Find Dropped Domains With Just Dropped
If you enjoy domain shopping, you may get frustrated from time to time with the lack of domains available. If sometimes you feel like all of the good ones are taken, you are actually right. Most good domains have been snatched up over the past few years as people began to realize their value, with probably more than half of them not even in use. These people are smart because they treat their domains as an investment.
I currently have about 10 domains in use, along with 4-5 similar domains that are being redirected to existing sites, in an effort to protect my investments. Along with these domains are several inactive domains that I’ve purchased because I plan to use them at some point in the future, or because I felt that they have tremendous value.
One way I go about searching for domain names of value is a website called Just Dropped. This site works just like a domain search engine, but specializes in searching for domains that have recently been dropped for any number of reasons. Sometimes people don’t want them anymore, they can’t afford to renew the domains, or they just forget and don’t have it set to auto-renew.
In many ways this has more value than searching open domains because you can find a lot of gems hidden among a bunch of worthless domains. The only downside is that you have to register for any account with them, but this is free.
If you decide to go this route, you may have to spend some time at it. Some of the lists are long and there are a lot of domains with no value at all, but there are always great ones mixed in that you can pick up.
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Comment by Dining Tables on December 10th, 2007:
Thank you for this information. I am saving this for posterity. It is a great idea to source these kinds of dropped domain names as quite a bit of creative juices can be saved!
Comment by Keith Dsouza on December 10th, 2007:
Definitely a good service to find domains. It is really quite necessary to keep renewing domains or else it may land up in the search there :-). BTW you have a nice little collection of domains too.
Comment by Bush Mackel on December 10th, 2007:
I guess the logical step would be to combine this site, with a good kw tool to make some solid money. Wish I had the time to do that, but one thing at a time right? (#):)
Comment by K-IntheHouse on December 10th, 2007:
I have gotten into the habit of looking for new domain names as well, thanks to you, Garry and Mark!
Bookmarked this one as well. Nice find man.
Comment by Kyle Eslick on December 10th, 2007:
Keith - Thanks. I’m pretty pleased with many of the domains I’ve collected. Just grabbed a few more then other day to either sit on for awhile or launch someday.
Bush - You got it. There are a few nice keyword tools, along with Just Dropped and PCNames, to find most of these that I’ve acquired recently. I have a post covering SEO tools scheduled up later this week on Ultimate Online Resource I believe, so stop by.
K - Yeah, this is a great tool. I’m disciplining myself to stop by there at least once a week and monitor a few keywords.
Comment by Mark on December 10th, 2007:
Now this is pretty cool. I’ve been looking for something that will help me find expired domain names. I read an article recently that explained the process. Sounds like you need a lot of patience (and money) to get ones, but I suspect there are ones that will squeak by the auctions that are still worth grabbing up.
Good find. Stumbled!
Comment by Kyle Eslick on December 11th, 2007:
With everything being pretty picked clean, this is a good alternative to finding good domains. Yes, auctions get the first stab, but there are useful ones that aren’t necessarily good enough to go at an auction.
Comment by Garry Conn on December 11th, 2007:
Pretty cool site! I have it bookmarked.
Comment by Sectional Sofas on December 11th, 2007:
This is a good idea because someone like me would be all at sea when trying to find a domain name. Good to know that someone does that kind of leg work for us poor technically challenged people
Is there any subscription for this service, or is it free?
Comment by Kyle Eslick on December 12th, 2007:
Sectional - You can register with them, but it is free to register.