A most annoying aspect of scanning some long lists of domains for sale

[David G]

One of the most annoying aspects of looking through long lists of names for sale is how so many sellers (some experienced members included) are too lazy (or else apparently not thinking) to arrange their for-sale lists in alphabetical order to make it easy for buyers to scan for keywords.

That is especially important with long lists where 95% or more of the names appear to be worthless or semi-worthless so the few good ones (if any) are real difficult and tedious to find but would be much easier to locate if scanning is based on keywords of interest.

Recently both myself and Acro posted in a very long confusing sales thread (which was non-alphabeltical) about that issue but had our posts quickly deleted by a Mod.

In the past few days I have seen at forums, email or by pm several giant lists of 1000s of names not arranged in any kind of logical order, i.e. alphabetical and/or grouped by categories.

 

[Rockefeller]

alphabeltical

One thing that annoys me are people that either do not know how to spell or are too lazy to use spell check.

 

[David G]

One thing that annoys me are people that either do not know how to spell or are too lazy to use spell check.

I forgot you are so perfect you never make errors. Maybe if you posted more knowledge based threads to help the members instead of so many sales threads you would be more helpful to the board and more appreciate reading constructive criticism. (at least I spelled it right in the past paragraph). As far as I know, the forum does not have a spell checker as it should.

 

[Rockefeller]

It was more or less a joke. Simmer down.

 

[Biggie]

overall, i see most list domains in order of:

most valuable domains first, with the crap following

or highest priced on top and lowest at the bottom



in a previous thread i started recently, i touched on the fact that most don't read all the posts in a thread and sometimes don't even read all the words in a post.


the buyer with the keen eye though, will see value, regardless


imo...

 

[David G]

Good point Don but the problem with seller putting the best names first is he may not realize what the best are, i.e. I have seen a recent list of over 1,000 where just 3 or 4 had good value to me but they were buried with all the others and by the time I found them from tedious scanning of that big list someone else (who must be a faster scanner than myself) already grabbed them.

 

[Biggie]

Good point Don but the problem with seller putting the best names first is he may not realize what the best are, i.e. I have seen a recent list of over 1,000 where just 3 or 4 had good value to me but they were buried with all the others and by the time I found them from tedious scanning of that big list someone else (who must be a faster scanner than myself) already grabbed them.

hehe


that was probably the buyer with the "keen eye"


they may have took some "evelyn wood speed reading courses"

 

[Gerry]

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[randomo]

I've experimented with several different ways of grouping the domains in my every-other-month Megasales (typically 100-200 domains):

• by topic (health, sports, travel, etc.), with each domain priced separately
• by price, subgrouped by extension (e.g., the list of $19 domains starts with the $19 .com's)
• by extension, subgrouped by price (all the .com's first, starting with the cheapest ones)

When I group by price, I always list the cheapest ones first. I figure that if I put the most expensive ones first and they don't appeal to the viewer, he'll just stop looking, figuring all the others are even worse. When I put the cheaper ones at the top, I imagine someone thinking, "If he's selling sensible domains like these for $19, I should see what gems he's got for $99."

My own pet peeve about long lists of domains for sale is when the seller doesn't capitalize terms within the domain. It's a lot easier to read through domains in the FirstwordSecondword.com format than the firstwordsecondword.com, where the eye gets slowed down figuring out the breaks between words.

 

[David G]

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I can confirm it was you!

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My own pet peeve about long lists of domains for sale is when the seller doesn't capitalize terms within the domain. It's a lot easier to read through domains in the FirstwordSecondword.com format than the firstwordsecondword.com, where the eye gets slowed down figuring out the breaks between words.

That was also an issue.

 

[Biggie]

My own pet peeve about long lists of domains for sale is when the seller doesn't capitalize terms within the domain. It's a lot easier to read through domains in the FirstwordSecondword.com format than the firstwordsecondword.com, where the eye gets slowed down figuring out the breaks between words.

sometimes a domain can be more appealing if typed in lowercase, than caps at beginning of each word


and sometimes not

depends on the domain

 

[randomo]

sometimes a domain can be more appealing if typed in lowercase, than caps at beginning of each word

Even if that may be true for "a domain", it's not true for hundreds of domains you're trying to scan through!

 

[GeoOwners]

One of the most annoying aspects of looking through long lists of names for sale is how so many sellers (some experienced members included) are too lazy (or else apparently not thinking) to arrange their for-sale lists in alphabetical order to make it easy for buyers to scan for keywords.

That is especially important with long lists where 95% or more of the names appear to be worthless or semi-worthless so the few good ones (if any) are real difficult and tedious to find but would be much easier to locate if scanning is based on keywords of interest.

Recently both myself and Acro posted in a very long confusing sales thread (which was non-alphabeltical) about that issue but had our posts quickly deleted by a Mod.

In the past few days I have seen at forums, email or by pm several giant lists of 1000s of names not arranged in any kind of logical order, i.e. alphabetical and/or grouped by categories.

Maybe they should put the good names in bold for you guys lmao

 

[Gerry]

I can confirm it was you!

Well, if that was the thread you are speaking of...

I guess I happen to see the list first and posted SOLD to the names I wanted. What can I say...there have been many I was second, third, fourth, or umpteenth to the thread and felt drat, missed another.

As for alphabetizing, well...that thread was.

And yes, I do read fast.

Then when I decided to review the list and went back, there were a couple I had been interested in that were gone.


As for how threads are organized or long lists, there are domainers who prefer to go by expiration date.

Here's a trick I've learned and have done numerous times to illformated lists...I copy and paste them into Word or Open Office and use the sort feature. Works very well.

 

[CamMK27]

Well what I try to do is highlight the domains in Bold. I usually try to list them in alphabetical order and the third thing I do is leave a space of one line between 2 names so it is easier to read and the last thing I usually try to use caps for the first letter of the each word.

So e.g

AmericanAirline.com

BritishAirways.com

CathyPacific.vom

DenmarkVacation.com

EgyptAir.com

FrankfurtFlights.com

GoItaly.com

HollandVacation.com

ItalyRentals.com


Makes it much easier to read and scan through. There are times when I just copy and paste from Godaddy where all the letters are caps then I usually highlight them in 2 different colors to make it easier to read!

e.g

AMERICANAIRLINEDEALS.COM

BRITISHAIRWAYSTICKETS.COM

CATHYPACIFICHONGKONG.COM


I hope that helps to scan faster

 

[randomo]

I just got an email from Network Solutions, advertising "Premium Domains Available!" in the travel and education categories. I clicked the education link and a PDF file opened, showing a list of nearly 3,000 domains.

All but the first nine were in alphabetical order. Seven of those nine contained capital letters - but in several cases, wrong letters were capitalized! (In this circumstance, it might have been better to leave everything in lower case.)

Here's an example of the domains they listed, apparently without human editing:

BackToSchoolsHopping.org

Think maybe someone should have noticed a small error there? :lol: