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$40/month doing (almost) nothing (16)

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Step 1

Join Godaddy's auctions ($4 / year) and buy a domain with good traffic (at least 10,000 in the last 30 days) and an awful name so it's more likely to not be bidded on at all by other users,



You should investigate a little just to be sure that the traffic is not fake (alexa, archive.org, etc).
10 days after you win the domain, it is moved to your godaddy account; otherwise if the previous owner remembers to renew it you get refunded (this happens only for the domains that are going to expire).


Step 2
Select many offers, add a unique subid that identifies the traffic coming from this expired domain and use a php redirect that randomizes the destinations.

[PHP]<?php
//this is the code for randomize.php
$sub_id = 'domainXYZ';

$url=array(
'http://offer1.com?subid='.$sub_id,
'http://offer2.com?subid='.$sub_id,
'http://offer3.com?subid='.$sub_id,
'http://offer3.com?subid='.$sub_id,
'http://offer3.com?subid='.$sub_id,
'http://offer4.com?subid='.$sub_id,
'http://offer5.com?subid='.$sub_id
);
//duplicate a row for adding weight to an offer, but be sure that only the last one doesn't have a comma

$destination = $url[array_rand($url)];
header("Location: $destination");

?>[/PHP]

Forward your new domain's traffic to yourhosting/randomize.php page

Step 3
Depending of how many visitors you're sending, take some decisions and keep only the offers that are converting.

You can change the "weight" of each offer duplicating the rows.

Expect the conversion rate to be very low, but your homeworks are completed.

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Great thread! Thanks

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Good Job mate, have you tried domain parking before ?

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Looks interesting, thanks.

What do those traffic figures mean?

I'm assuming that just because the site has a traffic score of 10,000 doesn't mean it's getting 10,000 hits per month, right? Is there a way of estimating the actual traffic levels?

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Yes I've bought expiring domains in the past but always parked them at SEDO, and the profit was really low.

Then I found this short but comprehensive article about GD auctions
http://www.hybriddomainer.com/2011/0...-auctions.html

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Great post dario! Found this tool that filters Godaddy Auction domains by Pagerank, SEOMoz, etc:

http://www.domcop.com/

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The "Traffic" column in the GD auctions listings shows the traffic received in the last 30 days. GD detects the number of visits in 2 ways
1- the owner is just selling the domain at an auctions: he parks his domain to the "GoDaddy CashParking service"
2- If a domain name is not renewed by its expiry date is not dropped immediately. There's a 40days "grace period" ([...]During the 40 days following the expiry date (Grace Period) the registrant can reinstate the domain name simply by renewing it[...]) and if you try to load an expiring domain you'll see the godaddy page full of advertisement


That value indicates visits in the last 30days however expect the visits to diminish month after month because (for example) bloggers who linked to that domain in the past now are updating their posts and/or removing the links.

In addition to this, that number is often inaccurate for domains sold at auctions that aren't expiring domains, because the domain's owner could easily send fake visitors to his domain just to raise the price.

The number of visits for an expiring domain should be more accurate but always double check the quality and the number of backlinks using Seo Spyglass, how many pages are indexed in google (site:www.domain.com or Scrapebox) and the age of the domain.

To estimate the traffic you can use compete.com and alexa.com
Just ignore domains that have more traffic in their grace period than 2 months ago when they were a real website (unless it's something seasonal)

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That's a great time saver !

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great idea here dario. I was curious though, how many domains did you have to buy to reach a steady $40/month in revenue?

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The revenue stats in my first post are from 1 single domain that brings a few hundred visitors /day, covering a time frame from January to yesterday.

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How much did the domain cost you?

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The auction ended at $90,
I wanted the domain because at the time it had more than one hundred backlins and indexed pages in google. According to archive.org there was an amateurish science/tech blog running at that web address.
Lately the traffic is about half than 7 months ago.

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Still with little maintenance seems like a decent side business. break even in 2 months.

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I agree, but finding a good domain that sends "free" traffic for months it's time consuming.
Two times the domains i won have been renewed after i won the auctions. I got refunded but the lost time has a value too.
I've the suspect that sometimes auctions are just a way to get a free evaluation of a domain: you don't renew your domain and let it go to auction, take a look at the price and then you renew it.

Probably you should add to this thread's title "..or get a domain appraisal for free!"

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Nice idea! Never knew you could do that.

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Nice, thanks man!

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