How do you find out if an expired domain had any traffic?
 

Thanks for Lensman's answer re. getting traffic in http://bbs.gofuckyourself.net/showth...threadid=69078 - one of his ideas was to buy expired domains. Seems to be only worth it when there actually was any traffic going to that domain - otherwise you could buy any free domain and be no better of...

So:<b><u>how do you find out if an expired domain actually had any traffic?</u></b>

Reason I'm asking: in recent weeks I'd been busy looking for several new domain names, and a good number of names I came up with was of cause taken. Usually I'm a nosy person, so if I think it was a really good name I do a 'whois' (to see when it was registered and if there's a chance it might expire soon), and then call the actual domain to see what it's used for (paysite, AVS, SE traffic, TGP galleries, etc.) - sometimes learn a thing or two from it, too!

<b>You'd be surprised</b> [or not!] <b>how many good domain names are either completely dormant, for sale, or simply pointing to some odd search engine or portal pages!</b> There's one site in HK which has heaps of adult domains pointing to their search engine... Do get an expired domain which never had any traffic seems to be a waste of money.
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you could try alexa.com :)

as for me... i have no idea, son. but i love the selective <u>highlighting</u> :)

Just look at how many links are pointing at it and if it has any good listings (yahoo, dmoz).

You might want to check out the different tools available here:

http://marketleap.com/publinkpop/default.htm

Good reference site!

You need a little mojo.

thanks 49thparallel

that site's definately worth bookmarking.

and u've got a great site too brujah. hope it's doing well.