Surprising domains
I picked up an expired domain yesterday using snapnames.com. I had fully researched the domain, checked the linkpop and all sites that had backlinks pointing to the domain. Estimated traffic going to and coming from these websites that linked to the domain. The domain has zero overture with the extension, 28 links pointing to it from websites that seem to have little or no traffic on the surface, no listing in yahoo, a position of between 25-50 for most related search terms, zero overture without the extension, no dmoz listing, but did have an alexa ranking of under 200,000. I decided to take a chance on the domain, expecting a small loss for the years revenue by parking it at a ppc search engine, but hoping that the small traffic would convert well. I backordered the domain at pool, enom, namewinner and snapnames. I picked up the domain for a total cost of $60 since their were no other people involved in the domain auction.
Today I was surprised after the dns fully propogated. The domain recieved over 500 unique visitors today, and earned $23.17 at domain sponsor. I guess this goes to show that you can research an expired domain or expiring domain, but never truly know what kind of return it will produce. Some people register domains everyday purely based on the overture with the extension, and get burned, some register domains based on linkpop and get burned. 99% of the time a domain with supporting stats over a broad spectrum of resources will result in a great return on your investment, but sometime you are pleasantly surprised as I was today.
May 6th, 2005 at 10:11 pm
I think people are over paying for OVT+ext domains right now, and your case here shows that there are some great traffic domains that aren’t in OVT. I’ve been dissapointed with some OVT domains I’ve purchased recently, and very happy with domains that only had backlinks and no type-ins according to OVT.
By the way, I don’t think your trackback function is working properly.