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Friday, 29 June 2007

How To Boost Your Traffic With Expired Domain Names

Until now you might have thought that expired domain names are excellent just for branding.
But do you know that by registering the right expired domain names you can significantly boost your website's exposure and traffic?
There is no doubt that Yahoo! is the world's biggest portal. It's no secret that many websites are making tons of money just from the fact that they're on Yahoo!. It's also nothing new that it's getting more and more difficult to get listed there.Now, listen to this. There are tens of thousands of websites listed on Yahoo!. That's tens of thousands of unique domain names, some of which *expire*. Catching my drift?
You own XYZ Web Hosting Corporation (xyzhosting.com) and you want to boost your website's traffic. John Qwerty once had a web hosting business too, with a domain nameqwertyhosting.com. He even got listed on Yahoo.com and received some solid traffic from them over the years. Unfortunately his business flopped and he didn't renew his domain name, so it naturally expired. Despite the fact qwertyhosting.com is available for re-registration, QWERTY Hosting is still in Yahoo! Index .By registering qwertyhosting.com and pointing it to your xyzhosting.com, you'll get a steady flow of qualified visitors from Yahoo!
It's not just Yahoo.com that you can get residual traffic from. Some of the domain names that have now expired once were thriving online businesses linked from tens (may be hundreds) other websites. Chances are that many of those links are still active, pointing to the now dead, expired domains. Now, if you can only register such a domain name, you can capture a stream of traffic that would otherwise go into a black hole.
To find such names, you need two things:
a) a list of expired domain names
.b) a link popularity checker to see whether a particular expired domain name has any links pointed to it.
Some people are getting hundreds of visitors every day thanks to these little-known tricks!

Thursday, 28 June 2007

A warning about registering copyrighted domains

I'll make this section quick and to the point.

One thing you should never be tempted to do is register a domain name that contains a company name which isn't yours, especially when it comes to bigger companies. So don't even think of registering MicrosoftSoftware.com or McdonaldsHamburgers.com, because their legal departments will eat you alive. Literally.

In the early days of the net, there were a lot of "cybersquatters" who registered company domain names in the hope that they could bid them to massive companies and reap millions of dollars for their efforts.Hundreds of court cases and thousands of dollars in legal expenses later, all that happened was the courts summoned the "little guy" to give up his trademarked name and literally give it away to the big companies.

So the warning is simply this. If you spot a hot domain that you think would bring a major company's purchasing department to its knees, resist the temptation. You'll go through much more hassle than it's worth.To ensure that there won't be any copyright conflicts on the particular name, use a trademark search on any new domain. I personally use http://www.nameprotect.com/.

Tread with caution... because if you launch a multi-million dollar venture on a domain that doesn't belong to you, you may end up giving it away.

Wednesday, 27 June 2007

3 Letter Hot Expiring Domains

They are pending delete. Grab them if you can!!

kdv.biz
krf.biz
qlb.biz
add.us
adp.us
agv.us
jur.us
kai.us
kba.us
kgo.us
meq.us
mhc.us
mmt.us
tqh.us
tsm.us
two.us
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