List of All Services for Catching and Registering Domains

Bulk domain availability check — Bulk domain search

• https://www.godaddy.com/domains/bulk-domain-search/ — 2000 domains at a time. The most convenient of all
• https://my.eurodns.com/das/search/
• https://www.onlydomains.com/domain/frontBulkSearch
• Foxwhois.com — the only software that checks reasonably well, but GoDaddy is top tier.

Domain Registrars Accepting Crypto

• gname.com (I use this)
• namesilo.com (I use this)
• nicenic.net
• Porkbun

Unreliable Registrars – Better Not to Keep Domains There

• namecheap.com

Trimming URLs to the Host

If you have a list of long URLs and want to trim them to site.com

https://www.clickminded.com/trim-urls-to-root-domain-standardise-urls-prefixes/

Largest Domain Registrars

The ones marked with red arrows go to the GoDaddy auction. I’ve checked and analyzed many domains. A huge number flows into GoDaddy.

GoDaddy leads in terms of domain volume, so registering through it is a good idea so registrar footprints don’t expose that you’re using some no-name registrar across 300 domains)

Checking Domain Values at Auction

https://namebio.com — access without a VPN

The service detects about 50% of domains in my sample that I registered. I wrote about this here:

I took 238 of my dropped domains, added them to NameBio, and got 120 domains that the service recognized. Source link — https://t.me/maximaffiliate/881

At present, this is the only service that shows prices.

Services for Finding Expired Domains

There are 2 main services – expireddomains.net and spamzilla.io – all the rest are worse.

I tested everything available on the market:

• domcop.com — found only 1 unique domain compared to expireddomains
• spamzilla.io — has unique domains that aren’t on expireddomains.net + all filters are set correctly right out of the box
• expireddomains.net — great for finding domains, but requires Netpeak Checker as an addition
• registercompass.com — compared to expireddomains, it only had 4 unique domains. No point in using it
• freshdrop.com — I couldn’t even register there. Glitchy
• dropcatch.com — scraping directly, but the limits are very strict, for Majestic in particular. Plus, I found 1 domain in 4 days—just 1 domain that wasn’t in SpamZilla or ExpiredDomains!

Spamzilla.io is quite flexible in its settings and offers plenty of parameters:

• Majestic
• Semrush
• Ahrefs
• Moz

To use expireddomains.net, you’ll need Netpeak Checker + APIs from the relevant services

We export the domains to Checker and then analyze them by the required metrics

Here are the available parameters:

Which ones do I use? Ahrefs, MOZ, Majestic, and sometimes website traffic.

Domain Drop Catching Services

Dropcatch.com — is one of the largest services, but if a domain goes to auction, be prepared for high prices

Namejet.com + Snapnames.com — is the second largest drop catching service. I listed two URLs because they share the same interface and are essentially the same company, Web.com

Essentially, domain catching for .com domains happens between these two services.

If you want to catch a domain, you need to place backorders on both.

Checking for Domain Penalties by Searching Google for «domain com»

You enter the domain with a space, and if it’s not in the first spot, people assume there’s a penalty. I consider this one of the myths in SEO, and I have counterexamples

1. Since 2018, I had an expired domain that ranked only in the US. If you checked domain com from another region, it wasn’t in first place, yet it received several thousand unique visits per day from Google.

2. Here’s another example—my $100 expired domain that reached the top.

I enter domain com for the US region: the top 3 spots are Facebook, Instagram, and Wikipedia (see screenshot above)—the main domain isn’t there

Now I set the region to Spain: the domain is in first place, followed by Facebook and Instagram.

Meanwhile, traffic and clicks are coming through. Search Console from yesterday: 194 clicks https://share.cleanshot.com/Rl2B3Wc2

Conclusion: the domain com check method has its flaws. You have to check each region separately, which calls into question the practicality of such a method.

Useful Links

• Where do dropped domains go? I analyzed 300 of them at auctions
• Did $14,000 for a domain go up in smoke, or do these guys know what they’re doing?
• How to break through E-A-T in Google right now?
• How I buy expired domains at auction for $25 with decent backlink profiles? Caught 4 dropped domains today alone.
• The rise and fall of a dropped domain when migrating to an EMD [if it works, don’t touch it!] – gambling niche
• Roughly every 10th domain in US e-commerce/affiliate product sites might be launched on a dropped domain. Margin of error applies.

Case Studies

• [Case Study] Reached top 10 with a spammed domain. Does spam really matter that much?

• When a dropped domain failed 3 times, but shot into the TOP on the fourth try

I tried redirecting/merging it in every possible way—nothing worked. The first 2 times were one niche, then I changed the niche and tried redirecting to another)

It kept dropping and gaining traffic alternately. The third time I redirected it, rankings dropped again, but on the fourth try it stabilized and clicks started coming in nicely.

My takeaway was simply not to give up and keep testing the dropped domain. 

Google has a stash of holy randomness reserved for every domain)

• 2 case studies on redirecting expired domains in gambling with rankings restored to top 3 – a success and a fail

Myths

• Myth — after redirecting to some domain, that expired domain is trash and should be thrown away

I redirected the expired domain 3 times and removed the redirect 3 times. It stayed in the top 10 just as it was. 🫡