How to get expired domains

admin    domain     domains, SEO

The best domain names are taken but there are many people who forget to renew. This is the perfect opportunity to grab it up. This is the life of an expired domain and how you can get it.

1. 0-45 days Renewal Period – Registrant can renew it at renewal rate
2. 30 day redemption period – The domain is no longer active, registrar owns it but let’s registrant renew it at higher fee. Some registrar may decrease this period to get the domain faster.
3. 5-10 day auction – Auction off
4. 5 day pending delete – registrant cannot renew it and registrar puts it on “Soon-to-be-available” list
5. Release to Public – Then it is released to public between 11am and 2pm PST.

You can no longer try to catch valuable dropped domains because the registrar will auction it off or keep it if they are valuable. The way to get expiring domains is to bid for them with Snapnames, Pool.com, GoDaddy’s TDNAM or similar services. Or you can hope to pick it up when with drops with Snapnames.com, Enom.com, Pool.com, and GoDaddy. If the domain is half decent there is no point in trying to catch it when it drops because the other companies have a lot more resources.

Snapnames.com

They charge $60 to get your name unless there are many other bidders. Affiliated with Network Solutions. They have an exclusive contract so they get first pick for expiring names on network solutions.

Enom.com

They charge a $30 fee. But now NameJet handles all of their backorder domains.

Pool.com

They will get the name for you for $60. Once they get it they will offer you a option to increase your bid but does not tell you if there are other bidders and how much they are bidding. If there are 2 bid or your bid is within 30% of the top bid there will be a one day auction.

NameJet.com

Exclusive domain management for Network Solutions and Enom. If your domain is with those providers you will have an opportunity to get it.

GoDaddy.com

You can buy expiring or auction domains from Godaddy. Starting bid is $10 but they charge an additional amount for the renewal. I recommend checking DomainYank.com Search to find the ranking and traffic for the domains.

Power tip: To get leverage over the other bidders it is good to get the .net, .org, and .info.

List of the registrar and their dropped domain partner.

Tools to find the perfect domain name

admin    Online Tools, SEO    

Part of the starting a business is finding a good domain name. Here are some really cool tools that makes it very easy. You can also use this tool to build additional SEO sites with the keywords you want.

Domain Hole – A tool that help you mine expired domains. Then check on hosterstat to see the age of the domain. You can find some good ones.Here’s a list of what you can do:

1. Expired search – Find expired domains based on keywords
2. Name Spinner – Enter a keyword then select options to generate available names with the keyword
3. Instant Check – checks the domain as you type it but what’s really great is that all the names stay on the page
4. Complete Check – Checks all the different TLD extenstions
5. Name generator – This helps you come up with web 2.0 names where the domain is available

Panabee – Enter 2 words and it will generate a list of possible domains. Comes up with a lot of creative names.

Bust A Name – combines keywords in different combinations to get available domains

namestation – use this tool to generate random words or hold a contest for names. Tools that generate random domains, combine and blend words, and find short web2.0 domains.

Valuedrops.com – This shows the dropped domains for today and pending drops for tomorrow. It uses it’s logarithm to filter by value.

wordoid.com – Enter a word and this generates names with that word. e.g. enter “deal” and you get dealized, dealizing,, idealth, etc…

Domai.nr – enter a word and it will help you find short domains