The best of what we have
High-quality domains come first, sorted by strength within the grade. High quality means the archive snapshots read through, the topic never changed and there is no gambling or adult content in its past: a high DR on a domain that spent three years as a casino affiliate is worth nothing.
Japanese detective agency site in Mie Prefecture; niche unchanged from 2015 to 2018.
Throughout its active life (2018–2023), the niche remained stable — a blog and online store on zero waste living. The page title change in 2021 reflects an evolution (from blog to store) rather than a niche shift. The link profile niche is highly likely to fully match.
A Persian-language site that has been consistently dedicated to building painting services (نقاشی ساختمان) since 2014, with no niche changes.
From 2007 to 2026, the site maintained a narrow niche — handwoven silk carpets and kilims from Laos (D-0E4433 Handicrafts). Page titles changed only slightly, the niche never shifted, and the final theme fully matches the historical link profile.
Website of a German tax consulting firm (Steuerkanzlei/Steuerberater) in Kevelaer. The niche has been stable throughout its entire history since 2017, with no niche changes.
The site operated steadily from 2012 to 2020 in the niche of payday loan reviews and ratings, with a brief shift to prepaid cards in late 2012. The final niche before the drop was financial advice and loans, which matches the main link profile.
Ready-made searches
Permanent addresses with the filter already applied: an extension, a niche or a strength floor. They refresh with every update of the base.
Expired domains by extension
Volume and strength differ sharply by extension. Pick one to see everything currently available in it.
Expired domains by niche
The niche comes from archived content, not from the name: a domain called bluefox may have spent ten years as a finance blog.
| Niche | total | new in 24h | median DR |
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| IT and software | 481 | — | 11 |
| medicine and health | 320 | — | 10 |
| marketing and advertising | 307 | — | 10 |
| sports and fitness | 248 | — | 12 |
| finance and loans | 239 | — | 10 |
| travel and leisure | 178 | — | 9 |
| education and courses | 162 | — | 10 |
| industry and equipment | 161 | — | 10 |
| construction and renovation | 157 | — | 10 |
| food and drink | 137 | — | 9 |
| real estate | 136 | — | 9 |
| beauty and personal care | 94 | — | 10 |
Added over the last seven days
Counted by the day a listing went up, not by the day the registry released the name: what matters is what you can take today.
Where the data comes from
We do not resell another tool's export under our own name.
Registry files
Zone files and pending-delete lists from the registries themselves. A name entering the delete cycle shows up here before anywhere else.
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Backorder platforms
Open backorder pools: they show which names several people are already competing for and which you can take without a race.
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Ahrefs
Domain strength, referring domains and backlink counts. Taken as they come, without recalculation: it is someone else's metric, and massaging it to flatter our own listings would be a forgery.
when lists are loaded
Majestic
Trust Flow and Citation Flow. The second pair is not there for completeness: Citation Flow far above Trust Flow is the usual mark of a link network, and Ahrefs alone does not show it.
when lists are loaded
Internet Archive
Page snapshots across the whole life of the domain. From them we reconstruct what the site was and whether the topic changed. When there are no snapshots we say so — “the past could not be read”, not “clean”.
when the domain is analysed
WHOIS
The public registration database. We query it twice: during the nightly sweep, to drop names that are taken, and at the moment of delivery, so we never sell a name someone registered an hour ago.
nightly and at delivery
Our own analysis
Niche, the description of the past, gambling and adult flags and the history grade. We read all of it ourselves from archive snapshots, one domain at a time.
on every sweep
What we do not have: Organic traffic estimates — we neither buy nor model them, so they are not on the card. Moz metrics: DA, PA and Spam Score. Auctions — we do not resell someone else's bidding. The domains listed here are already free, and you register them yourself.
Three quality grades
A high DR on a domain that spent three years as a casino affiliate is worth nothing. So we do not reduce a domain to a number: we read its past from archive snapshots and place it in one of three grades.
Archive snapshots read cleanly, the topic never changed, and there is no gambling or adult content in its past.
bought for: networks, topical articles, links
There is a history, but with caveats: the topic changed, some snapshots would not open, or advertising shows up in its past.
bought for: your own project, rebuilding the site
Snapshots contain spam, parked pages or redirects to other sites. The backlinks are still live — domains like these are bought for 301 redirects.
bought for: 301 redirect to a money page
The grade is assigned once, when the domain is analysed, and stored as it is — we do not recompute it on every page load and do not bend it to fit the price. Low quality does not mean a bad domain: it means the domain is bought for a redirect rather than for articles.
What to check before buying
Most expired domains are not worth the money. These are the checks that separate the rest — we run some of them for you, but they are worth knowing.
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Archive history
Read the snapshots year by year. What you want is one topic held for a decade. A 2019 flip from a recipe blog to a casino affiliate means the links now point at content the search engine has already discounted.
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Anchor text profile
Look at the words people linked with. More than a fifth commercial anchors, or a block of foreign-language anchors, means the name was already worked as a link asset.
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Referring domain quality
What matters is whether those are real sites with their own audience. Two thousand referring domains sharing one footprint is a single network counted two thousand times.
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Index status
Search the exact name. Nothing indexed is a reason to look closer rather than a verdict: a dropped name often falls out of the index simply because it returned errors. Combined with commercial anchors, though, it starts to look like a penalty.
