Around 40% of registered domain names are deleted each year and about 25,000 domain names are deleted each day. Most of these expiring domain names still have people visiting. This visiting traffic is valuable in dollars and cents.
Elliot Noss, President and CEO, Tucows Inc. one of the largest Internet domain name registration companies states that 2-5% of expiring names have a value reasonably in excess of what each would cost to renew it and at least one name per month, often more, sells for over $ 10,000.
"This market of reselling pre-owned domains that have expired generates about $ 60 million a year in revenue," says ExYahoo.com President Bjorn Snorrason.
"Most expiring domain names were once developed and marketed by their previous owner, and some are still listed in the Yahoo!, Dmoz and IMDB.com directories."
Domain owners generally fail to renew because they:
Were too busy to develop the site,
Couldn't afford to maintain it any longer,
Went out of business,
Lost interest (this is usually the main reason),
Simply forgot to renew and therefore the domain is now free for re-registration.
Such expired domain names can have a high re-sale value, but they are a lot like a used vehicle. You have to be careful to find the Diamonds in the Rough. You need to look under the hood to understand why the previous owner let it go.
"The ExYahoo.com service makes finding and evaluating such soon to expire and expired domain names easy," continued Mr Snorrason.
ExYahoo.com gives a detailed link popularity report with each expired domain it finds for members.
Through the service they instantly know how many links are pointing towards the domain, the directory positioning, Alexa.com rating, Google.com PageRank and a direct link to the Internet Archive Wayback machine at http://www.archive.org to see what was displayed at the domain in the years before it expired.
A live link to this information at http://www.LinkFight.com is also included.
The official website for the ExYahoo.com service is http://www.exyahoo.com - both PayPal and major credit cards are accepted.
ExYahoo.com is a division of Snorrason Holdings of Iceland. ExYahoo is a trademark of Snorrason Holdings. All other brands/names mentioned may be (registered) trademarks of their respective holders. No endorsement of the ExYahoo.com service by the other companies listed is made or implied.
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