Chinese domain names growth rate is 200,000 in recent months been growing rapidly.

The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) released the “19th China Internet Development Statistics Report”. From the report, it mentioned that China domain names registration grew very rapidly, with an average monthly increase of nearly 200,000.

It is reported that China’s total number of domain names has reached 4,109,000, and is growing very fast.

Experts pointed out that why Chinese domain name has rapid growth rate is mainly due to several reasons:

First, China did increase the number of Internet users, the community’s increasing demand for domain names.

Second, China’s CN domain names in the top-level node of the layout and upgrade the network so that security and network service quality has been greatly improved.

Third, the CN domain name has been recognize by internet communities. Now more and more applications are based on the CN domain name or Web site in CN.

Fourth, it is indeed the rise of the mainstream of domain names, domain names in the mainstream play a strong influence.

The report also revealed that, the number of Internet users in China reached 137 million, accounted for 10.5 percent of the total population in China. The penetration rate of Internet users in Beijing is more than 30 percent, ranking first in popularity among the region.

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According to the Guinness World Records, the domain name of Business.com which was resold in 1999 for $7.5 million, appears to be the most expensive domain name that ever sold, and not by theRecordBreakingDomain.com which was trying to turn to be the most expensive domain name in reported by media for selling price of $7,500,001.

Another domain name which is Sex.com was reported sold for $14 million US dollars to Boston-based Escom LLC on January 19, 2006 , making it to be the most expensive domain name that sold. Yet another domain name Sex.com which was formerly own by Gary Kremen, after years of having this domain name, the owner then wants to get out from the adult entertainment business. The selling price for this domain name is not really known by public. but according to Reuters and AZOnline , the price of Sex.com was quoted to be sold for $12 million US dollars.

While the situation of current online market for internet domains is not able to compare anyway when it was during the dot-com peak, however, the domain name market remains strong and is experiencing uptrend growth. Every year the transaction of domain names involve tens of millions of dollars. In September of 2005, the vip.com domain was bought by the gambling company Leisure & Gaming, and they have paid $1.4 million for it. This is the most expensive domain name sale publicly reported during 2005.

The most expensive domain sale in 2004 was for creditcards.com.

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When you search for expired domain name, you may find it very relevant to carry out a thorough research to gather more detail information on the expired domain that you are interested in. There are many factors that you must consider and evaluate, before come to a decision to purchase the expired domain name.

When you buy expired domain name, you are dealing with a third party and the registrar in the trading process. Therefore, you have to be heed on how you are carrying out the process of purchasing the expired domain.

Expert people buy expired domain name after spending enough time to dig out enough information to evaluate the benefits that they will get by buying such domain.

So, when you want to buy expired domain name, you will need to mule over the following factors:

a) Is the domain name really worth to buy?

b) What is you budget for buying of such expired domain name?

c) How quickly you wish the transaction to be complete?

For instant, let say you are in the domain name trading business. Since you been in the business for couple of years, you already have enough experience of running this business. With your own personal experience, the likelihood of looking for a simple, but powerful domain name is quite difficult. Thus, you are keen to find for domain name which is really ‘click’ and you always keep aside a portion of your income for buying a good domain name.

Then you will start looking for a good expired domain name and after a while you will create a list of most suitable names. Let say that you later on creating a short list like:
i)    DomainName.com
ii)    Domain-Name.com
iii)    DomainNamesForSale.net
iv)    GoodDomainNames.com

So, now you have the names in your list, then you starting choosing for the best name which is suited your business need. Then you are able to buy the expired domain name of your choice.

To have this delicate task carry out, you will need to inspect the exact use for which you are looking the name for. You can check each of the above names by entering the URL’s on the address bar of the Internet Explorer or Firefox browser and check if any of them has an association with similar sites.

