Each day 20,000 plus domain names expire and become available for anyone to register. This is valuable if you are seeking a domain to help you boost your traffic, or are looking to resell the names for a profit.
Expiring domain names have been owned by at least one person in the past. This owner may have built a website, advertised, submitted to the search engines, or traded links with another website owner.
So why would anyone who made any kind of effort with a domain simply let it expire? Well, here are just a few:-
The Author lost interest A company went out of business Simply forgot to renew the registration Could not afford the fees For whatever reason, that domain is now available for the taking; and you can take advantage of all that work.
You could point it at your existing domain or build a new site.So, how do you know if a domain name even has expired traffic?While you can never tell the amount of traffic that is going to an expired domain name, there are some factors you can use to gauge this. Here are a few:-
Link Popularity
Link popularity tells you the number of URL's or pages that link to a specific domain name. Basically, the more links coming to a domain name the higher the link popularity and the higher chance of generating traffic. Additionally, a domain name with high link popularity has a better chance of receiving better quality traffic.Use our free link popularity tool.
Alexa Rank
The Alexa rank is a measurement of a domain's unique visitor traffic and page views. The Alexa toolbar tracks how many users visit a domain and grades those visits as rank. Alexa will normally drop an expired domain name after seeing no page view traffic for 3 months. So, if there happens to be a related Alexa rank, this is a definitive resource for traffic.Now if that Alexa rank is 1,000,000 or higher, then the domain is really not receiving any traffic. You should look for a domain with at least 100,000 that should translate into at least 2 visitors a day.
Google PageRank
Google pagerank is a value from 1 to 10 that expresses the popularity of a domain name based upon how many quality web pages are linking into a particular domain name. Pagerank can be used for two main reasons when acquiring an expiring domain name.
Building a website to boost your main website's pagerank Take advantage of the traffic coming from the inbound links If you have the Google toolbar installed, you can discover an expired domain's pagerank by typing the URL into your web browsers address bar and looking for the pagerank to appear.Try using this tool as well
Yahoo and Dmoz Listings
The previous domain owner may have been approved by a Dmoz editor or even paid for inclusion into a search engine like Yahoo or Looksmart. When you acquire a domain name that is expiring, you inherit these listings as well. Do the research and search the directory for the name by simply typing in the full URL for the domain.
A listing in any of the top ten search engines will not guarantee traffic, but will give you a better chance of receiving quality traffic. At the very least you can usually turn these domains around and sell them for the value of the directory listings.We have published a list of daily expiring domains names that have the tools in place for you to conduct all of this research for free.
As you can see, this is a very affordable way to gain near instant traffic for your website. Try to purchase domain names that are related to what kind of traffic you need. As an example; if you need webmaster traffic, purchase domain names that have keywords that are appealing to a webmaster not a cook.
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Thursday, 5 July 2007
Quality Expired Names Released Today
Here are some of the quality domains that are being released after they expired. I really like may of these names. Some of them have PageRank and hundreds of back links even. All available to be registered at the time of posting.
