Expired Domain Names Are Valuable

Thousands of domain names expire, each and every day, due to either their owners forgetting to renew them or the owners inability to pay for the renewal. These become available again.This is excellent because good names are becoming hard to find.

There are over 30 million.com, .org, and.net registered domains. As you see most of the good domain names are taken. Although more are being registered, there are large numbers of domains being allowed to expire. Approximately 1.5 million domain names have expired over the last couple of years. These lists are growing at a rapid pace and the market for expired domains is massive. They can increase your cash flow, often with little work needed.

They come with the benefits of existing traffic and directory listings. By purchasing these, you are also purchasing their benefits. Some expired domain names can be valued from $135 up to $450.

First of all,there are important elements that you can use in determining the value of an expired domain name:

How much traffic do they have?

How valuable is this traffic?

How much value does the it have?

Does it have the keywords that you need for a job that you are working on?

How old is it? Age Search engines elevate older domains in their rankings.

Acquiring an expired domain is akin to getting a treasure chest full of gold coins for.nothing

With thousands of these names expiring daily and thousands being grabbed up every day, the good expired domain names are hard to find as well. Good ones are considered those with high traffic and high resell value. These are the ones you want to buy in great numbers. If you want to get a handful of these valuable names, you need the correct tools to do this job. There are websites to assist you, both paid and unpaid.

It is really important that you possess these tools to save time and to help you get the domain names that you want and to get them before some one else does.

You would have gotten a few and missed some. But as long as you get more than you miss, buy and manage your domains wisely, use the ones you can for your own sites and sell the rest for a profit at auction, you'll find a small amount of time and money invested in them can be one of the highest returning Internet investments around.

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Get Good Domains Names by Negotiating With the Hardball Tactic

You want to buy a domain name either to start a site on or to try to flip, either way you need to buy that domain first. A lot of domain owners ask for the world when you want to buy their domain. Sometimes they won't budge and no matter what advice I could try to give you won't get a better price out of them. Sometimes they will budge, but you just need to play hardball with them.

Here's an example of how someone played a little hardball with me and I budged and they got the domain name they wanted for a price they were happy with paying. On the two most popular domain auction platforms (Sedo and GoDaddy) they allow you to include a note when you make your counteroffer. I had a person offer me an amount to buy a domain of mine. My counter offer was significantly higher and they came up a little and I came down a little and we went through three back and forths until the buyer sent a note and said "This is my final offer. I know you want more than this, but I've found another domain name that I can buy for this price and this is all I'm willing to spend. If you can sell it for this amount great, if not then good luck with the domain."

Now, a few things to note which are important. This domain name was not a premium domain. If this was an amazing domain like Cars.com or Life.com or Blue.com than I would not budge because as the seller of a premium domain you hold all the cards. But when the domain name is a two or three word domain, it is not a commonly used phrase, the exact searches for it in Google are not that much, and I'd consider the domain more of a brandable opportunity than anything else I have a decision to make. I'd owned this domain for 2 years. I'd never received an offer on it before. I'd paid basically next to nothing for this domain. And I could use this money to buy a better quality domain, so there is an opportunity cost here if I decline and could have picked up a better domain in essentially what would equate to a trade. I wasn't going to get the price I wanted but it didn't make sense to me to hold onto the domain and possibly get another offer in two years, or never get another offer. I took the offer and I'll reinvest the money into a domain from a domain auction in the near future. For me, as the seller, it made sense to "upgrade" my domain name rather than be a stickler and wait out a better offer that may never come.

Moving back to the buyer's side... what he did was put an ultimatum on the table for me. Some people will say I caved and should have held firm. Others will say a bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. The point being, as a buyer put the seller to a decision. Don't do it with your first offer because it is likely he'll scoff at that. Show a little goodwill by increasing your offer a little bit a time or two and then hit him with your final offer, but also put some reasoning behind your final offer. He could have very easily been bluffing but in the end I'm happy with the sale and I'll wind up with a much better domain as a result. You have nothing to lose by making a final offer and holding firm... only the seller has the potential to lose (a sale that is).