Once you do a survey, you can find out the following issues with your possible expired domain names:
a) The findings are related to your domain names and there are actually related with some of the web sites found on the search engine. In this case, you may find it very hard to get the right expired domain name.

b) The searched list keeps point to “Domain for Sale” page: Although this scenario can have a lot of opportunities, it can still be a huge challenge for you. You can purchase expired domain name that is really good for your business.

c) The searched material contains ancient and out dated materials. Some of the found domains may display unrelated or broken links, or other sundry notices. Your chances of looking for a good expired domain name will turn to be easier.

d) The search is related to your probable domain names, but these web domains do not use a primary URL. Under such circumstances, although it is quite difficult to get your desired expire domain, but you still can get one that can suit your business.

e) The searched domain names relate to your list, but most of the searched domains link to one or more affiliate programs. Under such circumstances, you may rather sourcing an expired domain name.

Nevertheless, make sure that you will not purchase expired domain name that mimics a famous web portal. If you buy such expired domain names, you may put yourself in deep legal and copyright trouble.

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How much is an expired domain name worth? Many people who get active with expired domain name usually keen in asking this one single question. And truly speaking, the most common answer you will get is almost the same: “Not so sure and not much I think!”- However, there suppose to be a lot more to this delicate question and there are plenty of answers available as well!

Very often, a disturbing doubt may trouble you regarding what really worth of an expired domain name. Lately, some expired domain names have been trade with more than 7 figure dollar value. Just have a look and knowing the sale of business.com domain; it seems that this domain name is worth as high as $7 million. This unusual developed also make a fierce competition among expired domain name resellers to compete for very lucrative domains. There is also an extreme excitement in the domain trading market that borders on improbable expectations.

The essential principle which should follow in an expired domain name market is that people tend to go for an expired domain, they think that is will turn into a good deal, thus driven by the fact that there is a perceived dearth of great expired domain names. It is as well a common truth that most of the medium and large firms keep searching for a domain name that ends with .com extension. In the real world, all memorable combination of words that make up a domain name have already been grab away by domain business companies and this phenomenon has ensured that the prices for good expired domain names can only go in one direction, go up. Another incident is that most of the expired domain names that are available in the market are nearly the same or look-alike.

There is also a common perception that a generic name is always good, because of that they can always fetch better prices than a derived name. People think that such names are easy to recall and remember. One other vital factor that one must have a close look is the issue of industrialism and commercialism of the industry that it relates to. When you attempt to buy and sell an expired domain name, before dabble in, ensure that you look for domains that relates to very hot industries, such as legal profession, internet marketing and real estate related. There is also other irony in the market that symbolizes expired domain name industry. The matter of fact, most of the domains will never be able to fetch even for a reasonable price. There is always a certain benchmark within which one is expect to sell an expired domain name for a higher price. Request for great expired domain names is so relative and it will work on the principle of perception most of the time, when a certain domain demanded by a person might not be interested to the other. It also means that you may need to have some luck on your part to snatch a good expired domain name that able to make you thousands of dollars.

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Expired domain market can be a lucrative business, thus everyone would rush out to find their own expire domains which they think can make them quick and easy money. However, the matter of fact is, buying an expired domain is not as easy as you think it will be!

There are many reasons and causes that motivate people to buy expired domain. One of the best reasons for getting yourself in expire domain business is its ability to provide you very good return for the money that you invested into the business. Here are some established tips and suggestions that will teach you how you can buy expired domain in an ever-busy market place.

Generally, all soon to get expired domains go through three phases of life:

- Expired status, the owner of the domain will have 40 days of grace period, during grace period the owner still can renew the domain by paying a standard fee.

- Redemption period, when the domain enters past its grace period, the owner of the domain still can renew the domain, but he or she may need to cough up renewal fee, along with additional penalty.

- Locked period, when the domain name enters the deletion phase, which is usually 5 days long. On the last day, the domain name will be officially dropped from the database between 11AM and 2PM Pacific time. Soon after the domain name is drop, anyone can register for the expired domain.

