Researching available/auction domains?

[Magnatolia]

Hi all,

I did a lot of google searches and seemed to come up with clashing information. One site says the domain has x visitors and another site says it has none.

Is there a recommended tool/site that can be used to do this kind of research? At the moment I'm using GoDaddy's traffic and valuation (but they don't specify how they came to the valuation). One site for example has traffic at 15,000 but that's because it used to be a porn site lol.

At the moment I'm interested in buying domains that potentially have current traffic and will park them. Then may flip them if the opportunity arises.

Thanks very much!

 

[Biggie]

Hi all,

I did a lot of google searches and seemed to come up with clashing information. One site says the domain has x visitors and another site says it has none.

Is there a recommended tool/site that can be used to do this kind of research? At the moment I'm using GoDaddy's traffic and valuation (but they don't specify how they came to the valuation). One site for example has traffic at 15,000 but that's because it used to be a porn site lol.

At the moment I'm interested in buying domains that potentially have current traffic and will park them. Then may flip them if the opportunity arises.

Thanks very much!

best to check 'web.archive.org' for historical info on names to see if they were viable websites.

check registration dates to see when the domain was created

check to see if any backlinks that may be providing traffic


check the actual websites that those backlink's originate from, to understand what is of interest there to those who visit each of those websites.

you also want to know where the links are actaully located on/within the pages of those sites.


once you have that information, you be in better position to determine if the "stats" are more likely to be true or false.


imo...