Am I the only one frustrated by

by Dexx

Posted: 13 years ago 15 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Am I the only one frustrated by all the domain companies that sit on millions of domain names just to sell them?

I swear I've spent the last hour trying hundreds of different domain names that I thought were completely obscure...only to find that each one is "for sale" by some domain selling website.

I even tried Nameboy.com without much luck!

Anyone have any other suggested resources for brainstorming domain names?

I'm trying to keep it to 3 words since I'll be using PPC and want the domain name to have a /[keyword] in the ad...

~Dexx

#frustrated

Michael Shook 13 years ago

I have pretty good luck using domainsbot dot com for finding domain names. They have two suggestion modes. The first one just does the exact words you typed in with the big 6 tlds.

But you can also go to their main site and get lots of suggestions.
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Big Al 13 years ago

I also hate the companies that send you a letter to remind your that your domain is expiring... when the renewal fee is about double what you originally paid.

Only to find out later than they weren't actually the ppl you actually bought the domain.
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anatoly14 Banned 13 years ago

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- Dan C. Rinnert 13 years ago
  
  You know what you don't see? People who registered a domain for $10 complaining that someone bought it from them for hundreds or even thousands of dollars.
  
  The thing is that someone else beat you to registering a name. What they do with it is their business.
  
  I have domains I registered that don't currently have a site on them. I registered every one of them with the intention of building a site on them. In the meantime, if someone comes along and offers me a decent price, I'll sell it.
  
  But, by "decent", I don't mean fifty bucks or something ridiculous like that. LOL.
  
  Originally Posted by anatoly14
  
  Not to high jack the thread but, does google penalize you for long domain names? For example if your domain name is 4 words?
  
  No.
  
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HelpingYouBeAnExpert 13 years ago

99.99% of domains are owned with no site just for resale, that is life it doesn't stop us from making money.
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- Cool Hand Luke 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by HelpingYouBeAnExpert
  
  99.99% of domains are owned with no site just for resale, that is life it doesn't stop us from making money.
  
  :rolleyes:
  This is absolutely, 100% FALSE. Care to share where you got this ridiculous statistic?
  
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MatthewNeer 13 years ago

Ya I feel ya dude, thats always a B*TCH when you find something tight and they want like 5Gs for it.

I like to use Domain Name Search

Helps me find available stuff really quick, maybe it can help you too.
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Sheryl Polomka

13 years ago

I know how frustrating it is. One of my best websites is a .net site and I would love the .com but it is taken and is just a parked site. That really frustrates me when I could be using that domain and it is just sitting there doing nothing!

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Fraggler

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Sheryl Polomka

Just contact them and make an offer. The parking page will usually lead you to a for sale page somewhere. You can do it through there. If the site isn't making them any more while parked then you might be able to get a bargain.

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txconx 13 years ago

This blog post might help you get some understanding: Myth of the domain name "queue of one".

IMO, getting pissy because someone got there before you demonstrates a lack of basic business sense.
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- davezan 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by txconx
  
  IMO, getting pissy because someone got there before you demonstrates a lack of basic business sense.
  
  Or just sourgraping. I'm pissed at my neighbor not doing anything with his empty
  lot but not selling it to me, considering I want to put up a condo there.
  
  It happens.
  
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Web Tempest 13 years ago

I'm kind of surprised it's still possible to get any decent domain names considering they are only $10/year - technically couldn't a big company could just buy every single domain name (with proper words from the dictionary) and create a semi-monopoly?
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sbucciarel Banned 13 years ago

Domaining is just as much a viable method of making money online as is your use would be for the domains that have been registered as an investment.

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You can find some good recently dropped domain names at freshdrop.net. I recently found a great domain name doing some keyword research using Market Samurai and then checking on the available domains in that program. They're around.
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stingrays06 13 years ago

You could always go with something brandable that has at least one keyword in it. If you think about it, people tend to remember those domains a lot more than keyword.com.
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Deltia 13 years ago

Sure it can be frustrating sometimes but in this fast moving business first come first served applies in this case. The fact that someone is looking for the domain means that it was a good choice of purchase.
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omk 13 years ago

I wouldn't use any site to brainstorm names. I remember not too long ago, I used a registrar and it turned out that every domain I queried, it put a hold on. So I couldn't go somewhere else for example and register it. I would have to go back to them. I think this practice is regulated now, but that was annoying. The domain space, especially for .coms is finite and sooner or later, the good names and combinations all get scooped up. More and more the secondary market is becoming harder not to deal with.
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