Yahoo expired domain names?

is it possible?

[faintheart]

A site claims to find expired domain names that are still listed in yahoo, and if you register it, you can redirect it to your site. my question is, would it be possible? doesnt yahoo delete names that are expired?

[edited by: Marcia at 7:55 pm (utc) on July 21, 2002]
[edit reason] snipped company name [/edit]

[mack]

Maybe im just taking a pessimistic point of view on this but surely if this company is able to determine when a domain becomes available that is listed at yahoo, Yahoo must be able to do this also and remove domains that become expired. Yahoo also use a spider to detect 404 pages that reside in the directory so the so called “error pages” will be detected for sure. I would guess that yahoo allow so many 404’s in a row before the site is either looked at by an editor or simply removed from the index.

[richlowe]

There are several tools available (for a fee) which allow you to find yahoo entries with expired domains. Yahoo does not (to my knowledge) spider their index at all so the domains tend to stick around for a long time.

Richard Lowe

[cheemo]

I actually have been interested in this for a while, so let me share my experience. About a year ago it was easy to find expired domain names on yahoo because they never cleaned up their directory, high traffic expired domains would sit there for months in high positions and I used to use a service to buy those names as soon as they became available.

Now a days you can still purchase domains that have expired, however yahoo deletes them much faster than before and since yahoo is based a lot on pagerank, the sites tend to be at the bottom of searches. So unless you can build that exact page back up, redirecting the site won't usually get you much traffic.

There is a lot of competition for expired yahoo domains these days so a lot of what you end up with are usually useless to you, ie soap manufacturing plant in Singapore, or other abstract, specific sites. You can still find a gem in there sometimes, so it can be worth it, especially if you want and get a site in a category with very few competing sites. Just don't expect to get a lot of traffic from expired yahoo sites anymore.

[bobriggs]

Gotta agree with mack here based on experience.

I watched a site go down and immediately applied for a snapback on it. (The site I intended to build had kind of the same content, and the Yahoo description matched, I just made it better)

Took NetSol about 2-3 months to release the domain to me. I immediately put the site live, just so there would be no 404 or DNS errors and put an under construction on it as I hustled to build it.

In the meantime, Looksmart deleted it. (There must have been a link checking spider during the 2-3 month period).

After the site was up, I did see a mysterious yahoo type of spider come by about 2 weeks after I put the site up (most likely a link checker). This is the only site I have in Yahoo - I've got about 8 others but I've never seen this one - That's why I think it's a link checker. It's stayed in Yahoo ever since. So maybe I was lucky or just fast enough to beat the Yahoo link checker.

[2_much]

If nothing else, this could be helpful for link popularity to other sites.

[korkus2000]

Here is another thread on the subject.
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