Money- and time-saving secrets revealed:

- Capturing expired domains for only $8.95.

- Registering domains for only $5.99.

- Hosting hundreds of websites for $19.95 per month or less.

- How to protect your intellectual property.

- Register domains and pay nothing. Yes, NOT EVEN A DIME.

Expired domains

About expired domains

Every day, 20,000-60,000 domains expire and become available to be taken by anyone. While many names are almost useless (that's the most common reason not to renew a name), some of them are extremely valuable: Common names and last names, dictionary words, notorious acronyms, places, smart two-word combinations, and old websites names (already indexed by Google and Yahoo).

Good domain names can be captured with pre-existent incoming links, pre-built Google Page Rank, type-in traffic, residual traffic from old content, ensuring not only high chances of selling them later at higher prices, but great profits to be made by parking them and collecting daily pay-per-click revenue.  Modest, but steady and passive (no work to be done) income is usually generated, but there are reports of people making as much as $25,000 a year with a single parked domain.

Capturing expired domains

There are several services for domain capture available online. Among the best ones there are SnapNames and eNom. But there is a catch... SnapNames ensures a huge profit for themselves by allowing anyone interested in a domain name to enter into an auction. You will be charged $60 while SnapNames pays only $6 to register the domain shortly after it is dropped by the registry.  But hey!, the domain is not yours yet!. Later they will sell that domain to the highest bidder (at any price ranging from $60 to $260,000, or even more!). The result: even if you were the first one who noticed that a great domain name was expiring, you will have no chance against domain sharks bidding several thousands of dollars for the name you wanted.

eNom is not much better: You must bid at least $15 just to enter an auction, and their registration fee is $29.99, so you will end up paying at least $44.99 for any domain you backorder, IF and WHEN nobody else bids on it. Again, you can be the first one pinpointing a great name, but you will have no chance of capturing it, because it will be sold to the highest bidder.  It might be you if you got deep pockets!

For backordering domains, we use and recommend the world's largest registrar:

Backorder domains $8.95 at GoDaddy.com

At GoDaddy, you can backorder domains for as low as $8.95 each. You can rest assured that when you order a domain and GoDaddy secures it, the domain is yours!!!  Once you backorder a domain, it becomes UNAVAILABLE for other bidders, because THEY VALUE YOUR TIME. No frustrating domain auctions ever. You researched, you spent time pinpointing a great domain before anyone else, then the captured domain WILL BE YOURS.

Using GoDaddy you will never face the frustration of watching other people taking away your domain name just because they have more money than you. At GoDaddy, all you pay is a flat backorder fee of $18.95 (or even as low as $8.95), plus a $0.25 ICANN fee, and no hidden charges.

My money-saving secret: Register domains for only $5.99

Please, take into account that I manage more than 100 domains at once and I have used more than 20 different registrars.  I can sincerely tell you that you will save a lot of time and money by doing what I do:

If you want to register domains with the LOWEST PRICE and develop websites with cheap and powerful hosting, I suggest you visit 1&1:

Register domains $5.99 at 1&1

Therefore, after browsing our lists, you must check domain availability (we have a powerful domain availability tool). If the domain is available, the cheapest way to get it is thru 1&1. If the domain is taken, you can use GoDaddy's Investors Edge service.

Backorder domains $8.95 at GoDaddy.com

If the domains you want are available, but you are planning to buy and sell domains frequently, you better stick to GoDaddy, which allows "pushing domains" between users without the hassle of time-consuming and tedious transfer between registrars.

Backordering domains for only $8.95

At GoDaddy.com you can get the Investor's Edge subscription (the most advanced type of DomainAlert Pro®) that includes the PowerGrab rate, which allows you to backorder domains for only $8.95, (plus a $0.25 ICANN fee), even less than a regular registration fee at register.com, Network Solutions, or eNom.  Trust me, you can't get a better deal if you plan to backorder domains on a regular basis.

With GoDaddy's PowerGrab, an inexpensive membership (monthly charges apply) will provide you not only a large searchable database of expired domains, but the privilege of backordering and LOCKING them BEFORE ANYONE ELSE, at a great $8.95 backordering fee.

Personally, I backorder more than 3 domains per month, so instead of paying 3 x $60 = $180 (SnapNames' minimum fee), I pay 3 x $9 = $27, effectively saving more than $150.  That COMPLETELY COVERS GoDaddy's Investor Edge monthly fee.

Cheap domain backordering

If you want to be near 100% sure that your domain will be captured, you should use SnapNames too, but remember that you must be open to pay not only the minimum fee, but also whatever goes after a painful auction.  I use both GoDaddy and SnapNames when I am trying to get a highly valuable domain.

