Tens of thousands of domain names expire every single day. That alone is pretty interesting when you consider the $ involved in simply registering a domain name. Lets say, some 85,000 domain names (which is a pretty accurate estimate) are released from the registries each day. $10 per domain on average, for 1 year registration and that is $850,000! Now consider that many of these expired domain names have been registered for years, some even for 20+ years! Also consider … Read the rest
Tag: expired domain name
I discovered yesterday that some GoDaddy Auctions expired domain names are using RookMedia.net domain parking pages instead of the standard GoDaddy parking pages displaying that the domain expired and is pending renewal or deletion.
It appears that about 6-10 days after expiring, some domains are changing DNS to ns100.rookdns.com and ns99.rookdns.com and using the parking service provided by RookMedia.net.
Why they are doing this is the real interesting question? Is it a money thing? Are they interested in Rook Media? … Read the rest