Expired domains

[DukeOfURL]

I register expired domain names, and lately it seems all the good ones are previously reserved with Snap Names.

Even when they go on hold minutes before I attempt to reserve them, someone has beat me to it.

Is there a way to find names that are expiring BEFORE they go on the "on hold" list?

Thanks

[Tommy]

Hmmm, I'm very dubious about those services when you report events like that. I've had many cases of searching to see if a domain name is free only to find that it has miraculously been taken the day after. It's all too much of a coinsidence don't you think?

Anyway, Expirefish.com will help you register domain names. I can't remember their full range of services but it's worth trying them.

[akashik]

Is there anything worthwhile you can get using those services? Meaning for the effort seemingly involved in it. Domain speculation must be one of the most tenuous jobs online. I suppose if you nailed a couple of good ones you'd be set.

I generally just troll deleteddomains.com and the like for a while when I need a name.

Greg Moore

[SearchExpired]

It has to go in "On-hold" list before "expired" list. And no way you can register before domain expire.

Only way you can compete with Snap Name is act like them research by yourself. If you get expired domain list from others, some good names gone before you get the list.

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[DukeOfURL]

akashik,

You're right, domain name speculation is a longshot.

I have tried to sell a few names on afternic, but no takers, though I know a few people who have made some coin selling names before the Dot Com Bomb.

I don't speculate in the names per se, I look for domains that have links pointing to them. The links are useful for traffic. I have registered expired domains with thousands of links.

I build the sites, and use affiliate programs to make $$.
(No porn like others who snatch domain names with links, and direct them to porn sites). I sell products that relate to the site that expired.


It was a LOT easier before Snap Names.
Now, it seems the names are reserved before they are put on hold. It's as if there is someone screening the names for links and reserving them at Network Solutions before changing their status to "on hold". Otherwise, it's someone who has a group of people working on the names as they are released. I have a fast DSL connection running 6 database queries at a time, and I've been coming up with zip. All reserved. Something is up.

Tommy,

As for using the monitoring services, I have never been sucessful with Snap names, or Expirefish. But then again, the names I'm going for are in demand. The big guys are gunning for them too, especially the clown I mentioned who registers linked sites to redirect to porn. He seems to be registering every site available lately. Must have big bucks behind his operation, or knows some tricks I haven't thought of.

Snap names did alert me to a domain that changed it's registrar information, and I contacted the registrar to register the name, but Snap names was too late on the other names I reserved.

As for Expirefish, I just started with their service last week, and already watched a name on I had on their list "get off the hook".

I wonder about them, because they make no mention of others who might have reserved the names earlier. They don't monitor the registration data and alert you to changes like Snap Names does either.

Like you, I wonder if something's "fishy" with domain registration services monitoring what people are searching for, or reserving in this case, and registering good names themselves. Lots of SHARKS out there!

Has anyone "netted" a name at Expirefish?