Domain Afterlife: Let the dead send you website traffic!

Attend a dead web site seance and you could explode your traffic overnight! OK, not a REAL seance but there is a way to get traffic, lots of it, from dead web sites using a very special type of ouija board.

Every day thousands of Internet domain names expire. Maybe the person died, or they forgot to renew it, or they just decided to abandon the Internet marketing game. No matter what the reason, many of these sites are well ranked in the major search engines and are getting traffic! All you have to do is find the domains that meet your product or service’s requirements and register them in your name. Then, just point the URLs to your current web site and you’re all set to go.

So, how does it work? Here’s the scoop.

When a domain name owner fails to renew then the registrar (the company that handled registering the domain name for the owner) deactivates the name for approximately 30-45 days. During that “grace period” the current owner can simply pay the renewal fees and service charges to get the use of their domain back.

After that period of time the domain name is “supposed” to be released back to the domain name pool and become available for anyone to register. the emphasis is on “supposed to” because there are one or two registrars who do not play by the rules and hold on to expired domain names indefinitely.

Your job is to find a way to stay on top of the names that become available and decide if they have any value. “Value”, in this instance, means that one or more of the following situations are true:

1. The web site is well listed in any major search engine.

2. It has a high Google page rank or a good Alexa Traffic Rank.

3. The domain name can be tied into your product or service. If it can’t be then you might consider using the domain name to sell whatever the previous owner was selling.

Once you decide that you’ve found a domain name that’s got potential, all you have to do is go to your favorite domain name registrar and grab it.

Of course, there is one small little problem. How do you know which domain names have expired and which ones have the traffic or ranking to make buying them worth your while?

You need an Expired Domain Name finding tool. There are a lot of them out there but, to tell you the truth, most of them charge far too much money for their membership. Here is one that is actually reasonable and works just fine Domain Research Tool.

Once you get the domain research tool then you can run your searches regularly. It doesn’t take too many “scores” to start seeing your traffic shoot up and raise your counter from the dead!