Firefox 3, which set a one-day record for downloads recently, has been reconfigured in a way that’s setting off alarms for webmasters who haven’t renewed their SSL certificates. As the US Army just learned, Firefox won’t bring up sites with self-assigned and/or expired certificates. At least, not without some extensive hoop-jumping. If you’re a merchant you should know that an SSL certificate encrypts data transmissions between two computers. Credit card information, for example, is protected during transmission between those two computers.
Who is Really Making the Expired Domains Money?
What is an expired Domain Name?
An expired Domain Name is a Domain Name which was previously registered but the owner did not re-register it. If a Domain Name expires, it becomes available for anyone to register.
Profiting with Expired Website Traffic
A few years ago, an Internet visionary named Ultsearch came along, stumbled across the most ingenious profit generation idea in the history of the Internet age, and quietly went on to make untold millions. To this day, he has held a monopoly on the biggest underground industry on the Web. In fact, you’ve likely helped him out, and not known it. So how did he single-handedly go on to plunder the spoils of the Internet? He connected two simple dots: expired domains + link popularity and realized their sum equaled expired traffic.