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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Buying Cheaper Expired Domains - Some Tips and Techniques

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Copyright © 2009 John Khu



Laying hands on revenue generating expired domains could be a hard task and a tough exercise. Owning revenue domains could either break or make someone who is just planning to expand his or her business. Expired domains are extremely interesting and absorbing for their perceived abilities in providing an ongoing stream of income. Cheap expired domains should be your ultimate priority. Cheaper expired domains with an ability to fetch you handsome profits should be your business goal.

Most of us tend to buy expired domains that boast of sufficient traffic and inbound links. However, not all domains are equal in their ability to earn you good income; some of them may even be very bad and ordinary. Buying a cheaper and cost effective expired domain requires considerable amount of skills and knowledge like:

a) An ability to look at the cheaper domains much before others actually do.

b) A keen sense of expectancy to spot an expired domain that is not only cheaper, but also commercially viable.

More often, cheaper expired domains are very poor in their quality, brandability and commercial viability. Furthermore, such domains are usually non-generic with a lengthy name that is too difficult to remember and pronounce. Hyphenated domains interspersed with alphabets and numbers are the most commonly available expired domain names. These domains may be dead cheaper to buy, but they do not provide any real-time value to the customer.

Fortunately, buying a cheap expired domain is very easy considering the average value of such domains varies from $10 to about $50. So, how do you make money by selling such cheap expired domains? In essence, buying and selling cheaper domains involve disposing off the domain immediately soon after their purchase. If you want to make money out of these domains, the only alternative is to buy a number of such domains and sell them immediately within a day for small profit; creating a big volume will help you in making some amount of profit.

If you are proficient in Internet Technology related subjects, you can try out converting a cheap expired domain name into an entity that is capable of creating maximum profit. To create profits from cheaper domain names, one needs to focus more on the traffic and inbound links part of the domain. More number of traffic and links mean better and commercially feasible domains that can attract customers like a bee. Experienced expire domain traders ensure that they buy plenty of cheap expired domains and convert them into paying mini-sites.

Cheaper expired domains could act as tiny profit centers, when you change their scope by using better internet technologies, like setting up a useful web site and later promoting the web site for instant traffic. It is also possible to employ these micro web sites as potential money-spinners, by signing up for useful services like domain parking and PPC campaigns. Cheaper expired domains could act as tools in providing an opportunity to earn small amount of income.


About the Author:
John Khu is an author and also a seasoned professional with vast experience in expired domain name business. He is also the owner of the path breaking web sites called http://www.expireddomainsecret.com and http://www.expireddomaingains.com which provides complete and up-to-date information on expired domains and their eternal secrets.