With these phases of expiration cycle, how can one buy into expired domain? Actually, a simple search and buy on the domain name method may not work in the real world. There are smart entrepreneurs out there, who implementing better and quicker methods to grab the domains once it released, before you grab them. It means that you need to use methods similar or even more advance than the smart entrepreneurs in order to grab the domains.

Experienced people who are really good in snatching expired domains always use smart methods. One of the method is the “Drop Method” that return you good result with good expired domains. The Drop is that unpredictable 3 hour time period, in which the domain gets deleted from the registrar’s database and drop back into the pool. If you feel that you can make yourself easily to buy in the expired domain during the dropping process, you are in big mistake. There are no fewer than three or four major services that specialize in grab away all the good domain names that released for sale.

In order to buy expired domain from a large pool of domains, you may wish to count the services on three major domain trading firms, thus you can hope that they will grab your desired domain name on your behalf. Three main such trading firms are:* Snapnames.com,* Enom.com, and* Pool.com.

All these three firms act and operate in a similar manner. They frequently use a network of registrars to aim at the ICAAN servers all the time and snatch as many names as possible. As a rule of thumb, if you do not get the name that you want, you no need to pay them anything. All the three forms operate in slightly different ways and manner among them.

Another way to buy expired domain is try to approach the soon-to-expire domain owner. Asking them if they can transfer the domain name to your name once expired. Also another way is to participate yourself in a regular domain auction wherever it held and buy your desired expired domain at a very high price.

Whatever the way you pick, your main objective should be picking a good domain at an affordable price (never pay a high price for a domain name, and later on you will regret).  To buy expired domain name from open market or from an auction, you will also need to know how domain trading business works and operates.

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There are about 90,000 domain names deleted each day. That is a large number of domains you would have to traverse to look for gems that you might be interested in registering. If you do this by trying to register domains one by one, you will give up quite quickly.

Thus, you need to have a plan to do daily searches for expired domain names.

First thing  you need to do is to find bulk sources of expired domain names. I find the expired domain empire software lists is doing well to serve on this purpose. But of course, there are many others software in the market can perform such task as well. Normally, the websites filter the bulk lists of expired domains by date and alphabetically, some also provide a feature to filter lists by the length of character.

Once you filter out your bulk list of domains, you should move over to Moniker, EuroDNS or some other registrar and surf through their bulk registration tool. Then select and copy a list of domains from your bulk expired domain source website.

After copied, paste the list of domains into the Moniker bulk registration tool. Some lists might need cleaning up before you can register them in bulk. Click the register button to filter the list. (Note: the reason you doing this is that most probably all expired domain lists have already been snapped up by domain speculators. So it is safe to do the registration with a bulk tool. In any case, even if all domains are available, you can still able to empty your cart after you confirm which domains are available. )

The next step is copy the available domain names returned by Moniker’s into a txt file. Repeat the above process. After some time you will have compiled a huge list of expired domain names that are available to register.

So now you have a filtered list of expired domain names which are available to register. Most of these domains are available for a good reason - they are just not good enough to register. Anyway, some of these domain names might turn out to be quite ok.
By then your next step involves visually filtering your txt file. See whether you can spot a domain name which makes sense, contains cool keywords or just strikes you right away. The visual filtering process may take you about 5 to 20 minutes.

Cut these domain names from your txt file, open a new txt file and paste them into it - your expired domain short list.

Once your visual filtering is finish, you will have two txt files. One contained your shortlisted domains and the other contained all the available domains.

Remember, before you ditch your long list of available domains, run the tool like the
Link Popularity Checker to check whether any of the domains have existing links. You might
find that some domains, although ugly, have quality backlinks which worth for registering.

As for your shortlist of domains, you can run it through the link popularity check tool to assist you to make decision on which to register.

In further steps to check backlinks, you can use tool like WordZe to check how popular after the domain keywords are popular amongst web users. This may help you make up your mind which of your shortlisted domains you should register.

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