Domain Academy Tools. 10 amazing tools for domain investors.

Using Domain Academy tools can help you make wise decisions when acquiring a domain or pricing a domain name to sell. Without certainty in the value of a domain you could overpay for domains, or worse yet, buy domains that you cannot sell. On the flip side you might undersell when you get an offer. Pricing a domain is paramount to success.

When you think about investing in domain names the old adage, “buy low and sell high” is very apropos. Of course, that is the trick with any successful investment. Whether it is a piece of art, real estate, or stocks one thing is constant, to make money you must understand not only the particular investment vehicle but the overall market and landscape that vehicle operates in.

To put this into perspective, let’s consider a couple of real-world examples. Right now in the stock market Artificial Intelligence is booming. Anything related to that vertical stands to go up. But how high? Has it peaked? What offers the best return? What is the least/most risky?

In real estate or the Art World, you would ask similar types of questions. Is San Francisco a solid bet for future real estate returns or will your investment get locked in an Alcatraz like upside down market? Is a Monet or Banksy best to put money in your bank?

The key to making smarter investments in any field is data and research. You need to know how to evaluate an investment to make money on the buy side in order to turn a profit. If you cannot clearly evaluate a potential investment you cannot understand the potential for future returns. Domain names are no different. A gut feel will only get you so far, the best way to be successful is to understand the data around the domains that are selling. This is exactly where domain academy tools come in.

Domain Academy tools offer the ability to easily perform essential research to aid when evaluating the potential for investment in a domain name. Lucky for you anyone with access to the Domain Academy classes also has free access to the suite of Domain Academy tools that can help you to make wiser decisions around domain names you may be considering buying, pricing for sale, actively selling, or letting expire.

We will give a brief synopsis of the tools we offer below. Over time we will add other articles and videos showing you how to use each tool in the best possible way and include some tips and tricks on this blog under the “Tools” section. If you are ready to try out them you can head directly to our domain academy tools right now.

Domain Academy Tools for Domain Investing

Data Manipulation Tool

The Data Manipulation Tool offers a wide range of capabilities, including parsing, domain spinning, sorting, and case conversion (perfect for quickly applying Camel Casing). One of my favorite parts of this tool is using it to remove all unwanted text and give you only the domain names from the text you paste into it. This is really helpful in quickly cleaning up domain lists from emails or websites.

Research Snapshot Tool

Another of the suite of Domain Academy tools is the research snapshot tool. Analyze domain names based on 35+ characteristics, including registered second-level domains and startup usage. This tool is one of our most popular. We pull data from various repositories and external tools around the web and return you with a 360 view of all the most important data we can find about your domain, including companies and startups using the same keywords. This tool and the valuation worksheet are limited to 150 combined uses a month because of the data cost to us.

Valuation Worksheet

The valuation worksheet helps you to fully characterize and value domain names, including comparable sales and automated appraisal values. This is all that the Research Snapshot tool offers plus a pricing engine that helps you pull comps from similar public domain sales and important monetary data to help assist you in putting a price on the domain. We help you find the wholesale and retail values using the various data in this tool. This tool and the Research Snapshot are limited to 150 combined uses a month because of the data cost to us.

Bulk Valuations Tool

The bulk valuations tool helps you quickly assess multiple domain names across 35+ characteristics to identify valuable and worthless assets. This is part of the Valuation Worksheet and Research snapshot pulling the same data points but helping you to do it in bulk. As such you are under the same limitations above.

Keyword Research

The keyword research tool determines the global search volume and cost-per-click of any keyword or phrase. This is a go-to tool for many people and one of our most popular. This shows what the average search volume is on Google by country and the CPC cost (the money people spend to advertise on that keyword in Google per click).

Domain Explorer Tool

Using the domain explorer tool will let you find TLDs and SLDs containing a specific keyword, categorized by active, parked, and inactive status. This tool is an amazingly powerful research tool. You enter your keyword(s) and almost instantly find out how many other domains are taken using that exact keyword or keyword phrase and any other domains that contain that keyword phrase. It also does its best to tell you at a glance how many of the domains are developed into real sites, listed for sale, or not resolving based on color coding each section. It makes researching the popularity of a domain name a snap.

How Many People Tool

Estimate the number of people with a specific first or last name in the United States using the how many people tool. This tool is great for researching proper name domains. A name like Smith will have many more potential buyers than a name like Styler and this tool lets you know how many people share the first, last, or first and last name combination, of the domain you are interested in evaluating.

What’s the Population?

What’s the population lets you find all cities with at least 1,000 population anywhere in the world based on a keyword or fragment. Using global data you can quickly research domain names containing geographic keywords to see the potential market size for that domain. For example, using the tool you can find out that New York has a much larger population than Oxnard, and thus it is potentially much easier to sell a domain name like NewYorkPlumber vs. OxnardPlumber when looking at domain names to purchase or to resell.

GoDaddy GoValue

Get GoDaddy’s valuation of multiple domains in bulk, including wholesale, GoValue, and list prices. You can get up to 500 domains a day valued using this automated appraisal tool. It returns important automated data points to help you evaluate domain names.

Afternic Advanced Search Tool – Beta

Afternic Advanced Search is another of the most popular domain academy tools. Use it to filter over 20 million domains on Afternic.com using criteria such as categories, dictionary words, and TLDs taken. This is consistently one of our most popular tools. With a myriad of filter options, this tool allows you to search the listings at Afternic.com and find domain names at bargain prices. With over 20 million domains, there are sure to be some underpriced gems but finding them without a powerful filtering engine is almost impossible. Leverage this tool to gain a competitive edge.

We hope all the domain academy tools listed above will be a great help to you when thinking about buying or selling a domain.