About VZ expired domain tools

What does VZ Tools do?

At VZtools.com we have devised a fantastic strategy to grab the best expiring domains. Instead of keyword searching (you can do it too using Ctrl+F) and long lists of 250,000+ domains, which are HUMANLY IMPOSSIBLE to filter, we provide you a pre-filtered list with great domain names.

The most important feature of our list is that, instead of inefficient database searches showing you only 25-100 domains at a time, we provide time-effective COMPLETE results at once.

We provide you a MORE POWERFUL way to browse expired domains. First we "cut the crap" by removing any domain name that is not a .com. You might have found a great domain name, but please, BE REALISTIC: Nobody will buy greatdomain.info from you if they can negotiate greatdomain.com with someone else. We believe that only .com domains are worth the risk of annual renewals if your intentions are to sell them later at a higher price.  

Second, we remove ALL domains that contain numbers and dashes. Again, there might be good domains with numbers and/or dashes (A1.com just sold at $260,250), but those are rare exceptions. Nobody will buy 1-800-great-domain.com from you if they can negotiate greatdomain.com with someone else. Register 1-800-great-domain.com and you will face a long-term frustration renewing it every year and being unable to sell it.

Third, we show you ALL domains in a single list, NO MORE mousing, hovering and clicking your way to the next 25 domains. For every daily list, we show you a COMPLETE RESULTS with all domains that are 3- to 9-character long (sometime up to 11 characters).

EVEN BETTER, for 3- and 4-char domains, we will provide you the number of Yahoo-indexed pages (Yahoo search results for that name, without the .com), so you can see how relevant it could be as an acronym or dictionary word. We cannot do it for longer domains (Yahoo would block us for blasting their servers), but it is a really POWERFUL feature to pinpoint domain names that are also valuable acronyms.

Need access to the raw lists?

Go to the following page:

http://www.vztools.com/forsale.asp

At the end of the page, you will find our archive of expired domains, by date (file format is YYYYMMDD.txt).  Feel free to open or download the lists for your own purposes.  Psst... I will tell you a secret:  There are people who charge $20 a month just for giving you access to those files. I am serving them to you at NO COST.

How I host hundreds of websites in a single hosting account

First step: Choosing powerful hosting.

There are many hosting companies out there.  Just when you believe you have found the best deal, you then realize that someone else is providing twice the space and twice the connectivity for half of the price you just paid.

People will try to convince you that hosting any decent website requires one dedicated server per website. Bullshit!  Shared hosting will suffice for most websites, unless you are planning to develop the next Amazon, in which case you would not be here reading my money-saving tips.  People will also say that "you get what you pay for" Well... everyone trying to sell you expensive hosting must use that cliché.

Personally, I am cheap and practical.  I prefer to have my websites as close as possible to each other so I don't spend my life jumping from one hosting to another, configuring servers, resetting DNS values, etc.  I prefer to have everything centralized under the cheapest solution that does not sacrifice performance.

This website (and many others) are hosted in a single package, a MS DEVELOPER PACKAGE at a company called 1&1.  Let's get straight to the point:  These guys' shared hosting packages are so powerful that they humiliate most other competitors.  Their cheapest plan ($2.99) has enough space and connectivity to hold TEN TIMES THIS WEBSITE (including all those huge domain lists).  There is only one reason not to use the cheapest plan though.  If you plan to use scripts that open, read and modify files, you need a better package.

If you are planning to use plain HTML, go for the cheapest pack.  You will not be disappointed, because they offer a vast amount of hard disk space, connectivity and a free domain name.  I used to host up to 5 websites in a single package (20 websites is possible too) but I needed some database functions and file permissions that are only available by using the MS DEVELOPER PACKAGE.

I am going to tell you how I use a single DEVELOPER PACKAGE to host a vast number of websites. You can read more about this package here:

VZ Tools' choice: 1&1 MS Developer Package with FREE MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE software!!!

Second step: Using external domains.

With a Developer Package, you get 5 free domains, but if you are going to have many websites, you must keep domains and hosting separate.  Why?  Because managing domains is one thing, and managing hosting is another.  To manage domains with power and flexibility, register, synchronize, buy, sell and trade domains, there is nothing better than GoDaddy. 

Personally, when I plan to hold a website for several years, I go for the cheapest registration:  1&1.

Register domains $5.99 at 1&1

But when a domain is meant to be traded, transferred, parked, switched from one DNS to another, I pay a few extra bucks to enjoy the power of GoDaddy.  The extra money I spend, I recover easily because of the time I save thanks to GoDaddy.

