Alvin Brown shares a way to find hand-reg domains to register.

I shared 3 tips to Discover Expired Domains Available at Hand-Registration Fee at the end of last year.  As a follow up, I’m sharing another method to discover available domains using GoDaddy’ Watching feature.

It’s not really a “new” feature as some of you may recall a brief experiment by GoDaddy to display Watcher data on auction landing pages. Nevertheless, you may discover a profitable opportunity exists using Watching export data as a method to bulk search for available domains.

In addition to providing a daily list of GoDaddy expiring domain auctions for the general public to peruse, I “watch” quite a large number of GoDaddy expiring domains each day. Prior to providing a daily list for the general public, I never used the export feature for Watching domains.

But for the last two years and counting, I download this list of expiring domains daily as I strategize about which domains I’m going to actively bid and at what cost — via GoDaddy’s Watching download (see image below). [Read more…]