The domain name isn't going to be obviously interesting to any automated process as it isn't a word or combination of words. It isn't that short either.
From reading this board, and other forums, it looks like domain tasters pick up almost all (or perhaps all) sites, taste them for five days, and drop them probably to be tasted again.
So if the site I am interested in generates more than $6.95 in parking traffic in a year a taster will buy it. Is that right?
I am also concerned that back ordering, say with snapnames, just has a random chance of picking the name up when it is first deleted. I have heard of other people back ordering, failing for the first drop, and getting it after 5 or 10 days. The implication to me is that back ordering won't get you a site that generates $6.95 in traffic as it will probably go to a 'parker'. But I'd like to hear I am wrong!
it isn't a word or combination of words. It isn't that short either.
modartis - I dunno the answer to your specific question. Others here likely have more information.
I do know what I would do -- trying to guess a little at the "type" of domain name you described ... I would place an "inexpensive" backorder, like at GoDaddy, etc., and try for the name that way.
Unless the name was significant to a website I really wanted to do -- or was in other ways valuable to me. Then I WOULD spend the $60 at Snapnames or Enom, or ...
Between the time of the last post [webmasterworld.com] about "lost backorders" and now, I have had three domains drop that I had backorders on at Go Daddy.
Two of them I was successful with, the third was grabbed by Enom, and then dropped after 3-5 days or so -- and I got that one today from the GD backorder still in place.
BTW -- I specifically chose GoDaddy as that was all I wanted to "spend" for those names. Had I "really, really ... really wanted a name I would have put a different plan into place.
[edited for clarity ... [/edit]
[edited by: Laker at 5:34 am (utc) on Sep. 25, 2007]
BTW, which names did you get? So I have an idea of what sort of names people are willing to use godaddy for.
[edited by: Webwork at 12:39 pm (utc) on Sep. 26, 2007]
[edit reason] Tidying up [/edit]
BTW, which names did you get? So I have an idea of what sort of names people are willing to use godaddy for.
