With over sixty million domains out there already registered, it can be daunting to try to find the right domain — one that will drive quality traffic to your Website or parked domain. But how can you ensure you’re making the right decision when you purchase registered and expired domains? Do your research and you’ll feel confident in your purchase.

*Trackers/Direct Methods *Predictors/Indirect Methods *Traffic Source The educated buyer always comes out ahead so read the following to unlock the mysteries of domain traffic and learn how to determine scientifically if a domain is really worth the price.

.Trackers/Direct Methods… Ideally, you could skip all of the guesswork and find out how much traffic a domain receives directly from the domain owner. The easiest way to do this is simply to ask the seller. However, the seller may make a mistake (or simply be dishonest), so it’s always a good idea to double-check the numbers using one or more of the following methods.

Trackers/Direct Methods Ideally, you could skip all of the guesswork and find out how much traffic a domain receives directly from the domain owner. The easiest way to do this is simply to ask the sellers about it. However, the seller may make mistakes (or simply be dishonest), so it’s always a good idea to double-check the numbers using one or more of the following methods.

Parked Domains…If a domain name is parked, the parking program may make traffic statistics available automatically through the domain’s sales listing page. For example, at the time this article was written, the traffic attracted by the parked domain, and a replica watches could be viewed on the domain’s sale page.

Parked Domains…If a domain name is parked, the parking program may make traffic statistics available automatically through the domain’s sales listing page. For example, at the time this article was written, the traffic attracted by the parked domain, and a uk website could be viewed on the domain’s sale page.

.Predictors/Indirect Methods…What should you do if a domain is not parked and the owner will not or cannot provide you with visitor statistics? Fortunately, a few handy tricks can be used to help you get a rough indication of whether or not a domain receives any traffic.

Predictors/Indirect Methods…What should you do if a domain is not parked and the seller is unable or unwilling to provide you with visitor statistics? Fortunately, a few handy tricks can be used to help you get a rough indication of whether or not a domain receives any traffic.

.Alexa.com…Alexa ranks web sites based on the number of visitors they receive. For example, at the time this article was written, Yahoo.com ranked first, while blue.com ranked at 212,093 and camera.com at 717,298. These rankings are based on data derived from Alexa’s toolbar users. Translating these numbers into unique views, skechy.com received over 10,000 unique views in the month of Sept. while all4uk.com received over 70,000 uniques. (Statistics source: Sedo.com).

Many high-traffic domain names will receive an Alexa ranking just from their type-in traffic. In general, an Alexa ranking under 1,000,000 for an undeveloped site is a good indicator that the domain receives decent traffic (e.g. several thousand monthly uniques). Rankings over a million are less reliable, but usually any sort of Alexa ranking means the domain receives at least some traffic. As with all of these methods, Alexa should be used as a guideline only: sometimes even domains for which Alexa returns “No Data” (too low to rank) will still receive traffic. Ranking.com offers a tool that’s similar to Alexa’s.

Many high-traffic domain names will receive an Alexa ranking just from their type-in traffic. In general, an Alexa ranking under 1,000,000 for an undeveloped site is a good indicator that the domain receives decent traffic (e.g. several thousand monthly uniques). Rankings over a million are less reliable, but usually any sort of Alexa ranking means the domain receives at least some traffic. As with all of these methods, Alexa should be used as a guideline only: sometimes even domains for which Alexa returns ‘No Data’ (too low to rank) will still receive traffic. Ranking.com offers a tool that’s similar to Alexa’s.

So of course, a domain name that contains a highly-searched keyword is more likely to receive traffic. However, the Overture Tool’s usefulness goes beyond that: if you use the exact domain name (with extension) as the keyword, Overture results can be used as a predictor for whether or not a domain name receives traffic. For example, “Yahoo.com” was searched over 11 million times in September, according to Overture. Our comparison sites fared as follows: “Blue.com” was searched 794 times, while “Camera.com” was searched 258 times.

Research has shown that Overture searches do sometimes have a rough correlation with traffic (especially type-in traffic), but as with other methods, there are many exceptions to the rule.

Traffic Source…If you are wanting to better understand something, go to the source. This aphorism applies to domain traffic just as well as it does to other information. Thus, in addition to using the above methods to guesstimate the quantity of traffic a given domain receives, you may want to use these techniques to try to determine the source of that traffic.

Link Popularity…A web site or formerly-developed domain name may receive traffic from old incoming links and directory listings. There are many online tools for checking link popularity; Marketleap.com offers one of the best tools.

Link Popularity…A web site or formerly-developed domain name may receive traffic from old incoming links and directory listings. There are many online tools for checking link popularity; Marketleap.com offers one of the best tools.

The important thing to look for here is not the quantity of links, but their quality. A single link from a major web site may be worth thousands of links from smaller sites. The longevity of link traffic varies widely: a link from a news article may generate a storm of steady traffic that lasts only a week, while a directory listing may continue to generate steady traffic for years. Another similar tool worth checking out is URLtrends.com.

