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I do the opposite : ) I buy the domain, and then put myself to sleep skipping through biz avenues..

A fun tool to use for hand-reg domains (if you didn't know already)

https://instantdomainsearch.com/

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As an aside, I first heard about instantdomainsearch.com from Beau at a Y Combinator event. He was working on Snipshot, and considered the domain search as an old side project that wasn't all that interesting anymore. It's interesting to see that the domain search is still up and running and Snipshot is gone. I wonder which one made more money in that decade+.

Instant Domain Search did. People visiting the site tend to be ready to buy a domain, and Go Daddy does an amazing job of converting that intent into an actual sale.

Most if Snipshot's users tended to use the tool to crop and apply filters to photos they posted to social networks. Whoops.

That would have been my guess, but I didn't want to make assumptions about the Snipshot acquisition.

good trap tool for godaddy to get domains you are interested in

I use geektools, they've been around forever and I've never had any domain I've looked through there sniped away from me.

same here with gandi.net, thanks for sharing!

Do you have personal experience getting sniped with LDS? I've used it a half a dozen times and always had success.

I've been sniped a few times with instantdomainsearch.com when actually proceeding through to godaddy, but then not buying it within about a day. Haven't had any issues when not going through to godaddy, though.

That's surprising. Network Solutions was caught doing something like this (http://domainnamewire.com/2008/01/08/network-solutions-faces...) but I've never seen any evidence that Go Daddy does anything like this. Blake Irving is a good man.

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