Would you like to know where millionaires like Richard Rosenblatt, the former owner of MySpace are currently investing their money? Well, he is investing millions of dollars into domain investing. There is a way that you can make money too, with expired domain names!

Business 2.0 magazine reported that domain investing is creating a new class of millionaires who are making as much as $20,000,000 per year in passive income from simple domain investing.

The field of domain investing is a fairly new one which is just ready to explode with profits. The web has become the new real estate boom. Instead of investing in condos and flipping old houses, people are investing in expired domain names.

So what exactly is an expired domain name? It’s a domain name that someone had bought and didn’t renew for some reason or another. And each day, somewhere between 15,000 and 70,000 domain names are not renewed and fall into the category of expired domain names.

What makes some of these expired domain names so valuable? Well, some have a lot of traffic directed to them already. Some people spent time building a website and a business online, directing taffic to it, exchanging links and developing listings with the search engines. Then they gave up on it or went on to something new. When the original person doesn’t renew the domain name, it becomes an expired domain name and anyone can buy it.

You may be thinking. How can I make money with someone else’s expired domain name? Well, there are several ways.

My favorite way is the easiest and simplest. Right now, when a domain name has expired, the parking company parks the domain. They put ads on it. When someone goes to that domain and clicks on an ad, they make money. Now if YOU own that domain name, and register it with a parking company, which is free, by the way, YOU can get those checks when someone clicks on one of those ads. It is really that simple to start a residual income. Those checks will continue to come in month after month as long as you own that domain name.

Another way you can profit is to resell expired domain names, the same way that you would resell real estate. For example, the highest reported domain sale in 2006 was $7,500,000. Now chances are that you’re not going to stumble onto a million dollar website that no one has noticed, but even if you spend $60 and double your money, that’s not such a bad investment!

Here is another idea. Search for domain names with the same keyword list that you use for your own website. Suppose you have a business selling jewelry, for example. You can purchase expired domain names with the same keywords and then point the visitors from the old websites to your new website. This will give you instant traffic!

While there is no way to determine the actual amount of traffic going to a particular expired domain, you can find out its link popularity in the major search engines.

These are just a few ways that you can make money with expired domain names and if you’re a creative person, I’m sure you’ll think of more. In no time at all, you could be on your way to making a residual income with expired domain names!

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Welcome to part 2 How To Buy And Sell Domain Names Part Time
For Profit.

Let’s just take a quick glimpse at what we’ve done so far:

We’ve used www.wehavethem.com , www.DeletedDomains.com or
www.namewinner.com to locate names that are about to expire or
have expired. We’ve located consumer site names with a large
amount of traffic in the past month. We’ve grabbed them either
personally or using an automated grabber to ensure we get the
names we want.

That whole process has taken you less then an hour. Just a quick
search to locate a name and then register it. Easy.
(incidentally if you are confident that a name you have
purchased is valuable, it may be worthwhile securing the .com,
..co.uk, .net,.org, .info forms of the name as well. That way no
one can undercut you by bofering it cheaper. And chances are the
buyer will want all five names. That means FIVE TIMES THE PROFIT!

Now it’s time for the real exciting bit. Selling the name.

Once you have grabbed your domain name the simplest way to find
a buyer is to register them in your name. This can be as little
as £5 for two years. (.com names tend to be slightly more
expensive the others). A simple search can put you in touch with
tons of registration services.

Now your registered it’s time to positively market your name.
You can do this in one of two ways:

The Direct Approach – Making a direct approach to a buyer is a
bit tricky. You could rent a mailing list of companies who are
in the area your domain names are out and send them a simple
sales letter. EG. If you had www.cheapplanetickets.com you would
rent a mailing list of a travel agency.

Whilst this approach does work, it’s both time consuming and if
your sales letter isn’t up to scratch your going to lose out.

So now to the way I do things – the lazy mans way to make
fantastic money from selling domain names.

Using Brokers And Agents – Domain name brokers and agents will
list your names on their books and try to find a buyer. They do
this by either a fixed price or via auction.

As this business is fairly new ensure that you find an
experienced brokers. Find out the following:

Their charges: ie commision, listing fee etc.

How many names are already on their books.

And what prices domains like yours are going for.

There is no limit on the brokers you list with if you want to
increase the amount of people who see your offer.

I like to use www.sedo.co.uk or www.afternic.com. But many can
be found via a google search.

