If you notice the top prices at expired auctions this year you notice one clearly emerging trend. The top prices have been more and more names with juice. By juice I mean history and strong backlinks. Names that will forward some of that authority and traffic to a site that could use it. The value of that has been confirmed in the prices. If Google didn’t give that any credit then there is no way people would pay 5 figures for what on the surface seems like a bad name. They pay because it adds 5 figures worth of value to their site.
The problem with all of this is myself and most others have no idea what names are more valuable than others. Some may tell you they know but rather than buy them and sell them to people that can use it, they sell you a service that will tell you what names to buy. If they are buying some for themselves as an investment it makes sense. Because nobody has enough capital to buy every name they see as “good”. I would be buying 95% of the names on my list if I had endless capital. I buy what I can afford and what seems like the best buys in my price range. But I have no idea what names to buy as far as offering juice. Because of this I’ve stuck to plant and garden related historic names and geo located around my town. Those are in my wheelhouse and I actually use them. The others, I’m not sure I would know how to sell them to people that can use them and be convincing. Anyone have some history and examples of reselling names with a history?
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DomainOutlet.com Being auctioned by Intelend that was owned by Page Howe. Great name to sell domains but does make them sound on the cheap side
PLKS.com Its been great to watch Uniregistry fill the coffers with LLLL.com. They sold 1000 in bulk for four figures each and have been buying them back for half the amount over the course of the last few years since. That’s why Frank has a jet
Par3Golf.com Some say its the future of golf
RCade.com Pretty awesome name for an online arcade
AquaMist.com A cool drink of water….or spray
PBLR.com R for realty
iCoaches.com Remote coaching is the future.
OpenParking.com Not sure what you would do with it but selling your personal parking spots for events is fantastic. I use it all the time in Chicago
WWRK.com WeWork. What a clusterfuck that IPO was
BeachFlair.com Upgrade name for a festival and a couple of other entities’
MuleSaw.com I don’t know what a mule saw is but it sounds like a beer so I like it
Tiight.com Not just tight but tiight. 14 years old
WeLiveIt.com Marketing name all the way
GemLoan.com Can’t afford a wedding ring ?
Godaddy Domains With Multiple Bids
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CGIHouston.org The four names below are all examples of “juicy” names. Tons of history and backlinks. But the prices are pretty big. This is at $7K and XFire is already at $20K. XFire better bring the fire for $20K. Could be higher by the time this comes out
Chi.info and few good dot info today. It always starts with a good keyword
Inventory.info This is the other nice on. Especially if you have an inventory management tool
Blapp.com The kind of name I’ve been buying for 12 years. Although paying 12 times what I used to pay as well.
RunBare.com A name from the days of the fad of barefoot running. If you want to continue a site devoted to this there isn’t probably a better name out there
FY6.com LLN has been a good storage of wealth
Design3d.com This would have been 5 figures back during the 3D craze. Followed by the 3D printer phase, followed by the dot info phase, followed by the Chinese phase, followed by the……………
QuickGold.com Exudes get rich quick
AmpleStorage.com Sounds like there is going to be plenty of room
BabySwimmer.com If you’ve had a kid you know the importance of getting them into the water as soon as you can
Beeca.com Another 5L I really like
BlankMe.com Long for “Fuck Me”
FruitSlinger.com What I would call my fruit stand
SplitEnd.com some are going to like this but I think its Split Ends or nothing
JumpShop.com I learned never get refurbished parachutes here
JazzMusicians.com A build out ready and waiting
GlobalProgram.com 4 billion results for global program
SunShow.com I though solar when I see it but some companies using it for all different types of businesses
RooftopEnergy.com Where most home solar energy is created
Godaddy Domains With One Or No Bids
The Rest of the Godaddy Names With Bids
3TravelBloggers.com
712555.com
84695.com
91948.com
99430.com
AdrenalSurgery.com
ArcticNow.com
AtlasTechNG.com
BFCentral.net
BooksPersonally.com
cmkrnl.com
CompTelaScent.org
DucatiSuite.com
ElevateBrands.com
ExploreMortimerCountry.com
FieldInvestigators.com
FirestarterPyrography.com
GiuseppesItalian.com
gr-keibayosou.com
HackEducate.com
Hao168.com
HealingQuest.com
HeathersWebDesign.com
HomeInspection.info
InterweaveKnits.com
isri2019.org
kumpreschool.com
Lajmpress.com
Lawdable.com
Lean.info
MedfordDentist.net
Merbist.com
MontevalloArtsCouncil.org
MPLSIndiExpo.com
MyLoveStory.com
MyServerProject.net
Overstream.net
ParentMe.com
PartyBoothApp.com
PremierResidential.com
purrfectcatdiet.com
Rezimo.com
RowingEquipment.com
Sekchek.com
ShipOrSheep.com
SilverDecoyWinery.com
SimonTonTexas.org
snowymtndev.com
SoleSinc.com
SteelCityMovers.com
talklikeaphysicist.com
TechMediaNetwork.com
TheColbyEcho.com
TheCraftRoom.com
UmbriaBest.com
vertetsable.com
VietnamWineTours.com
VoyagerMedia.com
WaitingForLightningTheMovie.com
WaterInnovations.org
WeatherPages.com
WeavervsWorld.com
wpsl.info
wwwmcdvoice.com
Ziyuan5.com
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Shane, I want to thank you for giving suggestions to improve GoDaddy on the Domain Name Wire podcast! Now, I only have to sign in once to get into GoDaddy auctions …you have saved me a ton of time. I just thought it was me and how I was trying to sign into the site. I think GoDaddy was listening and made the change.
On today’s topic, I have to admit I have done this. I bought an 1997-name at GoDaddy auction, went to archive dot org, used the old pages, kept the site up for a few months, added some content, and then sold it on Flippa. Didn’t make a ton of money but the process worked.
Mark,
Thank Andrew. It was his idea although maybe spurred by my constant tweets about it. Either way we got it done. Thanks for reading every day
Shane, great list as usual. I was recently on the DNW podcast talking about expired domains with history/authority. It’s an interesting sub-category of domain investing for sure.
I’m not sure how successfully people are flipping these domains, as it’s not as traditionally valuable as a strong brand (and the people paying for these domains are not well-funded startups, typically, but people running a portfolio of sites looking for a leg up here and there. Budgets much lower, in general. That’s my experience anyway.
One last thing–I would caution anyone here from buying Pet-Super-Store.com — it got demolished by a Google update in 2011, and it’s not going to be as valuable as the other domains with authority. (source: https://moz.com/ugc/recovery-from-google-penguin-tips-from-the-trenches)
Sean,
Thanks for chiming in . You know the backlink domains as well as anyone so I appreciate the heads up