Hi there 👋,

Welcome to the new Dropping Domains (formerly part of Acquire Websites)!

As some of you already know, I’m now building out a network of newsletters on Substack in the business, investing and web3 niches at ACQUIRE.GG.

Here is the current offering:

I’d burn out fast trying to run 6+ newsletters by myself, so I needed to team up with experts to help drive them.

And there is no one better I know in the SEO domain space than Sean Markey who has written all of today’s email.

As such his name (or face on mobile) is first as author of this post, but the email ‘from name’ came from me so you’d recognize that I’ve split this domains newsletter off from Acquire Websites (niche down until it hurts right). Going forward, it will alternate between me and Sean.

Seeing as domains drop 24/7, please vote on how often you would like to receive this newsletter:

And if you’re a brand in the domain space interested in sponsoring this newsletter, just hit reply or email richard[at]acquire.gg.

Ok, take it away Sean!

Cheers!

Richard Patey

Hello 👋!Sean Markey here, teaming up with Richard for a very familiar domain newsletter.

Since this is our first time meeting, let me introduce myself.

I frequently describe myself as “an SEO with a domain name problem,” so who better to talk at you constantly about stupid domain names? Specifically, domains that have some juice and also that might make a great brand for a site.

I’ve specialized in acquiring and building on aged domains since 2015, and have sold upper six-figures worth of affiliate sites in that time.

I write for Domain Name Wire as well as Odys.

Hopefully that gives me some kind of street cred when it comes to domains and SEO.

One last thing:

I write a longform SEO newsletter called Rank Theory and you can check that out here. Its free to subscribe so you DEFINITELY should.

With that out of the way, here are today’s names at auction, and why you might consider grabbing them.

GoDaddy

All of these end Monday Jan, 30th. That’s TODAY, so don’t wait to check these out…

GoodFriday.com - current bid $9,600

Not really an SEO play… but a really great domain that you could absolutely build a solid site on. The kind of domain name that’ll open doors for you. Probably won’t come cheap though…

CryptoCars.me - current bid $3,333

What the fuck is a Crypto Car? I assume some kind of ill-fated NFT project, but that’s just a guess. This domain has some juice though:

Look at that traffic!

It’s fairly worthless, as far as keywords go, but such big traffic is a good sign for an expiring domain. I think it’s mostly in Brazil, but this is still a domain to pay attention to…

BioHackInfo.com - current bid $2,500

Another domain with some keywords—this time around bio hacking so… a much better niche, and ranking for some lucid-dreaming related terms.

Currently low-four-figures.

CultureMalta.org - current bid $1,225

Good news if you are looking to create a niche site about Malta…

Lots of names today ranking for keywords still (which is the #1 metric I look for when grabbing a name).

DropCatch

Stamps.net - current bid $2,999

Only a DR 7, but a pretty strong domain name (even if it’s a .net). Stamps.com makes a gajillion dollars now, so you probably shouldn’t try to compete directly with them. But the market is pretty large and this one has a bunch of very niche relevant backlinks…

BlockchainFrance.net - current bid $2,800

A second crypto name on the list!? What is this, 2018?

As powerful domains go… this is not really one of them. It’s a DR 0, it has 8 links.

iHeartChaos.com - current bid $74

A DR 36 with some big, powerful media company backlinks. Looks like it used to be a… blog? It’s picked up almost 2000 referring domains, so SOMEONE is gonna want this thing…

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That’s it for this edition of Dropping.

What’d you think? Hit reply and let us know and if you’re not yet subscribed, you can do so here:

Future editions will occasionally include a name I find on Odys that I think could make a good site, but we’ll start with those another time.

Cheers!

Sean Markey

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