Most Common City Names in US - Brainstorm

[Kurt]

Kurt posted this elswhere and I think it is a great idea.  Not sure if domains like this rank or not but here goes. 
Purchase cheaper info or other cheaper domains such as FranklinBikes.com-repairs.info  It looks like your domain
is FranklinBikes.com when actually your domain is com-repairs.info  The first part is an addon domain.  So in theory
you can have unlimited FranklinBikes.com looking domains with what looks like a page on that domain...
com-tires.info, com-frames.info

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Gene Pimental has a method whereby you take first names and ad a service business in the title.  He used BobsTireShop.com, but you may get a name that is not quite as popular, so when I do this I try to use First Names, but I try to make sure that first name is also a name of a city along with the service business.

For instance, here is a list of boys names that are also city names, thus more potential customers to sell to.

You and Gene bring up important points. Again IMO the most important thing in marketing is to determine where you'll find customers before doing anything else. With a domain name like BobsTires.com (I wouldn't add the "shop") a major part of your research is finding if you can actually reach a number of Bob's Tires, either by email, phone or snail mail.

When it comes to answering the question, "Where EXACTLY will you find customers?" this method is about as direct as it gets.  For this strategy it's a matter of being able to efficiently find newly expired domains that fit a certain criteria (like at least 10 Bob's Tires in the US with mailing addresses you can ACTUALLY find).

If you have an efficient system you don't need to sell domains for a lot of money. If you can buy a domain for $11 and sell it for $89 it becomes a matter of how quickly and how much effort it takes. And like most things, with time you'll get better at it and my "guestimate" is that most of these domain names have a market value of between $75 and $250, assuming you have at least 8 directly interested prospects. If you have an auction you only need two interested prospects to make a decent profit.

While it's possible, I don't think you'll get a big score. But unlike other domaining methods were you list on Sedo or GoDaddy, you can be pretty sure at least a few people are very interested in your domain. It's a matter of making them aware of it.