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There's still Gold in "dem dar hills"!

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OK, big thumbs up to biggedon on this one, totally agree..and how many times have I said it? I think I can register domains any day that get SOME traffic..it's not rocket science..it's a matter of finding ones with ALOT of valuable traffic that get good click rates..all traffic is not equal! Now if he just parked them at parked.com instead of lame sedo he would really make some money! lol :eek:k:
 

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There are good domains still available I think we all still now that...the point acro is making is should mods continually get to have affiliate inks in there sigs when promoting there parking sedo affliate links. For some reason maybe I am just tired but agree with acro. In the morning it could be different:asleep:.
 

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Nice thread with lots of info ;)

I have few newly registered domains, 2 words, 3 words, with links,
.com, .net, .org, .info, .us, .tv, you name it.

Some domains are longer than 30 words with .info extension AND with links.
However, these are all keyword domains.

Some making pretty decent money.
Many making enough to keep the domain for years.

Some domains that you don't get any revenue from parking,
you may want to put simple web sites.

One of my domain got 6 visits and zero click since 3/30/07 till 8/16/07
So, you know it's not premium domain :D

On 8/17/07 I put up simple web site.
Put link on your other web sites that search engines visit daily.

8/17 - 0 view
8/18 - 3 view
8/19 - 1 view
8/20 - 3 view
8/21 - 1 view
8/22 - 1 view
8/23 - 1 view
8/24 - 1 view
8/25 - 1 view
8/26 - 3 view
8/27 - 1 view
8/28 - 4 view - 1 click - $.26
8/29 - 10 view - 6 click - $2.71

In about 10 days, pages got indexed.
I am thinking I'll probably get more
revenue as more pages get indexed.

There are many ways to skin the cat :D
 

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Sorry, I really did not see this as an endorsement of any service or parking company.

I viewed this as purely an informational post.

It does not matter where someone decides to park the name.

I can come up with fresh regs examples, traffic, and revenue from three different sources of parking affiliates.

Each domain is parked at a particular place for various reasons.

Point remains the same...it can be done with new regs. But it is not like...

reg it, park it, and they will come.

There is some methodology to the madness.
 

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You have a point, but it wasn't the reason for starting this thread. biggedon is simply giving incentive especially to noobs that there is still a chance to grab money making domains for cheap if you work hard enough.

What incentive exactly are you referring to? The SedoPro affiliate link?

I too can go ahead and post stats saying "there is still money to be made in manual registrations" and then say nothing about the market focus, the method used, the tools at my disposal etc.

Unless Don shares his methodology I see this as nothing more than an attempt to promote Sedo.

So far the most useful info in this thread was posted by Copper.
 

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I think the original post was helpful to see that domains can still be regged that get traffic - the gold is in the traffic. To prove this you have to show stats, and it's also helpful to know where the names are parked because all parking sites are not the same. I didn't even see the first post as a Sedo endorsement at all, merely relevant information to the parking. What I'd like to see people do is name some domains that are getting these results.

I also try to reg good .com's with keywords that are used, but so far none really get any profitable traffic. I hesitate to go for typos because I'd rather have the right spelling in my domains, UNLESS the typo is something like turning a plural into a singular, or vice versa, or it still spells something (e.g.: FastSpace/com vs. FastPace/com) the typo still is two words.
 

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OK, big thumbs up to biggedon on this one, totally agree..and how many times have I said it? I think I can register domains any day that get SOME traffic..it's not rocket science..it's a matter of finding ones with ALOT of valuable traffic that get good click rates..all traffic is not equal! Now if he just parked them at parked.com instead of lame sedo he would really make some money! lol :eek:k:

they are on my list, including bodis

i make take bids on who i sign up under :)


Nice thread with lots of info ;)

I have few newly registered domains, 2 words, 3 words, with links,
.com, .net, .org, .info, .us, .tv, you name it.

Some domains are longer than 30 words with .info extension AND with links.
However, these are all keyword domains.

Some making pretty decent money.
Many making enough to keep the domain for years.

Some domains that you don't get any revenue from parking,
you may want to put simple web sites.

