Making Money with Expired Domains

There are billions of websites and thousands more popping up each day and they all require a name. As competition on the Internet intensifies, more and more people are actively looking for a quality domain for their site. Unfortunately for them there are already over 30 million dotcoms taken, which often times leaves webmasters with two choices. Settle for a long unpleasant looking domain or spend thousands to purchase a quality one from a private owner. Examples of the few most valuable domains ever sold are:

* Business.com sold for $7,500,000

* Casino.com sold for $5,500,000

* AsSeenOnTV.com sold for $5,100,000

Exceptional domains are obviously worth a lot of money, but what good does that do anyone now? Here is where expired domains come into the picture. While there are over 20,000 domains being registered each day, most people don't realize that there are also just as many expiring. Many times their owners don't realize how valuable the domain is when they let it go. Because of this, it's not uncommon to hear about a user grabbing an expired domain for $20 and selling it for 100 times that.

How do users find these valuable expired domains? They use a special type of search engine known as an expired domain search engine. While most of the domains that expire are junk there are handful each day that are worth a fair amount of money. To find this needle in a haystack you need to use a powerful expired domain search engine. A comparison chart of the top 5 expired domain search engines can be found at http://www.droplistpro.com/comparison-chart.htm.

A demo of an expired domain name search engine can be found at (http://www.droplistpro.com/domain-search-de mo.htm).

Chris Richmond, domain enthusiast and programmer, recently finished what is called an expired domain name search engine. With it you can search through millions of expiring domains by content, dictionary, length, status, and more. A demo of this new search engine can be found at http://www.droplistpro.com/domain-search-de mo.htm

In The News:


123-reg Boosts Security for Domain Name Customers
HostSearch.com - Sep 5, 2008
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1&1 Giving Away 25 Free .Biz Domain Names
webhostdir.com, UK - Sep 5, 2008
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Unsolicited Offer For My Personal Domain Name?
Slashdot - Sep 2, 2008
The submitter has a legitimate cause to use this domain name. He's also free to sell it to anyone at whatever price he/she wishes. by ArTourter (991396) on ...

A third of big companies buy [their name]sucks.com domains
Neoseeker - Sep 5, 2008
Some companies really went far out of their way to purchase potentially unpleasant domain names: for example Xerox has purchased 20 unkind domain names, ...

The Private Domain Registration & Google Dilemma
WebProNews, KY - 16 hours ago
Jim Boykin's Blog post is still very pertinent in this context today as the number of web scammers trying to make money out of the domain name scam seems to ...

Would You Rent A Domain Name?
Blogger News Network - Sep 4, 2008
by Allen Taylor in Blogosphere News, Business News Professional domainers have been buying and selling domain names since at least as early as 1994. ...

168 million domain names
DaniWeb, VA - Sep 4, 2008
According to the VeriSign Domain Report for the second quarter of 2008 which has just been published, there were some 168 million domain name registrations ...

How to Ensure Targeted Traffic to your Website
Corsavoo.com, France - 3 hours ago
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There have been rumors of a Google browser for many years, in part because the domain name GBrowser.com was registered back in 2004 (the domain is currently ...
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EstDomains, Inc: Transfer Domain Name to EstDomains, Inc Before ...
PR Web (press release), WA - Sep 4, 2008
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