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Previous drops
A domain that has expired four times has passed through four owners, and each of them most likely used it exactly the way you are planning to.
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Topical fit
Links work when the domain's past is close to your business. A construction company's domain under a medical project means foreign links with foreign anchors, and half their strength is lost.
How expired domains are bought
Three routes, in ascending order of cost and certainty. We provide the first; the others are described so you know how they differ.
Take a name that has already dropped
The name has left the registry and is free right now — whoever reaches a registrar first gets it. That is how this catalog works: metrics and past are visible before payment, the name is revealed after it, and you register it yourself.
registration fee plus ours
Backorder before the drop
A catching service queues up and tries to grab the name the instant it is released. If several buyers want it, they go to a private auction. We do not do this — that is what dedicated services are for.
usually $20–90
Buy at auction
Registrars sell names before they ever reach the delete cycle. You can see exactly what you are bidding on and no script will outrun you, but strong names go for four figures.
from $60 to several thousand
What people do with aged domains
PBN and link building
Build out a small network of aged names on separate hosting and registrars, then link selectively to a money site. The prohibited-topics check exists mainly so you do not buy a domain that spent years on gambling or adult content.
301 redirect to a money site
Point a topically related aged domain at your own site to pass its authority directly. Relevance decides whether this works — a finance domain redirected to a finance site, not a dead travel blog redirected anywhere.
Rebuild from the archive
Restore the original site from Wayback snapshots so the existing backlinks keep pointing at the pages they were earned by. This is the slowest route and the most durable one.
Brandable name for a new project
Short, pronounceable, no hyphens or numbers. Here the backlink profile barely matters — you are buying the string, and a clean history is worth more than a high DR.
Buy to resell
Acquire under market and list on an aftermarket. Margins come from names with genuine commercial keywords or real residual traffic, not from DR alone.
DR, referring domains, Trust Flow and Citation Flow explained
- Expired or dropped domain
- A name the previous owner did not renew. It passes a grace period, a 30-day redemption window and five days of pending delete, after which the registry releases it to anyone. Its links and history survive the whole journey.
- DR, Domain Rating
- A 0–100 measure of the backlink profile from Ahrefs. The scale is logarithmic: 20 to 30 is a far shorter climb than 60 to 70.
- Referring domains
- How many different sites link to the domain. More useful than the raw link count: a thousand links from one site is one referring domain.
- Trust Flow
- A 0–100 Majestic score measuring closeness to a hand-picked seed of trusted sites. High Trust with low Citation means few links, but good ones.
- Citation Flow
- A measure of link volume regardless of quality. Citation far above Trust is the signature of a link network.
- Pending delete
- The five days after the redemption window when the domain can no longer be renewed and waits for release on a known date.
- Drop catching
- Automated re-registration at the exact moment of release. Catching services hold dozens of registry connections, which is why interesting names are almost impossible to take by hand.
- Anchor text
- The words other sites linked with. Their distribution shows what the site really was and whether its links were sold.
Frequently asked questions
Why is the domain name hidden until payment?
Because a name in the open gets taken. A dropped domain is free for everyone, and a public list of such names is a ready hint for whoever registers them first. Metrics, past and the risks we found are fully visible before payment: exactly one field is hidden.
What happens if the domain is taken before I get it?
We query WHOIS right before handing the name over. If it is already registered, nothing is charged and the listing leaves the catalog.
Do you register the domain for me?
No. We show the domain and reveal the name; you register it yourself with any registrar at the usual registration price. Do it immediately: the name stays free for everyone until someone takes it.
Where do the metrics come from?
Strength and referring domains come from Ahrefs, Trust Flow and Citation Flow from Majestic, history and niche from Internet Archive snapshots, availability from WHOIS.
What do the three quality grades mean?
“High Quality” — the archive snapshots read cleanly, the topic never changed, no gambling or adult content. “Medium Quality” — there is a history, but the topic changed, some snapshots would not open, or advertising shows up. “Low Quality” — snapshots contain spam, parked pages or redirects to other sites; the backlinks are still live, and such domains are bought for 301 redirects. The grade is assigned once, when the domain is analysed, and stored as it is.
Are expired domains good for SEO?
They can be — when the previous site was topically close to yours and its links came from real publications. An aged domain with a clean profile shortens the path. One with a recycled link network adds risk without adding weight.
Does buying an expired domain break search engine rules?
Buying does not. Using a domain purely to funnel link weight to another site falls under link-scheme policies. A real site on the domain, or a redirect to a topically related project, stays within the rules.
How often is the catalog updated?
Every night: the sweep adds newly dropped domains, re-checks the availability of the old ones and removes those already taken. The date of the last update is shown on the home page.
Can I buy many domains at once?
Yes. Tick the listings in the catalog: up to twenty are revealed at once, more go to a background job with live progress. Availability is checked per domain, and you are charged only for the ones that were revealed.
What if the domain's history could not be read?
The card says exactly that. It is not “clean” — it is “unknown”: no archive snapshots were found and we have nothing to vouch for. Such a domain gets no grade at all and is not listed: there is nothing to charge for when there was no analysis.
A website on the domain you buy
For any domain you reveal we can build a ready site in the niche it used to serve — delivered as an archive, you deploy it wherever you like.