Make money online from domain registration trading

Domain registration trading is one of the most lucrative online money making schemes. With a little bit of information, patience and perseverance it can be turned into a viable income generating prospect. For people who just use the internet to retrieve information domain trading may be a nouvelle concept however there are many individuals and even professional establishments that are making a good deal if money by trading domains.
So if you are a novice to the world of internet and its intricacies you will have to first find out about the background of domain names. A domain name is nothing but an exclusive name given to a website which corresponds to its unique IP address. To put it in layman terms when we want to visit a particular website on the internet our computer searches for this site on another computer in the vast cyberspace with the help of a unique identifying string of numbers called IP address. However it would be terribly cumbersome for us to remember the individual IP addresses of all the sites that we would like to visit, so to make the internet more user friendly the concept of DNS (Domain Name System) was introduced. With the help of this system the IP address could be made to correspond with a string of words called domain name for example google.com or yahoo.com. Domain name were easier to remember, but with the explosion of the internet phenomenon a huge number of websites cropped up each trying to compete with the other to bear a name that would be easiest to remember and be the most relevant or make an impact.
In the initial days of the internet registering a domain name was a piece of cake but not anymore. With thousands of domain names being registered everyday it can be a difficult task to get the domain name of your choice because more than often the domain name that you want already belongs to somebody else. But the good news is that with the proliferation of the internet a lot of names are also being dropped everyday. By a dropped domain name, one means a name that is no longer owned. When you wish to own a particular domain name you will need to register it with the domain registrar and this is usually done for a period of two years. But many website owners discover that for a multitude of reasons they don’t want to hold the domain any longer and so don’t wish to spend after registration. If a domain is not registered after its expiry in about 75 days it will be dropped or get the status of an ‘expired domain’. This means that any buyer can then register/ buy this domain name.
The next logical question would be why anybody would want to buy this name when a new name can be registered for a few dollars. There are scores of reasons why a person may want to buy an old domain name. One is to take advantage of the popularity that this website may have enjoyed in its high days. Another is the name itself may be relevant to your cause and a third reason maybe because this domain name is very close to your domain name which means that there are high chances of a visitor going to this site instead of yours.
This is where a domain trader comes into the picture. Most organizations or individuals who want to buy expired domain names seldom want to put in the efforts involved with getting this name. Don’t let the simplicity of the process fool you, since this is an extremely lucrative prospect competition is fierce and a good domain name usually gets snatched within seconds of being dropped. But if you can get your hands on such a name you can be sure that buyers will not mind paying a good price for it.
The simplest way of grabbing a good domain name is to avail the services of sites like Whois.net, JustDropped.net, Dotcenter.com DomianAnnouce.com, UnclaimedDomains and many others. You could also use the domain registrar sites like GoDaddy.com, TuCows.com and eNom.com. Most sites will charge a small fee to let you access the data. But you should be warned that the sheer volume of data supplied by these sites is astounding and you will need to be very patient to segregate the good domains from the huge lists.
Once you have found the domain name of your choice you can register it for a small fee and your ownership can then be transferred to the buyer of the domain name. The big players in the market right now are Pool.com, Namewinner.com and Snapnames.com. It would be unreasonable to expect your very first domain name to fetch you a hefty sum but once you build up your credibility by setting up your own website and through contacts; customers will start trickling in on their own.
Domain trading is certainly veritable online money making option that can be successfully turned into an income stream.

Do Links From Expired Domains Count With Yahoo registration

From time-to-time, issues about how domain names can impact Google rankings come up. Is it true that if you buy a name, all the “link equity” that name has gained is lost? Below, a look at this and some related questions.
Several years ago, Google sparked some concerns when it said that buying an established domain name meant that links to that domain before the purchase were effectively lost. In other words, say someone bought a domain today that was registered in 2003 and which had built up hundreds of links over the years. All those links were effectively slapped with an invisible nofollow tag, passing along no credit. But links from after the purchase date would accrue credit.
Why did Google do this, way back then? Many people were buying old domains simply for the links – in some cases, also because they were listed well in the Yahoo Directory, when that was far more important than it is today. Putting the word out that buying domains wouldn’t gain link credit was a way for Google to dash cold water on the tactic.
Since that time, there have been any number of web sites that have had domain names change hands for various reasons, such as through acquisitions. For example, Company A absorbs Company B, which causes the domains owned by Company B to transfer to Company A. Was all that link credit was really lost?
That didn’t seem to be the case, so it’s been on my list to get the current state of how domain transfers impact link credit from Google. And that is? Google’s Matt Cutts told me:
There are some domain transfers ( e.g. genuine purchases of companies) where it can make perfect sense for links to transfer. But at the same time it wouldn’t make sense to transfer the links from an expired or effectively expired domain, for example. Google (and probably all search engines) tries to handle links appropriately for domain transfers.
Adding further, he said:
The sort of stuff our systems would be designed to detect would be things like someone trying to buy expired domains or buying domains just for links.
Let’s take those statements and see how likely it is that different types of domain acquisitions will pass link credit.
Buying Expired Domains: Don’t Expect Credit
Have you picked up a domain that was once owned by someone, not through buying it directly from them but because it had expired and went back into the common pool of domains for purchase by anyone? That’s an expired domain – and chances are, the backlinks aren’t going to pass credit according to Matt’s statement.
Buying Domains & Redirecting Links: Probably No Credit
Did you see a tasty domain and think it would be nice to get it, in order to obtain its links for a different site, such a redirecting them? Sounds like there’s a good chance that Google is going to notice the purchase date, take note of the redirection as well and decide those “historic” links shouldn’t count. What about if you just paid someone to keep the domain going under their name but closed down any existing content and point to another location? Might work; then again, Google might note the change, the oddity of one site to completely point at another, and it might be that the links won’t count.
Buying Domain & Running Web Site As Usual: Credit Likely
Did you buy a web site from someone else and are maintaining the business on that site as normal? Despite the fact that your domain name registration will have changed, since the site is carrying on as usual, there seems to be a good chance that link credit will continue as normal.
Getting Domains Through Acquisition: Credit Likely
Have a domain that changes hands, due to a company acquisition – company A buys company B? You should be OK, thought it’s unclear how Google tells the difference here from an ordinary transfer. And no, Google wouldn’t share more on how they can tell the difference.
Does Domain Registration Length Matter?
Finally, from time to time I’ve seen suggestions that the length of domain registration is a factor – domains registered for longer are rumored to be more trusted by Google. In the past, I even saw one domain registrar claim this as fact. Matt said about this:
To the best of my knowledge, no search engine has ever confirmed that they use length-of-registration as a factor in scoring. If a company is asserting that as a fact, that would be troubling.
He also added:
The primary reason to renew a domain would be if it’s your main domain, you plan to keep it for a while, or you’d prefer the convenience of renewing so that you don’t need to stress about your domain expiring.”