Tool for finding domain names with traffic releases improvements.
OVT Matcher, a tool that automatically checks lists of domain names for “Overture Scores” from January, February, and March 2007 has released an upgrade. (See OVT Matcher Makes Finding Expired Domains a Snap).
In the previous version, users had to manually download expiring domain lists from companies such as SnapNames. That is now automated, as well as a number of other improvements:
– Import SnapNames, NameJet, Pool and AfterNIC lists directly from within the application. Furthermore, you can download lists from other websites as well, you only have to enter the URL in the program.
– Ability to import .txt/csv files, as well as .zip files containing .txt/csv. The tool will unpack and import the compressed data with no user intervention.
– Domain parser, it can take any list containing domains mixed with other data, and it will extract just the domains and import them for scan.
– WildCard Searches. Scan the database for keywords or domain names for strings.
– Auto updater system
– A GUI Facelift
The software runs offline on the users’s desktop. It is available for $225 at OVTMatcher.com.
Do you have the wrong year for the Overture scores? Looking at their home page, looks like they have data from Jan, Feb, and Mar 2007, not 2008, which makes me less interested in the data.
Roger, my mistake. Updated it to 2007 since Overture is no longer published
Granted, very few people have the Feb and March 2007 data. Most only have Jan 2007, which is what Overture currently shows (when it shoes anything at all).
Roger, overture scores stopped being published in April 2007 (at which time they were showing March 2007 results). Then they reverted their tool to January results where it stayed for another few months, and then they turned the tool off (basically it’s not off, but it is now so slow that in 99% of the time you get timed out and as a result you get no result for the search).
Overture score even though a bit old, is still a good indicator of type-in traffic in many cases and the tool is more targeted towards the Backordering Market audience, where these people need some kind of filter that will indicate which few domains from the massive drop lists are worth bidding on. If someone narrows down the pending drop lists to a few domains with OVT score and then does further research(using archive.org, alexa etc) he can really find some gems. I know I did. Especially if these gems did not have an ovt score in January, but did have one in February/March. Most have only January data so OVT Matcher users have the chance to find good names with less(or none sometimes) competition in the auctions.
In my tests of the tool, I found (and registered) several domains that didn’t have OVT in Jan but had them in Feb/March. One of them gets lots of type-in traffic.