Buying deleted domains and then selling them

[Frankie]

Hey all-
Just found out about the site, and love it already! This is my first post, so bear with me.

Recently, on a lark I purchased a domain name that expired due to the fact that the company had some turnover in the IT dept(and nobody renewed). I on a wim, snatched it up, and a couple weeks later, the company offered and purchased the domain back from me for $1200.

Needless to say, I was happy. This 'hooked' me and now I am on deleteddomains.com all the time, looking for generic, 3 letter, and 'forgetful company' expired domains for resale.

Have you guys had luck with this? Is this the best place to go to find expires? I woulkd assume being it is a free service, the internal people at deleteddomains.com probably snipe out all the good ones? Where else can I find real time deletions?

Lastly, when contimplating a domain purchase (especially when looking at forgetful comapny domains), do you search on Google for old domain 'webbed' info, to confirm that it was a recent Live site.

Thanks in advance for your input!
Frank

[cabbie]

hehe Welcome to ww Frankie.
You dont ask much do you.
Let me say that deleteddomains are better than they used to be but the good ones snapped up dont even make it to deleteddomains.com.
Saying that its hard to tell what expired names are valuable until you get an offer for it.Sometimes obscure names to us can mean alot to someone else.
Cheers

[Frankie]

Thanks Cabbie-I guess that is asking a lot. The fact is I see potential here, but I want to work smart.
Have you ever used domainsbot.com?

This looks like it may be a good tool...?
Anybody have any feedback on them?

[teeceo]

Frankie, Frankie, Frankie........ You are TRUELLY "a day late and a dollar short" when it comes to the feleted domain game. About a year ago(when i started sniping domain names) it was good times, there was no long "hold" time before the domains droped and when the domains dropped, they still had there PR. All you had to do then was put up a affiliate program sites on the url and "bam" $$$$$. Now with the new rules (the long waits, being able to get your name back after it gets "put on hold") and THE BIGGIE, google giving it a pr0 so you get to start out fresh with your linking(:. For those reasons "I" stepped out of the game(just when i was getting good to(:. But, if you really want to waist your time chasing deleted domain names, there is only one place to go to find them (the domain guru). Do a search for him on google and you'll have all the tools you need for your gold digging (i mean:) name grabbing fun.
Thats my 2 cents.

teeceo.

[moltar]

I am just getting into this myself as well...

I actually wrote a series of Perl scripts to help me with that.

I was wondering how many queries per second(minute) is acceptable by whois and SE? I don't want to overload them with my scripts. I want to be polite :)

[Shak]

Frankie,

Welcome to Webmasterworld [webmasterworld.com]

Why didn't you ask for £12,000?

Shak

[Frankie]

Thanks teeceo, and everyone else for your feedback.
The problem is I am pretty 'Thick'. Of course, I never take anyone's advise, and usually figure things out the hard way. This is why I am gonna continue to try to resell domains.
With this said, what IS the most effective way to do this? Do you guys typically wait until a domain is officially deleted, or do you recognize a pending delete, or on hold domain, and place a 'Snap name' on it? I would assume this is the best way as most good ones are probably sniped by the official deletion time.?

Also, please explain to me what you mean by 'Google has shut down the listing....etc'.
Does this mean that when the domain is deleted, so are all Google listings?

Help a thick guy lose his money =)

Thanks

[Purple Martin]

When teeceo said that Google gives it a pr0, he/she meant that Google changes it's page ranking to 0. That means that the URL will be last in the results returned from a search, so people will almost never go to the site through Google. Obviously that severely limits the potential for making money through affiliate shcemes.

My advice: get-rich-quick-schemes don't work, so don't bother. If they did work, we'd all be millionaires, but we're not. Making money on the internet requires a bit of effort. Find a niche, write some good content for it, build a useable accessible site, optimise it for the search engines, submit it, market it, keep it updated and relevant... you'll have a good site that you can make some money from through advertising and/or product sales.