Make Money With Expired Domains

If you’ve followed the 5 Minute Guide To Buying Expired Domains, you may feel pretty confident about quickly and efficiently finding and buying a good expired domain. Once in your possession you could use your expired domain to drive affiliate sales. But is that the only money making option open to you? How do you find alternative methods of monetizing your domain?

Here’s the trick: copy what other successful webmasters do. We have our own little laboratory in which other people perform the experiments at their own risk, and we can observe and assess. The only problem with our study is that we can’t gauge the experimenter’s success. But we can generate ideas for our own endeavours. In a nutshell, we need to:

• Identify expired domains that have been bought with the sole purpose of making money.
• Recognise the monetization methods employed for that domain.
• Assess what kinds of sites are suitable for this kind of monetization.
• Seek out and buy domains that fall into that category and monetize in the same way.

I’ve done the hard work in the form of analysis, so you don’t need to. Over the last few months I’ve been keeping a record of all the expired domains that were receiving high traffic numbers and that were bought by someone in the Godaddy Auctions. I revisited each domain around a month after the auction end date. This time allows for the 7 day Godaddy transfer period, and also gives some time for the new owner to set the site up.

The results are interesting.

Make Money With Cash Parking

As you can see, the majority of the expired domains above were bought and then parked. On the one hand I’m a little disappointed that sites with obvious potential are simply being parked to make money, instead of being developed. However, on the other hand it’s a business decision to do so. If you can buy a domain that receives 20,000 unique visitors every month why not park it? Developing a site from scratch takes time, effort and money, whereas cash parking takes two minutes to set up. You can then sit back and watch the cost/revenue balance redress itself.

Which Expired Domains Are Right For Cash Parking

Obviously, traffic is an important factor in choosing a domain for cash parking. The more traffic you get the more revenue you’ll make. There is no point in parking a domain that receives no traffic. The lowest traffic domain above was receiving less than 1,000 unique visitors. As for what niche is best for your cash parked domain, it doesn’t seem to matter as we’ve seen a real mixture. In summary, it seems that if your expired domain is receiving more than 1,000 visitors it is ideal for cash parking. With that in mind, I can feel a little experiment coming on.

Weird Postscript

I’ve just bought the domain http://cti-logistics.com for $5. A bargain, especially when you consider that although it has only 4 inbound links, one of them is from a PR8 .edu page! Alas, that page isn’t even indexed, and has no inbound links so the PR showing on the toolbar must be wrong. Hence my link here to get the page indexed and see what happens. Oh well, it was only $5…