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domain-scout

Daily expiring-domain auction crawler with Qwen brandability scoring. Surfaces undervalued .com flips.

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Launch kit

domain-scout — launch kit

1-liner

Daily expiring-domain auction crawler with Qwen brandability scoring. Surfaces undervalued .com flips.

Tweet hook

95% of expiring auctions are junk. Smart domainers manually scan thousands daily.

Built a Qwen-scored filter: brandability + retail estimate + class flag. 50K listings/day → 50 picks worth manual review.

Single $50 buy → $1500 flip pays for the year. Stack 🧵

Reddit

  • r/Domaining: "Open-source brandability scorer for expiring auctions"
  • r/NamePros: cross-promote in tools thread

Cold-email ICP

Domain investors with portfolios. Reach via NamePros forum DMs + Twitter @domains.

Cold-email template

Subject: brandability scorer for daily auctions

Hi {first} — saw your portfolio on NamePros.

Built a scorer that filters daily GoDaddy/NameJet auctions to the 5-10%
worth manual review. Qwen rates brandability, estimates retail value,
flags trademark risk.

DIY MIT-licensed; managed alerts $99/mo per metro/category.

Want to test it for a week on your watchlist categories?

SEO content

  1. "How AI brandability scoring works"
  2. "Domain auction strategies that actually work in 2026"
  3. "Brandable .com retail-value benchmarks by category"

Documentation

domain-scout

Daily expiring-domain auction crawler with Qwen-powered brandability + retail-value scoring. Designed for domain investors flipping to Sedo / Afternic.

Why this works

  • Most expiring auctions are junk. ~95% of expiring domains have no resale value. Manually scanning 3K-10K daily expirations is uneconomical.
  • Qwen-scored brandability filters to ~5-10% of the daily feed worth manual review.
  • Retail estimate lets you set a max-bid threshold automatically (target margin $200+).
  • Local Qwen = $0 marginal cost. Cloud LLM-scored equivalents (e.g. some pro-level tools) charge $99-499/mo or per-domain.

Pricing tiers

  • DIY operator — $0 (you run it, keep all profit on flips)
  • Daily digest service — $49/mo per subscriber
  • Pro tier — $149/mo + Sedo/Afternic auto-list integration
  • Done-for-you — 50/50 split on flips with operator running it

The economics for an operator running it themselves: a single $50 buy → $1500 flip pays for the year of compute. Hit rate is the question; conservative is 1-2 winners/month.

Architecture

sources.py     daily crawl of GoDaddy / NameJet / DropCatch / Sedo
   │
   ▼
scoring.py     Qwen → brandability score, category, retail estimate
   │
   ▼
filter         brandability >= threshold, bid <= max, margin >= floor
   │
   ▼
cli.py         email digest / Slack / Telegram alerts

Run locally

cd C:\openclaw-products\domain-scout
python -m venv .venv
.\.venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -e ".[dev]"

# LM Studio with qwen3-30b-a3b-2507 must be running

# Daily scan (cron this at 4am ET)
domainscout scan --pages 5 --min-brandability 0.7 --max-bid-usd 200

# Score one domain
domainscout score-one pipely.com

Roadmap

  • NameJet, DropCatch, Sedo source adapters
  • Email digest sender (currently CLI prints)
  • Backlink + DA enrichment via Ahrefs/Moz API (paid tiers)
  • Auto-list winners on Sedo/Afternic post-purchase
  • Trademark-risk crosscheck via mcp-trademark
  • Wayback Machine history check (avoid spam-burned domains)