Search Engine Listings…Search engine listings are a major source of traffic for many sites. You can guesstimate how much search engine-derived traffic a web site receives by looking at its “search engine saturation”. This is an indicator of how often the domain appears in the various search engine indexes. Again, Marketleap.com offers an excellent tool for evaluating search engine saturation.

Just keep in mind that it’s also important to look at how high the site is listed and how often the keyword is searched. And don’t forget that search engine listings change frequently, so if this is the primary source of traffic, expect fluctuations!

Without access to the logs, it can be difficult to determine if a domain is receiving paid traffic, but a savvy domain buyer will look for a few key pieces of evidence: do the domain statistics align with the Alexa ranking and the number of incoming links? For example, a domain that receives a couple hundred views a day, and has no Alexa ranking and very few incoming links from low-traffic sites may likely receive paid traffic. But don’t discount such domains out of hand: they may be receiving typo traffic (see below for more information) or may be a seasonal domain (such as one related to the World Series).

Expired Traffic…If a domain was formerly developed, some users may continue to visit because of old links and references, or simply because they remember the domain name. This traffic may continue for years, but naturally, it decreases with time.

If it’s not possible to speak with the current owner about the past development of the site, a few simple searches can help. In particular, use the hints above to examine the types of sites that link to the domain. With that information, you may be able to get some idea of the type of traffic that’s visiting the domain in search of old content. After the content is removed, many of the links will be updated or removed and this traffic will eventually dwindle or expire.

Typos -n- Variations…Don’t ignore traffic that’s diverted to the domain name as a result of typos from other high traffic sites. Check out the traffic that flows to similar or mistyped domains using the tools above. Also consider traffic generated from variations of names, such as an abbreviated form of your domain name, or an acronym. If these domains experience high volumes of visitors, there is a possibility that this will translate to high traffic levels for similar sites.

.Typos -n- Variations…Don’t ignore traffic that’s diverted to the domain name as a result of typos from other high traffic sites. Check out the traffic that flows to similar or mistyped domains using the tools above. Also consider traffic generated from variations of names, such as an abbreviated form of your domain name, or an acronym. If these domains experience high volumes of visitors, there is just as much of a possibility that this will translate to high traffic levels for similar sites.

Find the Right Domain…Traffic is crucial for any revenue generating business on the Web. Finding the right domain with targeted traffic can take your business — and profits — to new heights. If you haven’t quite had the time to build that web site, simply park your domains, let your parking company place relevant advertisements on the domains’ pages, and sit back and monetize the traffic. Use the tools listed above to determine domain traffic and never make a wrong buying decision again.

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I think that some domain registration companies are stealing good domain name ideas that people checking but do not purchase.

Although it has never affected me but I would like to bring it up because I was telling my friend not to look on any domain name until he has decided to register. My friend asked me why?

I explain to him that I think some domain registration companies having someone dedicated to scooping up good domain name ideas that many people look up but did not buy. The expenses is cheap as it would only cost like $10 an hour to hire someone to sit in front of a computer and screen through the domain names which could potentially be worth thousands or even millions.

Perhaps the good domain names get put on a list to be registered in a few days if they have not already been? Even if they only get a small percentage of them I am always paranoid about it. However I am always high and paranoid or maybe this is common knowledge and my worries were right all along?

I ever heard that in the market, Network solution and DomainTools were known to do this. If you queried any unregistered domains it would automatically register the domain if it was unregistered. Not sure if they do this anymore but I’m almost positive it still goes on. Accredited registrars have something where they can register a domain for like 72 hours and drop them if they aren’t getting traffic or inquires on them for pennies on the domain.

My friend told me that actually this has been discussed at length on some of the domain forums and the consensus was that yes, many of the domain registrars do (or at least did) grab your searches if you do not register them. Quite upset basically. So I have stayed away from doing searches from those registrars. Godaddy has been pretty good for searching but I haven’t had any swiped there.

The other friend told me that it did happened to him earlier this year. He got his domain name steal away by checkdomain.com. Thus what he advice is better stay away from checkdomain.com as they are a register.com partner.

Until now, we know that there is an entire industry of companies that snap up unregistered domains in bulk that unsuspecting users submit to sites like checkdomain.com to see if they’re available.

Perhaps in the past if you are using “chuck’s domain depot .com” or something where that is the purpose of the site but there are so many queries now that it does not make any sense to. They make enough money off of holding on to expired domains that they do not need to focus on random searches.

On that note, you might noticed that 1and1 will re-register some of your domains (in their own name) that you have through them if you turn the auto-renew off just before it expires. Then they just park these domain names with Sedo. This may be a glitch because a lot of the domain names that you let expire isn’t going to be bought by anyone else.

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It will list out all the domain names that going to expired and drop out for sales soon. It even got list out the price of each domain.

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