JeremyM

Good post, there is a big risk and reward to buying those middle of the road domains you mentioned. I find usually they will be worth what I put into them. I think by now most of us know that any domain can rank for anything. I think the big issue right now is that the market is saturated with domainers and wannabe affiliates that have a decent domain maybe worth $100-$200 in actually value (not sentimental value) and they think it is worth in the $XXXX's because they like it.

The funny thing is that IF they would spend a month or so developing the site they actually would be worth a nice price. Many times they throw up some pages, do some LE's, and think they can flip them for a huge profit. Most of the time we all just laugh a little inside.

I think we can all agree the easy domains are gone, but by checking out the domain drop type websites you can find some gems still for a reasonable price. Better yet, there is still some very good domains still unregistered or that people forget to renew. I recently picked up two great rakeback domains which I'm working hard on. They get natural traffic and within the first month is is one of my most promising sites.

What I found most interesting is it was just by accident I even found the domain unregistered at godaddy. Yeah I typed it in to see if it was available and BOOM it was lol. I still shake my head in amazement that it was unregistered. Of course this is the .net and .org, but I'm still very happy paying $18 for a site that gives me a quick ROI. BTW might as well drop a link to it because it will be my main site by the years end I think. Online Poker Rakeback

So I guess what I'm rambling about is that there is still some very good unregistered domains. MJ is a great example of someone who picked up hundreds of killer domains just sitting there. You just have too look and know WHAT to look for.

OnlinePokerRakeback.net and org were available? That's crazy I never picked those up lol....(wish I had, that's a sick domain set!)

I recently picked up LimitPoker.org, OnlinePokerDownloads.com (and all other extensions) and BlackjackSite.org for reg fee - and that was just in the last two weeks. Plenty still left out there.

I would still pay a lot for a domain that had a large number of exact match volume though, that's the elusive ones and those are the domains that can pick up hefty cash (if anyone has one for sale PM me).

Originally Posted by Randy

Good post, there is a big risk and reward to buying those middle of the road domains you mentioned. I find usually they will be worth what I put into them. I think by now most of us know that any domain can rank for anything. I think the big issue right now is that the market is saturated with domainers and wannabe affiliates that have a decent domain maybe worth $100-$200 in actually value (not sentimental value) and they think it is worth in the $XXXX's because they like it.

So how do you know what the domains are actually worth? I have a 2 word .org poker domain that gets 400,000 searches per month according to google. and should convert players (i.e it is not pokerchips.org). I also have for an example word-word.com which gets 100,000 searches per month (obviously as word word).
Unfortunately I cant post the domains here right now, but could I expect low five figures for the first one and four figures for the second?

Originally Posted by laptopacc

So how do you know what the domains are actually worth? I have a 2 word .org poker domain that gets 400,000 searches per month according to google. and should convert players (i.e it is not pokerchips.org). I also have for an example word-word.com which gets 100,000 searches per month (obviously as word word).

I don't have experience in selling domains, so I'm not sure how to value you them from a selling standpoint.

Is that search volume using the Google Adwords Keyword Tool with the "Exact" match type selected? Just to give you an idea, that tool shows "poker" at 673,000 and "online poker" at 165,000 searches per month (and if anything I'd say this tool reads quite high in most terms).

It's also a good idea to use multiple tools to see what they all say about a specific keyword to help give you an idea. Another great tool is Keyword Discovery.

Haha. With the exact the 400,000 became 6000 and 100,000 became 20,000.

Wow MJ,

blackjacksite is a sick one, nice pick up ma man.

Seb

I know I made a mistake not rapping up all the domains I could that were similar to Poker Bonus Codes.