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Expiring Domains
September 6, 2007 by kim.milton.
Over the last year or so I’ve noticed that expired domains seem to stay in limbo land for a long time. Somehow these same domains are snatched up before the average person can purchase them. I decided to research how to purchase expiring domains:
I read How to Snatch an Expired Domain by Mike Davidson
This article helped me a lot! There is one recent change that I know of: Snapnames now starts bidding at $99 for Domains expired from Network Solutions. Even though the starting bid has increased by $39 this is a very good deal. If you use one of the other services there is no guarantee. I have purchased four domains over the last week through Snapnames and watched some cool high end auctions.
This next site Find Your Domain NOW is an article to tickle your curiosity with an Ad.
I like that the owner was able to get second listing with the following Google search (how to buy expired domains). This page didn’t really help me get a domain, but it did help me understand why other people buy them.
At webmasterworld.com in the Domain Names discussion there are a lot of good tidbits.
Webwork seems to have some good information and suggestions.
I read a few more articles but pretty much the Mike Davidson article gave me the bulk of information I needed to be successful in purchasing a good dot com domain. I don’t look at all expiring domains, I look at Registrars that have a relationship with Snapnames and there are plenty of great names to be had.
My recent purchases are:
The total spent to purchase the four domain listed above was $431 (two of the auctions were listed at the old starting bid of $60). Just because they went to auction doesn’t mean I spent an arm and a leg to get them. I was the only bidder in two of the auctions. There were two auctions I didn’t win because I am not a high roller, they went for $12,666 and 4,200. I’ll update you when I buy more Domains. I have about 20 more auctions this month.
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