I have speak about the ‘hype of old sites‘ 2 months ago. Now I’m going to come up with a specific way to find and buy an old website with:
- less than $100
- more than few years old
- high page rank
Feeling excited? Of course you are. Let’s start.
1. Get that list of deleting domain names
Domain name will be deleted after not renewed for roughly two months. The cycle can be described as below:
Awaiting Renewal (Expired) -> Redemption Period -> Pending Delete
You are buying the domain names that are in the ‘Pending Delete’ stage. Domain registrar Pool.com compiled a nice list everyday on pending delete domains. Get it from this link: http://www.pool.com/addBackOrders.aspx
2. Filtering
I’d suppose this is the hard part. You need to filter out domains with high PR (page rank), than most of those with no/low PR. To do that, first, you need a “Google PageRank Checker” software that can check the URL’s PR in bulk.
I have tested few tools. Most are slow, and hard to import URLs. By far this is the best:
Now here’s the hard work part: after you extracted the text file (in txt) format downloaded from Pool.com, rename it to “.csv” (comma separated value), and import it to your excel. From your excel, select approximately 300 domains from the list, and paste it to a text file (.txt). Run the Google Pagerank Checker software, click “Import” and select your text file. Click on “Check” to get the PR of each domain. Wait around 5 minutes (or go do something else). Then click on the “PageRank” category to sort by value. And you will have your lists of high PR sites. Repeat and rinse .
3. Further Checking
You will get at least few high PR sites (min PR4) out of thousands of sites. After that, you can perform further check on the sites: WHOIS them, page strength them, explore them, check their history. Dig out as much information as possible.
4. Backorder it, for free
Pool.com let’s you backorder the domain for free, and collect a one year registration fee of $60 once back ordering is successful. So yes, USD$60 is all you need to pay to get this kick ass domains you just found and filtered (and assume that nobody knows, else you gonna bid for it).
Bonus For My Dearest Readers
Upon 20 minutes of using my method, I found a kick ass domain name.
Domain name: http://superstarselling.com
Page rank: PR4
Registration Date: August 2003 (3 years old domain!)
If you are reading this and have $60 to spare, go grab it :)
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alang 10.11.06 at 4:45 am
Hey, great info, thanks for sharing the tips
Lim CS 10.11.06 at 4:46 am
Hello alang, nice to see you dropping by ;)
reallybites 10.12.06 at 1:18 pm
The thing is, where do we find those list of expired or pending deletion domains?
Lim CS 10.12.06 at 4:26 pm
Hello reallybites,
You can get it from pool.com. Just download the zipfile (http://www.pool.com/addBackOrders.aspx)
Jack 10.01.07 at 8:01 am
Thank you for your tip. I tested this as explained and it worked fine.
I checked a list with about 1000 domains listed in pool.com . Most domains with high pagerank had fake pagerank. The above mentioned tool Free Google Pagerank Checker does not recognize fake pagerank. It seems, that the Page Strength tool in Seomoz.org is not able to recognize either fake pageranks. If you search in Google there are several tools, which can recognize fake pageranks.