PhotoXsite.com
PromoLoto.com
HotCountryStars.com
Baby-Apparel.com
HawaiianArts.net
SupraPhonic.net
RevivalFiles.com
GreetAsia.com
Digital-Cameraz.com
TruckAccessorys.org
SolarPoweredCar.org
RacquetballResource.info
eVacationSites.com
eBizAccountant.com
NetSiteWorld.com
ExtremeSportsCentral.info
ILoveJava.org
CodingEasy.com
OnEczema.com
Document10.com
Carpet-Site.com
HealthCause.com
ScentwareHouse.com
DigitalExposure.org
4Showcase.org
BroadwayMarket.org
Ghostigator.com
CraftCentral.info
WarriorScripts.com
PremierBooks.biz
Find-Download.info
FragancesOnline.org
UtilitiesReview.com
TampaProperties.org
NationalLeadershipForum.com
Uninteligent.com
TelecommunicationsWow.com
ApartmentsZZZ.com
Hair-Replacements.org
FreedomLions.org
Inferror.org
VSDC.net
U1Travel.com
Script-Hosting.com
NetDollars.biz
TheWeldingAuthority.com
Party-Decorations.net
ModelingCentral.info
YahooCamping.com
http://expiringdomains.wordpress.com
PhotoXsite.com
PromoLoto.com
HotCountryStars.com
Baby-Apparel.com
HawaiianArts.net
SupraPhonic.net
RevivalFiles.com
GreetAsia.com
Digital-Cameraz.com
TruckAccessorys.org
SolarPoweredCar.org
RacquetballResource.info
eVacationSites.com
eBizAccountant.com
NetSiteWorld.com
ExtremeSportsCentral.info
ILoveJava.org
CodingEasy.com
OnEczema.com
Document10.com
Carpet-Site.com
HealthCause.com
ScentwareHouse.com
DigitalExposure.org
4Showcase.org
BroadwayMarket.org
Ghostigator.com
CraftCentral.info
WarriorScripts.com
PremierBooks.biz
Find-Download.info
FragancesOnline.org
UtilitiesReview.com
TampaProperties.org
NationalLeadershipForum.com
Uninteligent.com
TelecommunicationsWow.com
ApartmentsZZZ.com
Hair-Replacements.org
FreedomLions.org
Inferror.org
VSDC.net
U1Travel.com
Script-Hosting.com
NetDollars.biz
TheWeldingAuthority.com
Party-Decorations.net
ModelingCentral.info
YahooCamping.com
http://expiringdomains.wordpress.com
Wednesday, 4 July 2007
How to scour and find the best names available
So in such a highly competitive hi-tech world, how's it possible for the average guy or gal to register a domain name without already have been beaten to it first? After all, there are over 100,000 of the little beasts being registered daily and the queue for each domain name is probably at least a mile long. What gives?
It's all about successful domain name branding. There is a big, big lie (a whopper of a lie, in fact) which is causing many dot-com startups to spend ridiculous amounts of money to budding entrepreneurs who got there first. Some guy who registered a great .com name back in 1993 for $100 is probably going to be on the receiving end of a $500,000 or more deal - for such domains like loans.com, taxes.com, bingo.com, and other one word generic domain names. But nowadays, unless you have that kinda cash to throw around, it's impossible to get hold of them.
But was $500,000 worth it for a company to buy such a name? Perhaps. Perhaps not. It's definitely very easy to market such a name, which may pay for itself ten times over in the long-run.But for the small or medium sized business, you may as well save your cash.The lie is simply this: That all of the best branded names have gone.
Wrong! Sure, without the toolkit which enables you to find such names, it's definitely very hard. But in actual fact, there have been many successes online for projects based on $10 domains - infact, some companies are earning much more online than the companies who ploughed multi-thousand dollar investments into their name branding!
Here's how to..
Find the best domains on a shoestring budget
What makes a good domain name? Since we're left with virtually no generic names to implant our brands into, what we need to do is go for an approach at the other end of the spectrum.
We can either come up with clever phrases, or simple, to the point explanations of what our website is about. Unless your own company name is especially well-branded (like Mcdonalds or Sony),then don't bother registering your company name as your main venture unless you think you can successfully market it in a way which ties in with your current strategies. i.e. showing yourexisting off-line clients or established based of contacts your new company website.Let's work with an example. Recently, I wanted to come up with a domain name for a new marketing project I had. I was looking for something which would reflect selling online. Basically, I was wanting to teach others how to sell online and needed to find a good domain name that would become a home tothis project.
All of my ideas for names, such as SellingOnline.com or OnlineSales.com or even HowToSellOnline.com had all been taken. Rather than settling for a long, ugly and unconstructive domain name, I plugged in the word "sales" into the BizMint search system and within moments found...InternetSales101.comThis is a name that was previously registered, but since the previous owner didn't renew their domain registration, was made available after it's expiration. I registered it on the spot for around $10.