Time-saving domain registration and transfers at GoDaddy

At 1&1's control panel, I add new domains as "external domains", meaning that they stay at GoDaddy but can be hosted at 1&1.  Once I add a external domain, I receive a critical piece of information:  Domain Name Servers (DNS) values.  Usually DNS's are like this:

ns29.1and1.com, ns30.1and1.com

But DNS values might change (usually the couple numbers after "ns").  You must write them down before going to the next step.

I then go back to GoDaddy and point my domains to my 1&1 servers using DNS redirection.  It's as easy as login into GoDaddy and setting nameservers.  It can be done in BULK, so you can save a lot of time.  If you register your domains outside GoDaddy, you have to do the painstaking task of changing DNS values manually, one domain at a time.

Once your domains are pointing to 1&1 servers, you must devise a way to keep them separate.  Otherwise, you would end up having 100 domains pointing to the same website!!!

There are many ways to share your space among different websites.  Some "experts" say that one must relinquish the benefits of using FrontPage, partition your space using FTP and then write complex scripts to sort the visitors so they land in the right website.  NONSENSE!!!

I can control ALL MY WEBSITES with a single password and username (not suitable if you are reselling space, of course), enjoy the ease of using FrontPage, and I do everything without any script.

Third step: Keeping websites separate.

I have my main domain (root) with the usual folders and a particular folder called "websites".  My websites folder has many subfolders, one per each domain/website I want to host.  Using FrontPage, I created them and converted them into subsites, so each one behaves as an independent website, with its own FP extensions.  But how does the server send the visitors of a certain URL to the right folder?  Pissacake! First, you go to your 1&1 developer package, select any of your external domains and then redirect them by using a great feature:  "Edit Destination".  So for each external domain, I select a different destination.  Domain abc.com goes to folder websites/abc, domain xyz.com goes to folder websites/xyz and so on.

And I didn't have to use FTP, reset FP extensions or write select/case routines.  Everything is done at the control panel level! 

The only drawback (for me it's an advantage):  all of them have the same username and password.  Don't waste your time here.  Unless you are a true genius, you won't be able to create separate websites with independent FrontPage usernames and passwords, because all websites are "children" of the root folder.  But hell, I am telling you how to host 100-200 of your own websites.  Were you planning to remember 200 different usernames and passwords?

Fourth step: Setting emails.

Well, you won't believe this.  If you register domains at GoDaddy, you must pay extra for email features.  But of you pointed them to 1&1 servers, you can create unlimited, YES, UNLIMITED, email accounts for all your domains.  When you point your external domains to 1&1, it takes control over the mail servers too so you can have your FREE UNLIMITED EMAIL ACCOUNTS without paying an extra dime neither to 1&1 nor to GoDaddy.  Usually, what I do is creating a single acount webmaster@mydomain.com or contact@mydomain.com and then forward them to my hotmail account, from which I manage all the incoming mail.  That's better than having 100 accounts configured for Outlook.

Of course, for my most serious businesses, I do have 5-6 accounts per domain that I manage using professional tools such as Outlook 2003. Did I mention that you can get up to $800 in free software from 1&1? At first, I thought it was an exaggeration.  It is not.  I have received all the software they promised ($600), plus 3 CD's of FREE, ***legitimate***, original-box from Microsoft,

MS FrontPage ($100 each)

and 1 CD containing Outlook 2003 (another $100), just by using their hosting plans and accepting their offers at the right time.  All I paid was shipping and handling.

How I register domains for free

1&1 gives you FREE .info domains!!!

Yes, I am not lying, it's 100% true. You might be asking... "How do they make money?" Answer: 1) Domain renewals and 2) People end up trying their hosting, and then stay as satisfied customers.

Don't believe me?  Just go there and see:

FREE .info domain names at 1&1

This model is not new.  .be domains were given away for free too.  Why?  Because that way they have thousands of people registering domains that otherwise would not have been registered.  The registrar (or the registry) loses money, but just the first year. After the second year, they make a boatload on those domains they gave away "for free".

The trick:  Use this offer to buy GOOD domain names.  Don't go crazy registering 10000 lame domain names just because it's free.  You may end up renewing them painfully.  But I know lots of people who registered hundreds of free .info names and then sold them at a gain (infinite returns, hehe), before the year was over.

How I protect my intellectual property

c-Site, the best copyright solution out there!

There are dozens, if not hundreds of companies telling you that you can copyright your web content for anything between $45 and $800.  Some of them can be cheap, but no one is as easy, powerful and full of guarantees as c-Site®.  If you have lots of original content, do yourself a favor and protect your work with this simple, easy to implement, inexpensive tool:

Copyright protection for your website

 

Enjoy,

Varlin