Deleted Domain Names
Thinking of starting a website?
Rather than start from scratch, consider reviving a dead domain name.
Every day 20,000 or so domain names are dropped or expire.
Many are very good generic names, and chances are with some, you'll find links to the
site still remain in some directories or links pages.
What this means, is that if you simply register the domain name,
start a hosting account and put some content pages on the site....
you should start getting traffic quicker than if you started from scratch.
If you've done your homework and researched the domain name,
checked if it is listed on any indexes, directories, or maybe even has a
decent ranking in a search engine or two, you should be able to reach
a target audience for the keyword oriented domain name.
Here's our FREE step-by-step guide to researching, registering, and running a
deleted domain. An instant website traffic builder.
Where to Find Recently Deleted Domain Names
There are several websites that publish daily lists of deleted domains,
and some that have interactive interfaces that allow you to reserve
or register the name as soon as it is fully released for registration.
(There are waiting periods and grace periods for dropped and deleted
domains -- they are not always available for immediate re-registration
the day they are published).
Here's a few of our favorite deleted domain name sites:
NameStead.com -
publishes daily list of deleted domain names, (in the ".COM" top level
domain or TLD). Lists are organized by date dropped, are in ASCII text format,
and there are also sub-lists of domain names which contain particular
keywords. Namestead.com also offers "domain name management, analysis
and reporting tools used to consolidate and automate domain name
portfolios for expiration date monitoring and link popularity tracking".
Pool.com -
interactive interface to deleted domains, backorder available domains
and registration services. The Advanced Searching options allow you to specify
if you want a domain name which contains a certain keyword, exclude keywords,
choose whether the name contains dashes or digits and if the keyword is at the
beginning of anywhere within the domain name, along with length, deleted date,
and several names within gTLDs and ccTLDs, (.com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, .ca,
.co.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk, and .net.uk).
DeletedDomains.com - this site features an intereactive interface.
There are tools to refine your search by TLD, days since deleted, and lenght of names.
It pays to do a little research and see if a deleted domain name you are considering registering has any drawbacks.
Make sure the name was not part of a domain name dispute by searching for WIPO decisions regarding that name.
You might even want to contact the prior registration holder to see if there is any information about the site, or content they may
be willing to contribute to your site.
Happy domain name hunting!
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