I’m Mostapha. I buy and sell names from Morocco. Flipping sounded like a job. It was a spread on names other people already wanted. I treated it like collecting. That book is why most domain investments fail. This page is the other side: when a flip is allowed to exist.
Paste first: Domain Value Checker. Weak letters → not a flip, a donation. How we score. FAQ. Buy filter: before you buy.
A flip is a spread, not a personality.
You need a wholesale entry (drop, expired auction, tired investor) and an exit above fees marketplace commission, escrow, time. Retail to an end user is a bonus, not the plan. Record sales are a museum: what they actually show. Neighbors: NameBio. Money: domain escrow, not a cousin’s PayPal. Listing a name in five fantasies is how you train lowballs: one public ask.
If you cannot name who pays more than you paid, you are not flipping. You are holding. Theme of the year is not a buyer: no secret niche list. AI yield is not an exit: not a reason to buy.
The only order that does not lie
- Checker. Then the radio test: why names stick.
- History: snapshots. Drops: expired valuation not links: don’t buy the graph.
- Marks: don’t buy the fight.
- Write a ceiling. Bid under it. After the push: lock, mailbox: security 101.
- Lander or marketplace, one number. Sell page: before you sell. Escrow and a push, not an M&A deck: most sales are not M&A.
Time is a cost. A name that needs three years of renewals to “find retail” was a leftover. Renew keepers only: early renew. A whole book of almost-flips is a portfolio problem: a list that can grow is fewer names.
Decision
If the spread is not obvious on paper before the bid, skip. Keep the Google row. Beginner guides sold a lifestyle. A flip is a dull transaction on letters someone else already wanted.