There are so many domainers that live for the domain drop. Some domainers spend hours daily sifting through countless expired domain lists. Who said that domainers were lazy?

Some people use expired domain lists to search for domain names with traffic while some focus solely on quality domain names. If you are lucky, you may find a premium domain name that has traffic as well.

It is really down to one’s domaining strategy. If you want to focus on monetization then you would focus on traffic domains. If you want to focus on end-user domain sales, then you will give more priority to quality ebusiness domains rather than traffic domains.

If you focus on traffic domains, then your only concern may be to have the parking/PPC revenues cover the registration fees. If you buy the domain names on the domain aftermarket, then you will want to recover your initial investments within reasonable time, perhaps within 2-3 years.

However, depending on the nature and source of the traffic, there is always the risk of the domain name losing the traffic over a period of time. This can happen when the backlinks are removed or when the domain loses its favourable search engine rankings.

Those that opt to choose quality premium domains over traffic domains would be looking at long-term gains rather than the short-term gains provided through domain parking.

Those who choose revenue domains will only need to ensure that each domain name earns enough to cover their renewal fees. Those who choose to invest in quality domains will need to sell enough domains to cover the renewal fees of their domain portfolio. With the latter, it one could cover the renewal fees and even make a profit from just one major domain deal.

Domain parking revenues are down from what they use to be a few years back. So it may be sensible to have a mixture.

I would recommend acquiring only domains that you would personally be interested in developing. If a sale happens, then you can acquire another domain name to develop.

We will not be renewing a few domains as their annual renewals become due over the next few months.

We have been busy spring-cleaning our domain portfolio over the past few months, and it will take a few more months to have the cleaner and meaner portfolio that we desire to work with.

There is nothing wrong with these domains as such. It is more of an internal policy change. We want to focus on certain types of domains, rather than keeping a wide-ranging portfolio. These are very excellent domain names, and we had even received offers for some of them in the past, when we were not actively selling domains.

Most of the domains that have been dropped so far have been registered or were backordered before they expired. So far we have dropped almost 2,000 domains in the dot COM, CC, BIZ, US, NET, CO.UK, WS, INFO, EU AND ORG extensions.

As they say, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Two of the domains that we had sidelined for the drop were BankBazaar.com and Flyports.com. Surprisingly and luckily, we manage to sell these domains before they expired. These very said domains are now branding two great end-user websites.

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure!

We will be offering these expiring domains to our newsletter subscribers for as low as $50 per domain each and every Monday. Domains that are not sold will be submitted to ExpiringDomains.com within a month of the renewal date.

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