Learn How Many are Searching for Your Domain

If you have your domain names registered at Godaddy.com you have the unique ability to discover exactly how many people are looking up your Whois information on the Godaddy site. This is very cool.

I am starting to think it may even be worthwhile to use Godaddy more simply to take advantage of this powerful feature. Knowing how many people looked up your Whois information can have major benefits, not the least of which is it can indicate how many possible buyers you might have and you can rank your domains in value based on the number of Whois searches performed.

For example, say you have a low traffic and lightly searched term but suddenly you see several Whois lookups. That can indicate there may be a buyer for your domain or website out there, possibly an end-user who will likely pay a lot more vs a typical low-balling domainer. It’s hard to understand why this very cool and great Godaddy feature has not received more publicity, or other domain registrars apparently do not offer it.

This is how you can discover the number of Whois searches performed on your domains using Godaddy: Go to the Domain Manager, mouse-over the Tools tab at top and click-on Exportable Lists. Next click on Add New Export with a drop-down list. Select All My Domains and click Next.

Now you can select the data to export. Check-off exporting both Current and Previous Period Whois Searches, and click-on Next. Then select CSV file for use by opening your Excel spreadsheet program. Probably no need to compress the data so select “none”. Give the exportable list a Name and click-on Finish. After a few minutes GoDaddy will compile the list and email it to you.

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