One of my domain got 6 visits and zero click since 3/30/07 till 8/16/07
So, you know it's not premium domain :D

On 8/17/07 I put up simple web site.
Put link on your other web sites that search engines visit daily.

8/17 - 0 view
8/18 - 3 view
8/19 - 1 view
8/20 - 3 view
8/21 - 1 view
8/22 - 1 view
8/23 - 1 view
8/24 - 1 view
8/25 - 1 view
8/26 - 3 view
8/27 - 1 view
8/28 - 4 view - 1 click - $.26
8/29 - 10 view - 6 click - $2.71

In about 10 days, pages got indexed.
I am thinking I'll probably get more
revenue as more pages get indexed.

There are many ways to skin the cat :D

this is what i mean when you make "jewerly" from the gold you've found, rather than parking it.

There are good domains still available I think we all still now that...the point acro is making is should mods continually get to have affiliate inks in there sigs when promoting there parking sedo affliate links. For some reason maybe I am just tired but agree with acro. In the morning it could be different:asleep:.


all exclusive members, including mods and admins, can have an affiliate link in their signature.

my link is not a id= #####, but one that shows my names for sale on sedo.

the thread was not intended as a promotion, only to inspire, motivate and give hope.

all and any new domains that i acquire, whether they are hand-regged, bought, or caught, are always entered in my sedo account.

from there they are distributed to other ppc's and revenue sources as i see fit. it's my plan and my strategy, and has worked very effectively...for me.

if one can read "in-between" the lines of the contributions others have made here, then they can have a map or guideline to follow, until they see another road to take.
rather than wondering around aimlessly, trying to strike their "gold". or at least what to do with it, if they think they found some.

i guess it's healthy to have contrasting imput, as either it will or won't, lend credibility to your statements.

thanks to those who brought something to the table... whether it "tasted" good or not. :)
 

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Waiting for the "juice": the methodology, the market focus, the tools used. Otherwise it's just self-boasting and numbers that mean nothing.
 

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Biggedon, as a domainer who started off at the beginning of 2000 I appreciate your encouragement that it is possible to still pick up good traffic names that are unregged.

You are of course entirely correct when you say that there is still gold available.

I have picked up a few modest income domains by hand regging recently, but it is all rather hit and miss and not what I have been concentrating on. I think it is always good to think of alternative sources of profitable domains though.

I think system, method and tools are key to any success in this business (and sometimes luck).

I must admit that I have pretty much stuck with rather basic tools that I was using 3 to 5 years ago, but they still do a good enough job for me and let me pay the bills and invest some.

Thanks again for your valuable contribution.
 

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Try the domain typo tools provided by Domain tools.
http://www.domaintools.com/domain-typo/

choose a keyword and the tool will generate lots of typos for you.


Pick up the list and taste all those domains out.

You will surely find some money making domains.
 

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:disappointed:

I watched that 3rd grade movie once I had nothing to do :) Some metamorphosed things eat a family of 4 or 5 I think. It was quite funny though although it assumed to be a horror film.

By the way I think there is no gold etc in dar them hills anymore. While you are trying to reg traffic names you will see that one maybe lucky name only covers your reg money.

The only dar them hills is the place where some clueless people have good domains.
 

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i'm not so sure about gold, but there is definitely some silver.

i find a few pieces here and there, but at the end of the day i think i'd probably do better looking for non hand reg'd names, or developing. (i just spent 2 hours trolling through the bulk tool, reg'd 5 names. In that same time i could have built about 4 new pages for one of my sites....)

the other issue is are you looking to make money via parking now, or selling in a year or three? That is a whole nother story....
 

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i'm not so sure about gold, but there is definitely some silver.

i find a few pieces here and there, but at the end of the day i think i'd probably do better looking for non hand reg'd names, or developing. (i just spent 2 hours trolling through the bulk tool, reg'd 5 names. In that same time i could have built about 4 new pages for one of my sites....)

the other issue is are you looking to make money via parking now, or selling in a year or three? That is a whole nother story....
Not sure if the "bulk tool" is the answer. You can take a word, like 'sex' and probably come up with 10,000 suggestions. Does that mean any one or two will work and pay off in the long run?

