The whole idea to get into the Expired Domains game was because I owned too many domain names to properly use them for anything content intensive. I had some great ideas and bought some domains, but with my current time restraints, those domains have sat in limbo-la-la-land. I was curious if there would be a way to monitize the sites. So I did some digging around and found several useful and informative sites about Expired Domains and Parking Domain Names. So I’m doing a little project to see if I can monitize these sites and also, pick up expired domain names with traffic. I’m not sure where this project will take me, but I’m sure I’ll learn a few things along the way.

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What I’ve done so far:
December 2005 - Picked up 2 new domains fresh from the expiry pool. Both have to do with Poker. We’ll see how they do. So far I don’t think they’ve had much exposure before they were dropped and I picked them up for a steal of a deal… but you never know with the popularity of poker these days. I’ll wait and see how it goes.

Update: I found that the two sites that I picked up do have the backlinks - but so far I’ve not had any traffic. Which kind of sucks - but what can you do… so I’ll wait and see what January 2006 brings.

November 2005 - I signed up with Sedo.com and was just “testing the waters” of parking domains to make some extra passive income. I put 3 domain names in the pool and found one little gem that stood out from the others. My end-hair-loss.com which I picked up some time back when I thought of making a product website for hair loss products, and then didn’t really have the time to do it… thought many people would be looking for it - and I was right! Not a staggering amount of traffic but a few hundred visitors a month. Not bad for not knowing what I was doing! This peaked my interest in expired domains - what if I could find a BETTER one that that? So this is where my Domain Insanity project began.

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