Someone just bought the domain name Covfefe.com for $2,650 from an expired auction on GoDaddy's aftermarket.
This domain was registered 10 years ago on May 31, 2017; the same day the word "Covfefe" was invented by someone who probably knows very little about digital real estate.
Still, to this day, no one knows what that word means!!
Almost every day there is another newbie/wannabe domainer asking for appraisal of their freshly registered domain.
The domain? It's a brandable, hand-registered .com domain name that sounds great to them.
Here are some examples of those "brandable" domains I've just made up off the top of my head (all available):
I'm not kidding; these are the type of domains that many beginners buy and try to flip!!
Don't do that. Don't waste your money on brandable .com domains that mean nothing. Those very rarely sell. Domain investing takes careful research of market trends.
Most hand-reg domains have no resale value. Although exceptions happen, that's a bad strategy and a waste of your time and money.
Domain value for abryza.com?
expiration date 7/2027
Please contact me as soon as possible
I’ve owned J2z.com since 2007.
For years, I barely used it. It was just one of those short domains I kept because I liked it and thought, “One day I’ll do something with this.”
Recently I decided to finally turn it into an actual product.
Since the domain is very short, I thought it made sense to build something around links. So I made j2z.com into a simple tool for:
- links shortener
- generating QR codes
- building a simple bio link page
- tracking basic clicks
- managing everything from one dashboard.
I’m not trying to present this as some huge startup launch. It’s still early, and honestly I’m trying to validate whether the idea is actually useful to people outside my own head.
The site is here: https://j2z.com
What I’d really appreciate is honest feedback:
Is the value clear when you first open the site?
Would you use this instead of tools like Linktree, Bitly, or QR generators?
What would stop you from signing up?
Does it feel too simple, or is that a good thing?
I’ve spent a lot of time building, but now I’m trying to do the uncomfortable part: putting it in front of real people and seeing what they actually think.
Any honest criticism is welcome.
It's still a mystery to me, but some people have a strong urge to collect all the numeric domain names they can get!
These three domains sold yesterday at GoDaddy:
★☆☆☆☆
Squarespace is the worst domain registrar I have ever dealt with.
I never chose them. Google moved my domain there.
I asked one basic question before my domain expired:
“When does my grace period start and end?”
Nobody could answer. My ticket was passed from team to team while the clock kept ticking.
By the time they finally reacted, my domain had entered redemption and I was expected to pay even more.
A company that cannot answer a basic question about its own domain system should not be managing anyone’s domains.
Stay away. Move your domain elsewhere while you still can.
I'm new to this field. Is this name worth $60?
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GoDaddy is making some serious money from selling expired numeric domains, and they seem to have an endless supply of those..
2238.com sold yesterday in a GoDaddy auction for $42,500.
There was another 4-digit domain sale at GoDaddy yesterday: 9315.com sold for $11,705.
They're not just random numbers; certain numbers have higher value than others.
Nam.es just sold the domain name X.gg for $115,000 (source). This sets a new record for the highest publicly announced .gg domain sale ever.
They own a few other .gg domains: tv.gg, make.gg, xgames.gg, and cg.gg.
I think only tv.gg has the potential to sell for more.
For about the last six months, I’ve received emails from someone looking to sell their domain. It’s dropped in price over that time, and now it’s being offered for ~$100.
The domain name format is MajorCityService.com, and the service is one that I provide within that metro area, so it seems like an appropriate investment.
I’ve never purchased a domain in this fashion before. How is it usually handled, and what questions do I need to ask during the process?
Thanks in advance for any insight you all can provide.
They say hyphens in a domain name are bad, especially if it's a non-com domain, but that didn't stop these two .io domains from selling at Namecheap yesterday:
"ring-1.io" sold for $1,580 and "lol-beans.io" sold for $1,575.
Why? They have some backlinks, but why?
I don't know what you can do with the domain name GTA.ai, but it's just been in an expired auction at Namecheap and someone won it at $6,100.
This one is a little risky from a legal point of view.
Hello everyone. Me and my business partner have been using GoDaddy for a couple years but the terrible service and breaking of simple features has hit a boiling point and we would like to switch. I've been searching recommendations and of course come across things like Wix and Wordpress but it seems opinions are divided. I thought I might as well go ahead and give a brief overview in what I need from a website/hoster so I can get some recommendations that work for my situation.
I run a service company, we don't sell products. Currently what I have on our website is a couple pages detailing our various services, lots of videos and photos of our work, contact information form, and a paylink to pay for our service after completion. We've used the GoDaddy builder for all of this as neither myself or my partner have much experience in technical coding or plugins.
An important part of the greater hosting GoDaddy has does for us is the social media marketing and SEO. I would like to have a connected post-from-one place application that I can send social media posts (and actual ads if possible) from the host to Facebook, Instagram, and Google My Business. I would also like for SEO to be activated and trackable from the host.
And that's the basics of what I would like to do. Wix seems to be able to much of that but I've heard that the provider can be detrimental long term. Wordpress seems more open but also involves a lot more individual plugins and more technical know-how. I would love some recommendations that have worked for you or people you know who really just need the things above. Whether Wix, Wordpress, or something else it would be a help to narrow my search. Thank you all.
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It's saddening to see a domain get sold at a massive loss, but it's just happened again..
Palm.io was bought from Park.io for $25,000 back in 2021. Whatever happened, it's just ended up getting sold on GoDaddy for $6,600.
Many domain investors are also crypto investors so they may prefer transacting in crypto. But this can be seen as a red flag by people who don't normally use crypto.
The fact that crypto payments are irreversible make it a highly risky payment method for the buyer.
Have you ever bought a domain from someone else, or sold a domain to someone else, using crypto? Did you do it directly or via an escrow service? Was the domain transferred before or after the payment?
Hey guys,
Looking for opinions from people who have actually worked with expired domains in real SEO scenarios, especially ones with clean backlink profiles.
I recently picked up an expired domain that genuinely surprised me once I dug into it.
I’m not revealing the domain yet because I’m still deciding whether to build on it or eventually sell it, and I don’t want to bias the discussion.
Here are the Ahrefs metrics:
What stood out to me is not the DR itself, but how “clean” the profile looks compared to most expired domains I’ve seen.
From what I can tell, this wasn’t a dropped spam domain or something that went through PBN usage after expiry. It looks like it belonged to a legitimate US startup that was active around the pandemic era. It raised funding, had real users, got press coverage, and then eventually shut down. The domain then simply expired and dropped, and I acquired it directly after it went back into availability.
The backlink profile is mostly what I would call earned editorial links rather than SEO-driven links.
Examples of link types include:
Most anchors are branded, naked URL, or natural mentions, not keyword-optimized anchors.
Now I’m trying to decide how to handle it from an SEO standpoint.
My main question is around what actually happens in practice when you repurpose a domain like this.
Do you typically:
Try to preserve topical relevance and gradually shift content
Or fully rebrand and accept some level of authority reset
Or does it mostly not matter anymore once the content changes completely
Also curious if anyone here has actually seen meaningful SEO benefits from starting on an expired startup domain like this in 2024/2025, or if it ends up behaving almost like a fresh domain after a full pivot.
Would appreciate any real-world experience, especially from people who have worked with aged domains that had legitimate backlink profiles rather than spam drops.
Yaly.com was registered in 2002 and it has just expired. It's currently in auction at NameSilo (current registrar).
There are other 4-letter .com domain names being auctioned on NameSilo's marketplace, but this one stands out because it's pronounceable.
The auction ends in 17 days, so there is still plenty of time for the current owner to renew before this domain slips away.