If you are dedicated online marketer you have noticed that the average price of a .com domain is about $9 dollars, but what most people don’t notice is that these domains hardly ever sell for less than that even if the domain is completely useless such as htmlbuttonsareugly.com you can sell that domain for at least $25 dollars with an hour of your time and an open mind. We know that if I were to buy that domain we could sell it the next day for about 75 bucks with about 4 hours of work or even less.
So anyway after a long time of thinking of a new original word like “Pillar Content” we finally came up with a word, “Comatose Domains“. Meaning domains that are expired/dead yet still bring in traffic we’ve looked it up everywhere and no one is using it, you saw it first here folks!
Buying dot com domains is one of the safest investments that you can make. People are easily fooled, you present them a website with a well written article and a little bit of traffic and they’ll be rushing for their wallets to buy your domain. If you buy a comatose domain you’ll not only have the advantage of Google already indexing the domain but you’ll also have pre-exisiting traffic that can help drive up the sales of your site.
We are currently watching a domain in a Godaddy auction, the domain is “BLOCKED.info” that’s spanish for “BLOCKED.info” a highly searched porn keyword and it has about 2950 visitors per month and it’s only selling for $20 dollars and has 2 bets.
It’s indexed in Google and with a little bit of work it can become a Major porn website. The auction ends in just minutes and I’m willing to bet that the buyers are spanish speakers and are exploiting this opportunity.
You can do the same as these people just did but with domain auctions in other languages. Use an online dictionary and find out what the word means if it’s a profitable keyword that you think you might be able to develop then buy it right away as it might just be a non-polished diamond.
Anyway, it’s pretty hard finding and buying a domain has expired because domains do not expire the moment they say that they will, it actually takes about 75 days for a domain to fully expire and be available for the public to use. Knowing that a domain takes 75 days to expire you won’t wanna put all your bets on that domain, but rather many domains.
Here is where the Domain Research Tool comes in to play. The research tool allows you to monitor 500,000 domains and check many of their ranks, including alexa, dmoz and more. The program comes with an Automated domain appraisal quickly appraises domains as they are scanned using a user defined formula!
Here is how your game plan should be done.
- 1. Look for profitable domains.
- 2. Add them to the domain research tool.
- 3. Wait for the tool to find the available domains and buy them.
- 4. Flip the website or keep it if you believe it will go up in value over time.
By flipping the website you’ll create a faster revenue in no time by waiting you might maximize your earning potential but it will take time. Website flipping can guarantee you a steady income because there is always someone interested in the niche of your domain.
When you are buying the domain make sure that you are using small word not sentences, something like “coconuts.com” might work better than “buyacoconut.com”.
Another way to make a quick easy profit and gain a lot of traffic is using Wordze. They currently have 498,600 Google keywords that you can download for free through that link. Think of all the possibilities like “hilaryclintonisracist.com” or “Jamilynnspearsgotpregnant.com”. With a domain like that and an adsense box you can be sure to get a lot of clicks.
This is the end of possibly one of the longest posts we’ve ever written here so we hope you enjoyed it we’ll have another post more detailed on buying domains and flipping them soon. If you have any questions or comments feel free to post them. And just as an incentive, we’ll give 1000 free Entrecard credits tomorrow at random to one of the people that posts a comment in this post.
August 5, 2008 at 4:21 am
Where do you think are the best places to sell a domain. I know of sitepoint but are there others that you have used?
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August 5, 2008 at 5:10 am
Ah! perfect idea here germz.. really works when you want to do site flipping cause you get instant traffic already!!
August 5, 2008 at 8:39 am
well said germz.
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August 5, 2008 at 4:12 pm
@Kevin: Try http://www.sedo.com or even Digital Point, you won’t find as many buyers there but it’s worth a try. Sedo does bring in a lot of bids if the domain is good.
August 5, 2008 at 4:26 pm
You should’ve just bought Blocked.info. Yeah its a porn site, but don’t develop it. Just turn around and sell it on dp or somethin’
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Great post though, gave me ideas
August 5, 2008 at 6:59 pm
DP… yeah like they’ll buy a porn site from a 15 year old kid lol
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The worst part about the domain was that it was gay porn… I’d develop a porn site that is not about gays and then sell it for a ton of profit but gay sites are just gross.
I just checked the site sold for 60 bucks. It’s definitely worth at least 100 just for the name.
August 6, 2008 at 2:57 am
Truly amazing! It’s hard to believe this is written by a 15 years old. Well done!
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December 14, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Nice post.
I’m always trying to learn more about website flipping.
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February 28, 2010 at 5:50 pm
Estabished adsense sites that earn more than $1-$2 per day are in short supply and they bring a premium when they sell usually. I found one over here that is going for like 5 months revenue however over here.
August 25, 2010 at 3:00 am
I just recently started flipping websites, and I can vouch that it does hold a lot of potential. Wanted to take the time out and thank you for such wonderful information. Domain Flipping Rocks!!
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April 17, 2011 at 9:37 am
I just checked the site sold for 60 bucks. It’s definitely worth at least 100 just for the name.
April 22, 2011 at 6:07 pm
Excuse my question guys: But what GPT stands for?! Is it sites that force you to but other products in order to get access for certain info or what?
June 17, 2011 at 12:29 am
To Steven
GPT stands for Get Paid To…. You are get paid for things like filling out forms, leaving reviews, reading articles and etc. You’re not forced to buy anything rather you are given some money for doing what providers ask for