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What do you use for automated domain quality scoring before buying?

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carlos2

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#1

Manual checks taking 30 min each. Wayback, blacklist lookups, backlink profile, trademark search. Boring. Looking for automation.

Which providers take XMR for these tools? Privacy matters when you're researching domains in bulk.

Currently using a mix of free APIs but want something unified. Budget: would prefer to pay in XMR, but fiat acceptable if the scoring is good. Main metrics I care about: spam history, previous use pattern, backlink toxicity, trademark risk.

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Viejito

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retired & rooted

#2

The terminal has all you need, no? I use a script good for checking history. No need for expensive service. The terminal commands are free. I run checks with dig, whois, and a python tool from github. Results come fast. The blacklist check is most important, no? If IP was used for spam, domain is trash. I do not pay for scoring when the terminal gives data raw. But maybe for bulk is different. You want to buy MANY domains, no?

btrfs

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snapshot obsessive

#3

1) my scoring pipeline
A) input: domain list
B) stage 1: automated checks
I) DNS resolution test
Ii) Wayback availability
Iii) blacklist aggregation (multi-RBL)
C) stage 2: manual review triggers
I) any blacklist hit = auto-reject
Ii) Wayback shows casino/pills/porn = flag
Iii) previous MX records on spamhaus = reject
D) stage 3: purchase decision
I) score >80 = proceed
Ii) score 60-80 = negotiate price down
Iii) score <60 = pass
2) tools used
A) self-hosted: docker compose stack
B) paid: none
C) time per domain: 4 minutes
I) down from 30 minutes manual
Ii) because AUTOMATION

SA

Member

#4

What hardware runs the docker stack?

IC

Member

#5

Terminal scripts don't scale to bulk buys.

btrfs

Member

snapshot obsessive

#6
sailorservers said:
What hardware runs the docker stack?

Old ThinkPad T480, 16GB RAM, SSD. The stack is lightweight. Redis for queue, Python workers, SQLite for results. Nothing exotic. I run it on my home connection in Zurich, no VPS needed for this.

The whole thing pulls maybe 50MB per 100 domains. Wayback is the slow part, I rate-limit to 1 req/sec to be polite.

carlos2

Member OP

#7
Viejito said:
The terminal has all you need, no?

For one domain, sure. I used to do that. For fifty domains a week? No. My time costs more than the hardware.

btrfs said:
Score >80 = proceed

What's your scoring rubric? I need something like this but trademark risk is my nightmare. Had a .com seized after purchase because of a USPTO filing I missed. Cost me four figures and the domain.

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Viejito

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retired &amp; rooted

5 #8
icedeals said:
Terminal scripts don't scale to bulk buys.

This is true. I am old man with time, not bulk buyer. For my grandchildren's projects, three domains, terminal is fine. For carlos2 with fifty, I understand now. Different world.

SA

Member

#9
btrfs said:
Old ThinkPad T480

Same generation here. Runs Proxmox with similar stack. Do you publish the compose file anywhere?

IC

Member

7 #10
Viejito said:
The terminal commands are free.

Free like your time is free. I ran scripts for a year. Maintaining them became a part-time job. Blacklist APIs change, rate limits shift, whois servers block you.

Switched to DomainIQ for bulk work. No XMR though, card only. About $0.15 per domain at volume. Worth it for the backlink toxicity score alone.

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