housands of domain names • Lack of knowledge about value
expire everyday and can be of domain names
used by others. If you want • Being away at time of domain
more traffic or want to resell renewal
the domains for profit, these
expired ones can be a valuable There may have been any of the
resource. aforementioned reasons or any
other cause, but whatever the
An expired domain may have been case, the domain is now an
used by one or more persons in available option for you. You can
the past. They may have designed use it by designing a website on
a website, advertised it, linked it or divert traffic to your
it to search engines, done existing website.
business deals on it and even had
reciprocal link connections with The main advantage of taking over
other websites. an expired domain is the traffic.
There may still be visitors who,
Why are valuable domains ever on finding the better alternative
allowed to expire? offered by you, can redirect
their business. It is not
Many reasons, including but not impossible to know the exact
limited to: amount to expired traffic to a
particular domain. However, the
• Not enough funds to renew analysis of some specific aspects
them lets you gauge the amount of
• Invalid contact e-mail expired traffic. They are as
address follows :
• Loss of interest in online
world LINK POPULARITY
• Closing down of business
This will give you an estimate of The popularity of a web page is
the number of portals or web ranked on a scale of 1 to 10 and
pages that are linked to the this is called a Google PageRank.
expired domain. The more the This ranking system takes into
number of links, the higher is account the number of quality web
the possibility of future pages that have links to the web
traffic. Also, a higher link page. Normally the homepage of a
popularity betters the web page would have the highest
probability of quality traffic. PageRank.
ALEXA RANK About PageRank, Google says:
An Alexa toolbar keeps tabs on "The heart of our software is
the number of hits for a domain PageRank(tm), a system for
and then awards a rank based on ranking web pages developed by
this. If the site has had no our founders Larry Page and
traffic for the past three surgery Brin at Stanford
months, it is automatically University. And while we have
dropped by Alexa. So, look for an dozens of engineers working to
Alexa rank to get an idea about improve every aspect of Google on
the number of visits and the a daily basis, PageRank continues
domain's worth. to provide the basis for all of
our web search tools."
GOOGLE PAGERANK
A Google toolbar is required to
The PageRank is a value that obtain a Google PageRank. You can
Google gives to a web page, based type in the website name in the
on the number of and quality of address bar of your browser and
incoming links. get the PageRank.
YAHOO AND DMOZ LISTINGS continuous visits but it
certainly increases the chances
A domain may have been indexed by of receiving worthy traffic. If
search engines. The domain owner you do not want to use the
may have paid for registrations domains yourself, you can easily
on search engines like Yahoo and turn it around and sell it. It
LookSmart. A domain also may have will certainly be profitable if
been approved by a Dmoz editor. the domain is registered with the
If you take over a domain, these top ten search engines.
listings are automatically
transferred to you. You can do WHERE TO GET THOSE DOMAINS?
your own research by visiting
these search engines and typing There are many sources but the
the full URL in the directories author considers
section. Your results page will ExpiredDomains.com to be the best
show you whether the domain is where he managed to get many
listed with them or not. valuable domains.
An inclusion in the top search Happy hunting!
engines does not ensure
About the Author:
Ainuddin Mohamad is the Webmaster of http://www.BestWebsites.com.my which is a Directory of Best websites. Since 1998 http://BestWebsites.com.my has featured thousands of best websites in many categories of interest with descriptions/reviews given by leading publications and webmasters.
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