What you will get is simply that...suggestions. No guarantee of any success. Made up words for the sake of making up words.

Many words are made up, many domains are made up words or combinations of words. But it is those words that are in print that I would rather take a chance on rather than just a bulk tool. That means if it is in print, literally in print in a magazine article, there is a good chance that others are reading it and it is garnering some exposure.

I would rather take something that I read about last night that shows promise and reg that...GeoSniff. Someone apparently read the article before me and regged the .com. I took several others. Currently there are only 48 returns on Google for this word. It will be interesting to see how this grows.

It is kinda like 2014Sochi.com. I read quite sometime back who were the top three in contention for the Winter Olympics in 2014. Regged all three sites. One would win, the others would not. On the day of the announcement, I received three separate offers. I never did check the Google results for this prior to the announcement. Very doubtful it achieved today's results of about 2,130,000 for sochi.

Much of this is just common sense. GeoSniff is a new concept, or relatively new, in search engines:

Geosniff
v. To search the Web by location, delivering regionally pertinent information to users and regionally pertinent users to advertisers.


It may become something, it may not.

And I do check the drops and get lucky (at least I think I am lucky) when I get a domain like Ski-ing.com.

Results 1 - 10 of about 39,500,000 for skiing
Results 1 - 10 of about 61,800,000 for ski-ing

The current WHOIS info is a little misleading as this name was actually regged in 2001. Not only are Google returns good, but Alexa also indexes 218,000 additional websites containing ski-ing.

I am not discounting any method of finding fresh regs. But I think there are a lot of good names out there that are indeed in the silver lining. There is some gold. Just takes a little more panning to find those nuggets.
 

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I do some of that - scan the news for new terms or terms that are becoming more popular. On the odd occasion I can actually get the .com, or a related term in the .com. More often I can get the .ca for the term, and if it makes sense for something that would be of interest to Canadians, I reg it. And like you said, some of these terms might grow and become something, and others don't.
 

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I do some of that - scan the news for new terms or terms that are becoming more popular. On the odd occasion I can actually get the .com, or a related term in the .com. More often I can get the .ca for the term, and if it makes sense for something that would be of interest to Canadians, I reg it. And like you said, some of these terms might grow and become something, and others don't.
Looking at your sig, some are no brainers. Again, if you know your market, and obviously you know your Canadian market, then that would be a logical choice to pick and choose and reg.

But I do think it may be getting harder and harder. If there is oversaturation of domain names then it may in fact be in the .com arena. That leaves some other great opportunities in the other major TLD's. Looking at my top 40 on one parking service (un-named) I see six .net, three .us, two .info and, my goodness...even a .biz! Overall, seventeen were hand regs.

I am not huge into tasting. But I do it. I may take some and see how they do. Others, speaking only in terms of fresh regs, if it is newer technology or something that I see as future trends naturally will have no traffic. So, I hang on to them a year's worth of the reg and see how they do.
oversaturation of domain names then it may in fact be in the .com arena. That leaves some other great opportunities in the other major TLD's.

My real tasting trials come with dropped domain names. Contrary to popular belief, many people believe that most dropped domains have been tasted and tasted and tasted. That is not the case for what I am looking for. I guess I have my own system. Still, I can be fooled. But if within the 4-5 day period I do not see significant numbers, it is dropped.
 

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I do some of that - scan the news for new terms or terms that are becoming more popular. On the odd occasion I can actually get the .com, or a related term in the .com. More often I can get the .ca for the term, and if it makes sense for something that would be of interest to Canadians, I reg it. And like you said, some of these terms might grow and become something, and others don't.

from reading an article in the news paper, i came up with the domain "hurricaneindex com", and registered it.

added it to sedo and in less than 2 months, the domain sold for $1500.00

i used to use "snapcheck" to browse names, but when it went to a paid service, i quit using it. at first it was very useful, but as more people browsed the same list, the competition became greater. i'd bid on a name and it would be 200 other people bidding for it too. it's the main reason why i don't use "bulk" tools systems now.

