Hundreds of thousands of domains expire every day. We find the handful that were real businesses.

Think of it as a disciplined funnel. Everything goes in at the top; only names with a defensible case come out at the bottom, each with its reasons attached.

I

Scan

Every day, hundreds of thousands of domain names return to the market. We look at all of them, every day, without exception. Nothing is sampled, nothing is skipped.

II

Filter

Roughly nineteen in twenty names never meant anything: random strings, throwaway registrations, names nobody ever built on. These are set aside immediately, and we keep a note of why, so nothing disappears silently.

III

Investigate

For the names that remain, we reconstruct what they used to be. Was there a real business behind this name? For how long? What did it do, who did it serve, and did it ever earn an audience? Each answer is tied to the evidence that supports it.

IV

Categorize

Every former business is placed in the sector it belongs to, whether that is retail, local services, publishing, software, health, finance, education, travel or a specialist hobby. Each sector has its own yardstick, because a good publishing name and a good local-services name are not judged the same way.

V

Rank

Finally each name receives a clear priority and a confidence rating. The priority says how much attention it deserves today. The confidence says how sure we are, so a strong finding on thin evidence never looks the same as a strong finding on solid evidence.

Four tiers, deliberately blunt. The point is to tell you where to spend your attention, not to produce a number for its own sake.

Confidence travels with every priority. Two names can both be rated Strong while one rests on years of evidence and the other on a few fragments. The confidence rating makes that difference visible, so you know which findings are solid and which deserve a second look.

A name that looks good on paper can still be a bad purchase. Every candidate that reaches the shortlist passes four checks, and each result is backed by evidence you can review.