Frequently Asked Questions

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What are expired domains?

Expired domains are domains where the renewal has not been paid. The site owner has 1-45 days (varies by registrar) to renew the domain before it enters the redemption grace period. These domains are ideal to watch so you can register them when they are deleted.

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What are pending domains?

Once a domain expires it is placed on hold in the redemption grace period for 30 days. If the owner of the domain does not pay the $150-$250 restoration fee, the registrar drops the domain and it becomes pending delete for exactly 5 days.

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What are deleted domains?

Deleted domains have been dropped by the registrar and deleted from the registry. These domains can be registered by anyone who finds them. Find expired domains to register that have backlinks, pagerank and even DMOZ/Yahoo directory listings.

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What can I check domains for?

Google Links, Google Popularity, Google PR, MSN Links, Alexa Rank, Yahoo Links, Inktomi Links Altavista Links, Altavista Links, Lycos Links, AllTheWeb Links & Directory Listings (DMOZ & Yahoo)

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Rank :

Will tell you how well a domain name is positioned in the search engine (on which position it shows up) when doing a search on a specific term.

Links :

Will tell you how many other pages listed contain links to the specified domain name.

Popularity :

Will tell you how many pages listed in results contain the specified domain name. Unlike Links, this test will actually look for plain-text occurences and not for links.

PR - PageRank :

This test will give you the Google PageRank value for any given domain name.

Features Find out what each of the Webmaster Benefits features mean and how they can help you.

Engines Find out which search engines are monitored and see individual search engine information.