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The A-Z Of Making Money On The Internet - D - Domain Names

Why do I need a website?

The truth is - you don't need a website to make money on the internet. Once you equip and arm yourself with all the knowledge and information that you need you will discover that there are ways to make money on the internet without the need to have a website or domain of your own. On the other hand, if you are really serious about making a substantial income online then a website or a number of websites could make an exponential difference to your income.

Choosing a domain name

Depending on the particular niche or niches that you have chosen and the product or products within those niches, it is always useful to find a domain name that will "lend itself" optimally to the flow of heavy traffic to your website. I suggest that you spend some time making sure what type of products you would prefer to promote and then search for an ideal name for your website. There are more than enough sellers of domain names on the internet. You should find one with ease.

Choosing a domain host

It is of course possible for anyone to build and host his or her own website. To build and maintain a website is certainly no rocket science and if you have the time and the inclination you could acquire the skill in a very short time. However, the quality of your site is going to be a key to your success online. The cost of hosting varies considerably and you can expect to pay upwards from ten dollars per month for a decent host.

Simplicity

The elaborateness or number of pages is not what makes a successful website. There are many single page websites making lots of money for its owners on the internet. The effectiveness and efficiency of the content is what matters. Drawing the traffic to your site, turning that traffic into prospects and the prospects into buyers with a simple message that persuades them to make a purchase within the shortest possible time - that is what a website should do for its owner.

Lifelong learning

The internet is an ever evolving universe of its own. It does help to stay abreast of things by regularly checking your favourite search engine with phrases like "drawing internet traffic", "search engine optimisation", "pay per click" and "latest trends internet marketing". In this way you will not be left behind in the race for the internet's millions.

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Guidelines For Choosing Domain Names

There are many things to consider when you decide to buy a domain name. Firstly you need to understand that buying a domain name is different from buying hosting. Hosting is the service that hosts your website. You can buy a domain name without having it hosted.

The first part of the process when you decide to buy a domain name is that you need to decide on the name and this is the most important step in the whole process. Once you have bought your domain name you cannot go and change it if you realize that it is the wrong name, or you have come up with a better name. If you really want to change the name you will have to buy another domain name with the new name and if you do not want to keep the first one, you just don't re-register it and let it expire.

Your domain is your "signpost" on the virtual world of the internet so you need to get it right.

Think of it like this. When you go to buy property you take your time, look around, choose the one you really want then you buy it. It should be the same with a domain name because a domain name is your virtual property on the net. No one else can own your property once you have bought it and no one else can own the same domain name as you.

Make sure that the name is easy to say and say it out allowed - does it have a good ring to it? Make sure it is not unpronounceable!

Having a domain name that is easy to spell is another advantage - and don't try and get fancy with a different spelling. For example if you want blue widgets then don't register bluwidgetzz - who will remember that?

Try and keep the name short as a short name will be easier to remember than a long name. So mywebiste.com would be easier to remember than mygreatinterestingenjoyablewebsite.com

Sometimes though having a long name could be the right thing to do - if it is memorable like a rhyme or a saying that relates to your target audience.

Things to Avoid With a Domain Name Having dashes (-) or underscores (_) in a domain name is not a good idea as they may mix people up or the search engines may give preference to the same domain name without the dashes or underscores.

Numbers are also a confusing thing like the above because when people here a number in a domain name they automatically think of spelling it and not the number itself. This is because the vast majority of domain names do not have an actual number in them.

Do not choose a domain name that is a misspelling as this will only confuse people and you will actually be helping your competitors. Using the example above, if I have the domain name bluewidgets.com and you had bluwidgetzz.com people that you talk to who may go and check out your site will probably end up at mine - great for me but not for you!

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