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Why Would Anyone In Their Right Minds Let Go Of A Domain That’s Generatic Sizeable Volumes Of Traffic & Income?

There are many reasons why domain names can sometimes be let go of. Here are a couple of examples:

People move on. They find other business opportunities which they plough themselves into. Sometimes they don’t feel it worthwhile to maintain the domain name they once invested so much effort and expense into. The result is a domain name that attracts good amounts of traffic that can be reshaped to fit in with your new project. It’s even possible to find a domain name that fits this criteria and then create a business model for it. If there is significant traffic pointing to it then a simple 1to10 page site that carefully blends Adsense & affiliate income can start earning an income right off the bat.

The business that had registered and used the domain no longer exists. If you’re reading this then there’s a very good chance that you’re an internet business entrepreneur. However, there are many large corporations that also register domain names on a daily basis. These companies can go bust (thereby exposing the domain to re-ownership) or the particular project that the domain was registered for may no longer be around. Now large corporations may spend hundreds even thousands of dollars on advertising and SEO to get traffic to that domain, but once the domain is no longer needed it may not be worth their while to keep it. It gets abandoned. It still has dynamic traffic streams coming its way. It can be reclaimed. And that’s where you can really benefit.

There are more reasons ranging from death to procrastination, but the above listed are the main ones. The next section looks at some sinister reasons that some domain names may be released (and you really need to know about this before ordering an expired domain).

Beware Expired Domains With A Sinister Past

Not all expired domains are all that they appear. Sometimes a domain name may be purposely released by the previous owner. Why would anyone do this? If for example, the domain name has been tagged by the major search engines as a “spam site ”, and you buy it, then you may just have made a terrible mistake.

Once a site is tagged as a spam site, for example by Google, it will be banned from search engine results. Even though you want to turn it into an honest website, it will remain banned from Google. And there’s really not much you can do to change that.

So once you get a potential expired domain that you’d like to add to your virtual real estate portfolio, ensure that the domain name was not a spam site or banned from the popular search engines for whatever reason. Remember also that if a site is banned from Google, and you take ownership then that’s YOUR NAME behind the banned site. What’s that going to do for your reputation? Not much!

Expired Domain Fortunes The Domain Expiry Process

Domain expiry doesn’t work quite like most people think. A domain doesn’t just plop out of the previous owners hands on the expiration date. Instead, once a domain name passes this date, it enters a static period of 40 days during which the original owner can still re-register it. After this period, the domain then switches to another phase (lasting a further 35 days) whereby the owner can still re-register it (for a significantly higher fee than before). It’s after this period that the general public can then get their hands on these expired domains.

However, after this period things can get tricky. Even if you “backorder” the domain, there’s no certainty that your order will be filled if multiple people are trying to get hold of the same expired domain name. This can happen, particularly in popular niches where the expired domain has thousands of backlinks and a huge surge of daily traffic coming in from the search engines.

Later on I’ll show you one place where you can do a basic search for expired domains for free. First let’s investigate the potential behind buying up expired domains by looking at an example.

A Simple Example - How To Yield A Quick Income By Buying Up Domain Names In Your Niche

Earlier on, we talked about the travel niche as an example where you could potentially buy expired domains to start making a quick income. Now let’s investigate this in a little more detail. The below is a simple model you could employ by combining content (for example any plr content you may have) with expired domains and various targeted affiliate programs and Adsense.

I really do love the travel & holiday niche. It’s a mini-site owners dream. You see, it’s very potent for use with both affiliate & adsense income models. The affiliate commissions for holiday purchases can be several of hundreds of dollars per sale and the Adsense potential is great because many people actively use the internet to research their holidays. Once you get them onto your site, as targeted visitors they will actively click all over your Adsense displays as part of their research for travel deals. By the way, here’s an article about the high-profit travel niche and how anyone can yield an income from it.

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I’m full of advice, Steven, and it’s totally free. Just remember, you get what you pay for and I can’t be held legally or morally responsible if my advice somehow lands you behind the counter at McDonalds. I’m not Dr. Phil, for petesake. I’m shorter and have more hair and less money.

Seriously, the first thing you need to do is take a few deep breaths and take comfort in the fact that you are not the first entrepreneur to feel the weight of the business world on your shoulders. Every business person, including yours truly, has felt the way you do at one time or another. For some, it’s a feeling that occurs daily, especially when things aren’t going as well as we’d like them to. And don’t think the stress will magically disappear if your business takes off. I know people who run multimillion dollar corporations and they will tell you that the stress level goes up in proportion to the size of the business. These same people will also tell you they love what they do and would never consider doing anything else.

The difference between these entrepreneurs and you, Steven, is that they have been in business longer and have learned to not only handle stress, but to take stress and transform it into a driving force. They feed off the stress. It fuels their creativity and innovation. Stress challenges them, it makes them think, makes them better entrepreneurs.

I think the real question isn’t whether or not you have what it takes to run a business. The real question is do you have what it takes to handle the stress of running a business. These are two very different questions and the answers depend totally on you.

Even on the best of days running a business can be incredibly stressful, not to mention overwhelming and exhausting. It’s only natural that there will be times when you wonder if it’s really worth it. Asking yourself the “should I just get a real job” question simply means that your human side is showing. And as a human you have a limited tolerance for things you can not control. And that’s really where the stress of being an entrepreneur comes from. We worry about things we can’t control. Things like finding new customers, paying the bills, making payroll, and a thousand other things. Sure, we can put forth our best efforts to make these things turn out in our favor, but we really can’t control the outcome.

So we worry. And worry breeds stress and stress breeds doubt and doubt breeds the feeling that an 800 pound gorilla is using your chest for a lawn chair. It’s only natural that you being to wonder, “Is this what I really want to do? Do I have what it takes to run my own business?”

I remember once complaining about the stress of running my business to an elder entrepreneur. He waved at me like he was swatting a fly and said, “Son, if it was easy, everybody would do it. Now suck it up and move on.” Suck it up and move on… probably the best business advice I’ve ever gotten. No fortune cookie was ever so on the money.