Identifying Expired Domain Buyers - Tips and Ideas (Part II)

Copyright (c) 2009 John Khu

Entrepreneurs and business owners look out for expired domains that can act as their gateways to the world of online business. Once again, people will have different interests, goals, objectives, needs and requirements for their expired domain names. Out of every ten expired domains sold in the market, nearly seven of them belong to this category. The reasons are too obvious; a majority of people buys them to set up an online business, while others buy them to host web portals that are non-profit in nature. Several types of expired domain buyers make expired-domains-for-business type of users. Here is some information on how to deal with such expired domain buyers.

Buyers interested in project or academic based expired domain names: Some people who deal with academic based research projects and assignments would like to buy names connected with the topic. Web sites that belong to this category are non-business in nature, but deal with some aspects of commercialism. Making money out of these expired domains based web sites is quite difficult unless someone sells research and white papers.

Buyers interested in expired domain names that create monetary gains: A majority of the buyers belong to this category. People who buy these types of domains feel that there is something profitable in these domains. It could be incoming traffic or even PageRank. Smart expired web domain buyers usually look for misspelled names or those names that emerge out of keyword insertion procedure. When a person buys misspelled web expired domains from you, he or she is trying to create a smart landing page, where a web user can see plenty of advertisements. In addition, people may also buy expired domains to redirect their web users to another web site of much higher commercial importance. You will need to attract these buyers because most of them want to buy domains just to make money. The RPI is very high for this trading category. Affiliate marketers always search for keyword based domain names, while online entrepreneurs are keener on buying domains for their SEO enabled web sites.

Buyers who buy a large inventory of domain names: These are the cream of the expired domain trading industry. They make a living out expired domain by selling them at decent profits. People buy these domains in large numbers and use for a number of purposes. Most of these domain traders park their domains to earn substantial amount of income, while others may rent their names out or even resell at high profits. Renting out domains is a recent trend and it is fairly success, because some people are desperate to use keyword-enriched domains that are not in their inventory.

Buyers who buy domains for speculation: People who buy expired domains for speculation purposes are usually cash-rich. These people believe that at least some of their domain names will have immense value in the near future. Smart domain sellers can foresee favorable changes in the domain market and they use this sensitive information to buy only the best domains names, purely for commercial purposes.