Domain investing tips, strategies, and industry insights

Traffic

Visitors to a domain name or website. Domains with existing traffic from type-ins, backlinks, or search are more valuable than those with no visitors.

Back to Dictionary

Browse More Terms

Parking Page

Monetized placeholder page

Forwarding

Redirecting visitors from one domain to another, commonly used for alternate domains or misspellings.

Dictionary Domain Name

A dictionary domain name is a domain name that uses a word or words that are found in the dictionary. These words can be in any language, but most commonly they are in English. For example, "apple...

DomainTools

A leading provider of domain name research and monitoring services including WHOIS history and reverse lookups.

Blocklist

A list of domain names or IP addresses flagged for spam, malware, or other malicious activities.

Expiry Auction

An auction held for a domain name that wasn't renewed by its owner before it becomes publicly available.