Internet Domain Name

As you probably already know, domain names are obtained by registering them with a domain name registrar and paying the associated registration fee. Keeping ownership and control of a domain name, requires regular payments (usually annual) to renew the domain. In the event that a domain owner fails to pay the renewal fee, the domain then goes through a multi-step deletion process – first there is a period when the original owner can redeem the domain (although usually at higher cost), then a period when the domain awaits deletion, and then finally the domain is expired and becomes available for anybody (first come, first served) to register again.

Domain names can expire in this way for a number of reasons, although the most common are perhaps:-

1. The original owner loses interest in keeping the domain name

2. The original owner is a business which has gone bankrupt or is no longer trading.

3. The original owner is simply no longer around (he or she may for example have died, moved to another country, etc.)

In any case, whatever the reason is why the domain name was allowed to expire, the key point is that others can register that domain after it has expired. At first glance, you might wonder why somebody would do that given that the new owner is purchasing only the name, and does not get rights to (or copies of) any web content that was previously associated with the name. However,  obtaining an expired domain name can be valuable for two key reasons:

1. The domain name may be valuable in itself, possibly to build a new web site, or perhaps simply to sell on (flip).

2. There may be existing links to the domain from other web sites and perhaps even directories such as Yahoo! or DMOZ. Such links may mean that the new domain owner will benefit from some free traffic and links.

Because of these reasons, many businesses have been founded around expired domain names, and because of their value, obtaining the best expired domain names can be very competitive (with people racing to register domains as quickly as possible after they expire). The other side of the coin however is that there are a lot of tools to help a budding entrepreneur entering this field – tutorials, lists of expiring domain names, software tools to search for expiring domain names, and software and services to help win the race to register a domain as soon as possible after it expires.

By S. Tanna. Discover more about expired domains at http://www.domaincavern.com/expire.php

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