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Using AI to Identify Domain Names I Don’t Have Listed for Sale

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Earlier, this week, I hand registered six domain names. I checked on one landing page yesterday, and the correct landing page didn’t resolve. Likely due to a distraction, these domain names didn’t get added to my seller account, so an unintended landing page was shown rather than the BIN lander I wanted.

I am sure I have a dozen or two domain names that have nameservers set up correctly but were not listed for sale for one reason or another. Comparing lists in Excel is possible but can be time consuming. Instead of using Excel for this, I am going to use Chat GPT.

Here are the steps I am going to take:

Don’t Vastly Overprice a Wholesale Name

Someone from the industry reached out to me early this year offering to sell a domain name to me for more than $100,000. I passed on the opportunity because I thought it was vastly overpriced. I didn’t counteroffer either because the amount I would pay was far lower than the asking price.

Months later, I saw the domain name sold for very low 5 figures. I can’t turn back the clock, but had the asking price been around $25k, I probably would have countered at or above the eventual sale price. Perhaps a negotiation would have made it even higher.

Anyone.com Domain Name was Acquired for $400k

Reza Sardeha founded Dan.com before selling the company to GoDaddy for more than $71 million before the company was integrated and retired. Instead of taking the money and retiring, Reza launched a new home sales platform called Anyone. The popular real estate publication Inman published an article about the launch yesterday.

As you may have guessed, Reza launched Anyone on the brand matching Anyone.com domain name. Yesterday afternoon on X, Reza revealed the price his company paid to acquire Anyone.com – $400,000 USD:

DropCatch Auctions No Longer Close on Weekends

I wrote about the Mine.com auction on DropCatch.com earlier today. One of the things that stood out to me is the five day auction. As far as I have known, auctions on that platform are three days. They are only briefly extended when bids are placed in the final moments.

I reached out to Andrew Reberry, Co-Founder of the company that operates the platform, and he informed me of a change that was recently made. Auctions on DropCatch.com will no longer conclude on Saturdays or Sundays.

Here’s what Andrew told me:

Domain Count is an Important Metric

I have been using DomainLeads.com on a regular basis since it was introduced last year. I use the tool to see how many domain names are registered and developed for specific keywords. I find it to be helpful when buying and pricing my domain names.

I think the primary focus of the tool is on the TLDs developed figure. If I am looking to buy a domain name and see there are a dozen or more websites developed in different extensions with that keyword, it is probably a desireable domain name. Not only is there a good chance one of those other websites will benefit from upgrading to the matching .com, but there is probably a good chance a startup or other business would benefit from buying the .com for a startup or rebrand. This is probably obvious.

One Month to Go

My wife and I did some traveling and enjoyed the 4th of July holiday weekend with friends. My wife is an incredible runner, and we did a short run together on Friday followed by a longer individual run on Saturday. I can’t hang at her 8 minute/mile pace for 10 miles – nor would I run 10 miles in the humidity.

On Sunday, we were back home and did a 30+ mile bike ride together. It wasn’t super fast, but the purpose of these rides is to get my legs into shape to be able to ride 162 miles over two days in a month from now. The Pan-Mass Challenge is coming up August 3-4.

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