Expired Domains Help

[sooty]

Hi all, Hope you are well.

I'm struggling to understand expired domains.

Let me get this straight, to buy a good expired domain and get parked income, you can expect a lot of competition for that name, thus driving the auction price higher, thus reducing your return on investment.

Is the whole point of getting expired domains, to look for low competition ones?

It would strike me that any decent domain names are gonna cost an arm and a leg?

Does anyone care to share their strategies without giving away the farm?

Thanks

 

[JYM]

Generally this is true, if there is a really good domain and it is for auction on pool.com, it will generally go for more. However, these are normally reseller prices and not an end-user price, so those that win the auction can still sell the domain to end users and make some money.

As for picking up lowcompetition domains, the reason there's little competition is because no one sees value in it. Some times, a 'reg fee' domain may go for $xxx - xxxx, but most of the time this doesn't happen.

I just stay away from bad expired names altogether.

 

[sooty]

Thanks Jimmy. so what about for parking purposes (income).

How does one buy a domain for parking, but not pay too high a price?

 

[faisj]

Thanks Jimmy. so what about for parking purposes (income).

How does one buy a domain for parking, but not pay too high a price?

You can always gamble with reg fee domain names.
Research a certain topic and see if there is potential in the service or
product type then see what names you can come up with.
most of the time all the good once are taken but sometimes you could
get lucky and find a real traffic domain name.

More info: http://www.theppcparkingguide.com/step1.html

 

[sooty]

thanks, so like the stock market investing, it seems that expired domain names is all about finding undervalued names, unless you find a new reg.

 

[faisj]

thanks, so like the stock market investing, it seems that expired domain names is all about finding undervalued names, unless you find a new reg.

Yes, you can compare it to the stockmarket...
tho, sometimes a new reg can do so much better then a domain who has
been online for 2 years...

 

[MaxMcool]

Yes, you can compare it to the stockmarket...
tho, sometimes a new reg can do so much better then a domain who has
been online for 2 years...

Interesting concept ! probable could use some stockmarket analysis way of looking at things to see through the hype and find the real value.
But there is certainly no charts to show you at a glance prices, trends and opportunities to buy and when to sell.
Keyword bids would give some enlightening results if thrown into a charting software program though.

And you know the best actual domain names I have ever bought were new reg's
clean slate, registra price, good name, just have to build your own traffic.

Just like the stock market, many domain traders will pay to much or buy junk when buying a domain name and then try to sell it latter at a loss or let it expire.

 

[Spade]

Although I am more focused on buying low and selling high, I am working on building a parking portfolio. I have found that TDNAM does list traffic for expired domains that were hosted on there parking server. This is a nice place to find traffic domains, however yes, for the good ones you will be competing with people who do have some distinct advantages over you. Retention customers at Godaddy recieve a 20% discount off of expired domain names. Which means they have a better margin. However, you can find some decent domains there! I have been fortunate enough to steal a few.

Justin