Hi everybody, don't know how long this will be shown, but I was just checking my site position for the search term 'Right to Buy' (Yahoo UK & Ireland) I'm at 3 but an expired domain is top!! Any ideas please. Thanks David
Perhaps you should buy the domain?
Not such a bad idea - well thought.
But why is it still showing with ads on it?
It depends on the registrar... some will redirect it to their own placeholder when it expires so they can make money off of the traffic that the domain was already getting. Sort of a sleazy practice in my mind, but there are several that do that. I haven't seen that from the older ones, just some of the ones I don't like as much (godaddy, catalog, and a few others).
I guess that's part of the reason Netsol pushed so long to stay a monopoly... because there are plenty of bad things that a registrar without the same ethics could do. Of course, I remember their controversial redirects at one point for unregistered domains.
Since this is in Yahoo, I'd expect it to be there a while. If you can get that domain, it'd be a nice little burst of traffic for a couple weeks.
Brian.
Heh, I saw that too and thought the same thing... how do I buy that domain?
You don't - I've logged it! Cheers David
Thanks for the idea
Bill for the idea is in the post!
Many of the registars want to keep it not only for the traffic and free advertising, but becasue they might just want you to back order the domain. Back ordering is more expensive than a direct order. Repeat that 100 times a day and you are rolling in it.
Registers hope the people will renew the domain name and if they don't, they hope someone will click a search on their parked pages.
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