How to Purchase (And Profit From) Expired Domain Names

When it comes to your financial relationship with domain names, you may think that you will always spend money on them, and never have opportunity to profit. However, buying expired domain names can be a smart and simple way to make some money without having to do much work.

How would this be profitable? Well, imagine that a company starts a website to sell products online. For our example, we’ll use paperclips. They purchase a domain name such as “thepaperclipstore.com” (which is actually available at the time of this blog post) and run a moderately successful business there for a year or two. However, they also own a different site that earns them more money, so they decide to put all of their efforts into the second site, ultimately letting their domain registration over “thepaperclipstore.com” expire.

That web address is now available for purchase. When you buy a domain name that has already been in use, like with this example, it offers quite a bit of potential that isn’t found in brand-new domains, such as:

• Existing back links. Back links are essential to the SEO performance of a website. Some are better than none, so starting out with a few hundred is still a good place to start.
• Residual traffic. If the previous domain name owners did any advertising, the fruits of their efforts may still be paying off and sending traffic in the direction of this site. Why not take advantage of it by putting something useful there?

What’s more, as pricing goes, expired domains can sometimes be purchased as some of the cheaper domain names, so it’s quite possible to get a good deal.

But what do you do once you’ve chosen to buy a domain name that has expired? Just getting that traffic doesn’t instantly mean you’re profiting from the purchase. Here are some ways to take advantage of domain name registration expiration:

• Buy an expired domain name and build a profitable website using its existing traffic and back links as a starting point.
• Buy an expired domain name and sell it to someone interesting in building a website at that domain name address.
• Buy an expired domain name and use the site to point traffic to various other businesses of that type that aren’t generating traffic on their own. You can sell the right to be listed on your site much like you might sell advertising space.

Sometimes, high traffic expired sites are expensive, and sometimes you can find a good deal. Know what you’re looking for and what you’d like to do before deciding to buy a domain name that has expired. But once you’re ready, this can be a good way to profit from other people letting their domain name registration expire.

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