How To Use Freshdrop.net To Find Domain Names Part 1: Trends
I want to go more in depth on one of the tools I have listed on my domain name tools page. This post grew too large so I’ll be splitting it up into two parts.
FreshDrop.net is one of my favorite domaining tools. FreshDrop pulls feeds of expired/deleted domain names from TDNAM, Sedo, Afternic, Pool, Namejet, Snapnames and Tucows and lists them in a highly searchable/filterable database. The eBay feed is useless as it has a hard time reading the actual domain due to the way people use spaces when they type it in on the listings (It will read “trend domaining.com” as both “trend.com” and “domaining.com”).
The TDNAM, Sedo and Afternic feeds are free while the others require a pay registration. Today I want to concentrate on TDNAM, which is listed as both ‘Closeout’ and ‘Exp Names.’
‘Exp Names’ is the second to last stage before a name completely disappears. These are auctions starting at (usually) $10. If you are the only bidder when this stage of the name ends, you will receive the name for $10 plus registration fee. Of course, good domains are often found in this stage and the price can get much higher than $10. Don’t bid on a name until minutes before the auction ends. Bids are nothing more than a “Hey look here I’m a good name” sign.
‘Closeouts’ are names that get zero bids in the ‘Exp Names’ list and are always buy it now for $5 plus reg fee. This is your last chance to get these domains before they go poof. After they go poof you can freely register them anywhere, but you want to buy them here so you can keep their original registration date.
Using the filtering tool on the right of the page, we can narrow down exactly what we are looking for. A few days ago I wrote about the emerging trend of bamboo. Today I’ll use this keyword as an example on how to mine for great domain names.
The top section of the filtering tool lets you to filter out extensions you don’t want.
Section 2 lets you search by pagerank (and whether or not the PR is fake), age of domain and auction time left (day).
Section 3 is for your keyword and is self-explanatory.
Section 4 lets you exclude hyphenated domains, domains with numbers and domains that have www at the beginning as a typo (www.wwwtrenddomaining.com).
Section 5 lets you set a limit on the number of characters in a domain.
For this example, I set the filter as shown here on the right.
Doing a filtered search on the Closeout domains only gives us one name.
(A description of the columns can be found here.)
BambooWonderland.com isn’t a bad name. In fact, you could turn this into a site completely dedicated to bamboo products of all kinds. It’s a year old already, something that may help with the search engines. The word wonderland gives a euphoric feel to the word bamboo, something that emphasizes the green/organic trend you would be trying to capitalize on. And for $5 you could buy it now (well, after a couple days grace period).
Switching over to the Exp Names, we get a much larger list to work with:
I sorted this by age. A quick look shows that three domain names already have bids, again these are acting as a “Look at me!” sign: HongKongBamboo.com, BambooFuels.com and BambooExchange.com. HongKong could be good, as bamboo is already big in China and a site with this name could appear as an authority on bamboo (and it’s already 4 years old to boot). Fuel is a buzzword right now, though I’m not sure it works in this case as there is no bamboo fuel. Exchange, on the other hand, is a great keyword in this instance. This domain would be great for a buy/sell/trade site of all things bamboo.
Of the other names, I particularly like BambooLinks.com and BambooCarpentry.com. The former is obvious, but the latter would be great since bamboo flooring is already popular in the U.S. and furniture and cabinets should not be far behind.
These TDNAM names may not be top-of-the-line premium domains. But there are so many that expire every day that some do indeed slip through the cracks. At any given moment, there are more than 70,000 names in Closeout and 200,000 in Exp Names. There are domain names for almost any niche here. This is a prime place for buying names to develop or to flip. Many people buy closeout names for $15 ($5 plus reg fee) and flip them for $30 or $40. That’s 100% profit. Take it.
In part 2 I’ll go into how Freshdrop.net is one of the best tools for Geodomainers. View part 2 here.
Related:How To Use Freshdrop.net To Find Domain Names Part 2: Geodomains
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I found out about Freshdrop.net a while ago through reading Dotsauce, I haven’t visited it for quite a while and you’ve just re-invigorated my interest, simply by showing me more possibilites, thanks!
Yea, I’ve spent hours on Freshdrop and I find great names all the time. I can’t register them all or I’d go broke.