are in the wrong order. I should really stop doing that as it confuses visitors

By: Mark Fulton

Mark Fulton — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:55:31 +0000

You're welcome sir. Well deserved! I know you put alot of effort into creating all those tools for us.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:59:48 +0000

>Staring at endless rows of text and numbers can get to be maddening

You're not kidding… I've been trying to improve my ranking algo to get the good ones to 'bubble' up, so I don't feel so bad about not scanning whole lists. It *is* maddening, but when you discover a good one, you know it was worth it…

By: Esa

Esa — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:51:49 +0000

Thanks for this post and thanks also for mentioning my tools. I also recommend downloading my daily expiring domain lists (snap, namejet and dropping names already pre-analyzed, pre-appraised and filtered, along with keyword data), just select 'expired domains list' from the navbar.

If you're a member, you can find them here:
estibot.com/members/droplists

Nitpicking here, about the search "purple widgets", I prefer to call it 'phrase match' and reserve 'exact match' to search popularity measurement to avoid confusion.
-Esa

By: Mark Fulton

Mark Fulton — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:20:41 +0000

Glad you enjoyed the tips Dan! Thanks for reading.

By: Mark Fulton

Mark Fulton — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:19:37 +0000

Yea, I just recently signed up with Estibot for the google term results tool, I'm sure the bulk appraisal has some more data.. will have to check it out. Thanks for your comment.