Domain Name Bonanza!

Real estate news By Today's Local Market Conditions Report
Mar 08, 2007, 12:05 pm PST

It has been several years since the last "land grab" for great real estate domains. This means some real opportunities, whether you missed out on buying any awesome domain names, or feel you bought too many during the frenzy. Either way here are some very clever ways you can turn your current situation into profit.

One of the biggest mistakes sales associates make about domain names is assuming that all the good "dot-coms" are gone. This is hardly the case because great real estate domains are coming back into the pool of availability all the time. Keep in mind that there is about a 25 percent annual turnover in real estate licensees every year. This equates to about 400,000 people dropping out of the business annually! A lot of these people purchase domain names that they no longer have any use for and simply allow them to expire.

Here are several ways you can tap into this mother-lode of gold real estate Web addresses:

Just Check: Simply go to any domain name registrar (my favorite is GoDaddy.com) and type in your choices to see if they are currently available. You may be quite surprised as to what comes up. If one or more of the ones you wanted are not available, don't stop there. The registrars typically allow you to see who owns them (in most cases) and when they will expire. If the expiration date is less than a year, and a bit of further research has shown that the owner is no longer in real estate (a quick Google search should be able to tell you that), then you have a chance of getting it. Now if you want to dramatically increase your chances of acquiring a soon to be expiring domain, you can "backorder" it.

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