Expired Domains
What happens to domains when the owner forgets to register it?
It expires, and the name becomes available for registration
again!
This is good news for the Internet Marketer.
What if you could search these expired domains and see whats
available? What if you could just pick and choose from them and
take what you want?
Well... the short answer is you can. There are plenty of sites
and applications that list expired domains for you. Most are, to
be honest, useless. Youll find a lot of domains that have
expired because no-one ever used them. But you might strike gold!
You might find a good one-word domain. You might find one loaded
with keywords. Domains are so cheap to register these days that
theres no problem in owning multiple domains. The spare
domains neednt do anything. They could just be another gateway
to your site. You could place different keywords and metatags on
them and just point them at your main pages. Your site traffic
should improve.
Or you could sell them! If you find a good one (which is pretty
rare, but not unheard of) you can put them up for sale at one of
the many eBrokers or even on eBay.
You might even be extremely lucky. You could find a site that
has expired but which still generates lots of hits. A site which
has a good link popularity, for example, can send a lot of good
traffic your way and increase the rankings of your other sites
in the process.
Then theres the ultimate goal. A site that has a strong listing
on Yahoo! or similar. It costs $10 or so to register a domain.
It costs $199 to get on Yahoo. A nice result :) Theres even
software available that will search expired domains for existing
Yahoo listings!
Whenever youve got the time have a browse through expired
domains. Your site will thank you!
Look for expired domains at http://www.active-domain.com - among
other places. Active Domain will also register domains for $10!
Its my registrar of choice.
Also take a look at http://www.deleted-domains.com
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