How To Find Expired Domains For Sale

One great advantage of purchasing an expired domain name that has been used previously is that it will likely already have a listing position on the search engines and thus will have traffic being directed to it.

This pre-existing traffic can be seen as a willing audience of potential consumers for the product or service you are marketing.

Before you go ahead and buy your expired domain name, do a quick search on the Way Back Machine to check that the domain hasn't been used for dubious or spammy purposes.

Once you're happy with your choice, you can either use a domain snapping service or you can use some software to snap domains yourself and avoid the high fees often charged by specialist services.

If you time your domain purchase well and keep similar content on the domain, you should keep much of your search engine rankings and a high quantity of the backlinks the domain had.

Quite a few internet entrepreneurs have made very large amounts of money purely from buying and selling expired domains with traffic - often called domain name flipping.

All you need to do is find an expired domain that has traffic, register it and park it until you sell it on at a profit.

There are a number of domain appraisal sites on the market but I've never found them to come up with a realistic estimate of the price you're likely to achieve. It's far better to start small and build your own knowledge than to rely on someone else's software to judge the value of a site.

The best way to find expired domains with traffic is to get a software service to send you regular lists of domains you might be interested in (based on your keywords) and then research the ones that are of most interest.

Domain names are becoming available in their thousands every day.

There are lots of reasons for this. Often people will have bought a domain and then either forgotten about it or lost interest. Or their circumstances may have changed.

Whatever the reason, you could well be surprised by the domain names that are available.

Trouble is, you'll be spoiled for choice.

So the best way is to pick a few keywords that interest you and then let a computer do the hard work of finding possible names.

The best service I've found for this is here. All you need to do is give it a set of keywords and you'll get regular emails with domains that fit with those. This is much, much better than getting a long list of domains that would never interest you in a month of Sundays.

Once you've found these possible domain names, you can either use a specialist service to get the domain for you or you can run some software on your computer and just pay the normal registration fee.