What are the odds of getting it back?

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WallaceCleaver

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I had a domain that was pretty popular, but at the time I was too much of a newbie to know how to monotize it and I let it expire. It has been years, but it is still reg'ed by someone else. What do you think the odds are that I could get them to give it back? Do you know of any good techniques for talking people into sellingyour own domain back to you? I would prefer to get it without spending a fortune.
 


If it is a really valuable domain name, there is really no choice but to pay. I may be a pessimist but I doubt you are going to find too many sellers that are sympathetic because you were the former owner.
 
It was valuable, but being a newbie, since I didn't know how to make money from sites at that time, I just saw it as work and an expense. I was getting 10,000 visitors a day. It had press exposure and loads of one-way links.
 
I was planning on that, but I thought someone might have some nifty bargaining techniques that I should use on them. I don't want to just ask how much they want and appear all needy.
 
What site is it pointing to now? Is it a PPC parking page? A real website? Does it have ads on it? You'll want to approach the owner differently depending on if he's a professional domain investor milking it for traffic or if he's just some guy running a website.

If there are any kind of ads currently on the site it's a good bet that the owner knows the domain is bringing in money and won't let it go cheaply.
 
I'd send him an email and ask him if he'd be willing to transfer. Then wait for his response and let us know what he/she said.
 
Julez said:
as soon as a domain expires google discounts all the links anyway
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I don't really care about that. I was just thinking about all of the traffic that still must exist from people clicking on the links that still existed to my old domain.
 
WallaceCleaver said:
I don't really care about that. I was just thinking about all of the traffic that still must exist from people clicking on the links that still existed to my old domain.
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where they highly visable links or tucked away in a reciprocal link directory?
 
Forget about getting it back.

Mail them once, asking for the price, do not be surprised if they won't sell it.

Tough Luck.

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If they are actively promoting it then probably no chance, but why not make them an offer, or at lest open discussions. It is the only way youll know
 
Julez said:
where they highly visable links or tucked away in a reciprocal link directory?
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No, they weren't recip links. People just liked the site enough to place my link button on theirs.

Charlie said:
If they are actively promoting it then probably no chance, but why not make them an offer, or at lest open discussions. It is the only way youll know
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They aren't promoting it at all. It just comes up with a server not found error.
 
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