How to research domain names...

This blog is still very new, very very new, but if I have any readers I have some advice for you. Always do your research, never ever buy a domain without doing research, but you're probably asking "how do I do research on a domain name?" Well my friends that's where I come in. As I and still new to the game myself I will share with you if you of the tools I use as a beginner to find and research quality domain names.

1. Estibot.com

One of the things I like most about estibot.com are the statistics and provide, these statistics, if used correctly can help you spot a winning domain. However you must be very careful when reading the stats. Make sure not to take the appraisal value to seriously as automatic appraisals of domains are never very accurate. One of the most important stats that estibot provides is overture/month which is a measure of the average number of times per month a keyword, or set of keywords to search. Another important stat is frequently, that is the number of times a keyword, or set of keywords appears in search engine results. Estibot gives the frequency numbers for the big three search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN)

2. Namebio.com

Namebio.com is a database of reported domain sales; I use this tool to research past sales of similar domain names so that I can get an idea of a particular domain’s value.

3. Freshdrop.net

Freshdrop.net is a domain name filtering tool which I use to filter through TDNAM (the domain name aftermarket, a service provided by godaddy.com listings expiring and for-sale domain names)

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NamePros.com

As I've mentioned before NamePros.com is a wonderful resource for any new Domainer or experienced Domainer for that matter. As a beginner before you even consider buying a domain name I strongly suggest you join NamePros and read as much as you can about domaining and domain names.

In closing read, study and learn as much you can before investing in domains!

Happy holidays to all,

Kevin

HI all!!! Welcome to Disabled Domainer!

Hello everyone and welcome to Disabled Domainer, my new blog where I'll be sharing my trials and tribulations as a young, and disabled domainer (and hopefully soon a website owner). It is my hope that, from time to time I will have guest bloggers from around the domaining community. Eventually this blog will also have RSS feeds from other domaining sites and blogs from around the web as well.

About me:
My name is Kevin Allen and as I said in my introduction to this blog I am a young disabled domainer. To be honest, I started domaining mostly because I was bored and had some money in my PayPal account from a few eBay sales. I had looked into domaining a few years before and had even registered some (really bad) domains. In about July of this year I, for some reason, had a renewed interest in domaining. My venture into the domain industry has been extremely successful thus far. To date I have had two triple digit sales. As a fitting end to my initial post I would like to extend a very big thank you to the wonderful people of the NamePros community for their help and support over these last few months. NamePros is a wonderful online domaining community which I would strongly encourage anyone with an interest in domaining to join.