You can also sell domain names on eBay. (They get just
everywhere don’t they!). Simply go to www.ebay.com and search
for domain names. Be on the look out for any high quality names
to buy as well. You see because this bsuiness is so fairly new
people just don’t realise the sort of money that can be made.

Once you’ve made the sale all you need to do is use your list
brokers to act as a thrid party escrow service,. This basically
means they will accept the payment for your name from whoever it
may be you are selling to and then register the domain name to
the new owner. All you have to do is sit back and wait for the
funds to go into your account. It’s THAT easy.

What Price Should You Sell At?

This is a vital aspect of this business. Pitch too high and you
won’t make a sale. So don’t get too greedy. The price you get
depends on the quality of the name, how much someone else wants
it and how quickly you want to sell it. If your willing to sit
back and wait for a big offer then that’s fine. But if like me
you want to make cash in the fastest possible time the key is to
selling a name at a reasonable price and with a few names a
week. It’ll take a maximum of a few hours strat to finish per
name.

The ideal affordable price range is in the rgion of
£100/£500/£1000. At these figures people will be scrambling over
eachother to get their expired names or the names of others.
It’s alot easier for a company to buy back from you at these
prices then to either come up with a better name or try to
rebuil their traffic at a new domain name.

Now remember that your overheads in this business are so very
low. If you bought a name for £5 and sold for £500 thats a
profit margin of TEN THOUSAND PERCENT!!!

There’s so many reasons why I love this business.

The money to be made is incredible. Five domain names a week a
would take you approx five hours. And if you even sold them at
the minimum of £150 that’s still £750 PART TIME.

I strongly reccomend you get into this business yourselves. It’s
simple, hugely profitable, and can be worked part time around a
current job. Please. I ask just one thing of you. Try this idea
once. Just once. It’ll cost you just £5. When you see how easy
it is then you can really go into it all guns-a-blazing! And if
you found it wasn’t for you what are you out? Just five measly
pounds.

There’s just one difference between those who achieve real
success and those who float from day to day in relative
financial obscurity. That’s ACTION. So come on. Take that vital
first step to making great money from home for just a few hours
a week and see for yourself why buying and selling domain names
is the opportunity of 2005.

All the best in your new venture.

Jonathan Street.

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Jonathan Street
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Don’t allude to your specific domain name until the actual face-to-face.

You have to sell yourself and sell the name. 80 percent of successful sales are based on the fact that the buyer took a liking to the seller, not the actual product or service.

Good luck. If your price is too high, they will shoot you down. Let them make a preliminary offer.

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However, you must not start looking at the listing as conclusive and must never ever cease thinking about your keyword tactic. In the great majority of situations it’s less likely that you’re going to create a reasonably competitive and distinctive listing and more probable that you have missed one or two which might be real “jewels.” Don’t be taken aback if you find that this is the case, because you will certainly end up being in excellent company.

Even the very best SEO UK advisers and those who specialise in keyword development discover that they’re continually changing their own preliminary listings. Quite aside from that it is probable that the company will vary as time goes on with focal points changing a bit, the potential for new clients and also brand new products or services coming on-line.

That being said, we sometimes will be even quite wide of the mark with this keyword optimisation. We merely might not understand that certain key words are driving traffic to our site without us understanding it. Whenever we do find out, this can be quite a nasty shock so we can often come to feel a bit sheepish even as we grasp that many of us have already been investing considerable time, energy and cash to try and optimise for key terms that aren’t essentially the proper kinds.

When you have a web hosting service that provides you access through what’s referred to as a cpanel, including Hostgator, for example, then you certainly should have a good peek in your user interface since you can discover a wealth of data inside. You’ll be able to do a report telling you just what keywords folks actually used in order to turn up at your web site. This really is highly effective information without a doubt. If you find that there may be a number of key words within which you have never ever even seriously considered, bust them out!

You really should join Google Analytics also, and that is one of the excellent cost-free SEO services furnished by the search engine giant. It has an utterly amazing degree of material and a treasure chest of intellect here, too. It will take a bit to get accustomed to it and to understand the data that Google is actually offering you, however you will yet again be able to start to see the real key phrases that people are utilising to arrive in your site to start with.

Your current search engine marketing should have an objective and you will not fully realise whether you’re on the right course or going closer in the direction of your own objectives, unless you perform a certain amount of tracking and testing. Make certain you improve your own keyword selection listing while you develop.

This video is showing you how to forward a domain name once you have purchased your domain name through godaddy.com It really is very easy once you actually see how it's done. I hope that this helps you. If you have questions feel free to call me, thanks.

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