How Expired Domains Can Help You

Posted by writer on November 7th, 2008 at 01:57pm

What is an expired domain and how can it help you in your internet marketing endeavors?

It’s easy to explain, an expired domain is a domain that hasn’t been renewed.

There could be a number of different reasons for this – it’s possible the domain’s owner simply forgot to renew, possibly their domain registrar didn’t remind them (or used an out of date email address to tell them), possibly the domain owner bought the domain intending to do something with it and then changed focus. There are lots of different reasons that a domain has been allowed to expire.

So how can you make money from expired domains?

First off, it’s generally considered that the older a domain name is, the more “important” it is. By definition, a domain name that has expired has been around for a minimum of a year, so it’s older than buying a new domain.

Secondly, if the domain was used, there may be existing links to the site. There’s also a very good chance that the search engines will know about it and will have indexed it.

If you’re extra lucky, the domain may have had sufficient importance to gain some Google Page Rank.

Yup, that’s right! Some expired domains have a Page Rank and traffic.

The trouble is, you’re not the only person looking for expired domains. The best expired domains are purchased the very second that they are put on the market.

Which means that if you are thinking about buying one or more expired domains either for your own use or to quickly “flip” and resell to other people, you’ll need to work fast.

The best way to do this is to use a service that will allow you to search for domains that are soon to expire. This gives you a head start and allows you to snap up the domains you want as soon as they’re released back into the pool of available domains.

Check out this excellent affordable service to hunt down expired domains here.

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