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bartosimpsonio

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This may be the oldest trick in the game, but it's something that just happened to me for the first time.

I'm brainstorming domain names for a client.

I search for any existing word and it shows up as premium. Even crazy words.

This thing is looking up a dictionary and it's charging hundreds of dollars for domains based on their CPC keyword value. Regular reg fee for one gTLD is like 28 bucks or something, it's asking for 400 bucks.

I just checked whois and the domains I was prospecting aren't registered.

It's charging some multiple of KW CPC price.

We live in interesting times. How much would the first registration of money.com cost in 2020?
 
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A bit of topic, but I pre-registered a lot of 1-word .CO domains in the past and sold most of them for over $1000.
Generic COM domain names have been always super expensive. Money.com? I'd say it'd be sold for $5-$10 MILLION nowadays for sure.
 
Sam Zadworny said:
Money.com? I'd say it'd be sold for $5-$10 MILLION nowadays for sure.
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Not before it was first registered for the first time.

Someone paid like U$ 90 for money.com back in the day. It was the Network Solutions registration fee before low cost registrars.
 
I was always wondering about this too, like if it doesn't belong to anyone at the moment, who dictate the price, and qualify it as permium? why are those name not just taken years ago. very curios.

and its very exaggerated too, like sometimes i get a .Net suggested for 2000$ saying its premium, and its like a 12L 2 words.
 
bartosimpsonio said:
Not before it was first registered for the first time.

Someone paid like U$ 90 for money.com back in the day. It was the Network Solutions registration fee before low cost registrars.
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Well, obviously :) I'm talking about the price someone would pay for the money.com today.
 
SocialEyez said:
I was always wondering about this too, like if it doesn't belong to anyone at the moment, who dictate the price, and qualify it as permium? why are those name not just taken years ago. very curios.

and its very exaggerated too, like sometimes i get a .Net suggested for 2000$ saying its premium, and its like a 12L 2 words.
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There are whole companies having literally 1000s of domains and they usually put those crazy prices. I assume they want to cover the cost of all other domains they have :D
 
I know how it works and it works in a syndicate of domain providers.

what happens you search for a domain if that domain is of value the provider flogs it to a holding domain provider and it priced.

this has been going on for years all domain providers are involved.

because it sold to agency holders it not classed as illegal.

infact the pll are doing there research for them .

if you buy the domain then it yours,
but once you leave the website the domain gets bought by a domain agency to hold.

you then can buy the domain thu the agency.

because these agency are all different registered business not classed as illegal.

in reality it deception to the people .

it big business taking advantage of the people.
 
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Sam Zadworny said:
There are whole companies having literally 1000s of domains and they usually put those crazy prices. I assume they want to cover the cost of all other domains they have :D
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Nope. Those are NOT registered domains, that are considered premium by the registrars and they ask crazy money. The domains are not owned by anyone, but whoever operate the domain extension as whole.
 
AngelSeo said:
Nope. Those are NOT registered domains, that are considered premium by the registrars and they ask crazy money. The domains are not owned by anyone, but whoever operate the domain extension as whole.
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Exactly this.

I was doing a similar task a few months back like OP. It was. Pain.

Anything half decent you came up with was already either registered (in the smaller percentage of cases) or priced as premium. And these were combinations of absolutely basic words without any buyer intent or cpc value.

They probably have some kind of an estimator, based on both cpc value of the keyword and on how common the words is.

The golden era of SEO has been gone for a while now. Now we have to work with whatever has been left.
 
AngelSeo said:
Nope. Those are NOT registered domains, that are considered premium by the registrars and they ask crazy money. The domains are not owned by anyone, but whoever operate the domain extension as whole.
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Wow, is this even legal? Domains in Godaddy may look like that, but Godaddy display domains from their marketplace - those domains are actually owned by other people.
 
I sold one adult domain with good searches for $150, my best domain sale ever :) Bart you need to try .io domains, they are beautiful.
 
Sam Zadworny said:
Wow, is this even legal? Domains in Godaddy may look like that, but Godaddy display domains from their marketplace - those domains are actually owned by other people.
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Of course its legal. You bid at ICAAN to operate say .blabla domains - you pay whatever they ask and them are pretty much free to define your pricing, including for premium domains.
 
Nut-Nights said:
I sold one adult domain with good searches for $150, my best domain sale ever :) Bart you need to try .io domains, they are beautiful.
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Yep, .io are pretty popular right now, many SaaS software and affiliate marketing products are on .io domain now.
 
That how the registrar/provider make money and give back to the public with crazy sale price for some tld or gtld extension. If they don't play that game right now, they will dead pooled.
 
When I was registering my first domain, I had 4-5 names in mind but all of them were marked as premium. I got irritated and checked for kw + shit -dot-com. They are showing it as premium domain too as shit is a popular word :eek:
 
Pavan Teja 1 said:
When I was registering my first domain, I had 4-5 names in mind but all of them were marked as premium. I got irritated and checked for kw + shit -dot-com. They are showing it as premium domain too as shit is a popular word :eek:
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I found that they can't detect word combinations. This is definitely dictionary + CPC based.

Many possibilities for creative names.
 
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