Getting An Advantage By Re-Selling 4-Letter Domains

I was excited to discover that there are still thousands of 4-letter ".com" domains available to buy.  This tutorial will show you how I located, bought and sold one.  I'm concentrating mainly on 4-letter domain names because they make ideal acronyms for existing companies, they are often used as stockmarket symbols, and (fortunately) domain hunters haven't realized how valuable these might be.  Feel free to try something different if you like, but this system gave me great results very quickly.

1. Visit DotCenter's "Advanced Search" Page to search for expired domain names.  This website holds a record of domain names that were once registered and the owner has not renewed the registration on them.  These names are now back on the market for you to buy. 
   
   
   
2. Complete the search form as follows ...
   
   

   

   What I've done here is I've used the asterisk in the 'Name Pattern' box which will provide me with all the results that are available.  I've decided to look for .com domains only as they are the most valuable.  To begin with, I've decided only to look for 3 and 4 character domain names because my experience has shown me there are still thousands of good quality 4-character domains that may be of value.  I expect there to be many results so I've also set the 'Show per page' option to list 100 at a time.
   
   
   When I last tried this a total of 4,068 domains were available to buy.  The first few pages of results listed a lot of domains that begin with numbers.  I'm not a fan of these so I moved through the pages until I saw domain names that contain just letters.
   
   
   

• There will be a few thousand domains available to buy.  They should all be 4-character domains and it is now your job to find a potential buyer for any of them.  The way I did this was to enter the 4 letters into Google to see what came up.  I should ideally do this with every domain but in practice I randomly selected about 20.
  
  

	Recommended Software:  Expired Domain Names Pro (Windows, Software) This is the program I personally use and I find that the search facilities it offers are extremely powerful.  DotCenter' search feature is much faster than Expired Domain Names Pro however what I do like about Expired Domain Names Pro is that you can export your results into a text file which can then be loaded into a spreadsheet.  This allows me to keep a record of all the sites I've investigated and which ones I may possibly be interested in buying.  The software has a number of useful built-in features.  It will automatically search for 2-4 letter domain names, it has an appraisal feature which ranks the results by how valuable they may be and - although you'll rarely find anything, you can set the software to do dictionary searches overnight for you on the slight chance that you'll get lucky with an expired domain that's not yet been spotted. Visit the Expired Domain Names Pro Website for More Details

In January I was excited about two domains.  One of them was the acronym for an American Saxophone Quartet which had an undeveloped website online with a very hard-to-remember website address.  The other was the stockmarket ticker code for a prominent American bank.  I decided to purchase both of these.

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