If you know anything about the Internet, you know that domains are big business. What you might not know is that expired domains are one of the fastest growing markets on the Internet. There are a lot of reasons for this. From the amount of profit to be made to the scarcity of competition at the moment to the number of expired domains that make their way through “the drop” each day, expired domains are still big business on the Internet. If you’ve ever wondered how people make money online without having a single website of their own, expired domains are one of the possible answers.

Expired domains go through a grace period that (usually) lasts 75 days. After that point, they are put back onto the market during a three hour window that is known as “the drop.” There are a lot of companies that compete for valuable domains that are being released into the market this way. Often, it comes down to those with the most “fire power” winning the battle and getting the domain name. Even after this point, though, there are still a lot of valuable expired domains that are available, crumbs that fall through the cracks. The big domain players might not pay any attention to these, but there’s still money to be made with these expired domains.

By knowing what is likely to sell and being able to find and acquire it, you can quickly build up quite a nice portfolio of domain names that can be sold for a profit or turned into money making machines for your own online empire. Whatever you end up doing with them, expired domains can be a great way to flesh out your online portfolio or make a few bucks on the side. The fact that it’s easy, legal, and so easy to make very large profits is what makes expired domains one of the fastest growing markets on the Internet.