Business Opportunities - Flipping Expired Domains

By Brian Lett

Are you aware of the fact that on average, over 19,000 domain names expire every day. The reason why this is relevant to you, is that if you are searching for business opportunities, this is one that you will want to strongly consider. Just think, in the past, just over one-thousand domain names were expiring daily, so the opportunity was not as great as it is now. Today, your opportunities are immense to capitalize from someone else's hard work by purchasing their expired domain name.

It appears to be that one of the major contributors to the large number of expiring domains, is the fact that most people only choose to register their domain for 1 year. What usually happens, is that the person who originally registered the domain builds a website, and drives traffic to that sight. Unfortunately for them, when they do not see immediate results, they become discouraged, and give up. When the time to renew their domain comes around, often times they have moved on to something else. However, sometimes a renewal is simply overlooked. Either way, the good news for you is that their loss is your gain. Often times expired domains have already gained a great deal of credibility with the search engines, and are receiving hundreds of visitors daily. As a business opportunist, this provides you with two options. One, you can take this expired domain, and funnel the traffic which it is receiving to your website, or two, you can sell the domain and earn a profit.

There are several tricks to knowing how to find these domain names, and how to know which domain names are valuable and which are not, and, most importantly, how to get to them first. Believe it or not, I have had the best success with purchasing expired domain names on eBay. However, another website which I find helpful is GoDaddy.com. Just go to the "Domains" section, and from there, click on the "Auctions & More" section.

Several individuals who have made it their business to buy and sell domains will actually subscribe to a service which notifies them daily of expiring domains. Such a service can prove to be valuable for those who want to stay a step ahead of those attempting to take advantage of the same business opportunities. There is no doubt that this is a highly competitive market. This is especially the case when it comes to easily remembered domain names, with high search engine trust. However, you should be aware of the fact that domains which easily could have been renewed for $7 or $8, have sold for in excess of $100,000.

The truth is that there are great business opportunities in expired domains. If you choose to take advantage of these opportunities, remember that you have some options. Something as small as a $10 investment can set your existing website up with consistent, focused traffic. This same $10 investment can also provide you with an opportunity to purchase an expired domain, and sell it for thousands, if not hundreds of thousands. Keep both of these options in mind.

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Learn how to turn expired website domains into Business Opportunities. It is very possible to center a Home Based Business around profiting from the purchase and sale of expired domains.