There are three basic procedures when it comes to domain name flipping. First, you need to select a domain name seller that’s inexpensive, has excellent customer service, and an efficient method in transferring domain name to the buyer. Don’t forget to sign up.

Subsequently, you have to look for a perfect venue to market these expired domain names. You can try reputable auction sites, forums, or blogs. Should your business be big, you can build your own site for it. You must be able to capture a wide audience.

The last important step is to look for expired domain names. Now some services can give you great ones; however, it will kill you with such an exorbitant price. In the meantime, you can simply search for free services, especially if you’re just starting.

You can use keywords in searching for the most ideal domain name to purchase or sell. You can use various free keyword selector tools to determine” what are the most searched keyword phrases in the World Wide Web.” Remember, it’s not only enough that you have an expired domain name. Most importantly, someone should be willing to buy it.

It may be ideal if you can learn to “park” your domain name. It simply means registering your domain in the domain seller, so you can see how interested people are in such a domain. This will also give you an idea if it’s advisable to go ahead with your plan or flipping it or to simply let it go.

Sometimes parking may not work. In this case, you can opt to practically “park” them in any area where there’s possible market. One of the best sites is, of course, eBay. There are millions of potential buyers there. You also have the capability to get excellent bids.

Another advantage of selling your domain names on auction sites is that you tend to develop a buyer’s list who might just be interested with your other domain names on sale. You can get their e-mail addresses and inform them every time you have a new domain to sell without even having it auctioned. This means you can sell these domain names at a higher price without having to undergo bidding.

Domain hijacking is an illegal activity. It involves stealing somebody else’s personality to allow him to trick those domain registrars. He does this by submitting a false transfer request to the registrar until it can provide the hijacker the full controllership of the domain. Once he gets this control, he becomes the new sole owner of the domain name. He can either set up his own website for porn or use this as bait so the real owner will give him ransom for the domain name.

There are absolutely disadvantages with regards to domain hijacking, one of which is site redirection. Aside from losing your domain name, which you can never get back unless you’re willing to undergo legal battle, you’ll also lose your own traffic. Thus it is ideal that you protect your domain name closely.

Top-level domain registries make use of EPP, or extensible provisioning protocol. This means that there’s a unique code exclusively given to domain registrants as a means of providing security to any unauthorized transfer requests.

You also need to find a truly reliable web host that does not utilize open DNS servers. If you want to be really sure, you can visit dnsreport.com and type in the URL of the domain name of the website. The line intended for Open DNS Server should indicate “Pass.” Otherwise, you need to contact your web hosting provider immediately. A secure DNS server makes your system more difficult to hack than open ones. You must look for another web host if your current one cannot solve this problem.

Attorneys can also play a webmaster role just to make sure that domain names of their clients are kept safe. But this can be an expensive choice. Cheaper ones may include availing of a prepay domain recovery program such as those of TROANN. This is a title registry for domain name ownership. There’s no sure way or preventing domain name hijacking because of the human element. However this set-up will minimize the risks and it’s easier and more convenient to recover. You can also ask for a domain title certificate as evidence of your ownership.

A lot of website owners who are victims of this scam prefer to go down-low. Though filing a case and going through trials can be extremely daunting, not to mention draining for the pocket, it’s still worth a try, especially if credibility of your business is on the line.

1 - Make sure you are logged out from your old godaddy account if you have one.

2 - Goto:  Get the customer number.

3 - Type in one of your domains that you had with regfly. Type in the security access code and click continue.

4 - Check your email. The email you used with your regfly account.

5 - Now you have the Customer Number for your domain name.

6 - Goto: Reset the password for the new account.

7 - Use the Customer Number you got from godaddy and type in the security access code.

8 - Check your email address again and you should have an email from godaddy to reset your password.

9 - Follow the instructions in the email and reset your password.

10 - Login to your new godaddy account as a normal client. Your username would be the Customer Number you got from godaddy in step 5.

This will help you get your domains without waiting for an email from godaddy. You will be helping godaddy as well, after all, they are dealing with 850.000 domains as we speak.

I have tried it and it worked for me. I used one of my regfly domains to get the Customer Number, I thought I would end up doing this for each domain I have, but I was wrong. When I logged into my new account, I found all my regfly domains.

Thanks to icann and Godaddy for sticking with us when most needed

The GoDaddy.com agreement is a direct and automatic transfer to a competent and experienced customer service oriented organization. This is a commercial arrangement. The bulk transfer process that ICANN was administering has been discontinued.

Within the next few days, you should be receiving an email from GoDaddy regarding how to log in to your account, as well as manage your domains. In the meantime, please feel free to check at GoDaddy.com for any developments.

ICANN understands the frustration the RegisterFly situation has caused and appreciates registrants’ patience.

Domain names can only contain letters, numbers, and dashes. I recommend avoiding numbers and dashes.

The domain extension.
Dot .com is what most people try when looking for a website, thats why I highly recommend it. Your business might grow up and become well known over the internet. When it dose, you don’t want some domain hunter to grap yourname.net and yourname.biz Thats why I also recommend registering the .net and .biz of your domain.

Avoid free domain names.
This is about web hosting companies that offer free domain name if you buy a hosting package. Avoid this at all costs because they do register it but they are the legal owners of the domain name. You can use it as much as you want but your not the legal owner of it. This way they keep you stuck with them and they will take it from you if you try to switch to a better host.