Expired Domains

As you may know the .de TLD is the biggest ccTLD and the second biggest TLD overall. Currently backorder is not possible for .de Domains because there is no expiration date for them and if you delete a .de Domain it is available for registration seconds later. There is no indication that a domain will be deleted soon and there are no droplists. All this makes it very hard to get a good Deleted .de Domain, but change is on the Horizon.

DENIC (Registry for .de Domains) announced the introduction of a 7 Day Redemption Grace Period for .de Domains at the end of the year. We will finally have a indication that a domain will be deleted soon and that will result in the possibility of backorder for .de Domains. This is good news, because it will open up the .de market for Domainers all over the world. If you want to invest in ccTLDs you can now participate in drop catching for the best ccTLD.

ExpiredDomains.net will of course feature Expired .de Domains and make them accessible for you as soon as possible.

Something that bothered me for a long time was that I could only keep one month of deleted .com domains at a time and that for the best TLD... Previously the domains got deleted a month after they dropped. I have to limit the number of domains per list to keep the speed up. Around two months back I started working on a solution that allows to keep 12 months of deleted .com domains and keep the lists fast. Now the domains don't get deleted anymore, they get moved to a monthly archiving table you can access. Other deleted domain lists already have a retention for 6-12 month and now deleted .com domains got that as well.

At the moment you can only see the current archive table April 2013 and March 2013. That is because the new process got added in March. The other tables will be filled over time. Also Note this:

• The archive tables work as any other list. You can filter, sort and you can find the domains in the domain name search.
• Remember that the domain information for these domains may be old! You should check them before making a decision!
• You will only find free domains in the archive tables. The domains get checked once a day, so there is a chance that they are already registered. Check availability at the domain registrar of your choice.
• Saved searches on archive lists will be rewritten to the normal deleted .com list.

For a long time I had a problem with adding new domain information to the website, because the space in the domain tables is limited and I do not like horizontal scrollbars. Now that it is easy to add customization to the website I found a solution for this problem.

Now you can use the Column Manager to add or remove columns and with that get exactly what you want. If you have a big monitor you can add more columns. If you are only interested in specific information you can streamline the tables and only see information useful to you. This is a huge help for me, because now I can add more domain information without having to worry if there is even space for them.

Some columns are not in the Column Manager. For example the domain is not and it is always the first column. You can't remove it (why should you). Some lists have special columns like the GoDaddy lists. Those columns are currently also not in the manager and with that can't be removed. I will maybe change that later.

The first new columns you can now select are 3 information from MajesticSEO.

• Majestic Million Global Rank: MajesticSEO ranks domains in there system by this and the smaller it is the better.
• Majestic Million Backlink IP Pop: Number of different IP Address Backlinks the domain has.
• Majestic Million Backlink Class-C Pop: Number of different Class-C IP Address Backlinks the domain has.

I'm using the Majestic Million List they provide to fill those fields, so only domains that are in the top 1 million have the information. You can check those numbers by clicking on them. You can also now add "Germany Monthly Searches" and "Approximate Adwords CPC Germany" (in euro).

There are not filters for those fields yet, but otherwise the are fully supported. I will add filters for them later.

In the beginning of ExpiredDomains.net in 2010 I've decided not to add to much customization options to the site so it worked and looked the same for everyone. That kept it simple and allowed me to develop faster, because I did not have to consider different user settings, but not everyone wants the same. Now with the new system this is no problem anymore. Today the first 4 user settings got released and a lot more will follow.

• Preferred Domain Registrar: GoDaddy is the favorite registrar for most people and because of that they are by far the biggest domain registrar in the world, but not everyone wants to register domains with GoDaddy and that is fine.
  To accommodate that, you can now set your own preferred registrar in your settings and change the domain name quick link to get to the registrar of you choice. I've already added some registrars, but if you miss your preferred one in the list, let me know and I will see if I can add him.
• Domains per Page: Change the default setting for Domains per Page. Before you always hat to set it after you logged in. Now you can set it once in your settings. You can still change it using the filter.
• Color Blindness: This is something I've added a while back for just one user who asked for it. It replaced the red and green StatusTLD indicators with different colors.
• Always Camel Case Domain Names: If you select the Keyword Language Filter you already get the Domain Names Camel Case (verycooldomainname.com -> VeryCoolDomainName.com), but only if you use the filter. Now you can always Camel Case the Domain Name if possible, even without selecting the Keyword Filter. In your settings, you can select what languages you are interested in. You can select multiple languages or deselect everything by holding STRG while clicking on the language.

If you have suggestions, please let me know.

The number of domain lists on ExpiredDomains.net grows again. Today Name.com Expired Domains are moving in. The list contains all exclusively available Expiring Domains from Name.com with all the usual information you know from the other lists. You can also find Nabber Links for the Pending Delete Domains.

In other news, I added the "Named Ending Filter" that lets you specify the ending of a domain auction or drop day by name not by date. Before this you could only select ending domains by selecting an explicit date and that would not be helful if you saved that search. Now you can save a search that only shows domains ending/dropping today or tomorrow and that saved search is reusable.

If you use this filter, it will also change the behavior of the update email. Normally the email only contains domains that matches your saved search and where added in the last 24 hours. I really did not like this for PreRelease lists, where domains get added 30 days or more before the actual dropdate. It happens a lot that I decided to bid on a domain, only to find out that it got renewed a day after and with that was not available anymore. With the new filter it is now possible to consider only domains that are near the dropdate.

Another new filter is the "no PageRank -1" filter that removes all PageRank -1 Domains and only leaves PageRank 0 upwords.