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March 3rd, 2008 by 
Jay Westerdal
A lot of domainers don’t want to talk about their favorite tools for fear that they will create more competition. Here is one of those cases.
Peter Askew of Domainer’s Gazette said this in his last blog post, “I debated whether to share this info or not, but darn it, it helps me, and – in the end – I wanna help the domainer community, so what the hell, I’ll share it. One great angle researching domains is targeting really old domains. Domains that have been registered for more than – say – 8 years or so….” – Full Source
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March 3rd, 2008 at 10:26 am
Each and every domainer has his own view on domains. Really, old domains with age more than 8 years is best. But i feel you wont end up with some pretty sweet sound keyword as it is a good asset.
It is not a healthy thinking to accept a domain as a best only because of its age.
We have to consider some other factors like short, Generic, memorable, sexiness, clearly represent a product (or) service ETC
Eventhough several tools are available, knowlegde on niche subject helps to register perfect domains.even
then revealing tools to search will increase healthless competition [ new domainers may create such situations ]
Regards,
B.K.Saravanan
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For http://www.collisiondomains.com
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:47 am
yeah, the tools you provide help us all out, pat yourself on the back.
March 5th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
what tools? I can not find any
March 5th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
the silence is deafening on this topic …:P
March 8th, 2008 at 12:00 am
All right, who knows what’s going on here? …
When I check the status of the more common generic TLDs for “flowers”, it appears that flowers.info
is registered. However, when I check the Whois for this domain (DomainTools or GoDaddy), I see that the domain was registered on July 31, 2001 and EXPIRED on July 31, 2006. There is no website. My conclusion is that the registrar has been holding this name since it expired.
Comments?
= TiKi =
UPDATE BY JAY: Hmmm, I have an email into the Registry. It appears to be a problem there.
March 8th, 2008 at 8:48 am
Right, I’ve seen that on a few other domains. Doesn’t seem fair to me for a registry to sit on a domain but that’s how it looks.
What I do is try a few different registrars. Sometimes one says a domain is still registered while another says it isn’t. Works for me on some drops I wanted.
Hint #2: If the registrar is a reseller or owns their own registrar account there’s no sense trying another reseller using that same registrar. So if a GoDaddy (Wild West Domains) reseller says the domain is taken try a Tucows, Enom, AAQ?, or Domain People reseller.
Dang, I just gave away two of my favorite tricks.
March 23rd, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Tiki says,
“When I check the status of the more common generic TLDs for ‘flowers’, it appears that flowers.info
is registered. However, when I check the Whois for this domain (DomainTools or GoDaddy), I see that the domain was registered on July 31, 2001 and EXPIRED on July 31, 2006. There is no website. My conclusion is that the registrar has been holding this name since it expired.”
I see that a lot. I also suspect that some registrars keep prime domains in the original registrants’ names and just hold them with a “Client may not update/delete” lock on it. Can’t prove it, of course…
I have seen some prime one-word generic domains that resolve to nothing, not even a construction page. Doesn’t make sense to me; even a newbie would know to develop or park asap.
BTW, I have found this tool very helpful. Thanks.