Hi, phpbuilt,
Thanks for your clever idea. I check the domaine you noted here, but it indicate that "Use a Domain Buy Agent to get this name", (Domain Buy Service: Just ?48.60 per domain name + commission! *). Is-it right?
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Hi, phpbuilt,
Thanks for your clever idea. I check the domaine you noted here, but it indicate that "Use a Domain Buy Agent to get this name", (Domain Buy Service: Just ?48.60 per domain name + commission! *). Is-it right?
weboperator
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- May 20, 2009
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thanks sir, ure awesome.. 
Ok. i see that with this technique we can get quality free content for extra low price. But my question is: What if the domain that expires is good and if we keep the domain exact as is he.? In that case lets say that we can make from that domain 30$ monthly(just for example) and for example buy 30 domains that expires.:tape:
php built don`t you think is good idea ?
php built don`t you think is good idea ?
PokerFactor
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- Nov 24, 2011
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thanks for this nd great work!
Brilliantrocket
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- Aug 26, 2011
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I'm having a bit of trouble finding the old ip's for some of the sites. Is there any better way to do it than searching "domain".com stats?
seoguru13
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Try this website ... statsie.com. Works good for me.
Brilliantrocket
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Thank you.
So I bought a domain and was able to obtain all of the files from the site through the hosts trick, it looks like my site still has hosting at someplace called "theplanet". How do I transfer hosting to godaddy? Or can I somehow obtain the old hosting account at theplanet? Also how do I access the old WP account?
phpbuilt
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If it's actually your site, then it's hosted wherever you want it to be. Go into the control panel of the registrar where you purchased the domain and change the DNS to point at your host machine.
If it's not your site then it'll be hosted somewhere you have no control over. Did you actually buy the domain?
You can't access the old WP account. You don't own their hosting. If you made a copy of their website, then you have a static html copy of their wordpress installation. In other words, it looks just like it used to, but it isn't wordpress anymore (you can't add posts to the site through a WP admin panel).
If you want to add content, you have to continue adding it through more static html pages. Either that or if the site is extremely valuable to you, you can slowly start to reconstruct the site and import the posts into a real wordpress installation. Then after it has fully been recreated, change it on your site.
Brilliantrocket
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I've figured out my previous issue ,but it seems like a lot of the sites have their IP listed as Godaddy. I'm guessing if that's the case there's no way to recover the old files?
phpbuilt
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Hehe you're missing the whole point of this post.
When a domain expires, and the registrar was Godaddy, their IP will be listed at Godaddy 100% of the time. Godaddy hijacks the DNS and points the domain name to their park page.
This thread discusses a technique to bypass Godaddy hijacking the domain name, and use the hosts file to trick your computer into thinking the domain is actually pointing to the old machine where it used to be hosted. If you can do that, and the old hosting is still paid for, then you see the website located as it used to be, while everyone else sees the Godaddy park page.
When you edit your hosts file, your entire computer believes the website is located at the old place, not Godaddy parking. Not only your browser sees it at the old location, any software you use to copy the website sees it at the old location.
Once you have copied the old site (it sounds like you copied it already?) you can stick it on your hosting. If you bought the domain name buy-now from Godaddy and you own the domain, forward the domain to your hosting and the site will go live. If you don't own the domain, you can't buy it ... it's too expensive, etc. then buy another domain and stick the site on the new domain.
phpbuilt
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I wouldn't bother with it. I don't care if a site already has PR, PR is easy to come by (check my sig for 3 threads on how to get PR). I don't care if a site has tons of backlinks (seriously ... not that hard to get backlinks with a few SEO tools).
What I'm mainly after on these types of sites ...
1) Unique content. You can find some high quality unique articles that fade into oblivion every day. If you had to pay to reconstruct those articles you're paying $5 each at least, and if you stumble on a site with 100 unique posts you just scored $500 in your pocket.
2) Aged domain with continuity. If you can pick up a 5 year website like this that never actually expires ... that's pretty significant. If it ends up resurrecting exactly the way it was having never expired, that site should be way more easily ranked if you made the same site from scratch, skip sandboxing, etc.
I really don't care if it has PR or backlinks ... if it does fine but I don't even consider it really.
phpbuilt
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I'm guessing that it does. I discovered this technique on a hunch but I haven't actually bought any expired domains, a little busy at the moment with other things.
Even if it does expire, lots of people speculate that if a domain existed before and comes back up with the same information, that Google still considers it an aged domain. There's some debate there. I don't know for sure.
greenlight20
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- Mar 22, 2009
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yes, it will carry the age,
when you buy a domain from godaddy in these auctions, the domain actually never really expires, it is within the registrars grace period and most of the time within the grace period of the person that is losing the domain. I buy a bunch of these and occasionally you will get a refund because someone redeemed their name.
so these names are basically just transferred to you and won't be considered a "dropped name"
mouthpaw
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I had a run-in with a former owner a couple years ago doing this. It was a pretty trademarked blog so that was obviously a mistake. IMO, if you give a shit, why'd you let it go?
But she made a big stink and I preferred the path of least resistance so took down her old content immediately -- and put up some new content with a comment about what an ass she was
But yes, there's a copyright issue here that you'll want to acquaint yourself with.
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