Domain Flipping

Hello everyone, i do hope you are having a successful week and keeping positive.

I was kindly experimenting with domain flipping as a side hobby. I know this can be lucrative if you pick niche keywords that could be valuable to businesses. For instance newyorkfinance as a domain. I please wondered what tools you can use to research how valuable a domain or keywords would be before buying a domain please to help ensure the domains will be worth something in the future? If anyone kindly had time to get back to me i would be forever grateful, it would really mean the world to me.

Thank you so much for your time and for reading my post. Wishing you a great day ahead. All the very best.

 

Hi,
I wanted to do that a few years ago. I was sitting on a 3 letter domain for 6 years, then put it up for sale, sold it at cost. One week later I got an offer for 2x the sell price from sedo.com (the site was listed there and forgot to take it down).
I assume there are sites that list recent sales and the guy who wanted to buy it, was looking there and wanted to snatch it..

I do think that now it's too late to start selling domains (I mean to buy good ones cheaply).
Your domain name is OK, but Google doesn't rank keyword sites better for 10 years now...

There are a lot of "domain appraisal" tools online, just google that. Estibot is the oldest and most accurate? one, but if you appraise the same domain on 10 services, you'll get 5 different answers.. some probably just copy paste the value from other sites...

 

You may want to check this out if you're looking for a bulk domain appraisal tool.

 

To start domain flipping you should buy many domains and then sell it, but when it comes to profit, you better choose them carefully you want to buy for cheap price and then sell it for more.

 

There are several tools available that can help you determine the value of a domain before buying it. Some of the popular ones are:

1. GoDaddy Domain Appraisal: GoDaddy is a well-known domain registrar, and they offer a domain appraisal service that provides an estimated value for your domain based on market data.
   
   
2. NameBio: NameBio is a website that provides historical sales data for domain names. You can use it to search for similar domains and see what they have sold for in the past.
   
   
3. EstiBot: EstiBot is another domain appraisal tool that uses a variety of metrics to determine a domain's value, including search volume, keyword popularity, and domain age.
   
   
4. Google Keyword Planner: Google Keyword Planner is a free tool that can help you determine the popularity of a particular keyword or phrase. This can give you an idea of how much demand there is for your domain name.
   
   
5. SEMrush: SEMrush is a paid tool that provides keyword research and competitive analysis. You can use it to find similar domains and see how they rank in search engine results.
   

It's important to remember that no tool can accurately predict the exact value of a domain, as its worth ultimately depends on the buyer's perceived value. However, using these tools can give you a general idea of the potential value of a domain and help you make a more informed decision before making a purchase.

 

First, I would suggest to learn as much as you can about domain name flipping, it is not very easy to do. Use keyword research tools to see how many people search per month for a particular phrase. But also look at google trends to spot new opportunities, and read the news to know about new things coming out. For example, the domains with the ai extension are very popular nowadays, I also bought my first one not long ago. They are very pricey though..

 

I would urge you to stay away from buying first-time registered keyword domain names. It's a poor business model and you would probably sit on them for years if they ever sold at all. You'd want to stick to Brandable names if you're set on this kind of side hustle, like Google, Yahoo, names that are brandable. The current/future of ranking is in building a Brand.

The best business model in Domain Names is buying/selling Aged Domains with high authority backlinks. Backlinks from sites like Forbes, Wikipedia, Bussiness Insider, BBC, Huffington Post, etc. These domains are actually worth something as these kind of backlinks aren't easy/cheap to attain. People use these aged domains to create new websites or 301 redirect them to their current money site for SEO purposes. If done properly they work very well.

For examples of aged domains checkout serp.domains or odys.global

 

In fact, it's not worth it. All domains with good keywords or short valuable names are already taken and in use or for sale as premium domains. Most start-ups will not pay extra for a premium domain. They check domain availability at the stage of choosing a company name and if .com is not available, they choose another extension or slightly change the company name to one that is available. Old domains with history and backlinks are also not a good investment, because people want to create their own "footprint" and backlinks to their actual business without misleading Google results associating their domain with what it was used for in the past.

Back in the day, people thought of buying domains as an investment because they knew that demand would grow and the availability of good names would shrink, but they didn't foresee that more and more suffixes will be added. The tools may mislead you by suggesting that the domain has some crazy value, but it is a virtual value. There's no guarantee that you'll ever sell it, when or for how much (and you'll make a loss every year by paying for renewal). Remember, a domain is only worth as much as people are willing to pay for it.