Another excellent and cheap way to obtain good domain names is through expired domain listings. You see sometimes very good domain names are lost because domain owners carelessly forget to renew their domain names. Either these people lose interest, don’t have the time, money or effort to manage their domains the simply forget their domains will expire or they did not supply their register with an accurate email address to be reminded of the pending renewal. In any event their loss is your gain.

Why are expired domains so valuable? Even though a lot if expired domain may never have been developed, there will be some that were once active and thriving websites. A quick way to test this out is by going to www.archive.org and try out their Way Back Machine. Simply type in the domain name and it will display how the domain look looked over the course of it registration life. If you discover that the domain name was developed into a website you could bet that there may have been some traffic.

So how do you go about finding an expired domain listing. Several sites on the internet that cater exclusively to finding good expired domain names.

1. www.dropwatch
2. www.justdropped.com
3. www.pool.com
4. www.whois-search.com