bluewidgets.com
greenwidgets.com
redwidgets.com or
yellowwidgets.com
received the most direct type-in requests.
Any suggestions for such a tool will be appreciated.
FarmBoy
Any lessor tool than what I just described is . . well . . a) likely a waste of time; b) seriously overpriced for the (alleged) benefit; c) IF is actually works it is being used by so many people that any one person's chance of coming out ahead approaches nil.
Save your money, time and effort. Use your head, not a publicly avaialable tool. Study demographics. Study emerging trends in society, business, entertainment, technology, etc. Study new or emerging market interests. Stay away from trademarks. Think and read. If you take the thinking man's/woman/s approach chances are you will turn up some carbon chunks that time will turn into diamonds.
FWIW, I just spend the last 2= months playing in the local search realm, an area that I played in back in 1999 - but in a very myopic, yet still very profitable way. Had expanded my registration efforts to take on other markets than just my home State I'd likely be retired on PPC income right about now.
Think about the future, with emphasis on think - not some tool for the masses. Your edge is in your thinking and ability to grasp the future, not some mass access tool. Don't play the game like everyone else is playing the game. There's no advantage in that. Zip. Besides, any tool that is on the market is likely small potatoes - all hype, little substance.
IMHO, there's still a few opportunities in the local search realm, mostly as a result of SMBs/SMEs being a bit slow on the uptake of their future marketing. However, I've been tooting that horn publicly for awhile so I'm certain there are others now digging in the bins. Don't wait.
[edited by: Webwork at 6:30 pm (utc) on July 29, 2006]
If you want to use such a tool in an effort to find type-in domains that you will then register for yourself I'm not hesitant to say that you're waaaaay too late to the game. The latest and best tool is "traffic "tasting", which practice test literally millions of domain names each week for evidence of type-in traffic. The players in the area register 100s of 1000s of domains each day and then let them lapse in the absence of evidence of traffic.
That might be the case for .com's and the likes but I've found that some ccTLD's have unregistered domain names that get 10+ hits a day from type-ins. Sure, that's not enough to make millions, but it can be enough to cover more than the yearly registration fees.
Sorry, I don't have any tools to find such domains, and I'd be very weary of any web-based tools doing that since the hosts of the tools might borrow a few of your ideas.
