making money flipping domains

Why am i writing this

The reason I am writing this article is because I have been away from the domain/hosting business for a long time, and sometimes i take the time to research how the market looks like in 2025 with the intent of playing this game again soon (When i get the time), I am sharing my findings here, but at the time of writing, I do not have any hidden motives writing this post.

Why this article is the best one

The internet is full of articles and guides about domain flipping, the only problem with those guides is that they are either created by domain registrars, or by bloggers who are, according to the few i have seen, promoting a registrar or a paid service, now there is nothing inherently wrong with that... except that there is a conflict of interest

It may be true that such services want you to make money, but that is only one of their objectives, the other objective is to have you buy as many domains as you can (because they make money when you do), so my observations were that they try to tell you what domains to target, but still try to leave you with the impression that the demand is through the roof, and you should capture every domain that looks good, they use flashy slogans such as "It is not important why the previous owner is letting it expire, it is what you want to do with it", all this nonsense really does not add up, I have done this for many years, and this is not how it works (Unless you are very lucky)

The lowdown

As with all my blog posts, I will start with the summary, then expand on it

The tools I recommend

• Godaddy's Afternic: Probably the place i recommend the most
• Godaddy's dan.com: Also by godaddy,

A domain checking tool: The internet is full of domain availability tools, you visit your registrar and drop the domain into the text field, and you are done, but there are faster ways, here are a few browser plugins that should help.

1- registry reveal's domain checker: This chrome extension makes checking a domain's availability as simple as punching the domain into your browser's address bar

Here are the main guidelines, which are contrary to most of what you will read online... I will dive into them one by one right after

• Drop lists are cool, but they are huge, and manually reading it doesn't work, your brain will start skimming on the domains and loses its ability to catch good domains the more tiered that it gets
• Serious projects that would pay for a premium domain are concerned with a great sounding, phonetically sound domain more than they are about SEO, think about it, youtube, twitter, reddit etc... are all names that do not have any keywords in them.
• The shorter the better, but it needs to be elegantly short, szb.com is not as great as wix.com
• Think syllables not words, people want a domain that is easy and short to pronounce.
• research the domain availability of that industry, and adjust your standards accordingly, finding a domain for your web hosting business is 10 times harder than finding a domain for your ham radio hobby
• Imagine scenarios where people want domains,