i prefer to do "keyword" research. pick a term and try to find strings or make words from them

here's a few made up terms that i've sold or still have that produce revenue:

dropfly com > made it up a couple of years ago and sold it to the now defunct "registerfly com"

callmobile com > still have and makes money, gotten offers

hiphopproductions com > still have, makes money, have gotten offers

familyhealthinsuranceplan com > made up and flipped for $900

chicagotitleinsurance com > had a couple of years, steady income

sectioneightapartment com > recent reg > 13 visits 3 clicks

compositebuildingproducts com > " " > 16 visits 1 click

bridlegown com > typo > recent reg > 15 visits 1 click

here's some goodies:
unisexspa.com 30 1 3.33% $3.18 $3.18

careerboulder.com 27 8 29.63% $0.31 $2.49
couldn't believe they were available to register when i checked them!

if you examine the names you can see the keywords which build the domain.



Looking at your sig, some are no brainers. Again, if you know your market, and obviously you know your Canadian market, then that would be a logical choice to pick and choose and reg.

But I do think it may be getting harder and harder. If there is oversaturation of domain names then it may in fact be in the .com arena. That leaves some other great opportunities in the other major TLD's. Looking at my top 40 on one parking service (un-named) I see six .net, three .us, two .info and, my goodness...even a .biz! Overall, seventeen were hand regs.

I am not huge into tasting. But I do it. I may take some and see how they do. Others, speaking only in terms of fresh regs, if it is newer technology or something that I see as future trends naturally will have no traffic. So, I hang on to them a year's worth of the reg and see how they do.
oversaturation of domain names then it may in fact be in the .com arena. That leaves some other great opportunities in the other major TLD's.

My real tasting trials come with dropped domain names. Contrary to popular belief, many people believe that most dropped domains have been tasted and tasted and tasted. That is not the case for what I am looking for. I guess I have my own system. Still, I can be fooled. But if within the 4-5 day period I do not see significant numbers, it is dropped.

tried the tasting thing, but i always forget to go back and delete after a few days. duh!

so i could be "re-regging" some of the same names that you guys are dropping :)
 

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Not sure if the "bulk tool" is the answer. You can take a word, like 'sex' and probably come up with 10,000 suggestions. Does that mean any one or two will work and pay off in the long run?

i'm not just running off and throwing words into wordtracker and praying something is available. Last night i was actually digging around an industry website (an industry that i have absolutely no clue about) and dropping things in, see what they spit out. Reg'd a few names with only 3,000 unique g results...we will see.

i also have a new method for finding names that will either make me rich or bankrupt me. check back in 6 months and I'll tell you which...
 

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i used to use "snapcheck" to browse names, but when it went to a paid service, i quit using it. at first it was very useful, but as more people browsed the same list, the competition became greater. i'd bid on a name and it would be 200 other people bidding for it too. it's the main reason why i don't use "bulk" tools systems now.

i prefer to do "keyword" research. pick a term and try to find strings or make words from them
Snapcheck (snapchek??) was an excellent free service. ClickMojo also. I can not recall how much Snapcheck is. ClickMojo is $99.00 a month. Neither, in my opinion, were worth the fees on a monthly basis. The "old" DomainsBot was also a yearly fee service, the only one I ever joined, and it went WAY down hill. Would not update for a couple of weeks at times.

Some of your keyword selections and hand regs are nice. Usually that is all it takes...reading and having that DING DING DING go off. You rush to the computer and check the status.

I am not one big on celebrities as they are in the news then they are history. The same with tragedy related events. I stay away from them. I look for ones that I think will have staying power and longevity. In otherwords, a long shelf life.

And those triple digit and 4 digit sales in a few months time from a hand reg are pretty sweet.

But I also have some that are consistently making several hundred dollars a month.

Yes, I have the dogs also.

Overall, a decent thread and helpful to some who are still mining the fresh regs.

i also have a new method for finding names that will either make me rich or bankrupt me. check back in 6 months and I'll tell you which...
:eek: Don't do that.
 
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