This names reflects the website perfectly... "Internet" and "Sales" are keyword rich for what I'm trying to portray and "101" is the number which means "a course for beginners", and .com is the most favored domain name, especially since I'm writing a course on how to sell online.Now if I'd have found this name on a domain auction website, I'd have been willing to pay as much as $500 for it because I know the site could earn more than that every single day. But insteadwith the BizMint system, I was able to find an expired name which has recently be made available as was open for me to register for just $10. Bargain.How YOU can find the perfect domain name First of all, what's your area of business? Write down around 5 or 10 different keywords that relate to your website and plug each of them into the BizMint search system. Make a note of allthe domains that are available (or ones that are soon to be available) and see what you can come up with. Write down only the best ones that stand out at you.After plugging in "cars" and "autos", here's what I came up with.AmericanFamilyCars.com
AmericanLuxuryCars.comAmericanSportyCars.comCarSaleLine.comCarsHut.comImportCarStore.comCars24hr.comCarsForTeens.comAutosMania.comAutosDirectly.comAutoSalesGuide.comAutoSparesFinder.comOut of the thousands of matches I received, the above are just a few that immediately caught my eye. There are probably more and more expiring daily, and having access to this system enables youto keep a permanent eye on your industry. But these are just a recent few.Depending on your niche, the above domains would be perfect for the right kind of car website. Sell lower-priced cars especially for the young student driver? CarsForTeens.com says it all. Orperhaps you compile a list of the lowest price cars available in your state? AutoSalesGuide.com is right on the money. Or how about AmericanLuxuryCars.com for the well-to-do business man? These are just a few examples of many.The next step is to analyze the search results you receive and use them to provide further inspiration for the kind of website you're looking for. Many times the expired domains churned out at you are good enough to register on their own - but at an absolute minimum, even if you don't register any, they can provide great inspiration for your own ideas.For instance... you may not want Cars24hr.com, but instead 24hrCars.com. The list doesn't show this domain as expired but that doesn't mean it's not available.
You can use the Whoissearch on the main BizMint members-only page to find that specific domain and see if it's available. If it is, you can grab it for registration immediately.What makes a great domain name?A great domain is something that ties in well with your website. Since the generic approach to finding a domain name is virtually out of the question, when finding a domain name that fits in withyour own website, it's important to come up with something that can be associated with it.
Here's a great example I found recently...ListenHoney.com is a site dedicated to informing people about their rude behaviors, their bad habits, or simply letting them know that there's an area in there life that needs to change for the general good of everyone else. Check out the site to see what I mean (it's really funny).My guess is that the resale value of this domain is virtually zero. If they tried to sell just the domain, they'd probably be lucky to get more than $100 for it. It's a short two-word domain, but it has a very limited scope and in general, people just aren't going to be interested in owning it.
However, for the website owners, it's an absolute gem. It's a very clever incarnation of what the site offers, and to be honest I don't think there's another domain that could ever compete withit. So for the owners, although the domain was cheap to register, it's priceless.
Value is in the eye of the beholder. If a longer, usually less attractive URL works great for your business, then register it and use it! Who cares what's its resale value is. I've personallytaken $10 domains and turned them into $100,000 or more yearly income streams with powerful business models. Since my own business is 100% Internet-based, it doesn't matter to me whetheranyone clicks on a hyperlink which is 40 characters long or one that's short, sweet and snappy.As long as the domain portrays what you're offering, the expired domain name database at BizMint will enable you to scour and find thousands of top domains that fit in well with your businessmodel.
Let's say you own a company called Smith's Computer Systems Inc... what type of domain would work well with your business model?
You could buy SmithsComputerSystemsInc.com - but that's boring, it has virtually no branding potential and to put it bluntly, it sucks.
So instead, you'd make a list of keywords and plug them into the BizMint search system. Here are a two keywords I'd note down:
ComputerPCsThen I'd plug them into the search system, and look for all expired .com's. I'd like the domain to be less than 20 characters long and not contain either numbers or dashes. let's see what I find BestComputerSource.comBuyaComputerNow.comComputerBoot.com
MyComputerStore.comTheComputerSite.com
Each of the above domains contain much more branding potential than
SmithsComputerSystemsInc.com or any similar domain.
SmithsComputerSystemsInc.com or any similar domain.
Something like MyComputerStore.com would be perfect for branding and would look great in any form of advertising
"Just click to MyComputerStore.com"I found the above 5 domains in less than two minutes. It took 10 seconds to complete the search, and another couple of minutes just to browse through the list and see what I could find. Andthat was without even searching for the "PCs" keyword - just for "computer".This is the kind of power you have. And when used properly, you'll be able to churn out a whole stack of quality domain names!
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